Are you an artist that doesn’t draw well and you just call it abstract, trying to hide this challenge?
Believe me, I can totally relate. I work on my drawing skills all the time and the more I practice the better I draw.
There are artists that like to draw with the paint brush, but the fundamentals are still needed.
If you are facing this dilemma, then I would advise you to own up to the fact that your drawing needs to improve and go about finding a teacher that will guide you as you come more proficent at this much needed skill. Face this problem head on and once and for all.
The artist’s who face this problem head on, are more apt to become successful drawing artists because they accept the challenge and recognize they need to get a teacher’s help.
With time these artist’s skills will grow stronger and stronger.
After the drawing dilemma is solved, the next questions is what skills to use as you draw different pictures. You may feel that drawing one style or another is your strong point. Just don’t take all these classes and then when you want to draw something difficult fall back into the old pattern of drawing “abstract.”
In Jane R Hofstetter’s book “The 7 Keys to Great Paintings,” she states that very little is covered up by watercolor. So if your drawing skills are not up to par, they will certainly show in your watercolor paintings.
Just to fill you in on a little history – Pencil drawing is one of the oldest modes of fine art, it plays a vital role in creating other styles of art, such as watercolor and oils painting. It is the reflection of the visual art and a specialty in itself.
Most people think that pencil drawing is limited to the visual art as it uses a pencil as the sole medium of creating art. Pencil drawing, however, involves many variations with the use of pencil leads which one should become familiar with as they use this wooden tool.
Ellene
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