THE IMPORTANCE OF ACCURATE DRAWING...

To communicate effectively with our drawings - and make them appeal to our audience - they must be a good likeness of our subject matter. Whether you are drawing to create a finished drawing or drawing as the foundation for an oil, acrylic, water-colour or pastel work, your drawing needs to be accurate. It’s one thing creating a finished drawing that isn’t right and having to abandon it but imagine the wasted time and effort on discovering your beautiful water-colour or oil painting isn’t right as a result of poor initial drawing?

If you are drawing as preliminary work for a painting, or drawing guidelines prior to creating a finished work in pencil or pen, then treat that drawing as you would the foundation for a house you were about to build. No matter how beautiful the finished house might look, if the foundation is poorly built...well, you know what I’m getting at...