Draw Cool Things
In order to be on your way to drawing real-life wonders like the Egyptian pyramids and the Northern Lights, you've got to learn the fundamentals first. Knowing how to sketch shapes like cubes and crystals, as well as more complex phenomena like weather patterns, will get you surprisingly far in the drawing game! Read on for cool subjects to practice that'll help you improve your illustrative talents.
Steps
- Draw a cube to start. It may seem elementary, but basic shapes are critical to developing the skill you need to succeed at drawing.
- Draw the moon. This is another simple shape, but this time you'll be adding craters and shadows to provide texture to your picture.
- Draw a heart with wings. Although this step departs from the more realistic boundaries you've been working with so far, you should know how to employ a little suspension of disbelief when drawing, in order to make your art as fantastical as possible.
- Draw an Optical Illusion made of circles. The shapes themselves shouldn't be too difficult, but making them proportional and positioning them so they work together will take some effort.
- Draw a snowflake to transition into more intricate shapes. A snowflake like this is made up of many straight lines and exact angles, which should be a slightly bigger challenge for you.
- Draw crystals to get a better sense of uneven, three-dimensional shapes. While the previous shapes were all symmetrical, these crystals are not—you'll have to figure out how to work with that.
- Draw Explosions. These will help you get a sense of objects in motion, and what it looks like to capture that motion in a single frame.
- Draw a tornado, another object in motion. Unlike the explosions, however, this will be a more frenzied motion that you have to attempt to draw. Do so by surrounding your tornado shape with short, round lines, as shown.
- Draw the Eiffel Tower. You're ready to draw a recognizable international monument. Use short lines, careful shading, and photographic references to get it exactly right.
- Draw a castle. There are several ways to do this, but the point is that you'll be incorporating almost all of the techniques you've learned so far: three-dimensional shapes, shading, coloring, etc.
Tips
- If you want to use markers or watercolors on your drawing, use paper that is relatively thick and line over your pencil more darkly before doing so.
- Draw lightly in pencil so that you can easily erase mistakes.
- Trace over the final drawing with black pen or pencil.
- Print off a detailed picture and trace it under a piece of white paper. If it's difficult to see through the plain paper, a light may help.
- If you don't like how the marker bleeds and can bleed if water gets on your finished project, colored pencils can be very good tools if you need something lighter. They also have more shades to choose from than just that one color. Just like if you were drawing a sunset, you'd have to use more than one color.
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