Drawing basics for beginners
Drawing is a skill anyone can develop with regular practice. This guide gives you the basic techniques and a practice framework that will let you see progress within a few weeks.
You will need
- Pencils, e.g. HB, 2B and 4B
- A sketchbook
- An eraser and a kneaded eraser
- A sharpener
- 15–20 minutes a day
Steps
Warm up with lines
Fill a page with straight lines, circles and wavy lines, moving your whole arm rather than just your wrist. Warming up makes your lines more confident.
See the basic shapes
Learn to measure
Understand perspective
Practise a value scale
Shade a simple object
Draw from observation every day
Track your progress
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