Learn Drawing Quickly

­terials and mark-making
The range of drawing tools is wide, and it’s exciting to explore what the different media can do. In this book you’ll discover the textures that are possible and their potential use, so that you can build up a vocabulary of marks. Popular and easy to obtain drawing tools include pencils, charcoal, chalks, pastels, pens and paint applied with a brush or pen. You will also need erasers and cartridge paper, both textured and tinted.

e reduced to a cube, a sphere, a cone or a cylinder. You’ll find that observing and analysing objects in terms of these underlying shapes will really help you to draw them, whether you are tackling an apple, a teapot or a large, complicated building. It’s possible to reduce everything, including