objects. Don’t get tense and you are never behind in the learning the art of drawing lessons which are always available for you. Just sit back and get started right from day 1 and make it comfortable with whenever you want to start your art of drawing classes.

 

Materials - What you require to get started to learn the art of drawing?

 

Start with first exercises with your plain paper (say paper you use for printing) and a pencil with number 2, pad of drawing papers, some different grades of pencil, and an eraser.

 

Take a note before you make a purchase from your art store.

• Graphite Pencils
• Drawing Equipment
• Drawing Paper
• Paper Care and Storage

 

Graphite Pencils
A decent graphite pencil might be as simple as you can think among drawing tools, and the fact is, it is simple. But when you are in the art store, the wide range of graphite pencils available might surprise you in choosing. For you as a starter, the low cost and reputative artist’s ranges are 6B, 4B, 2B, H and 2H. As serious beginners you should go for a full set of ranges, or try clutch pencils. Pencils are very inexpensive, so keep trying various ranges which come your way in the future market and which suits you best.

 

• What’s Inside a Pencil?
• Pencil Quality Varies
     - Wood-Cased Artist’s Pencils
     - Clutch and Mechanical Pencils
     - Progresso Pencils, Graphite Sticks and Graphite Crayons
     - Powdered Graphite
     - Carbon Blends
     - Chalk and Pastel Pencils

 

Drawing Equipment
What you require for pencil drawing is very basic, but there are some essentials requirements that you really require to do it properly for best results. Here you can need the low-down on basic kit plus a few extras.

 

• Pencil Sharpeners
• Sandpaper
• Tortillon and other Blending Tools
• Knead able Erasers
• White Plastic Erasers
• Ruler, T-Square and Flexi curve
• Line Incising Tools

 

Drawing Paper

• Papermaking Processes

          - Handmade Papers
          - Machine Made Papers

• Paper Pulps

          - Wood pulp
          - Wood and rag
          - 100 percent Rag

 

Paper care and Storage
For carrying and storing life drawings and sketches, a flat folder made from an appliance box will be fine. For works on quality paper, use a corflute folder, to prevent contact with acidic cardboard. Chalk, pastel and charcoal drawings may be interleaved with acid-free tissue (available from art shops). Plastic sleeves are not really suitable, as work tends to stick to the inside of the sleeve. Ideally have one for unused paper, a work-in progress folder and a for finished works.

 

If you need to post a drawing, use a piece of tissue over the face of the artwork, roll carefully and place in a postal tube. For an important piece you may want to invest in a short length of PVC plumbing pipe. It will cost extra to post, but will protect all those hours of work.

 

For more permanent storage, investing in a set of plan drawers is well worth the expense. Different types of paper can then be easily stored and completed works left relatively undisturbed.

 

Paper has many enemies! The main ones are:

• Acidity
• Sunlight
• Moisture
• Silverfish
• Other vermin
• Transport

 

Using your eyes will your main key in learning to draw. As a child, we draw stick-figures drawing in the shape of symbols for people, where faces were roughly round with a smiley mouth. But when we sit and draw with realistic aim, we draw exactly what we see instead of imagining - We discovered that people faces are not really rounded, and those their eyes are in the middle of the head, not pointing towards the top. No doubt whatever is your interesting topic, say you go for abstract art drawing, learning to draw will be very helpful to achieve what you are looking for in your drawings.

 

Get Ready and take immediate action? Send me your email address for getting your First 4 Lessons-ebook, We start of with simple exercises, and there after we’ll get get deeper inside and practice developing observational skills. Most important thing at this stage is to understand how to get a feeling for following the shape with the help of your eyes and pencil.

 

Chapter 1 - Exploring Mark Making
Chapter 2 - Simple Contour Drawing
Chapter 3 - A Simple Still Life
Chapter 4 - Blind Contour Drawing

 

 

Tips:
 

- Don’t be disheartened with ‘failures’. How many times will someone fall over
   learning to rollerskate?

 

- Practice often. You need to focus on training your hands and eyes.

 

- Don’t think of everything as a masterpiece. Exercises might just be
   scribbles, but will help your technique. Think of a musician playing scales.

 

- Enjoy! Draw subjects you like, and have fun!