Learn pencil drawing with online free tutorials and tips

Whether you're an art teacher, art student, or just a hobbyist you will find the step by step free online tutorials, tips and techniques will give you the ability to bring those images in your mind into paper reality. Becoming skilled at drawing requires several factors coming together. Some of these factors include desire, instruction, practice, time, and more practice.

Pencil/Graphite drawing is one of the easiest and least expensive ways in which to begin your art lessons. All you will need is a number #2 pencil and some paper. All people, young and old, have the ability to improve their drawing skills. Most people don't believe that! The main secret in improving your ability to draw is the ability to see correctly.

Few tips to start learning and improving pencil drawing skills

• The most important thing is just to draw something, and keep drawing everyday if possible. Even if you only spend 5 minutes or 10 minutes a day on drawing you will begin to see improvements.

• Remember to enjoy the process of learning and don't be too hard on yourself if your drawings don’t turn out to be masterpieces.You can improve your pencil drawing skills by carefully considering your pencil and how it hits the page. Controlling and exploiting the possibilities of the mark is an important step in developing as an artist.
• For most pencil drawing, keep your pencil sharp. 

• Brighten the point by rubbing the side of the pencil on scrap paper between sharpenings. If you need a darker line, use a softer pencil, and be aware that a softer pencil goes blunt quickly.

• Use a Variety of Line: When drawing lines, either in a linear drawing or within a texture in a tonal drawing, note that you can vary the weight of the line by lifting the pencil or pressing harder.

More tips at: Draw sketch at 'about'
If you are really serious about drawing, you can also try and find a teacher who can help you. Ask your teacher which books he or she recommends and you may even be able to borrow some materials from them as well.

How to draw learning activities are fun, but they also help children develop many important skills. These skills, eye-hand coordination, color concepts, picture comprehension, form the foundation for early learning success. Children who color generally acquire and use knowledge more efficiently and effectively.

Online links and resources to learn pencil drawing:

* J. D. Hillberry's site 'Charcoal and Penci Drawings' is a useful resource for
- Site link: Learn How to Draw

 A pencil drawing by Dueys draw

* Home school arts offers some basic but useful lessons

A pencil drawing by Dueys draw

* Basic information to start Pencil Drawing

* Dueys draw is created by artist Brian Duey, offering drawing and art tutorials.

* Learn how to draw with step by step guides show you how to draw at:

Drawing Coach
* A lot of Drawing Techniques, Lessons, Tutorials, Tips, and Resources for Artists and Illustrators.
- Site link: artshow.com
* Free art tutorials - lessons and demonstrations in graphite and coloured pencils by some of the world's leading artists.

- Art Graphica.net

* Drawing lessons at Art is Fun

* Pencil Drawing tips

Find Interesting and fun stuff at 'Village of Joy'

I love to surf the internet not only to find information but I like to read or browse the fun stuff. There are many amazing, interesting, weird, Odd and Funny things about our World which we have to discover and internet have provided us a platform where with the touch of our finger we can get in touch with that stuff. "Village of job" is one of those entertaining sites which is a good pastime to surf.

Village of joy is an online entertainment magazine about our worlds most interesting, weird and wonderful things.

'Why?
Because we like internet and we love blogging! We like weird and crazy things and we love sharing them.'

10 Most Popular posts at the blog are:

* 50 Strange Buildings of the World
* 25 Motivational Posters.
* 20 Strange Sculptures (Part I)
* 20 Unusual Churches (Part I)
* 50 Weird and Crazy Cars
* Funny Vanity License Plates
* Amazing Graffiti Art by Banksy
* Amazing Architecture of Dubai
* 10 Most Poisonous Animals in the World
* 20 Amazing Origami Art works

These post titles show you the stuff you can expect to find at the site.

Few pictures from the site:
Vegetable art!

Hobbies and crafts for kids at "Indian Child"

"Indian child" is basically a site for internet safetly. Parents, teachers all can find it useful, and it is very interactive for children as well.

The site describes the benefits of hobbies as:

"Stress seems to be a predominant ingredient of human existence. No matter how old a person is, one is forever chasing goals. Sad, but true, even kindergarten kids are under pressure to excel in their class. They are burdened with more to learn. And as a child grows academically competition increases, which causes even more stress. Amongst adolescents there is a need to work and study at the same time in order to get that plum job after university. Adults are busy making a living. And in this rat race called life, one just forgets themselves.

Hobby is any leisure activity that diverts an individual from their daily strenuous like. Or it also plays the role of keeping the unoccupied, occupied with something to do. As, in the latter case an empty mind is a devil’s workshop. Indulging in a hobby actually does away with the boredom that sets in due to the monotonous life one gets used to. Certain hobbies also help release pent-up frustrations."

* There are lots of links to the sites offering hobbies and crafts for kids: List of hobbies & crafts for kids

Impact of internet on hobbyists and hobbies

Internet has changed our lives. We are busier with our computer than being with our family and friends. Our social life is limited to social networking sites. Average person, who normally spends 2 to 3 hours or more at internet, likes to be online, even to watch TV or reading newspaper.
Do hobbyists have the same story?

Yes, internet has an impact on people’s hobbies and hobbyist. To my opinion, you get useful information within seconds from internet and same way you can buy your hobby products with a click of your mouse.

"Pew Internet Project" collected stories about how the internet had an impact on people's hobbies. Here are some examples:

"Because of the internet, we've been able to turn a hobby of collecting antiques into a business of buying and selling antiques."
"I was searching for some information about my grandfather and his company in World War II, and Googled his name. A site came up that had a collection of letters and other papers that belonged to a famous Austrian composer. In that collection was PDF image of a letter that my grandfather had sent from Austria to this composer (who had apparently fled the country) on behalf of some friends that were still in Austria. I sent it to my grandfather, who doesn't even remember writing or sending it, and really had no idea who this composer was. But here was this piece of historical memory -- it was really amazing to find such a thing, and it sort of made my grandfather's stories about the war 'true' to see this evidence on the web."
"I discovered I could view art images of all kinds through museums and libraries around the world. I was just thrilled to be able to access this for my own education and enjoyment."
Online hobby research can inspire a person to travel, through activities like historical tourism, or inspire new experiences at home, like cooking or gardening. The internet can provide detailed information about even the most obscure hobby and can connect hobbyists of every stripe. Taxidermists can find just the right glass eye to complete a stuffed owl. Collectors can scour far-away troves to find that one quilt, stamp, comic book, or baseball card they desire.

The internet has also led to the creation of entirely new hobbies, as in the case of Geocaching – a hide-and-seek type of game using an interactive website and GPS technology.3 keeping a multimedia diary in the form of a blog is another uniquely online pursuit.4

Some facts and figures:

Since early 2002, there has been a significant jump in the overall hobbyist population online and an even more substantial increase in the daily number of online hobbyists. The online hobby population has grown from about 45% of all American adults in 2005 to 59% in February-March 2007 and the online hobby population on a typical day has increased from about 12% to 20% of all adults.

In that prior survey, 77% of internet users said they had used the internet to search for information about a hobby and 20% of internet users did so on a typical day.

Who uses the internet for hobbies?

Men, internet users under age 50, and those with home broadband connections are among the most likely groups to pursue their hobbies online.

Relatively young American adults are more likely than their elders to seek information about hobbies or interests online. Some 86% of internet users ages 18 to 29 and 88% of internet users ages 30 to 49 utilize the medium to pursue hobbies. By comparison, 77% of 50-to-64-year-old internet users, and 62% of online Americans ages 65 and older, report using the internet to pursue hobbies.

89% of respondents with a broadband connection at home report using the internet to find information about hobbies. However, it is important to note that eight-in-ten home dial-up users (78%) also go online for information about their hobbies -- further evidence of this activity's wide appeal.

On a typical day, one-third of online men, one-third of internet users in their 20s, and 38% of college-educated internet users pursue hobbies online.

Source link: Pew Research Center