It's obvious drawing isn't easy. It's more obvious for someone who is bad at drawing. But Drawing in general, is too broad to be branded EASY or HARD. There are so many different methods that each of them has it's own distinct features. My type of drawing is pencil drawing which should be considered the simplest, but then, you can draw with a single pencil (supposed to be for beginners like me), or to get some better details, you can use pencils of different thicknesses and different graphite, clay mixtures, all depending on your choice. Again, we can draw using only lines, or we can draw by shading. That's one more choice to make. Depending on the type of drawing, we can chose between lines and shading. Shading can be also done with lines or strokes, so they are not really different. Generally, i use either my finger or a piece of paper to shade. But one important part of drawing is first observing what you are about to draw. You might be drawing a cartoon image, or from a photograph or maybe a real-life scene, or a portrait. Drawing cartoon images are relatively easier because they are already drawn with the same kind of lines and shades. Replicating cartoons has been easy for me, but when it comes to photographs, the whole thing suddenly gets really complicated.
First, I have to find out the shadows, mid range and highlights of a photograph. Sounds simple but it always gets me confused after starting. If there is a black t-shirt and a steel chain worn over it, the t-shirt must be shadowed and the chain must be highlighted, but i often end up drawing the chain first and realizing that the t-shirt is supposed to be shadowed. The steel chain should be left as white, undrawn spaces on a dark background. I have a constant war with the human body parts. Drawing faces and expressions, hands, feet, muscles, etc, are a big pressure on the brain. The right angles and perspectives are to be realized not by drawing but by observing. With a little effort, I can manage with hands, feet, muscles, etc, but drawing faces still frustrates me. Though i know various techniques to simplify faces and get the general structure, they don't help me much. Subtle changes in the eyebrows, eyes, nose, ears, hair, mouth, moustache, beard, chin, jaws, and hundreds of other things can really affect the face that you draw and getting all those right is a big thing to do. Above all this, the orientation and tilting of a face again needs some looking into. For me, drawing a face is the biggest challenge of all and it pulls up more than half my time spent. Drawing faces from cartoons is again simpler and it gets complicated while replicating from a photograph or a real-life one.
Getting the general perspective right is a huge task. Stuff like tables, buildings and other definite shapes have certain changes once taken from a photo. They all look as if they meet at some point at infinity and 3 dimensional understanding of those shapes is something that needs some focus. I solve these problems by using a grid. But replicating them exactly is tough.
Such are a few complications that can be mentioned while drawing. Ofcourse there will be many more about which I don't know yet and only further experimentation and experience will teach me more about this so called art. For me it's more of a science than an art.
Aah i am tired typing, but i felt this term Drawing needs a special mention after I recently took up the pencil and the drawing board again, to do one with 4 people standing or sitting in different positions and looking in different directions. All of that, took quite some time for me to get onto paper. And also, i had to draw a certain fort with arches for my dad who wanted to paint that. Now the catch was, I had to do a charcoal drawing with made matters worse and a few matters simpler but it was a whole new experience to hold a unevely shaped charcoal piece to draw something on a huge sheet of canvas.....
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