Recently I was asked a question that seems common among beginning artists who just start to learn drawing: " how and where to take the first step to drawing??" Don't be mislead into believing this is a basic and childish question. Although the answer may seem obvious, I've observed too many artists that do not succeed because they don't follow these guidelines.
When artists conjure up a fresh drawing in a haphazard way they can fail. Not that I believe much in structures and strict rules. Sticking to some really plain and obvious rules when preparing a new drawing will make your life much easier.
What urges you to draw?
First ask yourself not only what you want to draw but also why do you desire to draw it? What is the message you're trying to give the viewer? Knowing the message you're trying to convey to your audience is a crucial first step. For example, imagine that you want to draw the picture of a dog then ask yourself why? Is it to show how cute he is? Is it to explain how clever a hunter he is? To give an idea about how risky he is? Is it in remembrance of him?
Having identified the message the next step is to how you can use the elements and techniques you have to put across the message. You can utilize perspective, dark and shadows, colors, composition, add different details, use diverse drawing techniques etc.
Next you should endeavor to find out where your picture is going by illustrating lots of small thumbnail sketches. Try various ways to create the drawing, see what actually looks good and what doesn't. Create these sketches swiftly. The initiative is to put the entire composition into place, so you don't need to spend time adding a lot of details on them.
It's sometimes very difficult, even for professional artists, not to jump ahead and start on the final picture before things are really thought through. But this situation often ends with that effort going into the drain once you've realized that your first proposal didn't actuate the way you'd first considered. So it's an extremely good idea to use the initial steps when starting a drawing as it will save you a lot of work in the long run.
Getting on track with drawing
You have finished sketching your artwork you like to convert in a full-blown drawing? Then it's time to move forward. This point in time it is not about speed but how beautiful your drawing is that you want to endeavor. And there are some instructions that will help you to make the beautiful drawing you want to make-without too many attempts going into the bin.
It's all related to the order in which to approach the different parts of your drawing ideally. To sum up there are just two easy rules:
Start with light tones, proceed to darker tones
This permits you to correct minor mistakes you've done early in the beginning as the darker tones can hide any of your mistakes.
Begin with little details and get into more details later
In most cases the drawings are ruined by distorted proportions, perspective and composition. So start first laying out the whole drawing with no details, just in faint lines. This makes definite you'll make all errors in perspective and proportion at the start of work. If something goes really wrong then, you can start over again without losing too much work. And all lesser mistakes still can be fixed easily as there are only faint lines and no details in place.
Even if you are knowledgeable and sketching for years, it won't be wrong to ponder on these guidelines once more. Actually I'm forgetting these guidelines too often - and introduce errors into my drawings that could have been avoided. And you'll observe these guidelines are even more helpful, if you've just set out to learn drawing.
Author Resource:-
This is an article you find on our website in full. There you'll find more articles on how to draw. Here you can also get more free ebooks containing drawing instructions.
![[Valid RSS feed]](http://article2008.com/images/feed-icon.png "XML Feed For RSS"){kind=icon}
![[Valid RSS feed]](http://article2008.com/images/icon_Rss.png "XML Feed For RSS"){kind=icon}
Category Rss Feed
Print This Article
Add To Favorites