Where to Start

Drawing skills can be developed if you start from simple and slowly progress to the more complex techniques. Begin with drawing lines and shapes. The basic straight lines and basic shapes like square, triangle, a circle or an oval. There is no short cut to it. The more you practice these simple shapes the better you will be in drawing.

Objectives

By practicing and mastering basic drawing skills you will be able to create clean lines that is crucial to making great drawings. There are cheaper drawing paper that can be purchased at the book shops. They are ideal for you to practice your drawing skill. Once you have mastered the skill of drawing the basic lines you will notice that your stroke are much smoother than when you first begin.

See how smooth the line is drawn in the video. Watch carefully how I draw the line. Smooth even pressure on the pencil and no jerky stroke. Try not to lift the pencil off the paper when drawing a line. Making a line by short connecting strokes aren't going to help make clean lines.


Practice

Draw freehand horizontal lines and vertical lines. Draw the lines using different pressure to see the different tones. Also practice drawing the basic shapes.