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I bought a sketch pad and some pencils/colouring pencils the other day, on a whim.

Problem is, I'm not exactly what you would call "good" at drawing things. The one person I do know online who is good at drawing mostly draws griffons and MLP stuff (which is cool, but really not what I'm into).

Anyone got any tips for learning how to draw and not produce scribbles equivalent to those of a nursery school kid?

There are actually a ton of great on-line art videos ( which I personally like a lot more than books), and a lot of artists on dA who often post how-to sort of things.

Find things you like drawing and then draw them. It helps if you mix it up with what you draw and use references.

It takes a bit to not produce bad scribbles, but that's where everyone starts. As long as you keep at it, you'll get better.

First tip: you will never draw as well as you'd like. Even when you're as good as your favourite artist, you will still look at your own work and find flaws.

This is especially important because starting out can be frustrating.

Second tip: enjoy drawing and draw lots. Draw things you see in real life, copy pictures, do tutorials on deviantart. I learnt how to draw facial features by copying my Captain Jack Sparrow poster because I loved drawing Johnny Depps beautiful, beautiful eyes.... Where was I? Oh yeah -

Third, final and most important tip: the number one thing you can do to improve is to keep drawing. Just keep at it! The more you draw, the better you'll get. :) Draw, draw, draw.

Depends on how you want to draw. You can choose a style or you can try realism, and there are a lot of ways to study drawing in both forms.

Either way, there are tons of art forums and website you can go to to get yourself started. This one is pretty good, imo.

http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-draw-learn

If you want to draw people, life drawing is a must.

Like everyone else said, life drawing and drawing from references. If you start out by trying to draw a tree from memory, you'll draw what you think a tree SHOULD look like--which is usually pretty far removed from the actual trees around you. After you've had practice drawing what you see, you'll start to be able to more and more accurately transfer what you see to paper, an then eventually draw out of your head. Ideally you should be spending about twice as much time looking at your reference as you do drawing it.

Also, there are very few lines in nature. Forms are generally defined by shading. Get that down and you're halfway there!

To add to the great advice already provided, don't be afraid to fill the page. I know when I took an intro graphic design class (basically Art I at my high school) I had a little bit of a struggle because I tend to write/draw in very compact space. I think it's a side effect of taking craploads of notes for advanced level classes for five years running. Drawing to fill a large space helped me better understand scale, shading and expression. I haven't drawn in forever, but I still have my old sketchbook. I might have to try my hand at it again (pun intended).

Good luck!

You might want to consider making a viewfinder. For drawing the landscape, or interiors, I found it helped a lot. I made mine with a grid drawn on mylar, glued onto a small picture mat, but that's just one way to do it.

http://thehelpfulartteacher.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-to-create-and-use-drawing-grid.html

Other than that, just draw a lot. My teachers used to say that if you can see and handle a pencil, you can learn to draw. Also, as some people have pointed out, accept that you're not going to like everything you draw, and be patient with yourself.

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