Stuck in Drawing

Have you ever reached a point where you think you are not drawing any better? Chances are you are wrong. Sometimes you just need to take a look at your drawing form the past months to check on reality. But…well sometimes you indeed are stuck in the evolution of your drawing or walking the line too slow.

Why does this happen? Well, yesterday I read a little of Glenn Vilppu’s Drawing Manual ( I tried to read more but I was just too tired ) and it said something very true. Learning to draw is a process, in order to make really great drawings we have to build our skills layer by layer, we can’t pretend to make a finished masterpiece if we have no knowledge of lighting, structure, composition, etc. And we have to consider that understanding lighting, structure, composition, etc involves having previous basic knowledge. So..think it as layers. Maybe your drawing does look awful because you concentrate too much on rendering completely ignoring underlying structure, relationships and proportions. Even revisiting the most basic steps can be of great help. Just take it slow, be patient with yourself. Vilppu says make a plan, and if that’s true in anything in life to reach a certain goal, you certainly can do it with drawing.

Don’t put too much stress on yourself and you will see that your skill will be building itself almost naturally, and you will enjoy drawing like never before.