How do I improve my Drawing skills?

 

Art is a way of expressing your thoughts through your hands. Drawing by itself is a pleasurable and profitable form of art, but learning to draw well can also lead to better work in other mediums. Having an accurate drawing is especially important as the basis of a realistic painting among other things.

Let me walk you through a few tips to improve your drawing skills:

• Look at your progress over a long-time frame. If you compare your work today with your work from a month ago, you probably won't see clear differences. But if you look at a longer time frame - compare the drawings you did 1-2 years ago vs. current — you’ll see a difference! Progress is measured not in hours, but in months and years.

• Whether simple line drawings or meticulously detailed renderings, you can learn a lot from looking at the work of others. How did they use line and shape? How did they shade?

• Sometimes stray lines can lead to wonderful accidents – new ideas come to light and add to the narrative of the sketch. Let your brain and hands go a little crazy and add some lines that do not make sense or elements that do not belong; from there you can brainstorm ways to make them fit. This is not a final rendered piece; it is simply a platform for developing ideas.

• If you’re just starting out, pick simple objects and work your way up to complex ones. Go ahead and try your and at drawing people and your pets. Draw your furniture and your living spaces. Do you enjoy coffee? Draw your coffee cup. Here’s a challenge: draw your hand. Hands and feet are the most complex parts of your anatomy and are readily available subject matter. If you can master these, you’ll pretty much be able to draw anything.

• Keep a sketchbook. Meaning, keep it with you, open it up and work at filling it. It will serve as a reminder to grab your pencil or pen and do some drawing. These are the highly recommended drawing gear — pencils, pens, sketchbook, and figure mannequin.

• Fortunately, we live in the digital age where there is a myriad of resources to help you find other artists and blogs, sharing with you tips and best practices to excel in your art. Search for sites that will help you hone your drawing skills in a relaxed and non-critical manner.

• Study Anatomy. Yes, it’s true: anatomy doesn’t just matter to medical students, it’s important for artists too. To draw a realistic picture of a person and a human body part, you need to know the peculiarities of the human skeleton and how the muscles are arranged. You can buy special books about anatomical drawings, where, in addition to pictures of the human body, you’ll find a schematic analysis of various animals’ anatomies.

Encouraging students to take up Internation Drawing Olympiad (IDO) at a young age would boast their confidence making them work hard, looking at the competition around them. Indian Talent Olympiad (ITO) is one of the leading institution that conducts Olympiads for students from class 1 to class 10 both nationally and internationally.