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10 sketching tips for beginners

Experts from The Beginner's Guide to Sketching offer their tips to those taking their first steps down the creative path.




The Beginner's Guide to Sketching offers lots of inspiration and advice for anyone looking to take their first creative steps or wanting to add a new piece to their design portfolio. The comprehensive guide covers everything from choosing the right drawing tools to understanding shading and value, adding color, and creating a finished scene.

If you're a complete novice, you should have a look at our seven fundamental pencil drawing techniques. But here, some of the artists that contributed to the Beginner's Guide to Sketching offer some expert advice to get you off to a flying start...

01. How to create curly hair with simple lines
Want to draw curly hair? Illustrator Eva Widermann suggests: "Draw two straight vertical lines; these will be your guidelines for the width and length of the curl. Now loosely draw a wavy line down between the two lines.

"Double this wavy line a little below the first. You can already see a curly ribbon forming before you. Now connect the open parts on the sides, remove the guidelines, and add some details."

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01. Easier marquee selections

Hold down Alt to start a selection at the centre point with any Marquee tool, and then hold Space to temporarily move the selection around.

02. Undo, undo, undo

You probably know that Cmd/Ctrl+Z is Undo, but you may not know Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+Z lets you undo more than one history state.

03. 1000 history states

Go to Edit>Preferences>Performance to change the number of History states up to a maximum of 1000. Beware though of the effect that this has on performance.

04. Cycle blend modes

Shift + or – will cycle through different layer Blend Modes, so long as you don't have a tool that uses Blend Mode options settings.

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