Can you be taught to draw?
 

Do you think anyone can be taught to draw? or do you have to have a knack for it? Ive been trying my hardest for the longest time, and i can never get any better. What are youre thoughts on this?

You can be taught, but you will never have "natural talent" ,

but yes, I am learning to draw, yet i am not talented

I think you can be taught, its just finding the right way to learn.

You can learn drawing, but you need lots of practice. A pantograph will help you.

What is that!

i have some talent...but i have to hone them...im learning how to draw better at my college ..and my professor is so patient , but yes you may be taught , but keep practicing thats how i did it and i know you will get the swing of it..

That's a pantograph. A great tool that helps an artist to draw a picture.

To use it, you just need to tape it on a table, put a picture under the "pointer" area , put a blank sheet of paper a few inches away from the picture and all you have to do is trace the picture. It's really a big help for practicing.

There's so much that you can learn about art. Techniques, styles, etc. If you just practice and focus on getting basics and slowly advancing, you'll be awesome.

Yes, you can be taught to draw. I don't even know why this would be called into question. It's pretty much a given. Yes, there are some people who have more of a natural talent for drawing than others... but they too still have to learn techniques and styles before they're good.

I've always liked drawing but I definitely had, and still do have a lot to learn.

i don't really have a natural knack for it but through lots or practice i hope to improve ^^

it's.... one of those practise makes perfect kinda things x]

Anyone can draw... it just takes time. A good way to get better is to copy pictures... I don't agree with tracing but... I never used a pantograph >.> .... so yea... go copy ( not trace) pictures and then after like maybe 5-7 pictures you should try something on your own... then go back to copying pictures.... and back to on your own... basically go back and forth between copy and not untill you get confident enough to draw more things on your own. ^^ ... the first 2 years of me drawing was of copying stuff I like and then I started drawing stuff on my own then it just built from there :3.... but I did go to art school for one year after highschool

you can if you start young. but some can not be taught. some are just born with the ability to draw and paint anything . :vsign: some use books and instuctional videos as well .

I don't really think you can be taught to draw by someone else, most of the artistic process comes from trial and error by you drawing yourself, discovering your own strengths and weaknesses and working on those areas. You can be taught techniques but where to apply them is down to you, and drawing is entirely subjective so what you want to do in your art may be wrong to someone else. In the long run someone who doesn't have a natural flair for art will probably struggle later on. If you don't have a natural eye for things that are wrong in your piece, or how your artwork flows you will hit a brick wall at some point, but with time, patience and effort you can become a good artist anyway.

I'm not sure if I'm a natural at at, I'm pretty impatient to be honest, but maybe because I've been doing it for sooo long I've improved. If I compare my work in Year 7 to my work now there is a huge leap there.

Well said missmisa

Yes you can. Any form of art is 95% practice and 5% talent.

It all depends on your dedication and your imagination ;)

Actually I'm dysgraphic. I can't write. It takes me a long time. I always have errors in it. But I'm rather skilled at drawing. I just can't draw two things looking the same. (One box will look completely different from the other, even though they're supposed to be the same).

Dysgraphia and dyslexia are really common disorders. Althought most of the time it's children who suffer from it and they (with great dedication from the teacher side) overcome it in few years. It's just that I'm not really able to do it. In last three years since I started college I was at least able to minimize my grammar errors (Oh thank you my beloved teachers, thank you), but the handwritting is really messy (one letter bigger than the other, a not really resembling a and so on) no matter how hard I work on it.
(For some reason I preffer japanese alphabets, because it's more of drawing than writing for me ^^;;). I don't really know if you understood.
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