Drawing in Pen and Ink (First Steps)

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Tunnels are a great way to practice drawing perspective, especially if you are drawing the view from the beginning to the end of a tunnel. 133. People at Work Draw a silhouette of a city skyline, whether it is a local city where you live or one you want to visit someday. 120. What’s on your desk? In addition, the Artist12 gives you a full-high touch bar you can program to fulfill commands on your computer (XP-Pen recommends mapping it to the zoom-in/zoom-out feature), and you can harness six different assignable shortcut keys. This makes it less of a drawing-only tablet and more of a full-featured control surface for your design programs. The device is compatible with Windows 7, 8, or 10 (in 32 or 64-bit) and Mac OS X as old as version 10.10.

That alien that you drew in prompt #25…what kind of spacecraft were they flying? Draw an unidentified flying object. 332. Scarecrow They say an elephant never forgets, and if you draw one you will have a picture to remember an elephant by forever! 66. Camping SceneTulips mean spring is coming, and they are fun beautiful flowers to draw in any weather or season. Because they are bulbs, you can even force them to grow in the winter like I did with my flowers. See my post on the seasons of being an artist. 338. Pinwheel Every piece of art needs a good frame, and this is a great prompt to make doodle frames or draw ornate frames inspired from vintage and antique photograph displays. 191. Gate All it takes is practice and dedication. Talent plays a role in drawing, but practice and skill-sharpening lead to results. You also need perseverance because you probably won't get it right the first time. Proportion is the relationship between height, width, and depth. It helps scale the people, animals, and objects in your drawings. You can choose to draw doodle hearts, or draw an anatomically correct depiction of a human heart. 123. Train

Celebrate today by drawing a beautiful cake! You can choose how many layers, what kind of icing, and what type of topper fits the occasion. There are so many ideas to draw for what kind of cake you make! 29. Butterfly This drawing style doesn't have to be treated as an abstract form of drawing, only meant for scribbles. Some designers carve out their unique drawing style around the informal aesthetic of doodles.

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Pull out your paints and paint brushes to set up a still life scene of an artist at work. 160. Faces With Different Emotions Lay down on a blanket in your yard or at a park and spend some time cloud-gazing for inspiration on what to draw. 17. Family Member Some people love tomatoes, others could leave them. Either way, they make for a n excellent drawing subject. 147. Squares and Rectangles Do you want to draw a snowman? You can make your snowman as elaborate or as simple as you’d like! 205. Steampunk

Diamonds are easy things to draw and you can play with all sorts of different patterns and repetitions with them. 261. Favorite Things Have any crazy dreams lately? Illustrate a scene from a dream in your sketchbook. Bonus? You can interpret what that dream means based on the image you drew! 226. Bench Using curving horizontal and vertical lines, you can easily create the illusion of three dimensions on a two-dimensional sheet of paper. Cross-contour drawing is a popular and long-established drawing exercise taught at most AP drawing art schools. Raindrops are their very own shape, and there are so many different ways you could interpret this! You could make raindrop patterns, or try to realistically capture what raindrops may look like on a pane of glass or when they fall and hit the ground. 202. Map

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Human skull is one of the most fascinating drawings for an artist since ever. To draw a perfect skull is a dream of every artist. 2. Fine Sketch Guitars are stringed instruments that can instantly make us tap our feet and sing along. You can choose to sketch an acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. 58. Deciduous Trees Wherever your imagination takes you go ahead and draw something that looks really appealing. Focus on minor details that will bring big change in your picture. 13. Deer – Fun things to draw when bored

Scumbling is especially effective for creating highly expressive drawings that break the mold of traditional art. 19. Scribble art You drew the queen and king in prompt number 177, now where are they going to live? Draw a castle fit for royalty, or take inspiration from one of the famous 500+ castles that already exist in the world. 318. Lightning You already have the perfect subject for drawing in your hand – a pen, pencil, bottle of ink or charcoal set all make for great things to draw. 91. Fairy The best part about aliens as a drawing idea? You can make them look like almost anything your imagination can think of, since it is very rare to actually see them in real-life. 26. Pirate Ship Shopping for food is an everyday necessity, and chances are you’ve been to the grocery store at least once in the past year. Draw some of the aisles, a grocery display case, or draw the exterior of the building. 212. Jar of SomethingPenguins are seabirds that live in mostly cold climates. They don’t fly but they sure do love to swim! 24. Fashion Sketch Establishing a drawing practice when you’re a child can lay the foundation for a lifelong drawing habit. Here are some health benefits of drawing. Millions of people go t work every single day. This could be construction workers, people in your office, or even the cashiers at the store. 134. Ladders