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I've decided that I'm going to be putting up everything I'm working on to try and learn how to draw. There's a lot of pages right now, but I hope to be more consistent about it with doing stuff. These first ones are laughably bad. Yes, go ahead, make fun of me for them as much as you'd like! I find them funny too! But with the later ones, I do want actual feedback so I can try to figure out what I'm doing wrong. And don't just say that I'm using pen and be done with it. All of that is just me practicing how I do it more than making anything decent.
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Hey, any buddy that is making fun of practice is not worth the time to listen to. Taking time to practice no matter the skill level speaks volume of character. Art takes a lot of time and practice.
I am not an artist so do not have lots of feedback. If it was writing it would be a very different story.
1. Keep practicing and if you want to do something never give up doing it.
2. Study anatomy. Like go and look for anatomic sketchs. As you draw look at yourself in the mirror and look at yourself, look at your hands and how they move for example as you draw them. Science can be helpful in learning things like art. I highly recommend studying the gold rule of anatomy. It helps a lot keeping things in proportion.
3. pressure of pen, pencil, brush, etc. This comes to style and techniques, which I can't teach really. However, with sketch lines the cross hairs for a face you want those lines light so less pressure so they can be erased easier for drawing. In fact some people do everything light and go over to make fast fixes and then darken it in or ink it which common for comics for example at least in the old days before digital art took over.
4. Part of developing your art is just practicing and learning about you, yourself and the art with time. For example your degrees of patience, what you are willing and not willing to do, how you develop process and like doing things. Its alright if something does not work style wise you can always try something else.
5. A straight edge ruler can be your friend sometimes. Especially in concern of determine the golden rule if you cannot do it by art.
6. Practice things like horizon and depth, 3D, etc. Even if it not a thing like a person as it in turn can really help be used for anything.
7. I would highly recommend using pencil over ink for practice. Pens are messy, harder to control and mainly used for touching things up in the professional art world often. People who dominant use pens are pretty skilled with unique art styles.
Learning art is a long journey and you will keep learning until that grey films switches over to whatever next world awaits us. its ok to be in a beginning zone for a long time.
What I see here is basic practice and that is ok. A lot of what I notice is not following through with the golden rule such as the difficult facial facing. You need to follow it through even if it might take a while and practice to notice. That line should always be where nose and mouth be on a human character. Those longer ears are a great place to practice 3D which will help them.
Good luck, keep practicing and let nobody you stop you.
I am not an artist so do not have lots of feedback. If it was writing it would be a very different story.
1. Keep practicing and if you want to do something never give up doing it.
2. Study anatomy. Like go and look for anatomic sketchs. As you draw look at yourself in the mirror and look at yourself, look at your hands and how they move for example as you draw them. Science can be helpful in learning things like art. I highly recommend studying the gold rule of anatomy. It helps a lot keeping things in proportion.
3. pressure of pen, pencil, brush, etc. This comes to style and techniques, which I can't teach really. However, with sketch lines the cross hairs for a face you want those lines light so less pressure so they can be erased easier for drawing. In fact some people do everything light and go over to make fast fixes and then darken it in or ink it which common for comics for example at least in the old days before digital art took over.
4. Part of developing your art is just practicing and learning about you, yourself and the art with time. For example your degrees of patience, what you are willing and not willing to do, how you develop process and like doing things. Its alright if something does not work style wise you can always try something else.
5. A straight edge ruler can be your friend sometimes. Especially in concern of determine the golden rule if you cannot do it by art.
6. Practice things like horizon and depth, 3D, etc. Even if it not a thing like a person as it in turn can really help be used for anything.
7. I would highly recommend using pencil over ink for practice. Pens are messy, harder to control and mainly used for touching things up in the professional art world often. People who dominant use pens are pretty skilled with unique art styles.
Learning art is a long journey and you will keep learning until that grey films switches over to whatever next world awaits us. its ok to be in a beginning zone for a long time.
What I see here is basic practice and that is ok. A lot of what I notice is not following through with the golden rule such as the difficult facial facing. You need to follow it through even if it might take a while and practice to notice. That line should always be where nose and mouth be on a human character. Those longer ears are a great place to practice 3D which will help them.
Good luck, keep practicing and let nobody you stop you.
In anatomy and in all naturally occurring living things there is anatomic structure and symmetry that following with a measured ratio. Pretty much there is a real distance that you can always count on between body parts in a thing. The human golden ratio can be very helpful for drawing.
I guess one more thing. Eyes are hard to draw and determine style. Many ways of doing them per style. However, circles and dots are uncanny for many styles so as you work with eye practice and style development experiment and have fun. Human eyes are almond shape. Again, they need to always be on other sides of the cross and not on it. A place where golden rule ratio will help faces a lot. Circles and dots are extra uncanny on an animals head.
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