Learn To Draw

3 - Artist's Secrets To Learning How To Draw When You Can't Draw Well

You can easily learn to draw. "But..." you will say in reply... "I can't even draw as well as a child at school" In reality it doesn't matter how bad your drawing is...

Let's list a few popular drawing subjects... A Car, A Dragon, A Wolf, A Tree, A Rose or other flowers, A Cat or a Dog, A Lion or a Tiger, A Horse or a Pig

Yes, it's difficult to draw a realistic Car. It's hard to draw a Dragon because they don't exist. And, an animal doesn't keep still unless they are asleep.

So... "How do you draw a picture when you can't draw well?" Here are 3 artist's secrets...

Use a grid to Copy
Use clear tracing paper to Trace
Use a projector to project an image

Even professional artists use any or all of these methods... I have used all of them to produce paintings and drawings. They can't make your drawings look perfect but they are great drawing guides that can help you.

Although you are unlikely to get a perfect copy the 3 methods are great for... Getting an idea of shape and form... Getting drawing layout right (repositioning objects and figures)... Increasing and reducing object size (Scaling)

So... "Where can you use the 3 copying methods...?

Imagine you want to draw portraits of your children as they grow up...

You will have photographs of them from the time they were babies through to leaving school. Why not use one of these photographs to learn to draw?

1. Use A Grid to Copy

Get some transparent graph paper and draw the outline of the face, the nose, the ears, the mouth and eyes.

To draw a picture the same size all you have to do is turn the paper over and draw around the outline with a pencil. To transfer the image to your drawing you turn the paper again to the top side and draw around the original pencil marks.

When you have finished the picture will be copied through to your drawing

2. Easy Image Enlargement

It is easy to enlarge the image... scale up using larger squares... use 10 squares for every 1 original square and you have increased the image size by a ratio of 10 to 1.

3. Use A Projector

Perhaps the easiest way to increase the scale of a photograph is to use a projector, projecting the image directly on to the drawing paper.

These techniques may be considered by some people as cheats... Do you care if they help you learn how to draw what you want?

Get your Free Drawing Lesson and discover how simple lines and circles help you create a Moonscape Drawing.

Michael Dale is the author of 1- Color Is Best (the quick and easy way to learn to paint watercolor) and 3- Colors Are All You Need (mix any color you want fast using only 3 colors). Contact http://www.Paint-And-Draw.com to find out more.

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How to Draw Naruto

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Naruto is a popular manga by Masash Kishimoto and many artists are aspiring to learn how to draw Naruto. The character of Naruto can be described as a loud and hyperactive adolescent ninja. He is constantly searching for approval and recognition of his skills. In order to learn how to draw Naruto an understanding of the character will help, because the character itself is very important in all Japanese cartoons.

The Basic Outline!

To draw Naruto you want to start with a basic outline of a face with a circle, cheekbones and chin.

Next, you will want to draw the guidelines for his eyes and other facial features.

Draw a line down the center of the face and an eye line across.

The eyes should be relatively large and anime shape.

Draw them centered on your horizontal line and centered between the side of the head.

The ears should be placed just under the horizontal line and should be slightly large.

The nose is a small curved line, because in the shows his nose is just color shades.

Give Naruto Some Lip and Get Away With it!

The bottom lip should jut out slightly and there should be a small mark between the chin and lip. Now you can begin adding his bandana, collar, eyes with pupils and thickened eyelashes and eyebrows. Naruto’s hair is very clumpy and random, as is most hair in the anime style. The hair droops down behind his head and comes out of the bandana. Finally, draw on the whiskers and his "Leave Village" symbol.

Now you can expand from Naruto!

There are several different characters that you can learn how to draw from Naruto. They will all have a similar basis and you can begin to draw them the same way you would any face of a person or cartoon character. Practice makes perfect and as you perfect the head of the character you can begin to practice on the body as well.

Karen MacLean is a consultant and writer for online and offline businesses. Karen resides in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. http://www.how-to-draw-now.com

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