5 tips and practical advice to improve your drawing skills is an artist’s journey of basic drawing concepts. Hope these help you as much as they have helped me.
- Learn the basics
- Embrace, develop and celebrate your inner artist
- Let your creativity flow, explore and experiment
- Set new challenges, you will surprise yourself
- Enjoy it!
Learn The Basics
There are many concepts in art but the basic and most helpful concepts for beginners are:
Use a reference. Whether is using tracing paper or if you are painting digitally adding your reference to the side or as a layer under your drawing layer is vital. This will allow you to draw what is and not what you think it is. Take a close look at the lines, are they vertical or at an angle. Compare the angels and size and proportion of your drawing versus that of your reference.
Start your sketch by drawing the basic shapes.
“Practice, practice, practice and you will get better, better and better” – Suki’s
Download the newly released Sketches by Rimibit app now available in the Apple Store.
Sketches is an ios application that allows you to practice sketching or drawing with or without a reference.
Sketches allows you to save and share your sketch as a png; it also allows you to save and share a recording of your drawing process.
And My favorite feature is
Suki’s partnered with SKETCHES to provide the user the option to create their own merchandise with their drawings through her SukisWorkshop Store.
Determine where is the light source in your drawing
Build up your drawing by adding more detail; adding contrast by highlight the lights and darkening the shadows
Last but not least of the 5 tips and practical advice to improve your drawing skills
Enjoy it!
This is the most important advice out of the 5 tips and practical advice to improve your drawing skills I can give you. Why? Simply, because you will need lot of practice to improve your skills; there is no way around it. We are fortunate to live at a period in time where there are so many resources available to us. Both paid and free. Watch tutorials, practice, challenge yourself to draw new things. Celebrate your progress, be proud of the small and big lessons. Draw, sketch, collect references, do something every day to improve your skill. One of my favorite mind hacks is looking at the highlights and shadows all around us. Look at how bright some areas are, almost white, even though the color of the subject is not white at all; same thing with the shadows.
Be proud of your drawing, print it, frame it. Make a special keepsake for yourself or your loved ones.
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