More recently, I myself was worried about this issue in the morning, afternoon and night. Therefore, I perfectly understand what those who want to draw feel, but just can not start. They don't really know how.
No. 1. Draw every day!
Yes, exactly every day. At least 10-15 minutes, but every day. For this, for example, the project "365 days in sketches" is perfect, the purpose of which is daily drawing. It's very difficult, to be honest. Sometimes there is no time (guests came, vacation, business trip), sometimes moods (stress, depression, dissatisfaction with oneself), sometimes strength after a difficult day. And yet, despite all the obstacles, it is important not to miss a single day. Let it be a small sketch for 2 minutes, but do not skip it. Since the next day you will need to draw 2 sketches, and having missed a week, you will have to catch up for 7 days already. So that the sketches are not a burden, it is better to choose a smaller format, for example, A5. Personally, I draw in a notebook that I can always take with me. And the sketches are in one place, which I also like. Some choose separate sheets, A4 format... Everyone has their own approach to daily sketches, choose yours and start. ;)
No. 2. Draw what you want and like, not everything.
Start drawing with what is easier, and not with everything in a row. A cup/glass/bottle is much easier to draw than curtains. Similarly, a book is easier to draw than a few houses. It's better to learn to draw 2-3 things very well than 25 somehow.
No. 3. Allow yourself to draw badly; Draw for fun, not for results.
This will help you relax and just draw. It is in this case that the best works appear, because you do not expect masterpieces from yourself. As soon as I stopped thinking about the result, I immediately stopped being afraid to make an irreparable mistake, to draw a bad job. As long as you are learning, drawing for your own pleasure, for yourself, and not to order, you can always take a new sheet and start again or again. If I know that the topic of sketching/working is new to me, I do not draw in a notebook or on expensive paper, but I take piece watercolor paper (bought specifically for such cases - 100 A4 sheets for 3 euros) and allow myself to make mistakes. :)
No. 4. Make a preliminary pencil sketch.
Sometimes you really want to take and immediately draw with watercolors (or other material) everything the way it has been drawn in your head for a long time. But in fact, it turns out that the circle turned out to be not round, the lines are uneven and the tree should have been in the wrong place. To prevent such situations, I trained myself to always do a pencil sketch. It can be corrected, corrected or completely redrawn. That's when the hand is full and I'm sure that the pencil sketch will be superfluous, I allow myself to work without it. Although not everything works out the first time, even with a full hand.
No. 5. Draw both from nature and from photographs.
Many people think that drawing from nature is a skill, but from photographs it is such a scribble-doodles. Who cares what others say, if it’s more convenient for us to draw and the work only benefits from this? I try to draw some things only from life (for example, dishes, shoes), because they can be twisted, examined, felt. But what to do if there is no necessary nature or you want to see how this object could be depicted using a camera ?! By the way, these do not have to be other people's photographs, often I photograph the drawn object myself and check the lines, so to speak.
No. 6. Copy other people's work.
As long as you're learning and don't pass off other people's work as your own, don't sell it, why not copy someone else's work for educational purposes? So you can quickly find your topic, materials, techniques; you will understand that what you really like in other people's work is absolutely not yours. Or by copying someone else's, you will find your own compositional or color scheme. Don't be afraid to talk about it openly. You study, and in study all means are good.
No. 7. Draw for yourself.
Draw for yourself, not for other people's eyes, comments, reviews. At least for the first time, until you become more confident in your abilities. It is especially important to heed this advice if you do not have support, relatives and friends consider your passion for children's fun and do not attach serious importance to your desires, and even more so results.
No. 8. Do not listen to anyone, or rather do not listenanyone.
This advice complements the previous one and is also very important. The first sketches / drawings / works are most likely far from ideal. Uncertainty and doubts follow. So why do you need someone else's, often incompetent, criticism? The same applies to sketches on the street. Passers-by and all sorts of onlookers are madly in love with sticking their noses into other people's leaves, notebooks and canvases. When you gain experience and confidence, you yourself will feel that it is time. :) In the meantime, you can (if you really need and want to) exhibit your work in your journal (if you trust your readers) or in specialized communities (for example, club_365
or art_expiration
).
