==================================================================== Author Name: Ruediger Schmidt Contact Email Address: [email protected] WebSite: http://DrawingSecrets.com Category: Visual Arts, Arts and Crafts, Crafts, Painting, Drawing Description: Even if you are retired like most of my educatees, you've solely narrow time and energy for your drafting hobby. And if you're producing art for your living then hours and energy will be actually more constricted and of value to you! Keywords: improve your drawing, learn how to draw, drawing skills Word Count: 1161
==================================================================== Article Content: Even if you're pensioned like many of my readers, you have solely narrow time and energy for your drafting hobby. And if you're making art for your living then time and energy will be actually more constricted and of value to you! So you might be questioning yourself: what ought I center on when drafting? You could work on improving your abilitiesor you could put time in eliminating your weaknesses. Quite a difficult question. It's crucial to think some time on the question into what to invest your energy. On the one side you could concentrate on your best skills. Let us say for instance you're outstanding in sketching seamless and realistic looking shadings. So you should put more of your attempts in further honing these skills. Some more time will soon bring your skill-level from "great" to "superb". Then again you should put your energy in fixing your weaknesses. Let us assume you need a lot more praxis in portraying perspective and proportions more accurately. Putting effort you would better your skill in this area to at least intermediate levels. But wait! If you center only on compensating your weaknesses, you'll commit many effort to change these weaknesses into only average skills. In the end that implies you will end up with nearly only intermediate powers, the consequence is only mediocrity. You read there are both rewards and disfavors to both options be it building on your powers or be it fighting your weaknesses. A great deal of artists will convince you: forget your weaknesses and center on your strengths. That's a great advice but as you will see only a fraction of the truth. So what to do? Foremost it's important you know your weaknesses and you have to understand to what extent your weaknesses harm your drawings. As illustration: If you are creating many pencil pictures, weak skills in perspective and proportions will impede you much more than absent abilities in the use of colours. Actually these abilities are utterly worthless as long as you remain creating black-and-white pencil sketchings. And that's the crucial point: only forget these weaknesses that do not hinder your drawing results and sketches. But put a good share of your time and energy into those weaknesses that keep you from creating better creations and sketches. Try fixing these weaknesses - and only these! And so you'll have many energy left to try improving your existing skills even further. And that's what you ought to do, too. If you comply to this strategy you will have the best results possible for your efforts. One last addition: these tips may look a little like those efficiency stuff taught in management courses. And yes it's very similar. But it's not aiming for pressing the last bubble of creativeness out of you and your time! It's only for doing the right things in the right order to help you develop your sketching skills most. And of course please do not forget the fun part of sketching. So if you prefer to try and practice new techniques because it's amusing then just do it! (and do not ask yourself whether it may help you or not ...) ==================================================================== Author Biography: Want to make more progress and <a href="http://drawingsecrets.com/improve-drawing/improve-drawing/learn-how-to-draw-and-improve-your-drawing-skills.html";>improve your drawing</a>? Visit our site, to download more articles and even a free ebook to <a href="http://drawingsecrets.com";>learn how to draw</a> ==================================================================== *** Digital Reprint Rights *** * You are not allowed to change anything in Article Content and Author Biography except the format for displaying the article properly. * You are allowed to use this article for free as long as it will not violate any laws. * I will appreciate it if you can notify me the publication of this article. I can be reached at [email protected].
