In childhood, a child does not think about why and what to draw. While drawing, he reworks his life experience, transferring it to paper, and thereby comprehends it and develops.
As you get older, it becomes more and more difficult to find ideas... We get distracted by everyday affairs, we stop hearing ourselves, our inner world. It is especially difficult at the beginning, when you are just embarking on the path of discovering yourself as an artist.
To draw well, you need to draw every day. But where do you get the inspiration for this?
Here are some ideas for you: how and what to draw every day.
What to draw? 11 ideas for daily drawing.
1. Go through the archives of your drawings and sketches.
The simplest thing is to open a folder with your old drawings and look at them.
What is unfinished about them? Where did the hitch occur? 
Look at the drawing with fresh eyes. Think how to modify or rewrite it.
In addition, immersing yourself in past drawings will immerse you in the emotions that you previously experienced. This may reinvigorate your creative muse. Maybe based on an old idea a new one will arise... And then another picture will be born.
2. Draw something from life.
Take a look around the house: walls, furniture, interior items, potted plants, souvenirs brought from trips that keep your memories. What caught your eye? 
Draw one object. You can add other objects to it and draw the background.
As a result, your drawing can turn out to be very atmospheric, keeping the warmth of the house, your thoughts and memories
I suggest watching a recording of my speech on Periscope on the topic of quick sketches from nature. I hope you find this video helpful.
Sketch of a plant from life
3. Draw an abstract combination of spots.
Unleash your imagination, imagine yourself as a creator and get the most out of the play of color, how the paint flows and mixes, what new shapes and shades you observe. Cast aside doubts and fears. Create! This is great color therapy.
Depict your day, your mood, and capture it in color.
4. Create a hand-drawn recipe.
The process of cooking itself can be very creative. And if you also transfer it to paper... Write down your culinary ideas, make them beautiful pictures, create your unique recipe books. In the future, this will inspire you to continue to create in cooking and drawing.
Don't know how to draw recipes? Watch this video:
Recipe drawing: charlotte with apples!
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5. Draw a sweet little something for your friends or family.
This could be a postcard for a holiday - for a birthday, for the New Year, for March 8 or Valentine's Day. Or just a cute impromptu for no reason... 
Receiving a handmade card in the age of email is unusual. Such gestures are always very pleasant.
The emotions of gratitude received in return will certainly give you inspiration to continue the creative process.
6. Practice quick sketches.
Draw people and animals using sketchy human and animal anatomical figures.
To complicate the task, use a timer, setting the time for this work in seconds.
In the future, the ability to quickly draw a human figure will inspire you to make quick sketches.
By observing and noticing interesting scenes, types and characters, you will be able to draw, capturing scenes from life: on the street, in the theater, in a cafe, at work.
This will allow you to develop yourself, your worldview and the inner feeling of an artist.
Seconds timer:
7. Practice creating monotypes.
Learn to create monotypes. This will allow you to create without initially thinking about the plot. Monotype will do this for you.
Use your imagination! Experiment! A monotype print will give you many opportunities for spontaneous solutions. Examine the image in the spots and streaks that have appeared. And draw in the spots a little to help the viewer see this image.
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8. Draw a graphic design.
Do you like to draw with a simple pencil or black and white?
Then try your hand at graphics! This can be drawing a spot with further drawing of details with a pencil, gel pen, ink or marker.
Or maybe you will first make some kind of graphic graphic, and then complement it with a background, add volume to the details, make a fill, fill it with fancy patterns, lines and scatter splash spots.
Practice making doodles!
9. Draw in a travel sketchbook.
Going on a trip? Bring a small sketchbook with you! 
A notebook filled with impressions and drawings (as well as booklets, tickets, receipts, napkins... and other “tourist trash”) will become no less valuable a memory than an album with photographs.
IF YOU WANT:
- learn to quickly record your thoughts and impressions
- remove the fear of drawing in public
- bring beautiful travel books back from travels
then my sketchbooking workshop
will become an invaluable assistant for you in this!