No. 9. Try different materials.
During my 11 months of drawing, I tried graphite pencils (popularly called "simple"), colored, watercolor, gouache, watercolor, acrylic and ink. Naturally, all this was gradually, one by one. Having got acquainted with different materials, I realized that pencils are not at all mine, gouache and acrylic works are obtained only in the style of impressionism and nothing else, but watercolor and ink give me a huge field for creativity. If I had chosen only colored pencils (with which I started my "365"), I would still be tormented with shadow, chiaroscuro and reflexes. ;)
No. 10. Buy good materials.
It doesn't have to be the most expensive, and not all at once. But it must be quality materials. It is much more pleasant to paint with watercolors on watercolor paper than on xerox paper (after all, it is almost always at hand), which immediately warps and gets wet. Yes, and children's watercolor (aka school) will aggravate learning.
No. 11. Collect everything that inspires.
When you surround yourself with inspiring things, photographs, other people's work, you unwittingly want to achieve the same skill yourself. Get a virtual folder on your computer or a plastic/cardboard box at home and collect whatever you like and admire. It's sad, you don't know what to draw - take a look at your finds, materials, clippings, leaflets and inspiration will immediately make itself felt. ;)
No. 12. Do not read educational books.
You don't need books that will teach you how to draw in a month or 10-20-30 lessons. Most of the time they just waste money and don't produce any results. Looking through, perhaps, will be useful, but in order to find an answer to one question (for example, how to correctly depict the human eye, if this does not work out in any way). But the books of Natalie Ratkowski "Profession - an illustrator. Learning to think creatively" and "Allow yourself to create" I would advise you to make desktop. For beginners, the second book will be more suitable, but the first is very useful. Just here you can get acquainted with the ways of liberating both yourself and your imagination, how not to be afraid of a blank sheet and look at hundreds of examples of a practicing illustrator and designer.
No. 13. Listen to yourself.
And most importantly, drawing every day does not mean large, finished works. These are just sketches, but they are of great benefit. Daily exercise brings excellent results over time. The same goes for any skill, and drawing is no exception. It's just that it will take someone six months, someone a year, and someone, perhaps 3. But I'm sure that you can learn to draw at any age and with any preparation. Get started and see for yourself!
Each of the tips has been tested by me in practice, most of them I still use.
If you have other tips for beginners, proven by experience and time, please share in the comments! :)
Who among us has not dreamed of becoming an artist at least once? Especially in childhood, many of us wanted to learn how to draw beautifully, and maybe even paint real pictures. But, as often happens, dreams were shattered by a banal lack of skills. Either due to a change of interests, or because of ordinary laziness, many lacked the desire and patience to continue developing in this direction.
So how to learn to draw with a pencil for beginners?
Like any creative occupation, the art of drawing contains many subtleties and helps its owner to reveal not only his creative potential, but also to realize his worldview in a beautiful form. These subtleties will be discussed further.
Stages and principles of training
Often, in order to fully learn how to draw, they resort to phased learning and practice in drawing various compositions of different plans. There is quite a difference if you are, for example, trying to draw a person, or trying to realize a landscape on paper. That is why in this case it is very important to master the skills of drawing a variety of objects.
Another basic principle in teaching drawing is regularity. It is practice that is the decisive factor in the development of drawing skills. It would not be bad to make yourself a specific schedule for the week, according to which you could devote at least 20 minutes a day to this lesson. From this it follows that you also need to show some patience in such training.
What is needed to get started?
So, first of all, find yourself notebook with fairly large leaves. There should be at least 50 sheets. The second item in your preparation should be the choice pencil taste. There are a great variety of pencils, so in your case, the best choice is the one you are used to using. For example, it can be a pencil with a soft lead. Naturally, a little later, one way or another, you will have to buy the necessary pencils in order to improve the quality of your work.
