Painter’s Hub

I hope you would have read the last issue about drawing, in this issue lets us dig a little further. For drawing materials many books and art teachers recommend a good quality pencil and a eraser, but some time I have seen in my experience that any thing which can make an impression can be used to draw. For example, crayons or even colored powered can be used to create wonderful and stunning drawing.

Many ask me how to draw well? This is one of the most common questions and my reply is —- Do draw well you need to lot of practice and you need to observer the surrounding, your environment, and the things around you. Do not look at things instead observer things. Study the shape, the object placements, how light fall and how its affect to the object does. Does the object get direct light or reflected light?

Before you draw subject try to visualize the final picture in your mind. The mental picture is very important. Once you are sure about the vital issue you want to incorporate start drawing. But at the same time drawing is more than art, if you feel that in your picture a subject is not rendered properly try to fine tune it , nut do not over work, it will spoil the whole art work. Stop working once you feel the right feeling is achieved

Once you decide that you want to draw, you can select any subject matter. The whole world is full of subjects and you can select any thing that attracts you. The drawing can be traditional or abstract. To help you here is a list of subjects,

1. people
2. abstract
3. landscape
4. still life
5. flowers
6. animals
7. sci – fi
8. extra terrestrial

Tone

Any drawing should have life and emotions. The subject may not be people may be still life. But still it should have life i.e., when your viewer sees a flower he/she should feel the as if the flower is true as in nature. But when it comes to abstract drawings the feel given to the audience is different. The abstract flower should have life. How you do this and how much successful is your talent. This can be trained. Tone plays an important role in any drawing. Tone gives the view a sense of depth and volume. There are various shading techniques can be implemented in a drawing. Similarly, there are many different methods to achieve tone.