Drawing Shapes
How to draw shapes? Literally, anything which you like to draw, with increasing confidence and enjoyment. Every object you look at around you - a house, animal, a face, boat, mountain, tree and so on can easily be constructed by using one or a combination of just five basic shapes. All you need is a square, circle, triangle, oblong and oval. The beauty of this method of learning how to draw is that you choose the shape or shapes.
You can draw a flower by staring with an oval shape. On a piece of scrap paper, lightly and quickly sketch these shapes a few times. Allow yourself only about 5 or 10 seconds at most to sketch each shape. Do different sizes and proportions of each one. The shapes don't have to be exact. You are only using them as guidelines so your circles can be less than perfect, your squares not quite square. Just concentrate on doing them quickly and lightly. You may need to go over the circle two or three times before it looks right to you. After a little practice you'll be amazed at how confident your later efforts will be compared to your first attempt. You can draw a bird with the help of few triangles, ovals and circles. The first step is for sketching the bird and next to give a correct shape for a bird. You can also draw bottle and glass; it is quite easy to round off the flat base of the bottle in the final drawing as well as the bottle label helping to promote a rounder, more 3D effect.
Let these basic shapes be your slave not your master! The more you practice drawings by shapes the more your brain will store up these images for you to pull out and sketch in the future. So go on. Get your pencil and paper and start right now!