The biggest challenge most beginner artists face: the fear of making mistakes! Even expert artists struggle often with their lack of confidence in itself. Finally, these feelings are causing most artist's blocks – sometime the artist is aware of it, sometimes not.

Most likely is that the same problem. But do not worry, you can override the main difficulty for the success of your drawing.

You and your drawings

Well, really is not that effortless. Your first step should be to relax and be clear: no need to fear failure! You do not have to prove anything to anyone. Your drawings are for you while you do not want to show people. Before reading, take a few minutes and instill this idea in your mind!

Ok, what is your conclusion? Perhaps you see now, you're more afraid to fail before yourself? For this event I can show you a recipe later.

Avoid drawing errors

The next essential advice to follow: after starting his drawings, reduce their risk of failure. Follow these two essential steps:

1. Themes are easy to choose one! I know it's tempting to start drawing difficult issues – a portrait of a beloved person or beautiful scenery you've seen lately. But this will inevitably lead to failure unless it is a rare genius. It takes time and practice to develop your drawing skills. So start with simple issues. Copies of other drawings, pictures or just still life (if necessary). I prefer themes that straight lines is more complicated curved shapes.
2. Simple techniques are the one to choose! Do not use crayons, from the beginning. Its aim is not to draw photo-realistic images from scratch. Start capture small and simple, first just proportions and contours of his subject. Focus on simple parts and leave all the advanced things such as shadows, textures, etc. for later.

Ensure Steady progress

Thirdly you must make sure your progress is steady and regular. Two tips achieve this:

1. Drawing a few minutes every day helps drawing more through the weekend. I myself do not follow this advice often, but I learned the hard way. So find a few minutes each day for drawing.
2. Do not be afraid to repeat! Something went wrong? It's the best reason to repeat this pattern and start again. But avoid exaggeration until you are bored by the drawing. Instead find a new approach every time. Try different angles, the conditions light, interpretations, compositions, etc.

The Art Critics silence within you

And now the most important trick. His fear of failure is probably largely afraid to fail before yourself. So you need to silence this critic little bit each of us has within himself.

In reality is a little difficult to completely silence this critic. It is easier to deflect it using this trick:

Whenever you want to start to criticize yourself, whenever you feel your critic trying to get into action, I say "Later!". Save the drawing away and have a look at a few months later.

When you take the picture again and start to criticize, is several months old. Typically you will see that it is not so bad as I thought. And if it was so perfect that you can not hit your self-confidence. When you've followed these tips, you know, in recent months you improved so there is no need worrying about the failures that made months ago!

Learn faster drawing

The silencing his criticism of better if you can actually make progress is regular and continuous. Besides the tips I showed you, you can boost your progress to achieve a good performance of some practice books or DVDs.

This article is part of a 6 part series on learning drawing. Read the next part to get more tips about how to learn drawing. There you can also get a free ebook on learning to draw and more drawing instructions.

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