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How to draw? (I can't draw)?

  • Honestly, I can't draw. Anything. I do take Drawing/Painting II in high school now but I can't draw and everyone else in the class is much better than me and that class is not really teaching they just make us draw and I see everyone else that can draw and I see my drawing and understand that I can't draw and my classmates can. The drawings my friends do look like magnificent masterpieces compared to mine. And one day we had to draw a creature for a project we have to do and while I was again seeing everyone else was obviously better than me and it's a fact that I know; I demonstrated to the teachers by writing on the sketch paper in this cursive like text "I can't freaking draw, have a nice day :)" and my teacher said that I had very nice lines and whatever and what I told her before, I mean it. I CAN'T ******* DRAW! I started to have an anxiety attack and she pretty much like had an intervention for me in the class that I am putting myself down too much and I am afraid to draw and I need to practice. But how can I practice when I CAN'T DRAW IN THE FIRST PLACE. She told my mom that I was very sensitive and that I have this need to be perfect. Well, anyone else's drawing that I see that isn't mine in the class is freaking perfect compared to whatever I end up drawing. The competition is fierce in this class and I can't compete because I can't draw. So my question to you is this. How to draw? I'm talking like drawing in general. The fundamentals and basic concepts of drawing. I looked up how to draw on YouTube and I mostly got videos on how to draw eyes. I don't want to draw eyes. I want to draw anything and look at it and say, "This is a really good drawing that I made and I have a lot of pride in." I need help, how do you draw?! >_<

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    I would highly recommend reading the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" by Betty Edwards. Trust me. It's very inexpensive (especially if you get it on eBay or online) and it has so many helpful techniques!!

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Practice, practice, practice. Get a small sketchbook and carry it around with you, along with a pencil. Sketch some things. Also, look up some tutorials online, there's tons of them. If you're really serious about it, consider getting an art tutor.

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Hi Joshua, Your really are being awfully hard on yourself. Not every one can just pick up a pencil and draw a realistic piece of art. I'm wondering if the other students are as wonderful at drawing as you perceive them to be, and if you're as bad at it as you imagine you are. I would draw alone, so that you aren't comparing yourself to others. When you draw you should draw "free-style". Don't worry about how it looks...just enjoy the activity. You can always throw it away after you're done. If you do this enough, you will train your brain and hand to cooperate with each other. I strongly suggest that you go to as many web sites that teach drawing as you can. Put the search-term, "how to draw easy lessons" (without the quotes) into Google search. Go down the list of results and browse around the sites. Take notes, or copy/paste the text into Notepad. Ask the site owner if he/she will help you on specific problems. Anyway, I wish you the best of luck with it, Jeff

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