Improve Your Drawing by Enjoying the Moment
Today tip is especially helpful for beginners who struggle to get started or find satisfaction in their drawing practice. Instead of aiming for ambitious results right away and feeling frustrated, focusing on enjoying the process can boost your motivation and help you take important first steps.
Finding Joy in Drawing
When you associate drawing with fun and positive experiences, your brain links creativity with pleasure. This naturally encourages you to draw more often and with less procrastination. For example, drawing with a friend can transform the activity into a social and enjoyable event, helping you stick with it longer.
Drawing What You Love
If you’re unsure what to draw, start with subjects that hold meaning or interest for you.
For instance, when my friend Cherry, a beginner, didn’t know what to sketch, I suggested fashion accessories since she loves fashion. When that didn’t click, she picked a small teddy bear she cherished.
Drawing personal or familiar objects makes the activity more engaging and rewarding.
Embracing Imperfections
When sketching on location or doing urban sketching, it’s okay to keep your hand loose and skip some details. It’s more important to capture the essence of the subject rather than aiming for perfection. Using vibrant colors and contrasting tones can bring life and energy to your sketches, even if mistakes are present.
Harrod’s bear, sketched by Cherry
Harrod’s bear sketched by Chou-Tac
Keep Drawing, Stay Positive
Even if your drawings have mistakes, keep going and maintain a positive attitude. Enjoy the experience, explore colors and techniques, and let the fun be your guide to learning and improving over time.
Cherry and I knew that our sketches have plenty of mistakes. But we keep going and remain positive!
Go out and chit chat with your friends while drawing
The 7 tons baby is well balanced on his right hand. We went to Garden by the Bay, and met that huge floating baby.
In Urban sketching, we often draw with a loose hand, with no much precision. We purposely skip a lot of details to focus the attention to the main subject: the baby.
I add the first layers of colours. Contrasting the cold colours of the buildings and babies to the warmer one from the trees.
I add some contrasting colours to make the sketch more vibrant.
The last Time Cherry did watercolours was a long time ago. I quite like her choice of colours.
Cherry was drawing on a wide canvas: 240x680mm from Daler & Rowney paper for watercolour. 300g/m2
Let us know your comments !
See you guys for the next Tip of the day. :)
Cheers,
Chou-Tac
felicitations for your 100 daily drawing