{"id":571,"date":"2020-11-18T18:22:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T18:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/?p=571"},"modified":"2022-08-13T09:53:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T09:53:53","slug":"how-to-improve-your-drawings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/en\/how-to-improve-your-drawings\/","title":{"rendered":"Five simple tips to improve your drawings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contenidos<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a700a168606f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a700a168606f\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/en\/how-to-improve-your-drawings\/#Five_simple_tips_to_improve_your_drawings\" >Five simple tips to improve your drawings<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/en\/how-to-improve-your-drawings\/#Set_goals_the_micro_challenges\" >Set goals: the micro challenges<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/en\/how-to-improve-your-drawings\/#Create_your_%C2%ABcreativity_notebooks%C2%BB\" >Create your \u00abcreativity notebooks\u00bb<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/en\/how-to-improve-your-drawings\/#Use_references\" >Use references!<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/en\/how-to-improve-your-drawings\/#Draw_every_day_or_almost_every_day\" >Draw every day (or almost every day)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/en\/how-to-improve-your-drawings\/#Finish_your_works\" >Finish your works<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/en\/how-to-improve-your-drawings\/#Conclusions\" >Conclusions<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Five_simple_tips_to_improve_your_drawings\"><\/span><strong>Five simple tips to improve your drawings<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-2b8a3b55-cacb-4114-90aa-9befe35084bd\">If you like the world of drawing and you think you need a push to&nbsp;<strong>achieve better results<\/strong>&nbsp;, this article may interest you.&nbsp;In it I will tell you what&nbsp;<strong>techniques I<\/strong>&nbsp;use to try not to stagnate and&nbsp;<strong>advance and improve in my drawings<\/strong>&nbsp;.&nbsp;These are&nbsp;<strong>simple<\/strong>&nbsp;but&nbsp;<strong>practical&nbsp;tips<\/strong>&nbsp;that help me in my day to day as an artist. Shall we start?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Set_goals_the_micro_challenges\"><\/span><strong><strong>Set goals: the micro challenges<\/strong><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"tw-target-text\">Without a&nbsp;<strong>goal<\/strong>&nbsp;you will feel lost, so always have a goal or challenge to achieve. Give&nbsp;<strong>each week a challenge<\/strong>&nbsp;to learn something such as learning to draw heads from different perspectives, draw x different heads in 7 days, practice drawing with a pen, etc. Having a goal or challenge&nbsp;<strong>will make you work harder<\/strong>&nbsp;and after you have set yourself those little challenges, and after a while, you will realize how much&nbsp;<strong>your work has improved<\/strong>&nbsp;with the use of a specific material or figure drawing. It is highly recommended that while you do these micro challenges&nbsp;<strong>you take notes<\/strong>&nbsp;of what you have&nbsp;<strong>learned<\/strong>&nbsp;along the way or what you&nbsp;<strong>need<\/strong>work even harder to continue perfecting and mastering it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"848\" src=\"https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/blog1-redballpoint-figureschallenge-1024x848.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/blog1-redballpoint-figureschallenge-1024x848.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/blog1-redballpoint-figureschallenge-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/blog1-redballpoint-figureschallenge-768x636.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/blog1-redballpoint-figureschallenge-1536x1271.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/blog1-redballpoint-figureschallenge-2048x1695.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pen challenge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Create_your_%C2%ABcreativity_notebooks%C2%BB\"><\/span><strong><strong>Create your \u00abcreativity notebooks\u00bb<\/strong><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All artists always have&nbsp;<strong>the idea chip<\/strong>&nbsp;activated&nbsp;, and we are thinking about drawings and projects that we would like to carry out, but we do not always have time to carry them out. If we&nbsp;<strong>capture these ideas<\/strong>&nbsp;, they will be forgotten! The trick here is very simple, and even more so today that we have smartphones everywhere: write down the ideas immediately on your mobile phone and then write them down in a special notebook &#8211; I call it &#8221;&nbsp;<strong>Creativity Notebook<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8220;. In that&nbsp;<strong>short note<\/strong>&nbsp;that you make feel free to describe the whole idea, theme, atmosphere, colors, background and everything you have in mind &#8230; then you will&nbsp;easily&nbsp;<strong>remember it<\/strong>&nbsp;. You can also use this notebook to write<strong>Inspirational words of<\/strong>&nbsp;different themes to use later in your drawings;&nbsp;for example, words like fly, whale, hope, fog, etc.&nbsp;So every time I need to draw something or edit a drawing, and I get the: I don&#8217;t know what to do! I immediately go to my&nbsp;<strong>magic notebook<\/strong>&nbsp;and check my lists of ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Use_references\"><\/span><strong><strong>Use references!