Drawing Lesson Photography Shack Guide
Drawing Lesson To Improve Your Technique
By Nikos L Maxwell
A step-by-step approach is often used for a drawing
lesson, whether it is an online drawing course or something
more traditional.
As when learning most things, going through each stage,
one at a time will give you a better understanding of
how the process works, and will eliminate sloppy work
from jumping too far ahead before you’re ready. It may
seem overly simple at first, but the steps are there
to help you master each stage before moving on to the
next one.
The first step, whether it’s drawing for kids or for
adults, tends to focus on creating the basic structure
and shape of the subject matter. So if you are learning
how to draw people, for example, then step one will
generally consist of rough circular shapes for the head
and body, and longer ovals for the legs and arms. To
make it easier, often these separate shapes will be
joined together and will overlap.
Drawing And Improving Shapes
After you have the initial shapes, the drawing lesson
gets more involved as you review your options and move
on to the second step. There is a lot more work in this
stage and it is here where the object that you are trying
to draw really begins to emerge. If you are new to drawing,
then this stage is where you will be tested.
It can be very frustrating to not see the transition
from shape to object that this stage is supposed to
produce. You also may not have the necessary hand/eye
coordination skills to be as successful as you had hoped,
and so more practice may be needed.
Making A Complete Picture
The final stage is when the pen finally comes out.
Up until now the majority of the work was done in pencil,
allowing the artist to correct mistakes by erasing.
The drawing techniques at this stage need to be mastered
as much as possible since erasing is not an option.
Detail really comes into play, as the artist outlines
all the necessary lines with ink and then erases the
pencil drawings, and finally adds shading and other
subtle markings to make a complete picture.
Completing Your Final Image
So any drawing lesson you take will have at its core
the three stages discussed. Naturally, each of these
stages might be broken into several smaller steps, to
focus on relevant drawing techniques that the image
may require.
In fact, a single lesson could actually be stretched
over several classes as the instructor teaches the students
how to move from the basics and foundation of the image,
to the work of moving and fixing the structure into
a recognizable image, and then finishing off with the
detail and texture required to make a complete and final
image.
All of this hard work will result in you becoming a
better artist.
About the Author:
Nikos L Maxwell is an author of articles on animation, digital photography and editing software including
Digital Editing,
Large Images,
Edit Pictures,
Fuji Film Digital Cameras,
DVD Editing,
Video Editing Computers,
Digital Image Processing,
Blu Ray Disc.
Keep a lookout for more articles coming soon.
More Drawing Facts....
How can I learn to draw?
Anyone can learn the techniques
to drawing. In fact you probably already know quite
a few from growing up. Most people go through stages
as they grow. As a toddler your drawings may have
been simple scribbling on a piece of paper.
From there it advanced to rudimentary
stick figures. Those stick figures are the true basis
of most art techniques when it comes to drawing people.
That is the easy part. To learn further advanced skills
you will most likely need to take some classes or
pick up a book on drawing.
There are even websites that
can teach you some of the fundamentals such as perspective
and shading. Yes, there are going to be some people
that learn this skill naturally and are gifted but that
does not mean that you cannot learn how to draw.
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