Drawing is a valuable skill to have in your arsenal. Drawing your characters, outfits, hairstyles, and other important things in your manuscript help visualize your creation. I have heard that everyone can learn to draw. My suggestions for learning on the internet are Proko, Drawabox, and gesture drawing. Gesture drawing helps learn the human body quickly.
Sketching can aid you in keeping track of items, characters, locations and more. Even if its just x’s marking the position of the characters to one another or stick figures to figure out which way someone would turn in a fight it is worth it.
This is a sketch of stick figures in a fight. Drawing it out really helped me conceptualize what is going on in the fight.
You can use templates to draw on but be careful of usage if it is available to use royalty free commercial use. It is easier to just make your own template. Once you have it you can print out several copies and draw on them:
Once you see it you can write it more accurately and also have a reminder of what something looks like.
You can keep your drawings organized and safe in plastic sheets in a binder. Create a Series or Story Bible if you haven’t already. It helps keep track of everything. Here’s a look at mine:
