How to Start Drawing Things

Learn the subtle art of the pen and brush, develop yourself as an artist and grow.

I have got top 5 tips for drawing in Drawing as an Art. And this is says, "Hey Chris, it is Raphael on Youtube. It is One Street Bowen, but it is missing some vowels. I have seen in your videos, I have been in the chapter a few times and I just thought I share a few tips out for drawing if anybody is out there, just starting. Number one. Do you have enough supplies? Some recommend supplies out there would be a pencil for sketching, a darker pencil for detail, a pencil sharpener, a ruler, and a eraser, those ones that look like mini bricks. Maybe a protractor, maybe a compass, colored pencils, enough blank paper, obviously, and anything else you may think you need. But he does not recommend crayons or markers. If you are dreaming to be a professional, hopefully, you start it off with crayons and markers in early elementary school, then by this time you should be using colored pencils. So there you go if you still got crayons in your drawer unless of course if you are a crayon artist. Number two. Place your supply in a place where you have an access efficiently. Like if you are right handed, you might want to place everything somewhere on the right side of the table or whatever you are using. Same if you are left handed. If you are ambidextrous then keep them floating in mid air. So then you can just kind of grab them either way. Number three. Be sure to have enough elbow room. You don't want to be working on something and get to this line across your paper because someone bumped your elbow. My recommendation is work alone. If you are working on something during a party or if you have a friend over, leave your personal space well beyond your boundaries. You know what I am saying, just keep people away. If you are feeling creative, just say, I am being creative, leave me alone. I must draw this, let it go. This means something. Number four. Color in one direction. Remember in elementary school, when we used to color and it was just, boo, because you would color in this direction and then that. It was just horrible. Well coloring in one direction for the whole picture makes it looks nice and professional. So just move the pencil up and down or side by side but remember which ever way you go you have to stay that way for every part of your picture. So if you do this, here, and when you are over here, do this. Don't do this over here and definitely do not do this, if you start like this, got it? Again this is from an expert, I am not. Number five. Shading is always a good technique when drawing. You don't want your drawing to look plain, bold and two-dimensional. Shading makes it look more 3-D. One way to shade is to take your pencil, start in the corner or side you may want to be the darkest, then starting there start coloring dark, pressing down hard enough. And slowly as you move along in one direction, get lighter as you move. Then take your finger or two fingers and just rub the area you just colored. Its make your shade look very nice and it makes it looks like it is very professionally printed. Out of that tip list, I would say the number one tip in there is the shading. Once I learned and mastered shading, everything became easier. And just to show you that I can draw my own characterture, this is a piece of paper. I am going to use the fat, sharpy side. I am not saying you should iterate, just to prove that I am -- blank sheet here. I am going to draw this really quick because I have been doing this ever since I was really a teenager. And the reason why I did it is because I always wanted to have my own characterture and to be able to draw your own characterture is cool. And this is everything, the Livepirillo.com logo, the logo that you see my laptop is based on, is directly from me learning how to draw my own characterture. Now I could probably go deeper and make more details with myself in my own characterture. But characterture should be quick, fun, cartoony. And more than anything, they should be you. So if you ever see this guy --