How to Draw a Picture

The world is filled with many forms of art ranging from sculptures, to drawings, and to carvings. Drawings are important, for they can reflect an era in the history of time, feelings in a critical point of life, and so much more! Drawing; although it is not a very easy matter and even though it doesn’t require much skill there are still keys, or even rules to follow with drawing. These rules include getting materials that you need, deciding on what to draw, deciding the perspective to draw from, creating an optional rough draft, drawing the picture, and finally sharing.

The first step to drawing is getting the needed materials. When you draw there must be a surface, or canvas you will draw on. A very popular material to draw on is a simple, blank sheet of printer paper or a poster board. Writing utensils, such as markers, pens, pencils, and paint are used to create the image that you want. Erasers and white out should also be put to the side with your utensils just in case you make a mistake. These are the basic materials needed to draw a picture, yet if you feel the need for more than it is up to you to add more items to your list of materials.

After getting your materials you should start deciding on what to draw. Giving your drawings a meaning can make it easier to decide on what to draw. Brainstorming ideas is another great way of determining on what to draw because it can help you think of concepts and thoughts that have great influence and importance to you. Drawing a picture that fights for a cause, protests against an unfavorable idea, or even call for attention to a particular disease can turn out to be a great picture! Not only does it hold significance to you, but it can also hold significance to someone else.

Once you’ve gathered your materials, and decided what to draw you can finally reach the next step of making a decision on what point of view to draw in. You can draw in first person perspective, where you create an image that the viewer can directly see. Second perspective drawing is a technique where the scenery disappears into two different points on the drawings, called vanishing points. This perspective is commonly used among artists. The final perspective, third perspective, is where the scenery vanishes into three different vanishing points on the canvas. These are the different perspectives you can draw in, but choose wisely of the perspective, for if you share your artwork with someone else they can easily misinterpret it.

There is an optional step in drawing, in which is called a rough draft. A rough draft can be to draw on your canvas lightly, creating guidelines before you actually start creating the real lines of your drawing, or it can be to draw freely on other sheets of paper until you get the right image you’ve wanted to show. This step is optional because in drawing it isn’t required for you to practice or to use guidelines. For beginner drawers, I would suggest taking this step into consideration because if the drawing doesn’t come out as you wanted than you can simply erase your light marking and start over.

Following the optional step, or skipping it, is to draw. This step is the most simple to say, yet difficult to do. This is the time where you begin to draw the picture that you’ve been planning through this whole process. Take your time when drawing, for art isn’t something that can typically be rushed. Put your full effort into drawing the picture since it holds value to you.

The final stage in the process is sharing your art work or preserving it. In this stage you can show off your work to friends or family - even enter it into contest and an art museum. On the other hand, if you’d rather keep it to yourself you can hang it on a wall and even frame it. It is your choice of what to do with your drawing.

In conclusion, you have finished the process of drawing a picture by doing the following steps: getting needed materials, deciding on what to draw, deciding the perspective to draw from, an optional draft, drawing the picture and possibly sharing. These are the basic steps to drawing that I have informed you of, and so it is possible to contain the ability to draw a picture. Have a great time drawing!