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Learning to draw, even at an intermediate level, is a useful skill for anyone. Over time, drawing can turn into a serious hobby that does not require a lot of money, but can deliver incredible pleasure in the case when the drawer achieves certain successes.
It is not necessary to resort to the services of art schools or private teachers. Enough just a strong desire, patience and regular self-study.
Sketch
At the initial stage you can choose some simple object within reach, for example, a favorite cat, because it’s much easier to draw from nature than from memory. A pencil and a sheet of paper is all you need at this stage. One should start drawing with outlines, outlining these outlines with short strokes, trying to keep proportions. Sketch – the basis of the future drawing. Try to make very short strokes, then the outline will be accurate.
Details
Next, begin sketching the details. You should mark the key elements, such as eyes, nose, colored spots on the body of cat and with regard to them trace the secondary details.
Strokes
Drawing shadows will give a natural volume to the drawing. This is a more complex technique, it requires a sharp pencil to shade areas that are not illuminated by the sun on the real object. It is worth trying to use the scale of shading, to begin hatching from the edge of the sheet, changing its direction and the pressure of the pencil, achieving smooth transitions from lighter shades to darker ones.
Exercises
Not superfluous will be training in the image of geometric shapes – flat, and then volumetric, as well as combinations of shapes and lines. Such exercises train the sense of perspective and later allow you to draw imaginary objects. It is important to experiment more, to play with forms. Try to put together real life objects from geometric blocks, for example, a cat’s tail in the form of circles and ovals of various diameters. Try to represent the same object from different angles.
Perfection
Use the eraser to remove all unnecessary things from the picture, analyze what happened and what should be improved. Do not dwell on the same unsuccessful image, it is better to return to it after some time and try again.
It will be useful to study the literature on drawing, on the different styles and schools. For more realism in drawing, you can familiarize yourself with ready-made images in books on anatomy, try to repeat drawings of muscles and skeleton.
The most important thing is more practice. Without it it is simply impossible to learn anything, even with innate abilities.
