Sometimes its hard to know what the right way of doing things is. After having taken several different drawing classes I have found there is not one approach to drawing, but many. Perhaps the most obvious or popular is straight up observational drawing. You look at something and try to replicate it on your paper. Most people begin drawing like this, based off of what they see. There is also more scientific, constructivist way. You draw things that you think of and begin forming these objects with shapes, working up to more refined forms. This includes the prez tech style of drawing based on perspective theory. It also includes the sort of drawings you'd see in those drawing books they give to kids. You know the sort of "how to draw dinosaurs in 5 simple stages."
These are the two basic forms of drawing, from which others come from. For instance life drawing is a bit of a combination of these two schools. You are observing the live figure, but you come to the subject from a standpoint of knowledge, like scientific drawing. Its an interesting, variant approach, one that has made me think of drawing in new and exciting ways.
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