Get yourself a calendar too. Where you will celebrate not only the schedule of classes, but also your successes. At first, you will have to force yourself to strictly follow the schedule, but over time it will become part of your lifestyle and will bring great pleasure.
Try to picture something on the first page. Don't worry about the high quality of the drawing. After a certain amount of time, you will open the notebook on the first page and be surprised at the difference between how it was and what changes have taken place.
Basics
Many people think that drawing is a skill that depends only on natural talent, so they easily find excuses for themselves in the “not given” or “not working” format. But the point is not only in talents, but also in acquired skills. A person who can draw well without knowing the basic principles is a rare exception. Every business needs to be learned. Therefore, further we will consider the basic laws and techniques of drawing.
There are 9 basic laws of drawing, having learned which you will learn how to draw at a fairly high level. Let's discuss them.
- The law of perspective. Objects that the author wants to visually bring closer are distorted in such a way that one part of it seems closer than another part of it.
- Location of items. Objects that are at the bottom of the sheet appear much closer than the rest.
- size law. The object in the picture, which, according to the author's intention, should be located closer, should, accordingly, look larger than those that are further away.
- overlap law. An object that is in front of another becomes visually closer to us.
- Law of penumbra. The conditionally unlit part of the object, which is located on the opposite side of the light source, should be darker.
- Shadow law. To make the drawn object seem voluminous, you need to add a casting shadow to it, also strictly on the back side of the light source.
- The law of contours. It is necessary to accentuate the contours of rounded objects to give them depth.
- Horizon law. The case when the horizon is drawn so that the depicted objects appear at different distances from the observer.
- The law of density. To make it seem that objects are at different distances, it is also necessary to draw near objects in more detail and distant objects in less detail.
Using these 9 basic laws in practice, it will not be difficult for you to move to a new level in drawing.
Also, in order to avoid simple mistakes, a beginner needs to follow several important steps when creating a sketch of a drawing. Here they are:
Drawing from simple to complex
A more or less well-known fact is that a drawing is different for a drawing. First of all, it means that drawing a person is far from the same as drawing, say, a tree. Different things require different approaches for perfect performance. That is why we will further consider in detail the technique of drawing various compositions.
Do not immediately take on complex compositions. Because in the science of drawing, the attitude with which you start working is very important. If you immediately took up a complex drawing, but nothing worked out for you, then a bad mood is guaranteed to you. You may even lose the desire to pick up a pencil for good. Therefore, in our training, we will go from simple to complex, gradually learning new drawing techniques. Let's start simple.
Draw geometric shapes
Since it will take quite a long time to search for suitable layouts of geometric shapes, we will be based on our imagination. For convenience, you can even download ready-made pictures of various geometric shapes from the Internet.
Cube
Let's draw a cube. Take this picture as a base:
Repeat all the faces and sides of the geometric figure. Do not forget that the back wall of the cube is proportionally smaller than the front. Now let's pay attention to the shadow.
Imagine that the light source is in front. This will make the front of the cube lighter and the sides darker. Shade the sides. Highlight the lines of the front corner with a pencil, and leave the rest thin. It will collect all the attention of the observer.
To make the figure unique, you can slightly distort the proportions. So we end up with something like this.
Cylinder
Draw a plane on which your figure will be located. It should not be in the air, because the shadow should fall on something. Find on this plane the ideal location for the central axis of your cylinder. Draw a vertical line straight up from this point. Draw ellipses around both ends of this line. Connect the lower and upper ellipses with the same vertical lines. The sketch is almost ready. For convenience, you can add a couple of auxiliary lines. For example, in front, such a line can mark the border of the shadow. Draw a shadow outline on the horizontal plane where your shape is located. The result should be something like this:
When we're done with the frame, it's time shade the main parts of our figure. Again, given that the light should be in the exact opposite direction from the shadow, we mark by eye where the highlight will be. It is also worth considering that the glare on the cylinder will not form a spot, but a vertical stripe. We hatch with a darker shade the area from the shadow line to the rear border of the cylinder. Lubricate the hatching border to make the transition smooth. We shade the very shadow of the figure. Leave the top of the cylinder light.
