Artistic Images/ Drawing Tips/ Tips for beginners-

- One step at a time

 and draw general Then work on perfecting them to improve your drawing. Don't try to draw your piece in one shot, drawing is a process.

-Don't give up to early. A drawing takes time to develop. You need to have something there on the paper before you try and improve it. Sometimes I start to get discouraged before I completely draw in the whole face of a portrait. I then remind myself that it doesn't look like the person because there's not enough information yet for it to look like the person.

-Some amateurs think that making something look good is trying to make it look professional . But since they lack the skills and experience to do this it usually turns out looking amateur. It's better to do a simple well constructed drawing or painting and save the other stuff for later. It will produce a nice solid drawing and improve your skills. I am always much more pleased to see a student do a simple yet strong drawing rather than trying too hard and making a drawing with forced professional look.

-Draw what you see not what you know. Just about all of us have drawn as children. And through the years we develop our own symbols for things.

Our mind thinks things like" This is how you draw a flower."  When drawing. How you really draw a flower is by looking at it not as a flower but as a subject. Forget it's a flower. Draw the shape of the petal, the shape around the petal, even if the shape seems wrong and weird, and very "unflower like", it doesn't matter. If you see it draw it. In this way you are drawing the true shapes and curves around the flower.

You'll find you mind saying things more like " this shapes goes like this, and it curves here."

This drawing may not seem like a flower.....	But it is.
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