Many people state that work is a gift, a talent. Well I guess you can put it that way. Anyone born with the ability to write is born with the talent of art. Art is in many forms. From drawing, sculpting, and melting to riding, writing, and designing! But here today I’m here to talk about drawing.

Have you attempted one day to draw a little picture of a horse and turned out laughing at yourself? Well your first step is good! Self-criticism is a good point in fine art. Draw this first picture but be serious, then observe what you see that is wrong. When you see what you don’t like draw another and fix these things! Staying with the same overall picture helps a lot. Once you get the overall picture of the horse you should be able to build up to the perfect drawing.

For starting off a simple picture with a simple background helps a lot. Or just drawing simple boxes and doing the shadows helps. Don’t expect to pick up a pencil and draw the best thing anyone has ever seen. Everything takes work and that is what real talent is, dedication to a specific thing. As they always say, if you stick to it you will succeed.

I recommend starting with a box on a table. Draw this box and it’s shadows surrounding it. Try not to use “lines” but just shadows. Nothing is a solid strait line; everything is possessed of shadows. Once getting this box shaded move to a colorful or designed box so you can learn how to shade the different letters and writings.

When you feel happy about these simple drawings then move to something more 3D and harder to draw, such as a chair. The chair is one of the hard spots for a lot of drawers. Getting the legs to set underneath the seat is one of the most difficult tasks but it helps you imagine your project.

Once satisfied with that then you can start to draw pictures of say for instance horses. Keep in mind a horse's face isn’t a line. Their bodies are fur and this should be seen just slightly in the picture and everything you see you should draw to keep the realism. Use the shadows as lines; try not to draw any solid lines in your pictures.

A helpful tip on shading: Smearing your pencil marks makes the outcome a lot gentler and looking great! There are products you can buy at art stores that will smear the pencil or you can be like me and just use your finger. I prefer my finger because then I can increase or decrees the depth of the shadow by the amount of pressure I exert onto the drawing.

Happy drawings!!


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