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Originally Posted by ralph
Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but here it goes. The wife suggested that i should try to learn to draw. I think it would be a good idea maybe it would help with my abing. Now, if it is a good idea i could use some input. Like what kind of pencils, paper etc. I did some homework and for the hell of it i bought a cheapo drawing kit for $7 bucks. It came with 10 graphite pencils ranging from 2h-8b. I guess i'm asking what the certain pencils are used for. I did see colored pencils to, but i thought i'd wait and see if i can draw first.
If it helps i'd like to draw scenery, forests, beaches woods,etc. I hope i'm not biting off more than i can chew,between learing how to ab and learning how to draw. Any and all advice is greatly appreciated
Thanks Ralph
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Well, you think you could get the state of Texas in your mouth? If so then you will be fine
Learning to draw goes hand in hand with painting. You may trace the subjects reference lines but you are really drawing the picture when you apply the paint. So in a way, you are learning to darw as you learn to paint.
Drawing with pencils is just using another medium, you can trace the outline of your reference using any of the many techniuques, then you draw the rest of the picture (shading tones) in the case you speak of using pencil. This is just another medium. You can draw with charcoal, pastel, ink, colored pencil etc.
If you mean "I want to be able to sit down an make what I see in my head on the paper" that is a completely different thing. That is something that takes years of practice and hours and hours and hours of time to get good at.
I can not draw from my head, I can paint and draw with charcoal if I have a reference to go from. I use a projector to enlarge and trace the refernece lines, then going from the refrence apply the medium to create the image.
So would it help to be able to just look at something and draw it HELL YEAH!
Does it take long to lean HELL YEAH!!
There is a very good website with all free lessons from begginer to expert mainly dealing with pencil techniques if you want to give it a try
Drawspace.com - Drawing lessons It won't be fast, I have done a few of the lessons, but I don't have a lot of time, so I would rather spend it drawing or painting and just keep utilizing my projector.
Not sure if you have seen any of the charcoal drawing I have done, I start with reference photos and project the image on the paper, trace the darkest areas and then do the drawing with the photo in front of me or on my monitor just like I do with paint. Here are the last couple of pieces I did, as you can see, knowing how to draw from your head is not required to produce nice looking images. This still takes time to lean and you have to keep at it, there is no magic bullet.. only time.
BTW I can not sit down with a blank piece of paper and a refrence and draw out the refrence line with nothing more than my drawing skill. I could maybe make it the same size as it is in the refernce but it would take forever.. so can I draw or not.. it all depends on what you mean by drawing!