Cool Drawing Ideas
Remember how you learned different cool drawing things? For example, someone learned to play the guitar. It was impossible to start playing cool melodies right away, it turned out only to play on the nerves) Therefore, I had to learn chord by chord before something started to work out.
Or take martial arts. Until the basic movements are mastered, it is not possible to show high results in complex techniques.
Graduality is needed everywhere. Only a gradual, consistent, regular movement forward will bring results. You can try a lot at once to draw complex plots, but they will remain at an average or even low level if you do not go back to learn the basics, or at least you do not get to them empirically (which can take much more time).
I see two main approaches to growing cool drawing skills:
- Regularly create many many different sketches, sketches on completely different topics – the most popular, everywhere advertised, and useful approach (almost any school will tell you to draw as much as possible and constantly)
- Creating one cool drawing and improving it ad infinitum, as long as there is enough patience (I have not seen anyone advertise such an approach on the Internet, but as a child in cool drawings, this very approach gave me the best results).
It is extremely important to use both approaches in the cool drawing. But today I would like to touch upon the second case, which, perhaps due to persistence (or stubbornness :-)), I have unconsciously used since childhood. The principle is simple – I drew it, I didn’t like it, draw it again. And so many times until you like it.
For example, let’s take some simple fruit – an apple. I used to be able to draw it something like this:
I wouldn’t be very impressed with the result. But it was at this moment that I told myself – there is no need to draw another 10 other apples or bananas if you see that it is not at all what you need. It is necessary to finish off this very apple. Although I did not always go this way, in the end, it gave very good results in the aftermath. Remember how many times in school we drew the same squiggle so that one letter began to turn out normally.
But I didn’t stop there either. The final result did not suit me. Therefore, I “gave birth” to another, glossier, option:
But he did not suit me either. Most expected there will be different selections.
Now try to remember how many times have you drawn the same cool drawing? Or were they all in one copy even without preliminary sketches?
Vitaly is very fond of cool drawing portraits and during the communication, he sent me a lot of his works. But he was not satisfied with the result. To such an extent that he began to think that he was no longer capable of anything and that he was definitely beyond his power to draw beautifully.