10. Browse the websites of your favorite artists.
Look at their paintings, find something that catches you and touches your soul. Compare different techniques, try to imagine how this or that picture was painted, what the artist felt, what he wanted to say, how he saw the world while working. 
Look at your favorite painting by your favorite artist and try something like this. Or just copy a piece of the painting to study the technique, repeat it as you understand.
Why are art schools created? No, not in order to make painters out of all the students. The point is to develop in the child the ability to depict on paper objects that he sees correctly, and if necessary, he could draw a curious view of the area, or any other object, from life. The ability to draw develops in a person the ability to correctly evaluate fine arts that bring great pleasure. It also follows from this that teaching this type of art should differ from the usual method of teaching, based solely on copying from ready-made drawings, or originals. It is necessary to develop an eye, to learn the properties different lines and their mutual compatibility, distinguish between forms that are drawn by hand, without using a ruler or compass.
What can you draw with a pencil?
If you don’t have the opportunity or desire to attend an art school, you can learn all this yourself. But keep in mind that this will require much more effort to study. necessary literature. Remember that you need to start with small ones, gradually moving to more complex ones (learn to draw in stages). Drawing books recommend that you first familiarize yourself with the following positions:
- Lines, their equality, connection and composition of figures
- Drawing rectilinear images
- Curvilinear figures, rules of perspective
- About light and shadows
- About regular bodies
- Representation of complex bodies from life
And only after that move on to drawing full-fledged paintings. You can't make it up what to draw with a simple pencil? Look around! There is so much here: streets, houses, people, trees, animals, objects. Can't you find anything worthy of your brush? You can copy pictures from books (this is the simplest thing you can think of). And just draw mom and dad! On our website you will find a lot of useful step-by-step lessons, for example, learn how to draw:
- in the forest;
And much more! You can see how many ready-made lessons we have in the right column above. I also picked up a little interesting pictures, which will help your imagination. Look below!
Drawings for boys:
See mine. This complex picture in Anime style. I made the lesson much easier.
Right-hemisphere pencil drawing lessons for adults
Mila Naumova
Author of the project,
professional drawing teacher,
painting and composition.
Author of books:
"About scribbles, or How to Become an Artist?"
"Learning to draw with a pencil" (PITER publishing house)
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Even if you don't know how to draw at all!
And if you are already a good drawer, then thanks to the course you will improve your technique and understand that you can draw anything from life - any still life, landscape, and even a portrait.
If you did not have a good artistic foundation, then you will discover a lot of new things for yourself, because I am talking about the basic fundamentals of drawing that are needed by both graphic draftsmen and painters.The most important thing for an artist is to learn to see like an artist, and then capture what you see on canvas or paper.
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First of all, we will deal with the disclosure of artistic vision in the course, as well as we will learn to draw not objects and forms, but lines and spots.
ARTISTIC VISION
Teaching a person to draw without developing his artistic vision is a pointless exercise. Because when ordinary person looks at the landscape, he sees the street, houses, trees, people. And when the Artist looks at this landscape, he sees lines and spots. If the Artist draws with a pencil at this moment, he sees dark and light spots; if he paints with paints, he sees colored dark and colored light spots.The artist sees lines and spots, transfers them to the canvas, and the viewer distinguishes on the canvas - streets, houses, trees, people. This is such a magical transformation, and you can’t go anywhere without it.
If you wish learn to draw from life anything, regardless of shape and material, try to see not objects and objects, but lines and spots.
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.WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SEE SPOTS AND LINES?
In proper drawing training, they teach general principles (formulas), thanks to which a novice Artist can draw all similar objects from life and imagination.
For example?
For example, if you watched the lessons on the site, you may have seen the following lesson: “SHADOWS ARE DIFFERENT, HOW TO CONVEY VOLUME.” In that lesson, I talked about how to make objects look three-dimensional by placing light and dark spots correctly: a highlight, light around the highlight, halftones (penumbra) around the light and shadow (the darkest places). This is a general formula for adding volume to any shape, from a ball to a person's face.