<\/strong><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many people think that artists only draw with their imagination, but the truth is that we all have to work a lot studying anatomy and using models, since it is necessary to see the things that they are drawing in reality in order to draw well. With this in mind, I suggest that you&nbsp;<strong>use a reference of what you are going to draw<\/strong>&nbsp;; Thus, if you are going to draw a cat then have an image of a cat at hand, and if what you are going to draw are heads, have images of many heads and&nbsp;<strong>try to copy them to learn and practice<\/strong>&nbsp;how to draw them well. Later, when you master the drawing of heads or faces, you can use your imagination to draw what you already have stored in your memory. Drawing is like&nbsp;<strong>poetry<\/strong>you can&#8217;t write a poem unless you know the alphabet, the words, and how to write grammatically correct sentences;&nbsp;once you have all this knowledge, you can put it together to write poetry.&nbsp;Art is the same, so you need to&nbsp;<strong>learn the alphabet of art and how to use it<\/strong>&nbsp;, how to handle perspective and correct proportions, etc.&nbsp;When you master these skills, you can use your imagination to invent and create something new.&nbsp;Therefore, always use references, photographs, images &#8230; the imagination will come later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"762\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/blog1-figuredrawing-gesture-proportions-762x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/blog1-figuredrawing-gesture-proportions-762x1024.jpg 762w, https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/blog1-figuredrawing-gesture-proportions-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/blog1-figuredrawing-gesture-proportions-768x1033.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/blog1-figuredrawing-gesture-proportions-1142x1536.jpg 1142w, https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/blog1-figuredrawing-gesture-proportions-1523x2048.jpg 1523w, https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/blog1-figuredrawing-gesture-proportions-scaled.jpg 1904w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Draw_every_day_or_almost_every_day\"><\/span><strong><strong>Draw every day (or almost every day)<\/strong><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everything comes with&nbsp;<strong>regular practice<\/strong>&nbsp;so if you only draw every month or every fortnight, don&#8217;t expect any improvement.&nbsp;Drawing every day seems difficult, so you can use the &#8221;&nbsp;<strong>10 minute method<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8220;: set your phone to go off an alarm every day for only ten minutes, grab a pencil and paper and say to yourself &#8220;it&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong>just ten minutes, I have to take advantage of them<\/strong>&nbsp;\u00bband that&#8217;s it, enjoy your time!&nbsp;Draw whenever you can, it is never too much;&nbsp;Remember that nothing happens from one day to the next, it takes a&nbsp;<strong>lot of daily practice<\/strong>&nbsp;to improve artistic skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"795\" src=\"https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/blog1-pencildrawing-portraitchallege-1024x795.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/blog1-pencildrawing-portraitchallege-1024x795.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/blog1-pencildrawing-portraitchallege-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/blog1-pencildrawing-portraitchallege-768x596.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/blog1-pencildrawing-portraitchallege-1536x1193.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/blog1-pencildrawing-portraitchallege-2048x1591.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Examples of my daily sketches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Finish_your_works\"><\/span><strong><strong>Finish your works<\/strong><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of those who started drawing and&nbsp;<strong>did not finish<\/strong>&nbsp;what they started, then became&nbsp;<strong>frustrated<\/strong>&nbsp;because they did not achieve the goal.&nbsp;If&nbsp;<strong>you finish<\/strong>&nbsp;your drawing&nbsp;<strong>you will feel happy<\/strong>&nbsp;about the result and you will also feel&nbsp;<strong>excited<\/strong>&nbsp;about starting the next project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conclusions\"><\/span><strong><strong>Conclusions<\/strong><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you have seen, I am not inventing gunpowder or discovering anything new, but I assure you that these tips are very valuable for an artist&#8217;s day-to-day life (at least for me!).&nbsp;<strong>Consistency is the key to success<\/strong>&nbsp;, but many times we need some &#8220;tips&#8221; to help us stay in battle and continue to improve.&nbsp;I hope they have helped you \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have any questions or comments you want to ask me, do not hesitate to contact me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color\" href=\"https:\/\/www.susanisaac.com\/en\/contact-susan-isaac\/\" style=\"border-radius:50px;color:#000000\">Contact me!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art\u00edculo en el que os explico unos consejos sencillos par mejorar vuestros 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