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3. Do not accumulate difficult drawing tasks for you into one big lump. Otherwise, it can turn into a wall beyond which you will not go. Do a mix: first something pleasant and interesting for you, then something difficult and problematic, and then again something pleasant. Imagine a cake in which suddenly there were pieces of nuts you don't like. However, they are so distributed throughout it, hidden behind cream and delicious fruit impregnation, behind the softest dough layers, that they stop you from eating this wonder of the world. And the cake didn't get worse, and perhaps you even started to like nuts after such a combination!

4. Find like-minded people with whom you will draw or a company in which you can discuss issues of drawing that interest you. The support and involvement of people from the outside is a very good motivation not to deviate from your plan. For example, we at Skills Up Club have gathered just such a company enthusiastic about drawing and sculpting, you can always come for advice or support, and also draw together on diverse streams (it seems that we advised you something similar about motivation, but in this case this approach is also very effective!)

5. Imagine the process of drawing not as duties, but as opportunities. With each stage you master, new doors open up for you in this field.

Let's outline your study of the basics step by step

For beginners in drawing, painting or digital graphics, it is important to study the general basics. And only then move on to the features of each direction. And we will help you with that. It's easy to get confused in new information, as if in a swamp. That's why we don't despair and move forward together! It's much easier to start with a pencil and monochrome colors.

1. Master the line.

We have already advised you some techniques and exercises for hand positioning, they are great for getting started. Any simple or complex drawing is created from lines, strokes and their combinations. From lines and strokes smoothly move on to geometric shapes and more cunning silhouettes.

2. Constructive drawing of simple volumetric geometry

After plane drawing, move on to volume and drawing of balls, cubes, cylinders, pyramids and prisms. At this stage, it's time to figure out how to build geometric volumes and how to create a simple hint of volume with the help of shading.

3. Proportions

Study the principle of proportion analysis and try to copy simple flat silhouettes. Draw ellipses, flowers, houses, anything you like. Measure the ratios of small details to large elements. When you master the transfer of proportions in flat drawings, it will be much easier for you to preserve them in volume.

4. Laws of perspective

This stage will be more difficult, but you will be ready for it. On simple geometric volumes, study different types of perspective and its distortions. Then try to combine several figures with each other, make holes or protrusions in them. And again apply perspective distortions to new figures.

5. Laws of chiaroscuro

Now you can start an in-depth study of the distribution of light and shadow on the surface of objects. Also start with simple volumes - the basics of all complex shape formations: spheres, cubes, prisms and cylinders. Use shading to convey the nuances and contrasts of shadows.

6. Render or shading

At this stage, try to pay more attention to shading and rendering, that is, to convey the exact tonal relationships of objects. Try to set up simple still lifes of two, three or four objects. Also, you are ready to start studying composition and its features (statics and dynamics, metrics and rhythm, symmetry and asymmetry, contrast and nuances).

7. Complex geometry

Complex geometry is bodies of rotation and bionic forms, such as plants, animals, complex technical design objects, as well as draperies.

8. Anatomy

After all the previous stages, you will be ready to move on to the study of human anatomy or animals. After all, they consist of simple forms, and you have already studied them, studied the techniques of proportions, the features of the material and the manipulation of it. At the same stage, you can смело go on to explore coloristics, stylization, the basics of concepting and illustration.

How to grow further?

We have a funny analogy with games in this matter: imagine that you are developing your character and decide whether he will be only an archer or a multi-warrior who owns magic, a one-handed sword and shooting skills.

1. You can go in jumps, developing abilities in parallel in several areas, sometimes changing direction. For example, first you studied the basics of drawing techniques and the laws of perspective on simple geometry, and then you went to apply what you learned in drawing still lifes and working with color.

2. You can gradually expand your knowledge in one area. So you will go a more consistent way, and each new topic for you will smoothly flow from the previous one. Let's say you started to study the same drawing with simple geometry and perspective, then delved into a more complex topic of bionic plastics and complex geometry, and then moved on to the stage of drawing the basics of human anatomy with a pencil, and after that to drawing a portrait. In this case, you look like an explorer who gradually increases the area of his radial trips to unexplored lands. Isn't it romantic and exciting!

Both ways are good, choose the one that will be easier and more fascinating for you to go through. If you are irritated by monotonous tasks, the constant monochrome color of the drawing, try to introduce elements of painting into your training. Just remember: for both growth options, it is necessary to increase the complexity of the exercises, introduce new techniques, new materials and change the number and shapes of the objects depicted. Concentrating only on one goal, for example, still lifes of fruits, you will become an expert only in fruits, and not a multi-faceted specialist. Look how our students grow above themselves! They go from unpretentious cubes and balls to complex geometry and bionic plastics. And you will be able to do the same either on your own or with us in a cozy and positive and success-charged company of like-minded people on the course Figure Basic. We'll leave you a link, maybe you'll get interested and grab the pencils and run to draw with us! Always remember, you have already taken the first and most difficult step on the way to your goal - you started to think and make the first movements in drawing! Which means the rest will definitely work out. The army of artists must grow so that this world is filled with beautiful arts and drawings. We at Skills Up School believe that who else if not us (artists) will save this world with beauty and make it better. Join us and let's develop and draw together!