Gary Phillips - How to Draw: An Amazing Step By Step Drawing Guide for Absolute Beginners

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At some point in all of our lives, weveprobably dreamed of becoming an artist, and a famous one at that.This is a common childhood vision that eventually dies out as wegrow older and more practical. But is art impractical?

As children, art is a way of expressing thefountains of imagination bubbling within us. We dont have any fearof being judged, and so we draw what we want whenever we want to.Our favorite tool of the trade, so to speak, is a crayon, and ourmessy lines and squiggles translate into masterpieces in ourparents eyes. Then, as we grow up, art becomes a waste of time. Wesay that were awful at art, that we cant draw anything other thana stick figure. We dont want to embarrass ourselves in front ofother people, so we put away the crayon and pick up skills we feelwill benefit us more in life. But, again, is art impractical? Is ituseless?

Without art, our world would not be the same.Art is creativity. It is freedom of expression. It is beauty, andit is emotion. It speaks to people, and doesnt touch a singleperson the same way. Perhaps you feel that, even though you nowwant to pick up art, youll never become a da Vinci or Monet orDali. Thats perfectly alright. Even if you never get to thatpoint, the focus of art is not to become great. It is to letyourself go. It is a way to channel all of your anger and sadnessand pent-up imagination and set it loose on a piece of paper.

What excuses do you have for not trying art?Not enough time? It wont take long; following one of thestep-by-steps in this book takes mere minutes. Whenever you have abit of spare time, try doodling on a scrap piece of paper or even anapkin, using the instructions in the following chapters as guidesand starting points. Not enough energy? Drawing can actuallyincrease your energy, making you focus on the movements of yourpencil and keeping you from dozing off. Not enough skill? Skilldoesnt matter in art so much as the act of trying. Everyone has tostart at the beginning, and now is as good of a time to start asever! Its never too late, and practice makes perfect. This mayseem like a cliche, overused phrase, but in the world of art, itsa truth. A simple fact that leads to tremendous improvement whenfollowed.

I personally started drawing many years ago,just for fun. I still am not even close to becoming an amazingartist, but art makes me happy. It inspires me and motivates meevery day. Drawing has made me more confident and sociable. Its agood starting point for conversations and makes for a fantastichobby, and sure sounds a lot better than telling your friends youspend your free time surfing the web! When I tell people I like todraw, the immediate reaction is awe and respect. Art seems hard; itis hard. But dont give up before youve even begun.

Like everything else in life, it doesnt comeimmediately. You have to work for it, and the results are worth it.A friend of mine just started art lessons a couple of weeks back.Her first lesson, the teacher got her to draw a bowl of bananas.She took one look at the bowl, one look at the canvas, and burstinto tears. How could she do it? How could she just sit down anddraw still life? After she calmed down, the teacher taught her afew tricks about shadows, depth, and shading, and she gritted herteeth and drew the bowl. She showed me her masterpiece the otherday, hanging on her living room wall. It was wobbly and uncolored,and one could hardly tell she had attempted to shade, but it wasbeautiful because of the effort she had put into it.

She had produced it, and so she wasinfinitely proud of it, and still is and will be. Shes improved alot since then (I think shes on drawing horses these days), andits all thanks to the fact that she began. In her words, art isfantastic because you have a finished product to look at. It makesyou feel like youve really, truly accomplished something. Plus itmakes for a decent, inexpensive house decoration. I agree withher. And an added bonus is that youll feel better and startthinking of things in a different, more open perspective. But dontworry, you dont need to take professional, expensive art lessonslike my friend did to gain the benefits of drawing. By using onlinesources such as this one, you can learn to draw in an inexpensive,efficient, and easy-to-understand manner.

In the words of Pablo Picasso, Everythingyou can imagine is real. With art, you can never truly lose thatchildish imagination. Instead you make what you envision in yourmind a reality through mere lines on a paper. If you think aboutit, art is truly amazing in its ability to translate expressionthat seems inexpressible into a representation on canvas. Itdoesnt have to be realistic. After all, youre probably familiarwith Picassos abstract artworks of seemingly random rectangles andcircles drawn in a chaotic collection. Whats most important of allis what it meant to him, and now in this case what is means to you.You might not know that he also drew paintings that werentabstract as well. Art doesnt restrict you to staying in mere,confined boxes of expectations.