1.DRAW DAILY:practice,pratice,practice that's the mantra of famous artists across the world.
2.BRING A SKETCH BOOK WITH YOU EVERYWHERE:if you always have a small notebook with you then open up to possibility to draw "anything"
3.PURCHARE A VARIETY OF PENCILS:pencils come in variety of rating that tell you how to hard they are and the thickness of the mark.pencils like "H"get progressively harder,and leave fine,faint lines,while those labelled"B"are good for thick dark lines.
4.DRAW FROM PICTURES OR OTHER DRAWING
5.DRAW UPSIDE DOWN
6.LEARN THE DIFFERENT TYPER OF SHADING:while the most realistic for of shading is an even,gradual blending "smoth shading","cross hattching","doth","strippling"