Man must always be able to realize himself in life. This realization can manifest itself in something big - various technical discoveries, scientific works, work, sports, which many people will know about, and in smaller things that only a few close ones will know. Everyone chooses his own way for himself. If you consider the hobby of the pyramid Maslow's need, then it should satisfy several steps at once: the need for respect (the opportunity through hobbies to achieve success, recognition, fame), the need for knowledge of the new, the need for beauty is the satisfaction of aesthetic taste and the need for self-actualization as individuals, the achievement of goals).
A hobby is not just a way to do something in your free time, but also a way to relax, get away from everyday problems, and sometimes earn money! Everyone chooses their own kind of hobby. Someone writes poetry, stories, someone is engaged in dancing, someone plays in music groups, someone travels or collects stamps, someone does not like himself in books, and someone in films, but there are people who draw. It is the latter that will be discussed later.
What is a drawing?
A drawing is an expression of emotions, thoughts, feelings, desires. Not for nothing recently psychologists and psychotherapists are increasingly using art therapy to relieve a person of stress and various psychological disorders, as well as a method by which you can find out the problems that lie in the person's subconscious, his complexes and traumas.
So if poetry is not interesting to you, astronomy is too complicated or complicated, and picking up stamps is tedious, then try yourself in the visual arts - suddenly it's yours!
Positive mood
Even if you can not create a copy of the "Sistine Madonna", in any case, you will get a lot of positive emotions and an incredible pleasure from the drawing process alone. Paints, always bright, merging, create a special scale, their combinations are fascinating. By depicting something on a sheet of paper, you get rid of stress, relax, start thinking in a new direction, and look for other possible ways of getting out of difficult situations. Even if you recall life experience, how many people, starting to draw, left drinking tapes, depressed, recovered from drug addiction or from complex mental illnesses, and simply supported themselves in difficult periods of life when it seemed that life had lost its meaning and all its bright colors. There are a lot of such people! So let's use their experience.
How to start drawing?
How to start a hobby? After all, for a beginner it is sometimes so difficult to choose the necessary things, because of what many people throw not only to draw, but also to engage in dances, music, etc.
If you are not a professional, but only a beginner, and even an amateur, then you do not need to buy expensive brushes from the fur of rare animals. You just started drawing and hobbies should not be burdensome for your wallet. To begin with, you can use the most common - from a rabbit. Brushes with artificial bristles are better not to take, because the smears they are too hard and clumsy, which spoils the overall appearance of the picture. Also, do not first take an expensive paper, you can also use ordinary children's albums for drawing, which in stores are myriad.
Paints
Now let's talk about paints. This is a rather difficult question, because you can draw with pencils, ink, gel pens, watercolors, gouache, acrylic paints, chalk and many others. For a beginner, it is best to choose a watercolor or a gouache. And, of course, pencils. The first allows you to create light, light still lifes, landscapes, portraits. The second is best for compositions in which fantasy will play, and still others can be used for any drawings.
After the materials are bought, the second stage begins, which can be conditionally indicated by the following question - "what to draw?". For many, this causes difficulties. If you are not sure what you can picture what is in your head, draw the world around: bowls, glasses, trees, fruits, people, animals, houses, alleys. This is quite simple, since the main thing here is to feel the color, light and space. Although, in view of the development of postmodern art, this became unnecessary.
Do not be afraid!
If you know exactly what you want to draw, just draw! Do not be afraid that you will not succeed! Your goal is not to win a prize for the best picture of the year, but simply relax, take your mind off the gray and busy everyday days. Rejoice in what you do and do not be upset if the image on paper does not meet your expectations.
To get a certain charge of energy and mood, look through sometimes the works of famous masters from different centuries, choose a style of drawing that you prefer - it will save you from the painful choice how to draw you.
Selecting a Drawing Object
In time, you will understand that you like drawing the most, in which area of the world you can show yourself best. When this happens - do not stop, look for something new in this area. And suddenly after a while your paintings will hang in Paris at the exhibition? But even if this does not happen - just be happy! From every new brushstroke, from every failed line, from every dye of the spilled paint, to the wrong place where you need to ... Rejoice, for art should bring pleasure, and not be your tormentor. So if you do not like drawing, do not force yourself - put aside the paint and do not paint until the desire appears. It is in this and the beauty of a hobby - you can always stop doing it.
Drawing, remember, as a child, we were all artists! And their paintings were the best for us! So be proud of what you painted!
Develop and improve
If in time you want to improve your skills, then in our time the possibilities are a dime a dozen. This and a variety of master classes, and additional lessons, and online video, and books, and magazines, and much more information from which the novice can learn a lot of interesting and new for himself, and in the future - to improve his style of drawing, create his own style. So draw!
Now you know everything about drawing as a hobby, where to start to develop in the right direction. Do not be afraid to express yourself and your mood! Do it!