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How to Draw鈥攐r at least get started!鈥攊n a minute. This exercise is called pure contour line drawing and it offers beginners an easy introduction to the craft. From here, we can add more steps, like measuring relationships or using a frame to block compositions, but the heart is already there. Drawing is about seeing, and practice makes you feel more alive in ordinary moments. If you give it a try, please share it with me! Would love to see 馃檶馃徎 #drawing #tutorial #howtodraw
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Today, I wanna teach you how to draw in just sixty seconds. But there is one important note at the end, so be sure to stay around for that. To get started, I want you to look at my hand here, here, over here, and back here again. And as your eyes trace the motion of my hand, I want you to try to replicate the same movement with your hand while holding a pen. The idea is to coordinate our eye and rank, so that they move together in symmetry. As you do this, try to avoid looking down and just use one long unbroken line. Then, try this with different objects and just roughly follow the outline of each one. Along the way, don't worry if any of your sketches come out looking like total scribbles. There are a couple steps that we can add to this that are really easy to learn that are going to help keep everything coherent. Breaking things down into simple shapes is just one of them, but of worse, there are many others. I'm not sure if we're over time or under time at this point, but the important point that I want you to remember is that drawing is not a test about whether you can make something look right or accurate. Instead, I would encourage you to think of it as a form of interpretation. That's how I learn, and I think it makes learning more fun and more approachable. So good to the rank, go to the baseball game, but bring your sketchbook with you and try to use this craft as a way of documenting your experience. From that perspective, even a very loose gestural scribbly drawing can still be beautiful because it can create that connection with the viewer. It can say, hey, I was here rank this is what life looked like through my eyes. And that, I think, is a pretty cool thing. No, if you're really into this and you want to dive in, I do have an online program that can get you up to speed in about a month, so be sure to check the link in my bio for more information about that. Better, either way, I hope you enjoy your new found rank, and that you go draw your best life.