Draw a sphere
Let's try to depict one of the basic geometric shapes, on the basis of which more complex objects will be drawn in the future. This figure is a sphere. She draws even easier than the rest. You need to draw a circle. Further, from the edges of this circle, you need to draw a few more concentric circles inside this figure. These circles may not be perfectly regular, in fact, they may take the form of an ellipse.
They will serve us in order to properly hatch. Refer to the picture below.
Shade the circles as shown. Draw another ellipse on the main plane. Shade this ellipse too to create a shadow. The sphere is ready.
Exercise
Try using the sphere drawing skill to draw more complex compositions, such as a plum. Notice what changes happened to the shadow? What happened in the end?
Answer
Shadow and light have changed places. As a result, the berry acquired the illusion of transparency.
So, we found out that drawing geometric shapes is not such a difficult task.
Based on a basic knowledge of geometry and the skill of drawing such shapes, you can create more complex compositions with their help.
Drawing utensils
The next most difficult step in pencil drawing is drawing dishes. At the same time, the main difficulty lies more in the correct placement of shadows, both on the subject and around it.
Let's draw a simple vase. It will be great if you find a suitable example that you can study in advance.
At the very beginning, we need to designate the parameters of the subject using straight lines. Draw a small horizontal line at the bottom of the sheet. This line will be the bottom of our vase. From the center of the horizontal line, perpendicular to it, draw a vertical line. This line will indicate the height of the object. Draw another horizontal line at the top of the vertical one. If something is not clear to you, refer to the figure below:
As we can see, we will need another horizontal line marking the narrow neck of the vase. Draw her. Next, you need to draw ellipses with centers coinciding with the intersection points of the vertical and horizontal lines. They are needed in order to give volume to the vase.
The next step is to draw the outline of the object. For example, it could be like this:
The final step will be the drawing of light and shadows. This is done in the same way as with geometric shapes. Simply, first you need to decide what underlies each part of the object, a sphere, a cylinder, a cone or a cube.
Try to ensure that the outline of your vase is symmetrical on both sides.
Draw a cup
First, according to the proven method, we need to draw a vertical and horizontal lines. This time, the base of the cup will be much smaller than its mouth, and not the same. Draw ellipses for the top and bottom.
Plants
Unlike geometric figures and dishes, drawing various plants is a more difficult task than it might seem at the beginning. For example, unlike relatively simple objects, in the case of flowers, bushes, trees and many others, it is better to always have a living example in front of your eyes. It is very difficult to accurately imagine so many different details and correctly display them on paper. Or it can be a finished image of the original. With the degree of detail in the drawing, it is important to resolve the issue at the very beginning. After all, it can be as simple as possible, or, on the contrary, contain a large number of details.
Drawings by degree of detail:
Let's start drawing.
Make an initial sketch of your composition. If this is not one flower, but several, depict them so that the stems are slightly curved, and the buds look in different directions. Do not make all the lines perfectly correct.
One of the most interesting things is that the initial sketch can consist of geometric shapes, albeit a little distorted. Take a closer look.
What do you see? The picture contains at least a circle, ovals, a cylinder, a distorted rhombus and cones. This tells us that sometimes, even complex images at the initial stage can be drawn using simple shapes.
Start drawing details. Draw the petals and add irregularities to the petals. Add leaves to the composition. Focus on the original.
A tulip flower usually has about 6-7 petals that partially overlap each other.
If you pay attention, then note that the thickness of the stems along the entire length is the same. The leaves are long, with a sharp end, curved. The leaves wrap around the stem. Also pay attention to attaching the stem to the bud. This is noticeable on a flower turned back.
The final step is to add light and shadow. With light strokes, make more shaded areas inside the flower, as well as on the inside of the leaves. Places where the petals intersect can also be slightly shaded. This will give the petals a translucent effect. Draw the stamens. They can be emphasized with a darker color.
