How To Draw

Free drawing lessons for kids and adults. We believe anyone can learn how to draw whether they are "talented" or not. Drawing is a skill like reading or cooking or playing soccer. Sure, some people are naturals at these things, and look like pros their first day out, but the rest of us have to learn. You can learn how to draw as easily as learning cooking or playing soccer, and probably much easier than learning how to read. We'll break it down for you in step by step drawing tutorials.
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How to Draw Cartoons Cartoons are a terrific way to entertain yourself, your friends and anyone you meet. Cartooning is also a great way to become more comfortable with your drawing skills, as cartoons are much more forgiving about messy or ugly drawings than fine art is. How to Draw People The best way to make sure of measuring the proportions of your sitter correctly, is to hold a pencil at arm's length by the forefinger and thumb so that it comes between your eye and the sitter. Next, see that the top of the pencil is level with the top of her head. Now by moving the thumb down the pencil to the bottom of her chin, we have established a scale of proportion to work to -- that is, we can, now measure how many times the head goes into the body, the forehead occupies a third of the length of the head, and so on. Learn to Draw and Paint An advanced drawing and painting course for people who want to understand art theory, art history and the kinds of techniques real working artists use. New pages: Fresco Steps of creating a fresco Color perspective Light, Color and Distance Color Composition Surrounding Color Color composition techniques Today's How To Draw Exercise: Shading an Egg... or a Stone Being able to create effects of light and shadow is tremendously important in drawing. Even if you never attempt to draw and shade folds of fabric (which is a challenge, trust me), you still need to be able to make simple effects that will suggest light and shade to a normal viewer. This takes practice. There is a classic exercise for shading that will give you some excellent practice. It is so simple that many people dismiss it, and never actually do it, but if you become one of the students who does actually start and complete this exercise, you will have improved your shading skills dramatically. Do the exercise more than once and you will reap further benefits. Do it a third time and... I'll let you guess what happens. The exercise is to get a plain sketchbook, a simple drawing pencil (any #2 pencil will do) and an egg. If you do not have an egg, a large smooth stone like a river stone will do. Even a ball with a smooth surface will work. Having a good eraser (like a kneadable eraser) is helpful, but not necessary. You sit down and begin drawing your egg, but you may not make any lines. You are forming this image of the egg purely with shading. You will probably have a few false starts, but don't worry about that. Just crumple up your mistakes and start again. As you really settle into doing this, you will immediately realize it is much harder than it sounds. Here are some hints. First, you can use the side of your pencil to create a wider, softer "line" or mark with your pencil than the tip will make. You can also use the tip of your pencil to create extremely light lines that blend together to make the shadows of your egg. You can even make your shadows using "cross hatches" which is when you make a series of light parallel lines in one direction, then make another set of lines over the first set, but at a 90 degree angle. The overlapping sets of lines create the effect of a very light woven pattern. When you are really good, you will be able to show the little bumps and pock marks in the egg with your shadows. Most people just ignore these little imperfections the first time they do this exercise.

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