7 Drawing Techniques - Part 5

A Note from the Author

Hi there!

If you make it this far, I'd like to congratulate you for being one of those who's absolutely serious about pursuing the art of drawing and painting.

With your kind of commitment, I'm sure you'll be able to draw great pictures in no time. Why am I so confident of that?

It's because I am a firm believer that everyone can draw. Drawing techniques can be taught, but if you have no interest in art, nothing I do will motivate you to come back and draw again and again and again until you master those skills.

Only strong desire and interest can make you a self-motivated artist. It's the spring board that'll help you hone your skills and allow you to take your drawings and paintings to greater heights. How do I know?

Believe it or not, everything you see here is self-taught. I never went to any expensive art school or anything like that. As a kid, I used to walk around with a sketch book tucked under my arm.

As far as I can remember, I always had that sketch book with me every where I go. Whenever I get the chance, I'll start doodling.

When I started schooling, I always bought extra exercise books. That's right, I use them for drawing. In fact, I think I spent most of my time in school drawing. Everybody would be busy making notes and I would be drawing.

When I feel bored, I draw. When I feel frustrated about anything, I draw. I just love drawing. It's therapeutic for me. I had a couple of thick exercise books, completely filled with comics. They make all my friends laugh.

Drawing is one passion that I think I'll never be able to ditch. The other passion that I don't think I'll ever ditch is to create websites.

I love creating websites, and have been doing it for 7 years now. The first one I created was in year 2000, and I think it's one of the ugliest website you'll ever see. It had a completely black background, with red stripes all over the place. Yucks! ;p

Fast forward to present terms, I've created hundreds of websites since then. Flash sites, database driven sites, web directories, article sites, corporate sites, personal blogs, etc.

So now that you know a little about me, you'll start to see why I started MyArtPassion.com. The Internet has presented me with this tremendous opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals.

I'd like to build myartpassion.com into one of the best community sites on the Internet, and would like to invite you to join me on this journey. It's going to be one heck of a ride!

I hope you had fun with the little exercises that I've put together in this e-book, and I definitely look forward to seeing your creations.

Have fun drawing!