Any good books or classes maybe that will help drawing abilities?

portrait class!!! even if your more into the abstract side of art it will help tremendously also design fundamentals is a big one as for books human anatomy for the artist helped my alot with human forms and a lot of books on bone and muscle structure..cant draw it if you dont know what it is or where it goes :P good luck!!

thanks for the info, great ideas. People are so hard to draw.

This is just an idea I saw on an artist's show.
Turn a face upside down to draw it.
It removes the humanity and the training your
eyes see in faces.
Takes them to an abstract level enabling one to draw it.
Your eyes see an object, as opposed to a face.

That's an interesting concept.. Never really thought about it like that. I like to draw faces, I do usually just go by lines and shading and try not to think of it as a face. I might have to try that, thanks

He had a class full of people trying it, it was
unbelievable, the difference it made :-)

Seems like it was much easier to get proportions
right when viewed as an object.

Its always so cool how a change in perception can make things so different. in all aspects.

interesting concept, will try dis. I bliv its going to improve my abilities.

hi how are you

not really.. i do it all the time.

That is a really good way to train your brain for lines. The concept mimics how you learn letter shapes and can repeat them also closing your dominant eye will help. We see in three dimensions so closing one eye helps you draw flat. There's a book on drawing faces that's really good starter. How to draw human faces.

I'm very good at drawing but now the passion is gone.

I'm very good at drawing but now the passion is gone.

I'm not an art teacher or student, so this is just by experience. I would really recommend drawing on whatever you have for about thirty minutes everyday when you get up or some other time, not worrying about technique, but still trying to get the result visually right. I think this helps keep the ability of the human to invent new styles and techniques fresh. After a few moths or so, you'll notice different ways of shading or curvatures that just seem to emerge and which you can use further or discard. It's all about becoming consious of what your hands are doing all of the time anyways, and this is more apparent when you let your hands do absolutely whatever.

I draw pics of most anything...pastels is my pick to use....Just draw what you see...For some pointers go to u-tube and type in drawing eyes or do a search...there are some wonderful pointers there....and remember the more you do the better you get....Most of the time I have people want me to do their pets...like horses, and dogs...

I draw some things very well.landscapes, animals,plants.the human body(torso) but cant master dimensions on faces.the tips here are a great help.Keep up your passion especially if you art is good.give someone a gift to boost yourself back to drawing.

I spontaneously got the passion again. The love i have for drawing is back. I just started some project to get myself busy and draw.

I spontaneously got the passion again. The love i have for drawing is back. I just started some project to get myself busy and draw.

study anatomy and fundamentals, helped me, also look at the world with more detail.

I always recommend Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards. It teaches you to see differently. It has some great exercises to learn how to see like that of an artist.