Making Art. It's easy. You can draw this in the next 15 minutes.
Drawing and Painting like an artist.

If you ever wanted to try some art, or improve your artistic abilities, or draw something in a ''doable'' way, here is your perfect opportunity.
The BEST way to improve your drawing skills is as follows:
Take a look the drawing below; done with only 4 steps, and you’ll be able to recreate that in about 15 minutes.
You’ll need:
a piece of paper
a pencil
a set of kiddie watercolors (you can buy the expensive brands in a year, when you get good at this)
a black pen

Step 1:
using the pencil, and drawing circles and ovals only, sketch the composition (no detail, just the general shapes)

Step 2:
using the watercolors, paint the places inside and around of those shapes with light colors (no detail, not a variety of colors, either)

Step 3:
add some medium hues to those colors you’d painted before. just at the edges and some definition inside those shapes (no details)

Step 4:
use some darker hues on parts of the medium hues of colors, to define the shapes a little more. Let it dry completely. Then using a black pen, use hatching motion (drawing lines //// close to each other), to define those shapes, the dark color of the pen will create the illusion of depth and texture.
One drawing won’t make you an artist, so don’t expect private art collectors to knock on your door, but if you do a drawing every day for a year, you’ll become an accomplished aspiring artist. Again, don’t get an expensive, Italian made, pure parchment, embossed leather-bound sketchbook. Get a book that you finished reading, and each day, using a pencil, or pen, or marker, or a fountain pen (whoa, if you want to be really fancy!), and make a drawing on one of those pages, daily. You’ll be able to see your progress week by week, see what goes well, what needs work, and you’ll keep getting better every day.
Art is easy to create. We all have some artistic particle in ourselves: we dress up according to our aesthetical preferences, decorate out interior living spaces in a way that is pleasing to our senses, choose cars that have our favorite color, and most of has have visited a museum or an art gallery at least once in out life.
So why some people shy away from art? Well, it's in our thinking, or more precise;y in out ''all or nothing minsets'' - if we can't recreate the Mona Lisa, then we won't even try to doodle on a blank piece of paper.
Children don't have that dilemma. Their perception of themselves is fault-less and somewhat incredibly confident, that is until an adult tells them ''you did that wrong!'' (oh, may you NEVER be that adult that speaks those words to a child.) The damage those words cause to a child perception of himself or herself is equivalent to you being hit with a wrecking ball atfull force.
Creating art has many benefits in our uber busy world, it can slow your rat race from a speed that can warp time, to a state of ''flow''. Flow is that new thing that everyone craves for, its a state of deep relaxation while still being active, like riding reading a book so completely emerged in it, that time flies without you realizing that half an hour has gone by.
And to all those ''doodle drawers'', good for you! Next time instead of setting your goals at recreating something of Rembrandt or DaVinci, try some Kandinsky style geometrical doodles or if you really want to go for the big artists, how about Picasso's faces, no worries if you draw a portrait with both eyes on the same side of the face, or 6 fingers instead of 5 on someone's hand. Just go for it. Let your ''flow'' flow freely.
About the Creator
Angela Neik
After reaching 23,000,000 (23 million) views on my writings on Quora, I found ''Vocal''.
Life Coach, artist, writer, avid reader of good books.
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Angela
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