To begin an etch-a-sketch, I usually start by just drawing lines and shapes. Eventually something will catch your eye and spark an idea. From there you can restart with a specific design or subject in mind. It's important to begin with broad strokes, etch-a-sketch's look pretty bad usually so it takes a lot of refining, adaptation, and patience to get something you will be happy with.
Now say you've decided to draw a bird. Most people would start by drawing the outline of the bird. This will be very difficult because of the erratic movements of the stylist. So your outline looks bad: this is ok at this point in your drawing. Continue re-defining the outline of the object and it will look more like a sketch than a definite drawing, thus allowing the object to show through the mistakes.
In this image, you can see that almost no lines are a single-line thick. I continued re-tracing the person in the image til I had a shape of a person. This works a couple ways, it allows for a more accurate shape, and it also looks like shading. For filling in your drawing whether it be an Indian or a bird, using tiny squiggles allows you to better control what areas are blacked-out and also creates a shading effect in your etch-a-sketch.
Most importantly, spend time with your etch-a-sketch. Nobody will be a pro right off the bat, it takes a lot of practice and dedication. Once you start to get the hang of how the stylist moves, you can use it's unique style of drawing to create a different style of art than is possible with anything other than an Etch-a-sketch.
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