The ability to draw combines both aesthetic and physical pleasure. At all times, painting was considered a wonderful hobby . If you share your intention to learn how to draw beautifully with friends, most of them will advise taking drawing lessons. But "formal" training is worth the time and money, and does not always give the result you were expecting.
Therefore, at first you can try self-study. Remember that the main principles of successful learning are to practice regularly and a lot. There is a "Rule of ten thousand hours": it is believed that this is the number of classes that will make you an expert in any field.
How to learn to draw?
1. Try drawing from nature. Watch and copy. Over time, you will feel how to convey reality on paper. Do not be afraid - the more sketches you make, the more successful they will be.
2. Go to plein air (drawing in nature) at least once a week. Choose different times of the day to learn how to work with light.
3. Try different techniques and different materials. Do not focus on pencil sketches; try mascara, paint, acrylic, watercolor, wax crayons. Learn different textures and tones, buy different paper. Buy a good set of brushes and train with each one - in time you will understand how to alternate and combine them.
4. Try to apply an image without lines: dots or tones on a wet sheet. Practice and freedom will help you understand how to learn to draw not only beautifully, but also quickly. Moreover - change even pencils and eraser!
5. Study the proportions . Try to mark out the composition of the drawing before moving on to drawing the details. You can even give him a little "rest", and then look at the workpiece with a fresh look. In the early stages it is easier to correct major mistakes. Since it is impossible to learn how to draw beautifully, say, a pen, without many years of practice and a "trained" eye, train with soft materials like a pencil or crayons that can be erased and tried again.
6. Learn the shadows, lines, tones, textures and reflections. These skills are literally the basis of how you can learn beautifully and easily draw.
Here are a few small exercises that can help:
- draw a square. And now change it as if it is on the border of light and shadow. Draw a balloon or an apple on which reflected light falls;
- draw a gradient, a scale that is very light at the beginning, and towards the end it becomes darker and darker. Learn to make the transition very soft, almost invisible;
- When you draw from nature, make the density of shadows different depending on the location of the light source. This will make the drawing more dynamic.
7. Choose what you like - and draw it as often as you can.
8. Study the anatomy . Yes, anatomy - like in school on biology, only better. Sketch sketches, copy the muscle corset. In the end, these experiments can be allowed to decorate the house for Halloween . And most importantly - they will help you understand the proportions of the human body and the features of its movement. The same applies to animals.
9. If despair is overtaken or imagination runs out, copy . This is a good opportunity to "feel" the work of the master and make for yourself some new technical discoveries. The artists of the past and the present knew exactly how to learn how to paint beautifully with colors (and not only) and will be ready to help you with their works. Will only choose the one who likes more.