LEARNING TO DRAW IS EASIER THAN YOU THINK...

We all know that there are a few people to whom drawing comes naturally but for the majority of us, we need to learn how to do it. Drawing, like so many things in life, can be learned easily and (almost) painlessly when it is taken in simple steps. Anyone can pick up a pencil and try to draw something and sometimes it will work and other times it won’t. It is often at that point, when it doesn’t work, that most people will abandon the idea of ever being able to draw. None of us would visit a foreign country and expect to communicate properly with the native people without learning their language. Drawing is also a form of communication and we need to be able to convince people that we know what we are doing when they look at our work.

It always intrigues me how someone who knows absolutely nothing about *perspective can look at, for example, a badly drawn building and know right away that it hasn’t been drawn correctly. How does he or she know that it’s not right when they don’t know about perspective to begin with? To know what isn’t right, they must know somewhere in their mind what is right and therefore with a bit of guidance they should be able to draw that same building correctly.

*Do not be scared of the word perspective. I am introducing it slowly as I know that it scares a lot of people and I want you to become used to it. It is so important to draw things in perspective and, by taking it one step at a time, you will master it quicker than you think!