RE: Ask Your Elders: How Can I Be Better At Art?
04-11-2019, 02:59 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-17-2019, 02:58 AM by CourtesyWizard(CW).)
I've been using this technique for a while and it's been pretty helpful in my case. https://youtu.be/k0ufz75UvHs
also the best advice I've gotten is don't be afraid to go slowly. This isnt a race, so it's fine to take your time.
Experimenting is good, practice is good too. Back to the video above, if you don't know how to draw something, just start drawing until you can figure out your own way of drawing it.
I would like to note I recently stopped looking at the surplus of tutorials available and am trying to learn on my own. I personally find this to be liberating because i think being handed "answers" to how to draw something made me stay with that method instead of experimenting with others. If you're trying to do something and it ends up bad, keep doing it anyways but with different approaches. It will probably turn out right after enough changes made with observations
(reading that over all of this seems like I've been repetitive, but i think I've said all I wanted to say :o))
(edit: would like to clarify this as an afterthought: I mostly mean in regards to character design and such and not realism. If you're drawing for realism, i recommend absolute shitloads of reference and plenty of tutorials.
Or just do whatever man, i don't control the way you learn >:])
but allow me to ask a question that is somewhat related: Have you have been half sleeping while doodling and that strange doodle ends up being a better concept than the character designs that take time and enormous amounts of effort to create? I'm curious if I'm not alone here and if it possibly has something to do with the subconscious
also the best advice I've gotten is don't be afraid to go slowly. This isnt a race, so it's fine to take your time.
Experimenting is good, practice is good too. Back to the video above, if you don't know how to draw something, just start drawing until you can figure out your own way of drawing it.
I would like to note I recently stopped looking at the surplus of tutorials available and am trying to learn on my own. I personally find this to be liberating because i think being handed "answers" to how to draw something made me stay with that method instead of experimenting with others. If you're trying to do something and it ends up bad, keep doing it anyways but with different approaches. It will probably turn out right after enough changes made with observations
(reading that over all of this seems like I've been repetitive, but i think I've said all I wanted to say :o))
(edit: would like to clarify this as an afterthought: I mostly mean in regards to character design and such and not realism. If you're drawing for realism, i recommend absolute shitloads of reference and plenty of tutorials.
Or just do whatever man, i don't control the way you learn >:])
but allow me to ask a question that is somewhat related: Have you have been half sleeping while doodling and that strange doodle ends up being a better concept than the character designs that take time and enormous amounts of effort to create? I'm curious if I'm not alone here and if it possibly has something to do with the subconscious
womp c(: