Use your artistic skills to create a Valentine's Day drawing for your loved one.
For the artistically inclined, Valentine's Day represents not only a day of love, but a chance to exercise some of your drawing skills. If you have a special someone for whom you'd like to create a Valentine, making the effort to make a Valentine's Day drawing shows him or her how much you care. The basic skills required to make any drawing also are necessary for this one. What you do with the details you create from these basic skills will turn these series of lines and shapes into a personal Valentine's Day drawing for your loved one.
Instructions
1. Gather your supplies. The materials you choose for this drawing will make a much more interesting drawing. For example, a textured or colored paper will make the pencil shades look different than a paper without these elements. Additionally, if you choose to color your drawing in with colored pencil or pastels, these art media also will take better to this.
2. Determine the subject of your Valentine's drawing. Common elements for Valentine's Day include hearts, ribbons, cupid, teddy bears and roses. Additionally, if you're making this drawing for someone special, think about items that represent this person in your mind. It could be a charm he or she likes on the bracelet you gave him or her or a figurine from his or her childhood. Combine these elements for a more interesting drawing.
3. Make some rough sketches of your ideas. This will help you work out the details and compositional elements of all the items you're drawing. Doing this before you create your drawing will help you work out any potential problems so that your final drawing is better.
4. Map out the basic shapes of the elements you're drawing. Most things in life can be reduced to their most basic geometric shapes such as circles, squares, triangles and rectangles. Blocking out these elements on your paper, you not only make sure that your drawing is centered on the paper, but you'll also have made the basic building blocks for your drawing. For example, to draw a heart, draw two circles that slightly overlap one another on one side. Then draw a triangle in the middle of the two circles with the point facing downward. The end product will look like the beginnings of a heart. Do this technique with all of the pictorial elements.
5. Fill in the details once you've drawn in the shapes for your Valentine's drawing. For example, after you've drawn the heart, make a curved line that rounds out the sides of the triangle so that it looks like a heart instead of two circles connected by a triangle. Add lines like this to all of your drawings until the details are complete. Once you've added these lines, erase the extra lines.
6. Use colored pencils or pastels to color your drawing.
7. Matte and frame your drawing.
