Hard drawing

~~~ This post is not aimed at giving you generic tips, but to actually guide you to improve your drawing if you already trying to get better, or to start your journey at it in case you want to draw but are hesitant about it. The key point here is to understand what do you need in order to do it well, starting from the right way of thinking about it to the right way of doing it. Quickly go to:- • • • • • • • • • • • Depending on what you draw, you may not need every single one of these aspects to draw well. At least not now, but you will need to know at least some of them. The amount of things you need to know may overwhelm you at first, but don’t worry about it. You can achieve good results in the short term without knowing all these aspects, and gradually learn about them one by one. It’s not knowing about these aspect of drawing is what makes drawing hard for many people. There’s a chance you already read about drawing, and probably attending some drawing courses, so you already know about these concepts. In that cases, what could be that’s blocking you from drawing well? Or at least the way you want to. To answer that, here’s the next reason of why drawing is hard:- If all you want to learn is to be able to block in lines correctly, then doing that over & over may help you there, especially if you are mindful about the different kinds of lines you are drawing, but then you won’t really improve on the other aspects of drawing, that’s why there are artists who are good at...

Table Of Contents • 1 Self-Portrait • 2 Horses • 3 Glass • 4 Hands • 5 Cars • 6 Water • 7 Human Body Self-Portrait Drawing a self portrait is the kind of exercise that comes up a lot in art class and I gotta say… I never enjoyed it! We’re our own worst critics, and trying to draw our own portrait proves that. It never looks quite right and it always feels like we’re drawing a different person altogether. Drawing something new is always hard. But it can be even harder to draw things you look at every single day. Things that you think you’re familiar with. We put even more expectations on it. We already know our faces right? How difficult could it be? Apparently, it can be really difficult! However, this doesn’t need to be a boring or such a difficult task. You don’t need to draw a hyper-realistic portrait of yourself. Cartoony Self Portrait! Halloween Version on the right Why not draw a cartoony version of yourself? You can also reimagine yourself as some other creature. There are many styles to choose from as well. So if drawing something in a realistic way isn’t for you, experiment with something else and have fun with it! Horses Horses are known to be one of the most difficult subjects to draw. They have very complex muscles and bodies. Look at all those muscles you have to draw! I’d recommend first getting some good references so you can get more familiar with horses and how they look. We all know how a horse looks, but not a lot of people look at them frequently and pa...

The difference between photorealism and Realistic paintings are typically 10 to 20 times the size of the original photographic reference source, yet retain an extremely high resolution in color, precision, and detail. Many of the paintings are achieved with an airbrush, using acrylics, oils or a combination of both. We have already shown you some fantastic examples of hyper-realistic works, but here’s a selection of the most outstanding ones. We also included some photos of the creation process just to convince you these are not photographs. Which of these 3D art examples do you like the most?

This is how it begins. You see a mighty dragon in your mind, its frightening head, shiny scales, marvelous wings, a long tail with a row of spikes... It's so real you can almost touch it! You grab a pencil, or a graphics tablet pen, you feel the creative energy coming through your fingers, and... nothing looks right. It just doesn't. And you would understand it if you were generally bad at drawing, but no, you can draw realistic things as long as you use a reference, right? Your lines are clean, you can control a pencil, you get the proportions right—but only when there's something you can look at in reality. Drawing from imagination seems to be a higher skill than simply re-creating reality. After all, this is a real creation—you're bringing to life something no one's ever seen before! All these amazing creatures and fantastic stories in your mind are only waiting for you to set them free. You want to observe them as they're being born on a sheet of paper, to see them come true, for everyone to admire them as you do. Why is it so hard? How to get a proper connection between the image in your mind and the lines created by your hand? How Do You Draw? This is the question you need to answer first. Drawing isn't as simple as you think—it's made of The same effect can be reached using different methods. For example, you can get a realistic picture of a horse by: • taking a photo of a real horse • sculpting a realistic horse and taking a photo of it in appropriate lighting • us...

