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Learn How to Draw the POSItive Way

One of the most crucial things to learn once learning to draw is understanding the process almost every artist uses to fill a blank sheet of paper with more and more lines until she completed the drawing. Although apparently complicated this process consists of several separate and simple tasks.
Many artists follow intuitively these individual tasks stepwise in the right order. Unluckily while starting to learn drawing, you lack the experience to follow this strategy intuitively. But rather than waiting for the essential experience, you should use this shortcut.
I created a system around this formula most creative persons understand and stick with by instinct. It consists of four steps: Placement, Outlines, Shapes, Illumination. These four steps are rather simple and follow the proven forumla to make a drawing. I abbreviated this formula P-O-S-I – a POSItive way to learn drawing.
So let’s get going:
1. Placing the objects in your drawing
This is the opening move. Have a look at the whole scenery, identify the individual objects in the scenery and seek to understand the scenery. Focus on the individual objects’ positions and their location in relation to each other. Finally if you think your apprehension of the scenery is good enough, mark on your sheet where you would like to lay out the individual objects.
Seek out to be as accurate as possible unless you possess some experience in the art of pictorial composing. Advanced artists know how to alter the scenery for a stronger expression without hurting realism at the same time.
2. Drawing Outlines of the individual objects
Now you know where to lay out the objects it's time to outline them as simple outlines. Look carefully at every part of the scenery and try to realize its outline and form. Then depict its outline – only the silhouette – in a couple of light lines. Limit yourself to the external lines of each object. Replicat this step for every object in the scenery. Ideally you begin on objects in the background and continue to the foreground parts.
After finishing the outline of the whole scenery this way, it's time to have a final judging look (but not overly judging though!). In this stage it's still easy to reposition any object or to adjust some lines. Only don’t be overly critical and keep in mind: every outstanding drawing comes alive thanks to minor deviations from reality.
3. Draw the Shape of the individual objects
Now it's time to turn our attention to the objects’ shapes. Start adding the internal structures of the scenery’s parts with only few and fine lines. Aim the strokes in the proper directions to follow and build the shape of the parts of every object.
For curved objects use curving lines and in flat sections use straight lines. But still limit you to few and light lines. Just try to catch the contours properly. As there are still exclusively fine and faint lines on the sheet you have still the opportunity to adjust a line here and there.
In the end your picture will have gained a stronger perspective and three-dimensional appearance. Time to fill out the white spaces and complete your drawing!

4. Illuminate your Drawing
Until now we only worked on laying out the scenery utilizing light lines. Sketching the outlines and contours of all objects in the scenery we produced a line drawing that portrays the scenerys outlook reliably.
But for producing real naturalism something is lacking: texture, light and shadow. In this final step we'll fill out these elements that give volume and depth to our drawing and finally make it look realistic. So in this step our opportunities for creating a outstanding picture are high but also is the risk of damaging it beyond fix.
What to do? Once again look carefully at every section of the scenery. Note how light, shadow and the different surfaces are forming the shapes and what the colors look like. Most crucial is the surface – because even if a surface is all one color, its structure and texture produces different tones.
The same goes to shadows. Look how the objects cast dark areas on themselves and on objects around them. Add these shadows by first sketching their countour, correcting and honing it and then filling it with dark shades.
While adding all the shades and textures to your picture always seek to draw from the background to the foreground. Whilst doing this travel from brighter tones and light contrasts in the background to dark tones and sharp contrasts in the foreground. This creates a stronger three-dimensionality.
After this final step you completed your drawing. Make one step back and enjoy. And keep in mind: when the petty critic in you comes to life, put your drawing away, the more you will enjoy it in a few months!

Article Source: http://articlenexus.com

This is the 3rd part of the 6 element series about how to learn drawing and drawing. Read the upcoming part of the learning to draw series. Here you can also get more free drawing instructions.

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