Talent or training? Artists are both born and taught, says Nancy Locke, associate professor of art history at Penn State. “There is no question in my mind that artists are born,” says Locke. Many artists arrive in the world brimming with passion and natural creativity and become artists after trying other vocations.

This predisposition might be spurred by family interests, exciting teachers or mentors, or by their own talents. Artists may also be acutely sensitive to the ambient moods, sounds, pictures, people and events in their lives. They may resonate to their surroundings at an unconscious and deep emotional level.

Yes, everyone is an artist. Everyone has their own level and field of creativity but renowned are those who make their creativity a hobby, a passion or a profession.

There is nothing glamorous about being a self-taught artist. If you are disciplined, then you can achieve anything as a self-taught artist that a trained artist could achieve. In fact, formal art training can be restrictive to the learning of some artists, who may be better suited to the self-taught path.

Giving a clear answer to the question, whether artistic people are more intelligent in any way than others is difficult. Nevertheless, yes, creative people who make art in any way imaginable are very likely to be more intelligent than others but yet mainly outside the regular IQ.

Artists and creatives are often stereotyped as being loners, and while this may not actually be the case, solitude can be the key to producing their best work.

The ISFP personality type is nicknamed the “Artist” and belongs to the SP Creator temperament. ISFPs live in the present and yearn for freedom. They are artistic, aesthetically inclined and sensitive. They are happiest when they are being creative and expressing themselves.

Finger painting and crayons probably rank at the easiest mediums to gain proficiency in. Although, true mastery in either case can produce remarkable results. Many of Leonardo DaVinci’s most famous works were drawn with a hard red crayon. Likewise, finger painting can be raised to a relatively high art form.

You can learn to draw, as long as you can hold a pencil. Even without natural talent, you will learn drawing, if you practice often. With enough motivation and dedication, anyone will learn drawing, if he/she believes in himself/herself. Taking the first steps is never easy.

The short answer is, yes, you can start painting with few, if any, drawing skills. I speak from experience because that’s the way I started. Lots of artists use a variety of means to get the basic shapes from a photograph onto a canvas to begin a painting.

In (optical) realism, painting is way harder than drawing. The reason is a bit technical but realism is always technical. So in drawing, you’d only have to deal with ‘value’ (of light and dark). In painting full color spectrum, you’d have to deal with ‘value’, ‘hue’, ‘chroma’ and ‘color temperatures’.

Based on their research, the psychologists recommended the following techniques for getting better at drawing: Focus on scaling a drawing to fit the size of the paper; anchor an object in its surroundings by showing how it sits in space; focus on the distance between elements of the object and on their relative sizes; …

Many people consider painting to be more difficult than drawing because most artists learn to draw first. You start out drawing, which makes it seem only natural that painting is a more advanced technique. If most artists started out painting first, then the general consensus would probably be that drawing is harder.

Classical sculpture

If watercolor is the hardest, then what is the easiest medium to paint with? It’s widely agreed upon; acrylic is the easiest medium to paint with. It shares many of its advantages with watercolor paint and improves upon its downsides.

When you’re new to drawing, the first thing you have to learn is objectively seeing shapes and angles. When you turn it the right way round, you’ll be surprised to see how well you did!

Drawing is fun because it is a form of self-expression. You can make it whatever you want it to be, and create what you wish. For me, drawing is creation. Just like when an author writes a fiction book, they’re creating life through words, an entire world within the pages of their book.