And it doesn’t even matter whether you know how to hatch or not! The main thing is to correctly find the place of dark and light spots.
I'll try to show with an example that it's as if I don't know how to hatch.
It looks something like this:
But if the object is at least a little transparent, then in our formula the light and shadow change places.
That is, there will always be a dark place around the highlight, and where opaque objects usually have the darkest shadow, transparent objects will have light.
Something like this:
Let's check this formula on grapes:
On an average bottle, everything is the same: there are dark spots around the highlights, halftones around the dark spots, and in the shadow itself there are light spots, only the shape of the spots changes:
And even the iris of the eye is drawn according to the principle (formula) of transparent objects:
So, just by swapping the shadow and light in places when drawing any object, you can create the illusion of transparency! I hope you noticed that the principle of drawing and the stages of drawing different objects were the same.
It's called general principles.
Knowledge of general principles greatly facilitates the work of an Artist.
There is an even more general principle for drawing from life, and even more so from a photo, thanks to which you can learn to draw ANYTHING from life in a couple of weeks! The main thing is that all this can pose for you for a while
About this general principle I talk on my already famous course
"LET'S LEARN TO SEE AND DRAW LIKE AN ARTIST!"
basic course No. 1
BEFORE the training begins, I ask you to make test drawings so that after training the person can see for himself what he has learned during the course.
During the course we don’t learn to draw one picture, hand or landscape, but we learn to draw ANYTHING.A total of 6 training tasksand you can draw like this!
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What do you need for classes?
You need paper of size A4 (landscape sheet) and A3 (like two landscape sheets),simple pencils and a soft eraser (preferably a kneaded eraser).
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You can take my book from the publishing house "PETER" as a gift.
"Learning to draw with a pencil"
The book contains all the lessons of the basic course + shading options.
If you want to learn a new interesting activity and learn how to draw with a pencil from scratch, there are special methods for beginners. They make the process of creating an image easier. Even if you have never gone to an art studio or art school, with desire, patience and perseverance, it is quite possible to master this technique.
Choosing the main tool
If you decide to learn how to draw with a pencil from scratch, first of all, you will need leads of varying hardness. Most often, HB or TM in the Russian version is used, but it is also necessary to have H (T), B (M), 2B (M). The marking indicates softness, and the number corresponds to its degree. The number is 2H (2T) the hardest that is usually used. It leaves a very thin, barely noticeable line. If you press hard with a well-sharpened pencil, it may even leave a scratch on the paper. The designation HB corresponds to medium hard-soft. The larger the number of the marking B (M), the darker and wider the line on the sheet will be.
To learn how to draw with a pencil for beginners, three different leads are enough. It is worth noting that graphite can be sold both in a wooden frame and in the form of rods for mechanical tools. They also produce sticks with a diameter of a regular pencil, which are coated on the outside with a special non-staining layer. In this case it is convenient to use lateral surface sharpened part for shading large surfaces. They are often purchased for quick sketches. You can choose any option.
What else is needed?
If you're trying to learn how to draw with a pencil from scratch, be sure to have a good eraser. It should be soft so as not to further injure the layer of paper.
For the same purpose, draw contours with thin lines. Keep in mind that pencils should always be kept sharp. It is permissible for a beginner to use a sharpener, but professionals only use a knife. This is due to the resulting shape of the pointed part. To perform correct shading, it is recommended to sharpen the tool hollowly, that is, the lead is freed from the wood by one or even two centimeters, making a gradual transition of the cut to the sides of the pencil cylinder. A beginner should know this only for general information. Do what is easier and more convenient for you.
Possible execution techniques
The easiest way to learn how to draw with a pencil from scratch is linear. easier to do than with tonal elaboration.
Sometimes an inexperienced artist thinks that he has made a portrait very similar to the original, but during the shading process his opinion changes. For training, you can perform several works exactly linearly, applying only light shadows in some places. It will give the impression of a quick sketch. After all, you don’t have to tell everyone that you just don’t have enough experience yet.
