Lesson In Drawing
Why is it that people give up on their art after leaving school? Probably it’s because most of the population think they can’t paint, and don’t want to try for fear of what they produce being rubbish. But drawing is a very fun and rewarding thing to do with your time; more importantly if you can learn to draw then it won’t be so embarrassing when your children ask you to help them with their art home-work!
Here are a few simple tips on how to start drawing and the initial techniques:
1) Get the right materials first: you don’t need twenty five pencils of varying grades to produce a magnificent piece of inspiring work; all you need is a 2b pencil and a rubber–
2) Get yourself a putty rubber: putty rubbers are much softer and so much more forgiving than the ones intended for use in a maths book; they don’t damage the paper and although they cost a bit are worth every penny.
3) Now to start: don’t begin by drawing every detail of the face first; best thing to do is to draw a box—staying inside it and drawing a rough outline of the object will mean you don’t end up going off the page.
4) Now you have a vague outline, make some lines at the half way points horizontally and vertically. Now you have this, you can look at your object and see which bits need to go where.
5) Don’t be completely confused and bewildered by all the details, pick out the simple and main shapes which make the object up. After you have these you can start with shading.
6) One good technique for shading is to look at the areas which are in shadow and only shade them When you are done your picture will be looking a lot better than you thought it would!
I just remembered that I still need to tell you all. Those Secondary school jobs that I applied for last week? Well a couple of them have rung back and want me to come to an interview. I promise I will keep you up to date!