- 1). Find something you can look at while you draw. This could be an image you found online or an object you have nearby.
- 2). Study the reference. With your finger, trace its outline--where it's dark, where it's light and its interior designs if there are any. While you trace this, you will begin to find basic shapes. If you are drawing a table, for instance, you may find that the basic shape of the top is a trapezoid because the edge closest to you will be longer than the edge farther from you. This is not intuitive, as most people believe they should draw the table with a square.
- 3). Begin on your paper by sketching the shapes you just traced with your finger. Keep everything proportionate to everything around it. An easy way to do this is by using your pencil against the reference and measuring it's width (for example, the table top may be the length of the pencil from the eraser to the middle). Use this measurement technique to sketch your shape.
- 4). Shade in your object by using the flat side of the pencil lead. Use small strokes to fill in the dark areas and leave the light areas less shaded. If your object is reflecting light, leave the reflection white. If you make a mistake, use your eraser.
- 5). Use this method to draw anything from a visual reference. If you want to see how professionals draw, find a video online. Also remember that realistic drawings are not created with shapes made of hard lines. They are illusions of an image on paper done with a drawing utensil. Keep this in mind when you are drawing faces because there are no hard lines on a face, only darker and lighter shaded areas.
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