Realistic Drawing for Beginners

7Practicing

It’s time to put into practice everything you learned in the previous chapters. If you have worked your way through all those exercises, you won’t have any major problems doing these last three studies. The main difference is that they are a little longer and involve multiple textures in the same drawing.

If you don’t want to draw the same images I used as reference, that’s okay! Choose your own images, then use one of the tracing methods or draw them freehand. Do try, however, to find references similar enough to my examples that you can follow along with the workflow.

I made all the example drawings on A5 sheets with 1-cm margins on each side. This way, the exercises are less time-consuming and do not require the advanced detailing ...