i need learn to draw

[miltonviziak]

hello everyone i like learn to draw but i do not know where to start.Do you know books that teach the basics to learn to draw ?

[SoBurCider]

get a picture book and tracing paper and start tracing.

[TactMasterZero]

here's a link to an inspirational thread that mighthelp you out:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=870

[MuffinPuppet]

get a picture book and tracing paper and start tracing.

That doesn't teach you how to draw. It only teaches you how to copy. By tracing, you can learn to follow somebody else's lines, but you'll never learn to create new lines of your own.

miltonviziak, if you want to learn to draw, I would suggest books like:

"Drawing the Head and Figure" by Jack Hamm
"How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way" by Stan Lee & Sal Buscema
"Dynamic Anatomy" by Burne Hogarth
"How to Draw What You See" by Rudy De Reyna

Those books will get you squared with the basic concepts of perspective, anatomy, scene composition, and blocking out concepts. From there the rest is up to you.

I also suggest that you practice by drawing objects you can see or touch. Stuff that's in front of you. Draw your computer, your hand, or your pet turtle. Spend a lot of time looking at those things and finding out why they look the way they do so that you can draw them. The essence of drawing is observation.

[SoBurCider]

That doesn't teach you how to draw. It only teaches you how to copy. By tracing, you can learn to follow somebody else's lines, but you'll never learn to create new lines of your own.

I disagree, tracing will teach you plenty. By tracing it trains your hand how to make straight lines, different curves, wrist and elbow movement. It won't teach you to be creative that's on the individual. Singer don't just sing. At first their singing nursery rhymes then karaoke in the shower to other peoples songs. This teaches you timing, notes, rhythm, how to count bars. Tattoo artists trace other peoples designs before they make their own designs. You gotta take baby steps first get your hand comfortable with whatever tool you are using. Plus tracing boosts confidence its on the individual to take what they learned from tracing into their own projects, murals or whatever.

[2wenty]

I'd say that both have valid points to a degree. I can understand where SoBurCider is coming from, however I would say instead of tracing,try recreating the images freehand. This would be more beneficial because you have the template of that artist but you are using your own drawing skill-set and not verbatim, nailing what's already been done.

Think of it like doing a digital still life as opposed to doing it traditionally. You may be able to learn something of color relationships, however it takes a lot more patience and focus to purposefully mix your color and place that on the canvas, you're more conscious of your decisions. MuffinPuppet brings up an excellent point with using books, what I will say though is take the knowledge with a grain of salt. Do not expect what you read to be the end all answer to drawing, or somehow you find a magic trick that all of a sudden reveals the mystery of how to draw things well.

This is a lifelong discipline that takes nothing more than hard work, dedication, and patience. You could very well learn how to draw just from picking up a pencil and drawing with a critical objective mind. One of the most important things I could say is just make sure you're having fun while drawing. If you're not having fun it becomes a chore and you will grow to hate it.

I'd say draw things that you love and integrate your learning into it. (Ex. Draw a character you like, and when you come across something you're unsure of, the pose, anatomy, clothing material, take a step back and look up some reference and study that, draw it a few times and then come back to your image and tackle it with the new knowledge and sense memory.)

Anyway I hope this helps. Best of luck to you!

[AZelenski94]

here's a link to an inspirational thread that mighthelp you out:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=870

all i gotta say is wow :O... haha. But as mentioned before practice.. draw everything! aper:

[miltonviziak]

thanks for the help guys