Do Everything To Quickly Become A Good Designer
Just like music, writing, or theater, cool drawing is a practice that allows messages and emotions to be conveyed. The practice of cool drawing is also used in art therapy for its soothing and de-stressing virtues. Getting into the drawing is therefore an excellent idea, whatever your level.
To progress quickly, a few exercises need to be put in place. Here are all of our tips for learning to draw quickly.
Start by learning the basics
Learning to draw doesn’t mean much. Anyone can draw a tree using a pen or pencil and a sheet of paper. But in the collective imagination, knowing how to draw and learning to draw rather means knowing all the basics of cool drawing and making realistic drawings. By observing your drawings, people should be able to recognize the person, animal or object drawn. From this point on, a lot of people will say that you can draw.
Why not start by learning how to paint a portrait?
To achieve this feat, the main thing is to know the basics of cool drawing, namely:
- Perspective,
- Proportions,
- The frame,
- The depth,
- Shadows and lights,
- Shades of gray,
- Complementary colors.
All these bases will allow you to draw many elements realistically. You can then work on your style by questioning a few basics. Why not disproportionate the head of your character? You will thus mark a certain style that will distinguish you from other designers and illustrators.
Draw a little every day
Learning to draw quickly requires being very regular in your practice. The more you draw, the better you will learn to draw! Many cartoonists and illustrators recommend cool drawing a little each day, or failing that, at least once a week.
Drawing regularly allows you to get your hands on and learn habits. Experimenting as often as possible also allows you to test different techniques and genres of cool drawing to find your style and the mediums in which you are comfortable.
Why not try the Inktober challenge? This challenge offers a cool drawing theme to be done each throughout October or a list of one line drawing tutorial per week throughout the year. The opportunity to improve a little daily and to set goals or to draw elements that you are not used to draw.
Sharpen your eye to learn to draw
One of the common points between all designers, in addition to having a lot of creativity and imagination, is having an excellent sense of observation. Knowing how to observe, and above all, taking the time to observe, is essential for certain cool drawing practices such as travel diaries, architectural cool drawings, or even portraits.
Learning to observe can then help you progress faster. Take a notebook, some pencils, and go outside to draw what you see. A flower, a bird, a house, a crowded cafe, draw what you see. You can then start by cool drawing a sketch, and then detail the drawing more and more. Try to stay a long time in place. This exercise allows you to relax but also to learn to take the time to draw.
By repeating this exercise, you will get used to copying on 2D paper something that you see in front of you in 3D.
Practice cool drawing what you see!
Start by drawing simple things
Many beginner draftsmen are tempted to tackle very beautiful cool drawings from the start, but sometimes too complicated for their level. They may then become discouraged and lose self-confidence even before progressing in the cool drawing. This is why it is important, to progress quickly, to choose accessible cool drawings, and to increase the difficulty little by little.
And although large cool drawings are not forbidden for beginners, choosing to do moderately sized cool drawings also allows you to do more and therefore progress faster. Of course, a few large cool drawings can from time to time allow certain parts to be more detailed and therefore to progress.
Copy works to learn drawing
One of the most used exercises in the cool drawing idea is the reproduction of works. Reproducing a painting, an illustration, a cool drawing idea, allows you to confront professional techniques while developing your style. As explained previously, avoid choosing a piece that is too long to complete or that seems too complicated for you at the moment.
Choose a work that you like and of which you would like to understand and learn the techniques of realization. Not only does this teach you to observe well, but this exercise is also excellent for learning to respect proportions. It will also allow you to broaden your artistic culture.
Be open to criticism to progress in drawing
Dealing with criticism is perhaps one of the best tips for moving forward. How can a designer learn from his mistakes if he doesn’t know where his mistakes lie? Remaining modest and keeping his cool drawings only for oneself does not help the artist’s progress. Do not hesitate to show your works, to experienced designers as well as to beginners or to people who do not draw. All feedback is good!
But beware, you need constructive feedback. Social networks can therefore be both practical to get feedback from professionals or experienced designers but also be the ground for a lot of unconstructive and sometimes nasty criticism.
Fortunately, social networks are not the only way to get opinions. Consider showing your cool drawings to your loved ones. This latter, even non-designers, will be able to give you an opinion.
Set goals for drawing
Do you want to become an architect?
Why do you need to progress quickly in drawing? What are your goals? This can be out of a passion for cool drawing ideas but also for a very specific objective, professional or personal. Either way, having a goal allows you to stay focused on that goal and thus progress faster.
Do you want to learn naturalistic cool drawing? Keep this goal in mind and draw whenever you can. With motivation, the desire to draw is much more present and therefore allows you to practice more often. Organize your progress with a schedule and steps: draw a cat, learn to draw a horse, draw a sea animal, etc. As you go through the steps one after the other, you will notice your progress as you draw.
Do not use the eraser while drawing
It may sound strange, but if you want to improve your drawing skills, you need to put the eraser aside for two reasons. The first because keeping all the features of the cool drawing allows you to better analyze your work and its errors, but also because it is necessary to learn to let go of progress.
How many designers do not dare to make a line for fear that it will be missed?
This blockage prevents many people from getting started and making real progress. By chasing the eraser from your workstation, you can then learn to let go and leave the lines, even the most missed. Little by little you will realize that your hand and your brain are freer and allow themselves more things.
Forget the eraser! You will say thank you!
Focus on a drawing technique
This rule is not a sine qua non for progressing in drawing ideas, but a tip if you want to advance faster.
Dispersing between several mediums is the best way to not know how to master any of them.
Colored pencils, pastels, watercolor, graphite pencil, charcoal, ballpoint pen, the choice is wide. But once the choice made, try not to change to learn all the techniques of this method faster.
You can combine two techniques such as graphite pencil then colored pencils or watercolor and black ink pencils. However, do not change your decision between two lessons or drawing sessions. It would waste your time.
Forging an artistic culture in drawing
Practice is not the only way to progress and develop artistic abilities. Artistic culture is also an important point to develop to find your style. Getting to know the great painters and draughtsmen in the history of art, but above all observing their works is a great way to develop your artistic outlook and find inspiration. It is also an opportunity to study the techniques used by all these artists.
For that, go to the museums! The Louvre, the Orsay Museum, the Fine Arts museums, France has no shortage of institutions to observe the paintings and cool drawings of national and foreign artists.
You can also take advantage of social networks like Instagram or Pinterest to discover new talent and find the inspiration you need to progress.