Any tips or advice on how to draw?

Im 11 years old and i loved drawing since i was 4. I love drawing and doing alll that art stuff but the problem is that im not good at it! Please, i really need some help. Does anyone have any art tips or advice for me? thanks a lot. oh and forget about saying that i should take classes cause' i know i should already but my parents wont let me. Ok, thanks again.Any tips or advice on how to draw?
If you have ever looked inside of a book of ';how to draw'; instructions,you will notice that they start out the exercises by having you draw the various shapes that go together to form an image. Here is a link. I know that it isn't that interesting but it shows what I am talking about.


http://webkinzworld101.files.wordpress.c鈥?/a>





When you draw you have to look for recognizable shapes and draw them. They may not all be exact circles,squares,triangles. But look for any shape that you see and can draw. Draw lightly at first so that once you have all of the shapes drawn in you can cleanly erase all of the unnecessary lines.


Google,';How to draw'; using Google images for more step-by-step examples of this,And there are more interesting examples than the one I gave you. I selected something simple to use as an explanation. And it takes practice,you are training your eye and hand to work together. Learn to draw from observation. Draw different things Copying can lead to only being good at what you' regularly copy.





Here is a tip: If something in your drawing looks really out of wack but you can't quite tell what's wrong.turn the drawing upside down and look at it.. The part that is out of wack should get your attention pretty quick and you may see what is needed to correct it.Any tips or advice on how to draw?
There a a ton of first, second and advanced level books in your library plus take you time when drawing. The best thing that helps me draw is to draw it several time. Then I can get the rhythm of things. Try looking at something and drawing it. Like your computer screen, or living room. These are called photo realism pictures. They will help you take the picture from your eyes, to your head, to your hand.





or take a coloring book and try copying the pictures in there. The coloring book will not be that detailed but you can still learn a ton.





Good luck.
Drawing on The Right Side of the Brain, by Betty Edwards, is a book that will REALLY help your skills improve. It's like a drawing course in a book, and is good for any age. Good luck!
Draw what you see, draw a lot and you'll start getting better. And learn to use shading. If you don't use shading your drawings will look like crap.
I have a blog and some tutorials, maybe they will help:





http://www.mikemalaska.com/tutorials.htm鈥?/a>
There are a lot of approaches you can take to drawing what you want. For instance, if you look at a chair you can try to draw the shape of the negative spaces, such as what you see between two of the legs. If you want to draw a tree first look at the proportions of leaf masses to trunk, and of the masses of leaves to each other. Then look at the silhouette of the tree, the dark and light values, and the textures.


In drawing a human there is more than one way to get to where you want to go. Some artists use projectors, and some use tracing paper. A book on drawing might tell you that if you want to draw a portrait then start by drawing a slightly egg shaped oval, divide it up with lines according to the proportions, and then to gradually erase a re-draw each part to make it look more like your subject. Then you render the values areas and textures. This method is kind of working from the outside in, like the tree I described above. However this approach involves a lot of erasing , and the more you erase the more damage you might do to your paper, and a lot of erasing limits what you can do in drawing on top of a colored background, and so on. Some people will literally erase a hole in their drawing paper.


Another approach is to draw from the inside out. Choose a sharp photo of a face where you can see the eyes clearly. If you look at the inside corners of the eyes examine the negative space in between them. If you print out your picture on plain paper you can put a dot there at the eye comers with a pen. Now if you look directly below those two dots you can put two more dots at the bottom sides of the nose by the nostrils. What those four dots picture is the four corners of a rectangle where it is a little longer than it is wide. The ratio is usually about 3 wide to 4 long. From there you can look at the proportions outward, put dots there and connect them up. The distance from the inside corners of the eyes to the outside corners of the eyes is similar to the distance between the two inside corners. Put dots at the beginning and end of the eyebrows and at the top of the peak. So put dots there. Put a dot at the bottom center of the nose. The distance to the mouth line from the bottom of the nose is about half of the length of the nose. The distance from the mouth line to the bottom of the chin is about the same as the length of the nose. Now look at the shape of the chin, the shape of the jaw line, the hair line, where the bottom and top of the ears come to compared to the rest of the face. You might notice that on a pretty, well proportioned face the distance from the chin to the bottom of the nose, from there to the eyebrows, and from the eyebrows to the hair line, is about the same, If the face is level in relation to you.


You can draw anything you want from any photo printed out on plain paper by the following method. Draw as large a square as you can on the photograph. Then connect the corners with an X . Use the center of the X to divide it up into four squares, and draw X's to connect their corners. When you have a number of squares you line up their centers and continue the pattern outside of the original square to cover the whole picture. You can grid it a little smaller in areas where you need more detail like the face and hands and grid it larger in areas where there is less detail. You can also put a dot on the most important points where you have to be precise, like the corners of the eyes and the edges of the irises. Then measure the dots from the nearest grid corner. The eyes are the single most important part of any portrait where they appear. Then draw the same grid pattern lightly, and I mean lightly, on the drawing paper to whatever size you need. It may help to label the the rows and columns with letters and numbers respectively to help keep it straight. Then just draw what you see from one triangle area to the other. You need to carefully erase the grid before you get too far . Then when you get the basics drawn why not go back to your reference picture and draw contour lines around the different value areas on the face, in the hair, and so forth. Then work on putting in the value areas in your picture with pencils with h leads (hard) for light areas, and b leads (soft) for dark areas. The ebony pencil is best for the darkest areas. You can use paper stomps, tissues, artist's chamois, and your fingers to smooth out the transition areas or little value patches. Be sure and wash your hands often with a degreaser like Dawn to keep oil of the paper. Use a soft white eraser to make little changes, and you can use ink too if you want on black areas, but be careful not to do it in large areas or the difference will be obvious.


I use mechanical pencils to start with and then add more pencils later. The most common beginner mistake is to try and draw the hair as individual strands instead of looking for patterns and texture. Also draw everything lightly and then darken it later, you don't want your lines to show in your final drawing. Here is a drawing I did of Alyson Michalka:


http://www.artwanted.com/imageview.cfm?i鈥?/a>


And here is the best explanation on the net on how to draw hair:


http://www.rebekahlynn.com/free/tutorial鈥?/a>