The Easiest Subjects to Draw

Easy Subjects to Draw

In this drawing lesson, I’m going to share with you what I consider to be the five easiest subjects to draw. These subjects are great for beginning artists especially because they’ll give you confidence. Confidence is very important in your drawing development. You want to have that confidence so you don’t throw down that pencil and quit drawing. You need to practice and keep going. Even though these subjects are easy and you might be an accomplished artist, they’re still subjects that you might want to explore because many of these subjects will improve your drawing overall.

See also: Overcoming Artistic Frustration

Easy Subject to Draw #1 – Basic Forms

Basic forms like a cylinder, a cube, a pyramid, and so on are great for understanding the way light behaves on a surface. It helps us get a good understanding of how value leads to the illusion of form in a drawing or painting. Basic forms are relatively simple and easy to draw, which makes them number one on our list, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t have merit.

By practicing drawing basic forms, you’ll have a better understanding of how light behaves and how light (or rather the use of value) can create the illusion of form on a three-dimensional subject. We can use basic forms and piece them together to create more complex forms leading to more complex drawings. That’s why learning how to draw basic forms is usually the best place to start when you’re just beginning learning how to draw.

Easy Subject to Draw #2 – Linear Perspective

Linear perspective is a method using lines and a vanishing point or vanishing points to create the illusion of space on a two-dimensional surface. There are several different forms of linear perspective. There’s one-point perspective, two-point perspective, and three-point perspective. What makes linear perspective easy is that it’s a structured approach to drawing. It’s great for drawing from your imagination. You can create scenes relatively easily and create the illusion of space in those scenes using one of the forms of linear perspective. It is a structured approach, which means that there are a series of rules that you have to follow. If you follow these rules, you’ll end up with a drawing that looks three-dimensional.

For folks who might struggle with one-point or two-point perspective, it’s probably due to the fact that you learned one point or two point perspective incorrectly. However, all forms of linear perspective are relatively easy to learn and implement in your own drawings.

Lessons on perspective:

• One Point Perspective
• Two Point Perspective
• Three Point Perspective

Easy Subject to Draw #3 – Animated Characters

Animated characters are designed to be easy to draw because they’re drawn many, many times in order to create an animation. Oftentimes there are many animators that work with the same characters. Many different people will need to be able to draw the subject over and over again accurately. Most animated characters are made up of basic and easy to draw shapes, but even with more complex animations, it is still just a simplification of the original subject.

This simplification is also seen in comic book drawings. Comic books are made to be drawn quickly. Several different artists might work on the same comic book, which means that the characters need to be easy to draw and able to be rendered relatively quickly. Comic book characters and animated characters, while they’re fun to draw, they’re also relatively easy.

Easy Subject to Draw #4 – Block Letters

Lettering is an art form on its own, but creating block letters is fairly easy. All you have to do is draw out the letters and then make them look three-dimensional in a consistent manner. While drawing block letters is fairly easy, you can get very creative and make them fairly complex as well. Just make sure that the form that you add to each one of the letters is consistent across each letter and also add a little bit of shading or value to create the illusion of form. Block lettering is fairly easy, it’s fun to do, and anyone can be successful with it.

Easy Subject to Draw #5 – Fruits and Vegetables

Fruits and vegetables are a wonderful subject for creating drawings and paintings. They’re made up of relatively simple forms, which makes them very easy to draw. On top of this, fruits and vegetables are organic subjects, which means that we have a little bit of liberty in creating our drawings and paintings. If there are small deviations from the reference or the subject that we’re looking at, it’s not going to be noticeable in the final drawing. If you’re looking for still life subjects to start with, then fruits and vegetables are an excellent subject. Just find some oranges, some strawberries, some bananas, set them down, take a photo if you wish, and practice your drawing that way. It won’t take you long to get the basic forms on your drawing paper.

Then just focus and pay close attention to the deviations in value and all the details that exist on these subjects. Keep in mind if you deviate a little bit from what you see, it’s not going to be noticeable in your final drawing.

Easy Subjects to Draw – Conclusion

That’s my list of what I consider to be the five easiest subjects to draw. This list of subjects are great for beginners but also can be a challenge for more accomplished artists.