How Do You Learn The Skill Of Drawing And Sketching?
Think the only things you can draw are flies? Couldn’t draw a face if your life depended on it? Then come along with this veteran doodler as I show you how easy it is to learn to draw and sketch. Remember your early penmanship lessons, when you had to practically prop that fat soft-lead laddie pencil on your shoulder as you dragged its tip across cheap lined paper, practicing your oval loops of Os and Qs and Cs and Ps? Well, that’s also the best way to begin learning to draw. Get yourself a soft-lead pencil. A standard No. 2 pencil is okay, but the round and slightly fatter ebony pencils sold in art supply stores are better. (To be precise, steer away from H, 2H and 3H pencils, which are ranked in progressive hardness, and head for the B, 2B and 3B pencils, which are ranked in progressive softness.) The softer the pencil lead, and the rougher or ‘toothier’ the paper you use, the more grit and texture and shading effect you can achieve in your eventual drawings, and the more you’ll be a
