Many times the most difficult part of drawing is knowing what it is you really want to draw, in many ways this is because unless you have disciplined yourself you are drawing from your emotions. This means you are drawing what you feel like drawing and most professional artists draw because they have disciplined themselves to do so but even so they do sometimes hit something that is widely called creative block. I suppose in some cases you could call it creative block but in most cases it often a lack of inspiration.

Finding ideas that are worth your time can very often become tasks on their own if you don't know what you are doing or have ways to resolve this issue. But please be aware that not every drawing you make is going to be a masterpiece. We all need to prepare for doing drawings and seasoned artists have much work that they can reflect upon for inspiration but this is not necessarily true when you are young or a beginner to the world of drawing. Here are four ways that will help to get you drawing quickly.

Portrait drawing.

Portraits can be used for inspiration and can be a good subject to practice with. The human face has many different features to it and you could easily spend your entire life time attempting to master them. The great point about portraits are there are hundreds or even thousands of faces you can draw, you can draw your friends from life, you could also draw famous people from photographs in magazines or from pictures on line.

Pattern Designs.

All the time you spent in class doodling may not really have been time wasted if you think about it. Repeated pattern designs can be popular and a very interesting form of art in their own right. Making patterns come to life with color and shading can generate many ideas that you could again spend the rest of your life pursuing as means of generating drawing ideas.

Landscapes.

Locations for drawing can be found everywhere, just looking out the bedroom window will reveal an interesting and fairly complicated landscape, even when living in a town or a city, there will be buildings and many architectural wonders to be observed that deserve some recognition on paper as a drawing. Look out of the window and think about all the interesting things you can see to start drawing.

Copy drawing.

Sometimes when you are really stuck for ideas to draw it can be good practice to redraw some of the pictures you have drawn in the past, this will help you to reinforce some of the learning you have already encountered by revisiting these drawings and it can be very fulfilling to make an even better job of an old drawing.

Redrawing older drawings will help you to hone in on your skills to improve them and in many instances you will see a dramatic improvement.

Now is the time to stop reading and start drawing so with that said just get on with it.