Inspiring Drawing Tutorials (2024)

FAQs

How can I get inspiration to draw? ›

Go for a breath of fresh air, go to museums, concerts, watch people walking around, get inspired by nature, and spend time with your friends. All of these activities give you new things to write about in your drawings. There's nothing worse than sitting at home and thinking.

Practice by copying another picture. Look at it and try to separate it in your mind into different shapes. Start by drawing the outline and gradually add in more detail. Pictures with intricate details depend as much on time as on ability.

If you can't think of what to draw, just put pen to paper and make it move. Draw lines, simple shapes, scribbles, cartoon characters, stick people, or anything else that comes out. The physical act of moving your hands to create can reenergize you.

What are the hardest things to draw? Some of the most challenging things to draw include facial expressions, foreshortening of the human body, drapery folds, drawings based on your ideas instead of a direct reference, hands, movement, and gestures.

Practice, practice, practice. That's the mantra of famous artists across the world, and practice is the sure-fire way to improve your drawings. Even spending a few minutes a day on sketch engages your brain with your art and helps you learn new techniques. Bring a sketchbook with you everywhere.

An essential skill to learn as a beginning artist, whether drawing or painting, is perspective. If you want to achieve three-dimensional art, knowing perspective is key, including how to find the horizon line, determine the vanishing point and an overview of linear perspective.

It's easy to get discouraged when that's all you're pumping out. But drawing isn't purely mechanical. It's as much about process and approach. This means you can learn – you can teach yourself – to get better.

Art students who would like to become fine artists, start their art education in art schools from the age of 9 or 10. By the end of this school, which takes 4 to 5 years, they have very good drawing, painting, decorative arts, composition, and sculpting skills as well a firm knowledge of the history of arts.

Where do artists draw inspiration from? ›

One of the best ways of finding inspiration as an artist is looking at other artists' work and learning from them. And the more you paint, the more you learn, and the more you are able to look at other artists' work and decipher what they were doing and their thought processes behind what they were doing.

Surround yourself with sources of inspiration. Explore different art forms, visit galleries or museums, read books or articles about artists you admire, or engage with other artists in your community. Expose yourself to new ideas because other peoples' creative work can spark motivation and ignite your own creativity.