As you can see from the last lesson, creating a simple composition is not a problem if you know the basic basics of drawing, from simple to complex.
Draw an oak
Trees are very often an integral part of various complex paintings. For example, these can be landscapes where numerous trees echo images of animals, which will be discussed later.
Take a hard pencil. It will be needed in order to very weakly draw a general sketch of the tree. We will, as always, go from the general to the details.
Draw a tree trunk. Since we are drawing an oak, it must be thick. Draw branches from the tree trunk.
Add some leaf clouds inside the crown. It is necessary to leave empty areas on purpose so that some branches are visible.
Thicken the branches where they are not covered by leaves.
Start applying basic shadows. Before doing this, think about which side the light will fall on and how parts can be further shaded.
Draw the leaves. Add details to them and distribute the shadows correctly. Highlight a few leaves throughout the crown. This is to add volume to the picture. Oak is ready!
In the final image, it is not necessary to draw every leaf. You can simply thicken the contours of the leaves.
You will need
- - an album for drawing or blank sheets;
- - pencils of varying degrees of hardness;
- - eraser;
- - sharpener or knife;
- - scheduler.
Instruction
Make a learning plan. This is very important because you will have an idea of how long it will take you to learn this or that element or style. Determine in advance what time you can draw, how many hours or minutes you are willing to devote to this activity, and whether you have the opportunity to view or text lessons. To begin with, you can spend no more than half an hour a day, but then it is better to increase this figure.
To understand from scratch, start drawing simple shapes. It is important for you to understand how the shadow falls, where you need to highlight the highlights and how best to depict the shape of the subject. Therefore, it is recommended to draw geometric shapes first. Spend a week learning how to draw each element separately, and then all together. The task will be much easier if you draw from an object that is directly in front of you. It could be a tennis ball or an apple.
The next stage is simple animals and plants. You can devote more time to it, since there is much more variety here. With the help of animals and plants, you can learn to draw finer details, as well as understand how geometric shapes and practiced shadows can be transformed into already real contours. Depending on the success, give this stage 2-3 weeks.
Start drawing people. It is best to start with the face, then try to draw various parts of the body and the person completely. To understand how to learn how to draw with a pencil from scratch in stages, watch the video tutorials. They describe in detail, and most importantly, show how to apply strokes, soften a pencil, and so on. Finally, try drawing a self-portrait and see how your skills have progressed. The length of this stage is 1-4 weeks.
Learn perspective and start drawing full-fledged . Pay great attention to this stage, since it directly depends on how correctly you can depict objects in space. Landscapes will allow you to cover not individual blocks, but to compose complex compositions. Do not forget to use all the knowledge and skills that you were able to get in the previous stages.
Free creativity. After you have learned all the basic elements, start creating something new. Try, for example, to depict a company of several people as detailed as possible. Let it take you more than one week, but you will be proud of the result. Try to improvise and start developing your own style.
Drawing is at least a great hobby for creative people. Many believe that for this you need to have some kind of special talent, when, in fact, everyone can learn to draw - with a certain perseverance and systematic practice. We will help you figure out how to learn to draw with a pencil and what beginners need to know about this lesson.
Drawing supplies
You should have a set of simple pencils. They are denoted by the letters H (T in Russian marking) - a hard pencil, B (M) - soft, and a number is placed in front of the letter that indicates the degree of hardness or softness, for example, 2B.
Beginners should start with the HB (TM) pencil - this is a standard pencil, medium hard-soft. Once you get used to it, you will find it easier to control the pressure when using other types of pencils.
Take white and thick paper, best of all grainy - pencil shades will be clearly visible on it. If possible, buy one sheet of paper to check and rub it with an eraser - if it immediately becomes loose with spools, then the quality of such paper leaves much to be desired.
Remember to take a good eraser to correct future blots. Choose a soft eraser so that when erasing, the paper is not severely injured.
Where to begin
First of all, you need to familiarize yourself with the basic principles of drawing: composition, volume, perspective, dynamics. These basics apply to any style, not just pencil drawings.
