Even teachers of art go through a standard training scheme: art school, college, university. But I didn’t really want to talk about this, but about how this learning process is built. 

Probably every beginner artist asks himself this question and diligently and persistently looking for an answer to it. It's not so simple and simple, as the path from a novice artist to a professional or at least to an amateur artist is long and very individual. Here, for example, I. E. Repin, too, was once a novice self-taught artist.

With simple pencils everything is not as simple as it seems.

Often self-taught artists or beginning portrait painters ask the same question: how to paint a portrait of a person? What paint to take for a portrait? How to get body color? As a rule, the drawing itself can be done somehow, some even draw their own features, stretch their facial features, but with the color everything becomes completely incomprehensible. So what to do?

   A2 format
   Materials: pencils USLON H, HB, B, 2B, 3B, 4B; Eraser Faber-Castell, drawing paper, klyachka or formoplast as needed (I did not use it, but it can be useful).
   Advice: it is better to pull half of a sheet of drawing paper on a tablet so that the paper does not give waves and is tight and evenly fixed

I come one day to visit my friend-the artist and see: in the hallway is a huge old, but still strong wardrobe, which does not fit stylistically with the interior of the apartment.

What's this rarity?- ask.

A friend says that in this closet she kept sketches. She opens the door, and there.... Mother dear! There in neat stacks laid out hundreds or even thousands of different drawings, and under the stacks date signed: ... 1998. ... 2000. ...2005. and so on.

Choosing a canvas for painting is a very pleasant experience. Now on sale there is everything that only the soul wishes. You can choose not only canvas of any size and grain (coarse-grained, medium, smooth), composition (flax, cotton, mixed linen, synthetics) and even configurations (rectangular standard, panoramic,

   One of my teachers of classical academic drawing and painting, when the work on the production came to a standstill, came up, made a characteristic click with his fingers and said: “There is something missing. We have to make a ding-ding! ".

Remember the brightest winter of your childhood, and maybe not one. There is no way you ate icicles, sledding down the hill, lost in the snow boots and licked the metal swing remember you do not need. Let us turn to what you have observed, noticed and what was surprising when changing the quality of lighting. Snow, sky and trees looked very different: during the day, on a Sunny day; in the evening, at dusk, and in the dark

My teacher of history at school, Irina Dudina, every time came up with some new, fun ways to remember the most boring information, sometimes even quite absurd, right on Harms.