Drawing Techniques
Drawing is an amazing art form and it is also a superb exercise for other forms of art, like painting. Learning drawing is not only an art but it opens your mind and truly can see surrounding things with optimistic view. Creativity is one of the most important parts of being an artist; we get to use our minds to create new things. Learn about the creative process and some exercises to improve your creative ability.
There are two essential ways to approach a drawing. It is linear and tonal. The linear approach to a drawing concentrates on line and outlines of shapes. On the other hand tonal drawing, you make use of gradations to specify the various planes of your theme. The basic techniques are to hold your pencil in a way that is most easy for you. Some hold the pencil as if they are writing. Many people hold a pencil with the pencil between the thumb and index finger, with the rest of the pencil resting under the palm of your hand. Whichever method you use for holding your pencil, make certain that you do not hold the pencil too tightly. You should try to avoid smudging and blending in the beginning so that you force yourself to use your pencil more to achieve value in your drawings. Avoid looking at your drawing too often. Make sure you are constantly concentrated on the subject and only glancing at your drawing. By doing so, you won't constantly critic your drawing, or think something is wrong or out of place. Never throw out any of your drawings. Keep a neat portfolio of everything you draw. This is an excellent way to see your progress over the time.
Contour Drawing is very vital technique; it is to simply drawing the outline of your subject without any shading to show form. Blind Contour Drawing is similar to contour drawing, only you do not look at the paper. The point of this exercise is to compel you to observe what you are drawing? You should never glance the drawing, whatever the outcome may be. Tonal or Value Drawing in this approach to drawing we are indicating the various changes of light and shade in our picture without the use of strong edges and lines. After reading this techniques, you should be highly encouraged and most important is, keep practicing and never give up.