Knowing how to draw is something most people feel is mostly about artistic talent. You can either draw or you can’t. I disagree. Instead, I think drawing is mostly about having a set of specific techniques, that anyone can learn, which make it a lot easier to draw something realistically. I’m not a professional artist, and so my experience comes mostly from drawing as a hobby. However, as many professional artists have long-since mastered these basic skills, they often struggle to teach them. I’d like to share what I think some of these basic skills are, along with resources you can use to master them. If you do, I promise that you’ll be able to draw much, much better than you do now. Seven Core Drawing Skills Skill #1: See How Things Look (Versus How They Are) The most basic skill of drawing is to notice how things actually look, instead of what you know they’re really like. This sounds vague and hand-wavey, but it’s really not. Consider drawing something simple like a table. Question: How big is each leg of the table? The obvious answer is that they’re all the same. That’s how tables are built. If they weren’t it would be all wonky. Yet that’s not how a table actually looks. Because some legs are in the background, and viewed at different angles, the lines you put down to represent the table legs aren’t actually the same size. The first question to ask when drawing is always, “what does it actually look like?” How do the edges of the object actually look, (i.e. what angl...

Many artists consider hands are the hardest thing to draw due to all their possible positions and details. Drawing hands presents a hard challenge to artists because many lack experience doing it, making mistakes more common. But the reasons why they are so difficult to draw is what is interesting. I will share the rest of the hardest things to draw after the reasons! What Makes It So Hard To Draw? Drawing a hand is challenging for three main reasons: what we think we know, experience and complexity. • What we think we know: Having such constant contact with our hands should, in theory, make hands easy to draw, but that’s not what the brain does when it has such a close relationship with an object. See, our brains don’t pay attention to the details but see things as a whole because that’s most efficient, so the mental images of any object you think you know very well are actually very vague. If you go ahead and try to draw a hand from memory, the drawing result will be the mental image you have of your hands. Unless you have dedicated a lot of time to drawing hands, the result will be a drawing that resembles a hand, but one that is not very accurate to reality. • Experience. Usually, many beginning drawing artists start to draw with faces and all that comes with it, and hands aren’t usually what you master in the first place, so you have zero experience doing it when it comes to drawing them. And it’s normal; hands may not be the most exciting thing to draw when you’re ju...

We’ve already explored easy pictures to draw. But at a certain point, as an advancing artist who wants to continue building drawing skills, you may want to explore the other end of the spectrum: challenging subjects to draw. In some ways, what is “challenging” can be subjective; a subject that’s difficult for one artist may be a breeze for another. However, the subjects featured in this post seem to prove fairly universally challenging to developing artists. Challenging, but not impossible! Challenge your artistic by trying these hard things to draw! Pet portrait via Rita Frazee 1. Animal and pet portraits Capturing the different textures of the fur, hair and whiskers can be tricky while remaining accurate and intentional. Be sure to start with a good repertoire of reference material before beginning to draw an animal or pet portrait. Working from high-quality photographs, as the artist did to create the portrait above, is a great way to get started with realistic animal portraits. Glass in colored pencil via rmercado-artist 2. Glass How can something see-through be so tricky to draw? But tricky it is, indeed. Not only are challenged with the idea of drawing something clear that shows substance, but you also have to contend with unique shadows, highlights and reflections in the glass itself. And don’t forget about the background! The above drawing, rendered in Rather than looking at drawing glass as an impossible prospect, begin to break it down into easier steps. First, f...

This post may contain affiliate links, which means I may earn a commission if you decide to purchase through my links. We’ve all dreamed of being great artists; pulling out our pencils and quickly drawing a masterpiece that we can be proud of. But, anyone who has tried to draw a perfect picture on a whim knows that it isn’t easy. Can it be learned though? How hard is it to learn to draw? It is hard to learn to draw, but it’s a quicker and easier process with the right resources, support, and dedication to learning the right skills. Learning to draw can be a rewarding experience, which makes it important to focus on the journey instead of just the outcome of beautiful art. Personally, drawing is something that never came easily to me. I went to countless art camps, took art classes throughout high school and college, discovered AMAZING art classes on Skillshare, and practiced, practice, practiced. Whenever I sit down to learn how to draw something new, it’s a battle. Learning how to draw isn’t easy. But, it can be made a LOT easier with the right strategy and tools. If you’re finding it hard to learn how to draw, here’s what you can do to make it easier. Before we dive into strategies you can use to make it easier to learn how to draw, let’s talk about why it’s hard to learn to draw in the first place. Why is it Hard to Learn How to Draw? Drawing is hard to learn because we aren’t used to looking at the world in individual parts instead of a whole. To draw, we need to see o...