Instead, walk around your house, your garden or the streets and shops until something naturally catches your interest. Try to shut out that calculating part of your brain for a little. When you're looking for a new subject, don't think about what would be best to draw. You can choose musical instruments, shoes, houseplants, your button collection or spice rack. If apples and grapes are not your thing, just find something else that catches your interest. That means it doesn’t have to be your obligatory bowl of fruit at all. Still life art involves any non-living or inanimate (still) objects, either natural or man-made. If you’re unclear what exactly counts as a still life, let me help you out here. Only once you’re satisfied with that should you go into more detail and work on each object separately. In general, I find it best if you start any drawing with the ‘big picture’ in mind and concentrate on the correct placements of objects on the page and the general play of light and dark. Once you’ve understood all the basic principles you can then move on to more complex shapes. If you’re a beginner and just starting to learn basic shading and how to recognise your dark, middle and light tones, you can ease yourself in with simple objects, like mugs or chairs. Contrary to a landscape or an animal drawing, which are usually captured as they are, the composition in a still life, and thus its difficulty, is entirely up to you.
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