Many people - besides artists - want to draw, but often there seems to be no inspiration. You find yourself sitting and bored in front of a piece of paper while wondering where to start… If you've ever found yourself in this situation, read this simple guide to drawing a masterpiece even without having any idea!
Steps
Step 1. If you wish, you can set a timer for 10 minutes
Step 2. Take a pencil and place it in the center of your paper
Step 3. Start the timer and look away so you don't see the sheet
Step 4. Start drawing
Don't draw anything specific. Simply move the pencil around the paper. Try never to detach the tip from the paper, so that you get a single very long curved line.
Step 5. Once ten minutes have passed, stop drawing and look at your picture
You will probably like what you see. It has a very artistic aspect and it is not clear what it is. However, it's not finished yet …
Step 6. Try to find real shapes in your drawing (they are there, you just have to look for them)
The shapes don't need to be particularly realistic, as long as you understand what they are, because you're doing an abstract design. Once you have found some objects, take a pencil and make them stand out by outlining them so that they are clearly seen. Find different shapes to form an image.
Step 7. Take some colored crayons, paint, or anything that can add color to your image, and start coloring the background around your shapes
Once you have a background, color the shapes. Colors can be realistic, although your image will look much more abstract and interesting if you make the colors different than they should be. All done!
Method 1 of 3: Scribbling
Step 1. Take a sheet of paper and scribble until you find a shape or something
Step 2. When you find some shape, outline it more making it a real drawing
Method 2 of 3: Crumpled
Step 1. Take a sheet of paper and crumple it up
Be careful not to tear it, though … Now, take the sheet of paper back and reopen it.
Step 2. Take a pencil and outline all the creases in the paper (this may take a while)
Try to look for new shapes so that the viewer can actually understand what the image is.
Step 3. Once you have an outline, again, take some coloring tools and fill in the gaps if you wish
Method 3 of 3: Random Points / 3D
Step 1. Take a pencil and draw random dots on a piece of paper
Don't make the spaces between the dots too big.
Step 2. With a pencil, join all the lines
The lines must be connected in a special sequence. First join all the points with lines without intersecting them, creating rectangular shapes. Inside your "weird rectangles", connect two points to create a triangle. Don't join the other lines (if you do, you'll get "Xs" instead of a triangle). Keep doing this until the image looks like a 3D structure filled with triangles.
Step 3. Take three tones of the same color:
light, normal, and dark. You can choose any color you want. Determine where the light comes from in your drawing. Now, make the chiaroscuro in the image with the different colors. Now your structure looks truly 3D. Even if, in most cases, you will not understand what it represents …
Advice
- The methods listed can be performed with several other tools besides the pencil. The results could be even better.
- Use the "Random Points / 3D" method using a ruler, so that your lines are perfectly straight.
- Try to find your own drawing methods. Experiment. Do weird things on paper.
- Be patient!
- Draw around on the sheet of paper with a colored crayon and don't stop.
- Draw the first thing that comes to your mind and create an awesome collage of shapes you like.
- Take some paper and draw one eye and then some wings, take more paper and draw one eye equal to the other and draw other wings like the previous ones, stick the sheets together and here you have made a flip book.
Warnings
- In the "Without Looking" method, be sure to take your time and draw for 10 minutes straight without looking. If you look, you will probably think that the image is complete and you will start coloring, when your drawing can be even better.
- Don't tear the paper in the crumpled method and make sure you can see lines!
