Back to the basics

Today I will talk about some basics in drawing. Everyday we should start our drawing sessions by drawing straight lines,arches,circles and ellipses and the bigger the shapes the better it is. This should be the warm up exercise until we get a perfect straight line or circle. Actually these are the basic shapes which can make any complex object that we see or imagine.

Next thing is drawing objects that we see or use daily like a stapler, cell phone, utensils, scooter etc.The important thing is that we should draw them as big as possible, ALWAYS USE THE FULL LENGTH OF YOUR PAGE. It helps to develop the idea for proportion. Also big drawing requires greater details and so more observation. First start with simple line drawing and then gradually go ahead with shading and rendering. But we should always break an object into basic  the shapes (straight line,curved line, square,rectangle,triangle, cuboid,ellipse,circle,etc). This always makes the drawing easier and helps in keeping the proportion intact.

After doing this practice if one is confident enough he should then try the memory drawing, i.e. drawing simple objects from memory. This tests our observation skills.

We can always enhance our drawing by making imaginary lines called construction lines (like the one in the gas lighter above). It gives a better understanding of the object and creates a depth of field.

The mouse in  the middle is horribly wrong because I could not put it's basic shape right, which is an ellipse. And who ever does the warm up properly will eventually use less eraser.