You’ll float too......

strumjoughlamps

....my lad is sketching out some great pieces, something I could never do..

one of my faves, although he sat in the conservatory once with his sketch pad and 5 mins later was an awesome sketch of my N64 and controller... I was amazed.

BigBearKris

This is really good, congrats to your lad.

Perhaps get him a set of decent pencils/coals?

skunkwerx

Awsum stuff. 

I had a friend who could draw, always envied him growing up. I’ve never been able to do it, always wanted to have that skill! 

DefaultM

Apparently its not a magic skill that some people have and others don't, you get it through practice. I genuinely didn't know this until my wife told me a few weeks ago. I just thought some people could draw and others couldn't.

Chris777

Good lad that is great

skunkwerx

DefaultM said:

Apparently its not a magic skill that some people have and others don't, you get it through practice. I genuinely didn't know this until my wife told me a few weeks ago. I just thought some people could draw and others couldn't.

Interesting! 

Suppose it explains why I can draw dicks so good haha. 

WezV

DefaultM said:

Apparently its not a magic skill that some people have and others don't, you get it through practice. I genuinely didn't know this until my wife told me a few weeks ago. I just thought some people could draw and others couldn't.

Hmm.  Not so sure.   Practice will obviously help develop the skill, I don’t think it accounts for all of it

strumjoughlamps

WezV said:

DefaultM said:

Apparently its not a magic skill that some people have and others don't, you get it through practice. I genuinely didn't know this until my wife told me a few weeks ago. I just thought some people could draw and others couldn't.

Hmm.  Not so sure.   Practice will obviously help develop the skill, I don’t think it accounts for all of it

Agreed, I did art at school and really did try but never could achieve anything credible, and looking at on object/picture and then sketching it is a huge no no.

yes in theory if you practice practice practice you should be able to achieve anything, but it isn’t always the case.

Sporky

I suspect it's much like most things. If you want to do it and are willing to put in the right amount of good practice then you can get to competence.

The first and last 5% might be something like natural aptitude, but that's not the limiting factor for most people. 

Iamnobody

That’s a nice drawing. He’s got talent.

There might be some theory in the practice idea. When I was very young 6-10 I could draw very well. I could copy things, be creative and generally they looked like they were drawn by an older person. I could also paint.

30 odd years later and I can barely draw a convincing stick figure or paint a wall.

At that age all I probably did was play football, read and draw. There were no computer or TV distractions like these days so I would have practiced loads...

I’d love to have a go at drawing again. When my mum showed me the art I was doing at that age it made me think - should I join an evening art or painting class. In all honesty I don’t hink I have the time to do it but maybe one day...

Anyone else done arty type classes as an adult?

Kilgore

I can draw a cartoon dog.



But that's all I got.

57Deluxe

is rather worrying how he sees you tho...??

shrinkwrap

Trouble is art is often bred out of us at school.
Anyone can learn to draw - I learnt but I was at college so had time and the inclination.
I'm talking about drawing from life here.  It's mostly about stopping your brain trying to improve things and imposing what it thinks it can see. Throw away your eraser, use a sharp pencil and don't do any shading. Do a small drawing every day, even if only for ten minutes - draw something plain like a doorknob from different angles - you'll begin to grasp how shapes change so much.
Stevebrum - definitely go and do some classes - it'll come back to you!

DefaultM

Highly regarded artists must practice to get how good they are though?
 Compare it to guitar playing. Sure you get the odd few people that pick it up and they're amazing straight away, but the majority have to practice every day for years to get competent. You're shit at first, then you get progressively better. So if you can't draw now but you wish you could, then you can if you practice.