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drawing!
i have to draw. and i suck at drawing. i am not allowed to draw stick figures. i usually jsut draw oval heads like this
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with eyes like 00
any tips on how to draw better???!!!! especially bodies! i don't want it to look like REALISTIC like the mona lisa.. i suck at drawing like that
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As a kid I had difficulty drawing but there's a writer who made it easier for me. Lee J. Ames is his name and he puts out a series of books called the Draw 50 series.
His books teach you how to draw all kinds of animals, famous buildings, boats, trains, aircraft etc. etc. The series is now 30 years old from what I just read online. The best one in my opinion is how to draw 50 Famous People and how to draw 50 famous cartoon figures.
Try looking for his books in educational stores, Barnes and Noble etc. etc. and in Canada through Mastermind Educational, Chapters, Indigo or Book City.
You are more apt to find them in stores selling educational toys and books for kids/teens or stores that sell nothing but supplies for teachers.
You'll be able to pull off Mona Lisa if you really want to with his simple tips and cheats. It's designed for kids, teens, families so it's not a difficult thing as he breaks it down step by step on what to do. Trust me, if it wasn't easy I wouldn't be recommending it to you.
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Hey hon.
Remember this one thing (before I give the advice): It's either (a) or (b). You pick whichever's true.
(a) EVERYone can draw.
(b) NOBODY can draw.
When it comes to drawing bodies: think of the body as a big sausage structure. For example, look at your hand. Each bit of the finger looks like a sausage. Legs: foot (one sausage), lower part of lef (another sausage), knee (tiny sausage), thigh (one heck of a big sausage),etc.
The head is a sausage itself. Draw a cross anywhere on the face. The upper sections of the cross (left & right) contain the eyes, eyebrows and a bit of the nose. The lower parts complete the nose, cheeks and mouth. Depending on how you place the cross (it doesn't have to be a perfect 90 degree thing, btw...can be a weird X thing too!) you create the features and expressions.
For inspiration, go to www.deviantart.com. Browse in the search box thing "Maria McMorbid". It's this comic thing. Anyway, look at the way it's drawn. Not realistic at ALL but still looks human!
Oh, before I go, one more thing: practice practice practice! I focus more on abstract stuff since I find realism extremely boring...I'm pretty sure that once you get the hang of the sausage theory, you'll be awesome. =)
Keep (a) and (b) in mind.
=)
Kay.
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