As you practice, your hand will gain confidence, and you will be able to move on to working out the form in light and shadow. In the manuals “How to learn to draw with a pencil for beginners,” they often suggest using shading. It involves rubbing graphite over a sheet.
In this option, you will not see individual lines, and the transitions between tones will be very smooth. Hatching is more difficult to master. Each individual element must be located very tightly next to the neighboring one, otherwise the integrity of the object will not be obtained, but the impression will be striped, hairy - anything but a single shape.
So, at the first stage, use shading. You can rub the pencil mark using a soft piece of paper or even your finger, but it is worth remembering that professionals do not do this. If you are planning to study at art school, you will have to forget about this method of drawing. If you have serious intentions, it is better to immediately master the technique of shading, gradually developing your hand. This will come in handy in the future.
How to do shading correctly?
If you decide to use a professional method, it is better to practice first on regular sheets.
Try pencils of different softness in action. Try to make tonal transitions using the same lead. The main thing is to try to ensure that the strokes fit tightly to each other, do not use lines crossed at right angles. It is better to apply them according to the shape, that is, if you have a cube in front of you, then the shading should be done either in a vertical direction or parallel to the lines of the edges. Do more exercise. Remember, mastery comes with experience.
How to fix errors?
If during work you are not satisfied with the quality of something, the pencil is easily erased.
However, in order not to remove excess, it makes sense to make a cut on the eraser with a knife, forming a thin edge. If you start to actively erase the shading, you can smear too much of the work done or seriously injure the paper. A new layer of graphite does not fit well on a damaged surface. To delete large quantity shading or partial weakening of the tone, if the object is too dark, use a special erasing mass. It resembles plasticine or is called a nag in professional slang. It easily absorbs excess graphite. A lump of ordinary bread crumb has the same property. So, even if you overdid something in your first experience, mistakes can always be corrected. The main thing is to try not to repeat them next time.
What is better to draw for beginners?
If you are interested in how to learn how to draw with a pencil step by step, everything is simple - the work should always be done from simple to complex and from general to detail.
Whatever plot you choose, the sequence of steps will be similar. Of course, it is better for beginners not to use too complex motifs with a large number of constituent elements. This can only be done by having a clear visual step by step instructions. For independent drawing, choose simple objects and compositions from them, for example, a still life of household items, fruits, vegetables lying on a table or in a basket.
It's worth being patient if you decide to learn how to learn how to draw portraits with a pencil.
This is one of the most difficult tasks even for a professional. It is very difficult for a beginner to master it. Of course, everyone has objects that, regardless of skill level and experience, they want to depict. Choose your favorite subjects, just try to find and study as many tips and tricks for drawing them as possible. We are talking about such complex objects as animals, flowers, architecture, cars, motorcycles, boats, people.
How to learn to draw cars with a pencil? You can copy them from a photograph (for example, by cells; the technique is described in more detail in the next section). It will be easiest for novice artists to depict a car from the side.
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Making a person's face is one of the most difficult tasks. A beginner can be offered a method of creating an image using cells from a photograph.
It allows you to more accurately convey proportions. To do this, take the following steps:
1. Draw a cellular structure on a transparent film.
2. Place it on the photo and secure it so that it does not accidentally move.
3. On your sheet of paper prepared for the portrait, also make an auxiliary construction in the form of cells.
4. Compare how the lines on the original intersect the cells, try to repeat them as accurately as possible with a pencil.
So, you have learned how to learn to draw with a pencil. It's quite easy step by step. The most important thing is to follow the sequence of work from general to detail, and also first try to choose simple objects to complete.
What can you draw with a regular pencil? Yes, exactly the one that everyone used at school. Children's drawing, sketch or diagram? Do you know that there is a whole art in which the main thing is actor, or rather the object, is an ordinary gray stylus. with a simple pencil - there is room for human imagination.
Unusual art
One of the most accessible, but at the same time incredibly complex species graphics is a simple pencil drawing. It would seem that this is an ordinary object for us? It turns out that there is a lot. Some museums and exhibitions can boast of having an entire hall in which pencil drawings are presented. They display a wide variety of drawing ideas that came to famous artists at the moment of inspiration.
