Purified666 wrote:I saw a lot of artwork from our family here and I always wanted to learn drawing, but didn't really know how or where to start.
How did you learn drawing?
Any good materials to learn drawing like videos/books?
I'm really interested in pencil drawing right now. Plus I don't have drawing tablet so I can't really make digital art right now.
I personally am a self taught artist with the internet as my guide and my own creativity to train myself.
Creating art is a skill and like all skills require daily and consistent practice to become better and more proficient. It takes dedication, time and effort that you yourself are willing and wanting to put in. To create art there are two parts to it: The manual side and the spiritual side. The manual skill would be your dexterity and ability to put marks on your canvas. The spiritual side is your creativity, your mental capability, your inspiration etc. Both are required and both need to be trained.
There are 7 fundamentals to art as in if you break down Art to its base components these are what is left: Line. Shape, Form, Value, Space, Texture, and Color. I will explain these farther down below. These fundamentals are what you need to study and train in to become a better Artist. Anything else comes after learning and understanding these 7 concepts. Now to explain what these 7 are.
Line - In art terms, line is considered a moving "dot" or the path of a "dot" Lines can be used to define edges, add shading or value, and creation the illusion of Form. The line is the most basic of basics and is what is always used when creating anything both visible or invisible. In reality lines don't exist but in a canvas lines are always used.
Shape - Shape is considered a closed contour or the area confined within a contour line. Shapes fall into 2 categories: geometric or organic. They can be defined as positive or negative and are essential to composition design. If Lines are used in everything then shapes are what makes lines look like "not lines" if that makes sense to you. This is the 2-dimensional version of what form is.
Form - Form is the 3 dimension objects in a piece. Art is created in a 2d medium whether its a canvas or a computer software, therefore to make something look more realistic the illusion of being in 3dimensions is needed. Form in of itself is an illusion which heavily depends on the use and placement of values.
Value - This can also be referred to as tone. It is the darkness or the lightness of a color. Lighter values are called tines while darker values are called shades.
Space - Unlike shape, space has no defined area. Space can be considered above, below, around, or within a shape(s). It can also be thought of as the 3 dimensional illusion within a piece but unlike form its not defined solely by values.
Texture - this refers to the way an object feels to the touch or look as it may feel if it were touched. Texture created in drawings or paintings can be simulated or invented. This is also heavily dependent on values.
Color - Color is self explanatory. This is what I would consider the most complex of all fundamentals.
These 7 fundamentals are absolute requirements that need to be learned as these 7 tie in some way or other into more specific skills and theories.
https://design.tutsplus.com/series/how- ... w--cms-890 This guide is quite useful for manual training.
On the spiritual side, it is less defined and less researched. This is what I personally thought up. Before a piece is put on paper it is first thought up in the mind whether consciously or subconsciously. What we need to train is being able to consciously draw out the creative energies and power within the mind. Along with that, the ability to visualize ideas in your mind is needed. It is much faster to think up ideas and see them in the mind than it is to put all the ideas down on paper. Then there is the energy. One puts energy and effort into creating a piece.These are all easily trained already in your daily spiritual practice.
As for tools of trade, whether it be pen/pencil on paper, paint on a canvas, or a digital program all are valid and all require skill. Let none tell you otherwise as your own skill in creating comes first and tools are secondary. The internet is a great source of information but some information is better than other and learning how to sift through is a personal ability.
This is a personal belief but creating art is as much a physical skill as it is a spiritual skill. It is the representation of what a person is or believes in as the pieces come from within a person. On a larger scale it could also be a general representation of a culture or races state of mind or spiritual foundations. Around the world there are still the ruins of ancient civilizations and although those civilizations are gone their creations still exists such as the pyramids. Real art is a beautiful thing and I am glad it exists.
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