Can you be taught to draw?

[yuujirou]

it's.... one of those practise makes perfect kinda things x]

[Kojiro]

Anyone can draw... it just takes time. A good way to get better is to copy pictures... I don't agree with tracing but... I never used a pantograph >.> .... so yea... go copy ( not trace) pictures and then after like maybe 5-7 pictures you should try something on your own... then go back to copying pictures.... and back to on your own... basically go back and forth between copy and not untill you get confident enough to draw more things on your own. ^^ ... the first 2 years of me drawing was of copying stuff I like and then I started drawing stuff on my own then it just built from there :3.... but I did go to art school for one year after highschool

[Sutiiven]

you can if you start young. but some can not be taught. some are just born with the ability to draw and paint anything . some use books and instuctional videos as well .

[MissMisa]

I don't really think you can be taught to draw by someone else, most of the artistic process comes from trial and error by you drawing yourself, discovering your own strengths and weaknesses and working on those areas. You can be taught techniques but where to apply them is down to you, and drawing is entirely subjective so what you want to do in your art may be wrong to someone else. In the long run someone who doesn't have a natural flair for art will probably struggle later on. If you don't have a natural eye for things that are wrong in your piece, or how your artwork flows you will hit a brick wall at some point, but with time, patience and effort you can become a good artist anyway.

I'm not sure if I'm a natural at at, I'm pretty impatient to be honest, but maybe because I've been doing it for sooo long I've improved. If I compare my work in Year 7 to my work now there is a huge leap there.

[Kyousuke]

Originally Posted by MissMisa

I don't really think you can be taught to draw by someone else, most of the artistic process comes from trial and error by you drawing yourself, discovering your own strengths and weaknesses and working on those areas. You can be taught techniques but where to apply them is down to you, and drawing is entirely subjective so what you want to do in your art may be wrong to someone else. In the long run someone who doesn't have a natural flair for art will probably struggle later on. If you don't have a natural eye for things that are wrong in your piece, or how your artwork flows you will hit a brick wall at some point, but with time, patience and effort you can become a good artist anyway.

I'm not sure if I'm a natural at at, I'm pretty impatient to be honest, but maybe because I've been doing it for sooo long I've improved. If I compare my work in Year 7 to my work now there is a huge leap there.

Well said missmisa

[Teesama]

Yes you can. Any form of art is 95% practice and 5% talent.

[ThuMpeR]

It all depends on your dedication and your imagination

[Teesama]

Originally Posted by JoshAussie

I wish i could draw. Id draw lots of pin up girls.. ><. Tho iv been to affraid to try you should see my hand writing. I could almost guarentee it would be up there with the messiest youv seen which has basically frightened me away from pencils/pens. I envy people that can draw. I guess ill just have to wait till im famous so i can take pictures of real Pin Up girls. Thatl be my art. ><.

EDIT: Old school pin up btw... Not porno. ><.

Actually I'm dysgraphic. I can't write. It takes me a long time. I always have errors in it. But I'm rather skilled at drawing. I just can't draw two things looking the same. (One box will look completely different from the other, even though they're supposed to be the same).

[Teesama]

Originally Posted by JoshAussie

Hmm interesting, iv never heard of such a term. What sort of errors if you dont mind me asking? I just have problems with how neat it is. It would take me a month to write 1 page of good neat writing. Iv always since i first started school had a problem with it. My teachers use to make me write letters of the alphabet (like 4 pages worth of 1 letter) to try and get me to improve but it never helped.

Dysgraphia and dyslexia are really common disorders. Althought most of the time it's children who suffer from it and they (with great dedication from the teacher side) overcome it in few years. It's just that I'm not really able to do it. In last three years since I started college I was at least able to minimize my grammar errors (Oh thank you my beloved teachers, thank you), but the handwritting is really messy (one letter bigger than the other, a not really resembling a and so on) no matter how hard I work on it.
(For some reason I preffer japanese alphabets, because it's more of drawing than writing for me ^^;. I don't really know if you understood.
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