Look pictures up online of famous buildings and try to replicate them in your cool drawing. Use your home as a real-life reference to practice drawing. Try to replicate the shape of the outside of your home in your drawing. Try drawing a street filled with buildings of different sizes to practice your perspective drawing.
Look for a landmark near where you live and practice drawing it. If you can visit the location in person, try drawing it while you’re there.
Shade your drawing based on where you want to put the light source to make your plane look more 3D. Add clouds in the background to make it look like your plane is flying through the sky. For more of a challenge, look for different planes, such as fighter jets or biplanes.
You can make your tank as simple or as detailed as you want as long as it is unmistakably cool! If you want to add color, try creating a camouflage pattern with colored pencils.
To make drawing cars easier, draw them from the side so you don’t have to worry about adding perspective. Make the windows a dark shade of black so you don’t have to draw the interior.
Use more detail in your drawing for things that are closer to you. For example, it’s okay to leave detail out of a faraway mountain, but a tree closer to the front should have visible leaves and bark if your wearing his to be truly cool. Try drawing landscapes during different seasons to see how they change over time. Go to a location and take your own picture if you live somewhere with a view.
If you want, add a stem with thorns at the base of your rose to make it look like it was freshly picked. Practice drawing different types of cool flowers to practice different shapes. When coloring, try experimenting with different pencils and techniques so you get a feel of how they work. Varying the pressure of the pencil can give you different and cool colors to make your drawing really pop.
If you want to draw a full elephant body, don’t use dark lines on the wrinkles in the skin since it will make your drawing look unclear. Put the elephant in a tall grass environment to look like it’s in the wild.
Look at scientific illustrations of insects online for detailed drawings of insects that you can try drawing on your own. Remember to layer your colors to make new hues, allowing yourself to go crazy with your insect creation. If you want to make it realistic, know that it is all about shadow and contrast.
For example, if you wanted to draw Harry Potter make sure to include a wand, his glasses, and including lightning bolt scar. You might also include props like a flying broomstick or his pet owl. Your character doesn’t need to look realistic. If you want to make a cool cartoon version of them, go ahead! Try posing a drawing mannequin if you have one to get a reference on how their body would look. Take a photo of yourself as a reference to what the character’s body might be shaped like.
Use movie monsters as a reference if you want inspiration on how to draw your creatures. Your monster doesn’t need to be scary. Make a friendly monster instead by making it smile or giving it colorful fur.
Have your dragon guard something, like gold or an egg, to give it more story. Think about where the dragon is located when choosing a color or design. For example, a water dragon may be blue and have fins while a fire dragon might have horns and be red.
For example, if your superhero has ice breath, draw him freezing bad guys or turning water into ice. Every hero needs a supervillain. Come up with an evil character and draw your hero fighting them.