After that, you should decide what exactly you are trying to learn and how you want to draw, which style to choose. Even if you want to be able to do a little of everything, stop at something specific first and don’t try to embrace the immensity - master one style, and then move on to another.
If you want to learn how to draw portraits, you will have to learn the basics of anatomy, the proportions of the human face and body. To learn how to draw landscapes, you need to practice drawing natural objects - plants, mountains, sea waves, etc. If you want to draw anime, then you need to know the features of drawing characters in this genre.
From simple to complex
You must learn how to draw geometric shapes in 2D and then in 3D. This will become a very important step in your practice, because, in fact, all objects, and even we ourselves, conditionally consist of different geometric shapes. And when you are just learning to draw objects and people, and even after gaining experience, you will still sketch circles, ovals, squares on paper, indicating the proportions of the objects you draw.
Draw a lot of simple objects, animals in a simplified form. Don't shy away from drawing seemingly boring objects like a cup, an alarm clock or an apple on a table - even a simple 2D outline drawing will require some skill from you.
Let's try to practice a little right now and draw a cute mouse.
1. Take a soft pencil and draw two ovals next to each other, with a slight intersection. One of them will be smaller - this is the future mouse head, and the second will become the body. 
2. Draw circles for the ears, outline the paws and outline the curly tail. 
3. Now let's draw a muzzle for the mouse - an eye in the form of an inverted droplet, a nose with a ball, a smile, and also do not forget to draw the ears. 
4. Erase the inner contours on the muzzle and make a more saturated stroke. Color the pupil and nose with black, with a white highlight in the middle. 
5. Draw paws for the mouse and shape the tail by erasing the auxiliary contours along the body. Circle the rest of the mouse. 
After two-dimensional images, start mastering three-dimensional ones, with the transfer of volume. When studying black and white drawing, start with the classic task - draw a ball with a falling shadow. If you don't have a suitable balloon at home, use a chicken egg as an object. How to perform such a drawing can be seen in the following video.
At first, it is very important to learn how to draw from nature - you must develop a sense of form on real objects, observe shadows and light, and see volume.
The main principle in drawing is the movement from the simple to the complex, from the general to the details.
Do not rush and do not expect that after a couple of drawing sessions you will be able to create brilliant paintings. Be patient: sometimes you will have to learn how to draw the same figure over and over again until you achieve a decent result and only then move on to more difficult tasks, for example, drawing people.
Basic pencil drawing techniques
The main pencil drawing techniques include shading and hatching.
In the initial stages, it will be easier for you to master shading. Although sometimes students of art schools, for example, use only shading, and shading is considered the wrong technique. In any case, it will be useful to master both techniques, as they help to achieve different results in the drawing.
Hatching
Hatching is done by drawing short thin lines with a pencil on a piece of paper. The lines are placed at the same distance from each other. At the same time, the pencil comes off the sheet: after drawing one line, you do not pull it across the paper in a zigzag to its original position, but return it back without leaving marks. It is important to hatch the drawing in one direction.
The degree of saturation of the tone is controlled by the different frequency of strokes and their direction - strokes can be vertical, horizontal, diagonal. An increase in color depth is achieved using cross strokes of different directions, for example, diagonal strokes are superimposed on top of vertical strokes.
There are also relief strokes - they are used to convey the relief and are performed with curved, arcuate, broken, but not straight strokes.
Through shading with a pencil, both light and shade and tones are transmitted, as well as various textures: backgrounds, surfaces, materials, etc.
The hatching technique is quite difficult for beginners and requires a lot of practice. It will most likely be a long time before you can develop your own hatching style. Therefore, for beginners, the shading technique is suitable, which will help to correct the flaws in the shading if necessary.
It is with the help of shading that the realism of the image is achieved with a smooth gradation of tone.
It is carried out as follows: hatching lines are applied to the paper with a pencil, and then rubbed with a special tool - blending, or with a cotton swab, a piece of soft paper, fabric or suede. You should not shade the lines with your finger in order to avoid the appearance of greasy spots in the drawing.
