RE: Ask Your Elders: How Can I Be Better At Art?
05-04-2016, 09:18 PM
This thread could become very useful, but wouldn't it be more appropriate to place it in the Projects session? It's not solely related to webcomics after all.
Some common tips:
1 - Draw from life. People already said it in the thread, but it cannot be emphasized enough. Draw from life. And never stop drawing from life. It's a permanent training and it will help you with any kind of style, no matter how stylized or even abstract.
2 - Leave your comfort zone. All the time. Try various art styles and keep working with them. Try various tools and keep working with them. Especially if you do not feel comfortable. With time you will find whatever styles and tools fit you the most, but working with other ones will keep feeding your skills.
3 - Keep a handy notebook and a pen (and/or pencil) close to you. You never know when you'll feel like drawing.
4 - Surround yourself with artists. Hey, we're already doing this one!
Art fellows will help you to progress, will often correct your mistakes (recently Plaid and other friends helped me with a big demon centaur thing I had trouble to balance) and will give you motivations and ideas to advance further.
Some common tips:
1 - Draw from life. People already said it in the thread, but it cannot be emphasized enough. Draw from life. And never stop drawing from life. It's a permanent training and it will help you with any kind of style, no matter how stylized or even abstract.
2 - Leave your comfort zone. All the time. Try various art styles and keep working with them. Try various tools and keep working with them. Especially if you do not feel comfortable. With time you will find whatever styles and tools fit you the most, but working with other ones will keep feeding your skills.
3 - Keep a handy notebook and a pen (and/or pencil) close to you. You never know when you'll feel like drawing.
4 - Surround yourself with artists. Hey, we're already doing this one!
Art fellows will help you to progress, will often correct your mistakes (recently Plaid and other friends helped me with a big demon centaur thing I had trouble to balance) and will give you motivations and ideas to advance further.