Creating simple, creative drawings can be relaxing and rewarding.
Simple drawings are challenging to a person who wants to draw perfectly the first time she tries. However, drawing should be a break from the stresses of writing and speech; when you draw, it is just you and the page. Crafting simple, creative drawings loosens the mind, connects you to your visual side and makes observing your world a treat. When you set out to start a drawing, choose an object you would like to concentrate on, such as your best friend's ear, a coffee cup, or an imaginary world, and enjoy the adventure of learning through drawing.
Distorted Doorknob
Draw a doorknob on a door in your home or apartment. A doorknob can be challenging, due to the depth of field and angles, but do not feel you must draw it exactly as it looks, as if you were making a mirror image of the door. Instead draw the doorknob in a creative, alluring way. For example, change all the proportions so that the knob itself is very small, but the door is large; or the door is small and the knob is large.
Blind Contour
A blind contour is a line drawing you create without looking at what you are doing. Create blind contours of any object, such as a lamp, TV screen, tree, chair or banana. Tear out a medium to large sheet of blank paper from a drawing pad. Study the object you are about to draw, such as the lamp. Without looking down at the drawing paper, create the first line. Then, do not stop that line. Keep drawing with only one line, as if you were following a little laser pointer dot around the lamp, down its base, and to the cord plugged into the wall. When you have completely finished the drawing, you can finally look down at what you have done. Most likely you will be shocked and delighted at what you find. Because you are not concentrating on drawing the lamp right, you trust the shape itself to tell you what to draw. For a laugh and intriguing results, draw your best friend following the same guidelines. Or, create a self-portrait by studying your image in the mirror and drawing on the page.
Techni-Color Food
Drawing food can be challenging, but you can make it simpler in the way you approach the subject. Avoid feeling like the drawing must look like a perfect apple, ice cream sundae, muffin or steak sandwich; draw it as a sketch you can fill in later. Once you have a basic sketch of the food, fill in details, like the sprinkles on ice cream or syrup dripping down pancake edges. For a creative twist, change all the colors in the food. For instance, draw a purple apple, a neon green and magenta sundae, and blue pancakes with orange syrup.
Simple Comics
Create a comic strip. The drawing quality does not have to impress as much as the content of the story you tell, so make the figures simple. For instance, draw stick figures to tell a funny story or odd observation first. If you then feel the story may benefit from characters with a bit more detail, create special features for each one. Draw one with lots of piercings, another with a wrinkled face and a cane, one with large ears and another wearing a hat far too small for her head. Work on a simple setting, such as a park, home office, prison cell or the moon.
