Have you ever wondered why learning to draw is believed to be difficult? Here's why... it's because everyone tells you so.
Those who can't draw tell you it's hard, those who can draw tell you it's hard, and, most of all, those who teach you to draw tell you it's hard.If you want to learn to draw you already hold the belief that you are going to have to put in a lot of work to learn, practice and master all the special techniques that "gifted" people get for free at birth.
So lets change that belief. Let's say you want to learn how to draw people... Now you could get a book on drawing people - study the anatomy of the human body, learn the general measurements of the head, where the eyes and ears are positioned relative to nose and mouth, how to divide the face up, where all the muscles lie and what happens to those muscles with expression change. You can learn about posture and balance, body proportions, movement, clothing,perspective, and so on, including special study of eyes, hands, feet, hair and other details.
And then there's the really difficult part - learning about shading technique and how to draw a portrait with likeness.
With all these instructions, it's not surprising anyone would give up trying to learn to draw people. But there is another way, an easier way, a quicker way - and that's by drawing cartoon people.
It's funny, but many instructions on drawing cartoon people begin by saying you should first understand drawing real people - but in my view it's better to work the other way round. Why? Because drawing cartoons is fun and easy, and because of this you are motivated and inspired to draw more and often - and the more you draw, the more you improve your observation skills and your drawing ability.
Here's how to go about it in practice. Put all the instruction books, rules and techniques away and start anew. Spend lots of time just looking at people, but look with your sense of humor. See the funny ways people stand, sit walk and talk, how they scrunch up their faces with expressions, the ridiculous ways they have their hair fixed, their personal fashion statements as they promote their individuality and personality to the world.
Viewing people with a perspective of humor will impress all their characteristics much more firmly into your mind, and you'll notice subtle details that you wouldn't have seen otherwise. People are funny, often ridiculous, more often stereotypes of themselves... understanding and recognizing this will help in drawing them.
The next step is to draw. Begin with sketching these characters and their characteristics - quick and easy sketching just for you, for reference (you're not drawing to impress anyone, you're sketching to build up and train your visual vocabulary).
Then start cartooning them. Don't try to draw "cartoons"- just draw the characters as you can remember them, or imagine them, using your reference sketches. Keep them simple, they'll be funny enough and cartoonish enough without any help from standard cartoon-drawing techniques or style.
Learning anything is often a process of practice - the more you do something, the better you get. The trick is to stick at something long enough to get good at it. If something is fun to do, you'll stick at it, and that is the reason cartooning will help you learn to draw. With hours of "fun drawing" instead of laborious "drawing practice", and the deep level of observation and interest you achieve by looking at people through humor-colored glasses, learning to draw will never feel difficult again.
Drawing is easy and cartooning is easy, if you want it to be, and my website http://www.drawingcartoon.net is there to show you how you can become an original cartoon artist.
Or watch me in action on http://www.youtube.com/user/MonaghanMike and be inspired to unleash your own unique drawing talent.
Article Source: Learn How to Draw People - By Drawing Cartoon People
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