Six Structures of Drawing

Six steps on how you can learn to draw anything and provide you with a better understanding of form, design, and structure.

Structuralization
- Basics.
- Learning to draw the simple shapes.
- Learning how to draw them, cluster them, combine them intuitively.
- Spacial awareness.
- Good sense of believability.
Manipulation
- (Shape) manipulation.
- Taking the primitives and learning how to
  - bend and twist them.
  - squash them
- Manipulating contours, sections, edges.
Observation
- We don't need to first educate what's going on in an object to draw it. (e.g. we don't need to know everything about human anatomy to draw a human figure).
  - With the previous steps, you can structuralize and manipulate simple shapes after observing what's in front of your eyes to come up with something believable, that resembles the object.
- Mannequin-ize the stuff you see.
Education
- Now we are trying to educate ourselves about the things we observed and approximated.
- e.g. studying the underlying muscles / bones after approximating what you've observed to come up with a human figure drawing.
Imitation
- Learn from peers to what visual language they are using to structuralize / manipulate objects.
- Building the catalogue of the art styles of other artists that you admire or your eyes are drawn to. Learning what they are doing.
  - In turn slowly developing a style of your own.
- Analyze
Imagination
- Coming up with something of your own with everything you've done in the previous steps. from scratch.

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