A blank piece of paper staring back at you is SO intimidating!!
Where do you start?
What if you’re wrong?
Relax, breathe. The basic building blocks of drawing are simply LINES and SHAPES. That’s all. Every drawing begins with a line. Start with a dot . . . the shortest LINE you can make. And a LINE is just the path a dot makes, so drag that dot around the paper. The line can take on many “characteristics”; straight, curved, zig-zag, spiral. They have a variety of “qualities”; thick and thin, short and long. And lines go in different “directions”; vertical, horizontal, diagonal.
When you close the two ends of a line, you’ve made a SHAPE. There are two kinds of SHAPES, Geometric and Organic. Geometric shapes are mathematical with perfect uniform measurements, such as circles and squares. The shapes of things in the natural world are referred to as Organic, like plants and animals.
Easy, you’ve been making marks like these on paper since you first held a crayon at 2 years old. Combine these simple building blocks and the results are endless. Let’s doodle!!
