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Drawing for beginners (part 2)

13/03/2010

So, how are you enjoying drawing? Don't expect to run before you can walk. The experience of just drawing something should give you inspiration to keep on doing it. If you are drawing indoors, maybe still life or working from photographs, just try and keep the discipline of looking and seeing what's there, and not what you think is there. A lot of this is just a kind of laziness mixed with impatience - I know all about it, as I'm still a victim!
The best kind of drawing experience for learning to train the eye/brain/hand co ordination is to draw from life (as oposed to photographs or imagination). This could be a still life or a view from your kitchen window. If you are more ambitious, it could be a life drawing study of a figure or your cat!  Remember, at this stage it's not important that you capture a close likeness or perfectly drafted study, but that you feel freed up and begin to 'connect' with the subject.There are more results that can be attained from drawing than just a photographic likeness; capturing mood, tonal contrast, creative explorationfor example. When you get to know the subject and become more familiar with how it looks in form, and effects of different light, then you are more likely to capture how it really looks.