The unsurpassed play of shadows and the maximum resemblance to the original fascinate and captivate. Looking at some masterpieces, it is very difficult to imagine that this can be depicted with an ordinary gray stylus. It seems that this is certainly a work done in the best way, but you can’t draw such a miracle with a simple pencil! However, if you look closely, it is no longer possible to hold back an admiring sigh.
Required materials
If you think that to create such a masterpiece you need a lot of materials, then you are very mistaken. To complete a drawing, you need to have landscape sheets, a set of pencils, an eraser and a sharpener. And, of course, ideas for drawings. If you have no idea what you want to reproduce, the result will be disastrous. Or rather, this result will not happen at all.
For more complex work, of course, a snow-white, slightly rough sheet of paper is selected, on which every stroke will be clear and noticeable. IN specialized stores sell ready-made kits simple pencils, but you can buy the most common ones. They should differ in the level of softness or hardness. The appropriate markings are certainly indicated on them. This gradation is needed to create shadows, without which even the most daring ideas for pencil drawings are doomed to failure.
You also cannot do without a sharp one, which will create the necessary sharpness of the rod. It is advisable to have several erasers that will erase failed or extra lines according to the type of pencil.
For work at a professional level, you will need an easel, since it is better to create a picture in vertical position. In this case, the tool will easily slide across the paper, accurately conveying the smoothness of the lines.
How to hold the instrument correctly?
To create a masterpiece, you need to master the correct grip of a pencil. It needs to be held in the palm of your hand, pressing. This grip should be developed, but after getting used to it, the results will be more obvious. In art schools, the first few lessons are devoted to the skill of holding a pencil.
Of course, the simplest pencil drawings do not require special skills. They can be created by holding the instrument like a pen when writing. After all, there is a risk of smearing simple drawings It simply cannot be: their lines are clear and there is no play of shadows. But still, if you want to learn how to draw professionally, you should hold the instrument masterfully from the first attempts.
Simple pencil drawings
The simplest techniques are children's drawings. They are completely simple to perform and can be drawn in several stages. But it is with them that you can begin to develop the artistic talent of children or try your hand at graphics.
Drawing ideas for children are varied. These are birds, animals, cartoon characters. The most important thing is to carefully examine the object, take into account all its characteristics and try to reproduce what you saw. This is how children draw, and this is also worth trying for adults. Below are just some ideas for drawings with step-by-step execution of all operations.
Agree, anyone can draw this. But even more complex, seemingly complex objects can be reproduced on paper if the whole is broken down into parts. See how easy it is to create a beautiful swan. By the way, this drawing already uses some techniques of playing light and shadow (note the
Similarly, in just 13 steps, you can draw Kitty, the heroine of the animated series, for your child.
It doesn’t matter that the drawing is simple at first glance. If you succeeded without any problems, start working with the shadow, trying to give the figure volume. To do this, use pencils of different hardnesses, and also experiment with pressure.
If reproducing children's drawings is too easy for you, create your own paintings. Start with simple things - a cup, a telephone, a book, gradually complicating your work. Believe me, even the most seemingly ordinary object, when performed by a talented artist, will play very attractively. Look: the picture below shows a regular light bulb. But thanks to the play of light and shadow, recreated with a pencil, the drawing captivates with its realism.
Such images are often called 3D. This technique is quite difficult to master, but still possible. In them, the realism of objects is based on the play of light and shadow, which makes everything drawn seem real.
But first, it’s still worth turning into reality ideas for simpler pencil drawings. These could be household items, wildlife, surrounding you. For more complex works, you can choose a color drawing and draw it in black and white. There are a lot of options: you just have to look around you, and your heart will tell you what exactly to display on paper.
Instead of an epilogue
You don't have to take lessons at an art school to learn how to draw. Active workouts at home can also bring benefits. The first steps can be simple pencil drawings. Based on them, you can complicate the technique, fantasize with forms - and then everything should work out. Believe in success and improve your skills.