You may think that you need professional lessons to make something good, but this isn’t true. By simply drawing for fun, you can save money and improve your skills. To draw without classes, sketch in short lines, shade in shadows, draw figures out of shapes, and practice as much as possible.

Many art colleges don’t appear to teach traditional drawing and painting skills because: Such skills aren’t valued at these institutions and haven’t been for decades. Degree programs emphasize academics, often at the expense of practical training.

Drawing is a skill that is taught, learned, practiced and developed. It’s just like any other skill such as playing a musical instrument, or learning a sport. It takes knowledge and practice to develop it. Anyone can learn how to draw, including you.

Drawing is a unique way of creating art. Having superior drawing skills will certainly help with your painting. You don’t have to be good at drawing, though, to be outstanding at painting. Drawing is a step for doing certain kinds of painting, but it isn’t mandatory for all types.

10 most famous paintings in the world

1. 1. ‘ Mona Lisa’
2. ‘The Last Supper’ Visitors take photos of “The Last Supper” (“Il Cenacolo or L’Ultima Cena”) at the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy.
3. ‘The Starry Night’
4. ‘The Scream’
5. ‘Guernica’
6. ‘The Kiss’
7. ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’
8. ‘The Birth of Venus’

The Mona Lisa is believed to be worth more than $850 million, taking into account the inflation. In 1962, in fact, it was insured for $100 million, the highest at the time.

Top 20 most expensive paintings in the world 2021

Guinness World Records lists Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa as having the highest ever insurance value for a painting. On permanent display at the Louvre in Paris, the Mona Lisa was assessed at US$100 million on December 14, 1962. Taking inflation into account, the 1962 value would be around US$860 million in 2020.

A Francis Bacon triptych