Any one can draw
...y Japanese animation. Japanese anime is so very popular among the youth around the world, even the adult population to some extent. Of course when it came to drawing pictures form the images I always failed miserably. Not every one can look at something and then draw it, wither an image or a real person. Perception of course is a skill that you really have to work at to get right. It is because of the lack of perception that many people fail in their drawing, and of course they get discouraged n stop trying. Over time I have been able to establish a strong perception skill. Though this came with a lot of time and practice. My friends would always be asking me to teach them to draw the things I do. Yet how in the world can I teach them perception? I can’t, I'm sure there's a basic explanation, and even some examples. It’s just too hard though to just lay it all out on them, and expect them to understand. It was a while after that till I started coming up with small philosophies with drawing. Then in soon time it all hit me. Tracing was my answer to the difficulties of drawing. A lot of people would normally think tracing makes you a faker, or a loser. Some one with no perception resorting to something as low as tracing. If you really think about it though, even using your skills with perception is tracing. You are copping what you see, and putting it on paper. Tracing is still a form of perception; it’s just a lot closer that's all. In time many people are able to make the image go further back till they do have a good perception skill. So really tracing isn’t a bad thing at all, infect it is a great tool to get you going. Still though not every one can trace something. I know I couldn’t before. Even with tracing paper it’s still hard to see every little detail behind what you’re drawing, so what you draw normally looks nothing like the real image. It all has to do with light, most people would trace something with light shining on top of their drawing so they could see what they are doing, though that's just fading the picture more. By using a light source under your drawing and image, it aluminates the picture so you can see just about all the little details. If you have it just right, it’s almost as if you’re drawing on a clear piece of paper. Not every one can still draw even with a perfectly picture. You can’t expect to simply take...