In fact, shading is an optional stage after hatching, but with its own peculiarity: it is better to hatch before shading with cross zigzag lines. Do not do horizontal shading - rub the pencil lines only in the direction from top to bottom.
It is important that the shading is uniform. In extreme cases, you can carefully shade the light areas with a pencil again, and weaken the dark ones with an eraser.
In this video you can see how to perform different types of hatching and shading.
When the basics are learned, pencil techniques are mastered, it remains only to practice drawing more often. Remember that practice is the key to your success.
There are many tutorials for beginner artists, where you will see special lessons on drawing individual objects or paintings with a pencil. You can either buy these publications in a specialized store or take lessons from the Internet. The main thing is to practice as much and as often as possible. Let drawing become for you, first of all, a pleasant leisure.
Who said that real art is paints and canvases? We are ready to tell you about the direction in artistic creativity, which was well owned and mastered by such masters as Vrubel or Brian Duey. They perfectly executed drawings with a simple pencil. And these works excite, delight and bring pleasure. Is it possible to adopt their technique and learn to draw in a similar way? Of course you can! But how and what is needed for this?
- First, let's talk about why you should pay attention to this direction.
- The next important issue that we will focus on is the secrets of drawing.
- And let's complete this excursion into the world where black and white images reign with a small but pleasant gift.
Monochrome pencil drawings
Speaking of the greatness and genius of everything simple, one cannot but recall the ordinary pencil. Who among us is not familiar with him and did not hold him in his hands. All of us have been good at it since childhood. Of course, for beginners, for very tiny children, it seems that it’s so easy to pick up a pencil and start “creating” scribbles.
But the child grows, and he sees that the range of application of the pencil is huge, and you can use it in different ways. Someone builds cities, bridges and houses for them on paper. Another - lays them on the map the route of a round-the-world trip. And the third writes poetry or draws a portrait of his beloved.
That's how easily and simply the pencil entered our lives and became our assistant and friend. And the pictures drawn with a pencil are already a whole trend, stylish and having their own unique charm.
Their distinctive feature is that they are absolutely universal. Therefore, their possibilities are endless. Drawn with a simple pencil, they are:
- Suitable for any age. And small children are interested in looking at them, and adults like to use them in their posts on social networks.
- There are no limiting criteria for their use. It will be interesting for girls and boys to display such beautiful pictures as a status or give them to their friend.
- They can be copied or it is easy to learn how to perform (copy) yourself.
- Different nature of images. These can be cute pictures with cute fluffies, they can be funny and funny, or they can look like photographs.
And most importantly, the pencil drawing is incredibly attractive and convincing. It can decorate not only your profile on a page in social networks, but also the morning and the whole day with pleasant memories.
Drawing options for simple images
The biggest secret to why pencil drawings are fun, original, and eye-catching is that they look like they're alive. Everything is drawn so realistically and accurately that it seems that people are about to speak or laugh or cry, and objects can be taken and used.
Why are they so cool and everything looks so natural? What revives them? Take a closer look, through light strokes it is noticeable that the master thought over not only the accuracy of the lines that convey the image and silhouette, he paid special attention to one tiny nuance, thanks to which the images are not only beautiful, but almost material. What is this? Light and shadow.
Masterfully working on chiaroscuro, the artist achieves an apparent volume. Before us, as before, are simple black-and-white pictures for sketching. But when a shadow appeared, for example, from a curl falling on the face, or on the table from a vase, everything suddenly came to life.
Can you do the same? Do you want to learn? Do you want yours to look realistic? Then you are right to visit us!
Step by step master classes
It is easy to say: “draw”, but how can you really do it if you have never studied it and it seems that there is no talent? The team of our site gives all its friends an amazing opportunity to learn how to make pencil drawings in stages. Without teachers, you yourself are able to become an artist and delight yourself and your loved ones with your creativity. How? If you accept our tips on how to master sketching, the technique of repetition. She's not complicated at all. Yes, and the result will please.
