How to learn to illustrate

Whenever we talk about illustration, doors open to the world of creativity and art. To illustrate is not only to represent, but also to create and build a series of graphic lines that are their own.

When we talk about illustrating or drawing, we are not only representing what we want to design on paper or canvas, but we are also giving our drawing the possibility of telling our own story without us having to say anything.

It is for this reason that in this post, We will show you some tips on how to illustrate or draw, so that in this way you become an artistic person.

Tips for learning to draw

watch tutorials

Watching tutorials on the internet has always been one of the tips that has been followed to the letter, and that has consequently been beneficial in the practice of drawing. When we see a tutorial, we not only project our gaze onto a screen, or listen to a person explaining what we want to know or already know, but also, we are looking in one way or another for a certain inspiration for those who see us.

One of the tips is to watch tutorials from any page on the internet, starting with the first video or page until the last. The more tutorials we have seen, the more our field of knowledge or wisdom will open to us. so knowledge never takes place.

That is why never settle for the first video, book or website you've seen or read. Try to open up your options and examples more to become a self-taught person. In this way you will learn everything and you will be able to investigate numerous artists who do the same or something similar to your way of expressing your creativity, for example.

draw without stopping

Drawing non-stop does not mean drawing 24 hours a day, but rather that you do not stop doing what you really like, that nothing stops you. Once we start with the practice of drawing, it is very important to have a follow-up and consistency in what we do, because our mind and our hand are exercised more every day.

That is why it is very important to spend a few hours a day practicing drawing. For example, you can always organize your day according to a previous planning of what you are going to do during the day or the week. It is important both the practice and the organization of both.

Discover and rediscover

Discovering is opening new doors to the world of imagination and inspiration. As a rule, artists who start in the world of art or design tend to be afraid to discover and go beyond what they are used to doing. For example, do not stay only with a work, a song, a perfume, a book, etc.

Do not stop opening doors and closing others, and above all do not be afraid. Fear is a feeling that must be accepted but not desired, so don't be afraid to be inspired by other artists.

Experiment outside your environment

If we stay in one place we will surely find interesting things, but if we keep moving from one space to another, we will find twice as many interesting things that were not in other spaces. With this that we tell you, it does not mean that you have to be in constant movement, but that you do not stay in one place.

Go outside and travel through each of the corners wherever you are, from the most coastal and mountainous, to the most urban or central, it is important to be on the move.

calm and patience

Patience is the mother of science, but many times it lacks imagination and creativity.. That is why the moments of stress arrive, moments in which the mind is painted white and does not let any other smell be seen. Moments of suffocation and suffocation and a lot of impatience.

For this reason and before you enter a state of absolute anxiety, we advise you to stop drawing whatever you are drawing, and take a few minutes for yourself, to reflect, which is not thinking, but rather the opposite, to avoid a few moments of the routine and go beyond.

Draw

At first glance it may sound like poor or inaccurate advice, but the truth is that to learn to illustrate, you have to illustrate. We could not know something if we never do it. We don't have the ability to do everything and do nothing at the same time. 

For this reason, we advise you to draw a lot, not to leave for tomorrow what you can draw today and above all, to be constant with what you draw, day by day and step by step.