Where to start with creating a drawing

I like to start a drawing with a big blank page, its such an exciting moment, full of potential! Choose a few points of the thing you want to draw, and start to try and get some accuracy between the points.

Next, choose your weapon – pencil, charcoal, inks, pastels, crayons …..

Start to look at tone – lighter darker, lighter darker – keep looking..look for a range of tones

materials

• Charcoal – lovely loose lines, beautiful tones
• pencil – more precision, lots of work to add tone
• inks – you need to be very careful as it can quickly become a mess. but you can achieve a lovely loose flowing feel, be aware of keeping space for white and lighter tones

Example of ink drawing – https://www.instagram.com/p/CsoOy7Ao4ek/

types of paper

lots to choose from – cheap sources on Amazon –

For real inspiration – look at the work of the great artists – Degas, Leonardo, etc, the Royal Academy of Arts is a good place to start …https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/