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Kenpachi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States9908 Posts
April 07 2013 05:48 GMT
#1
oh boy. A hobby that i thoroughly enjoyed before i found the computer and internet. My parents thought I could easily have developed into an artist or at least very talented in drawing. I still think I have that potential and recently, I've had the urge to just spend my time drawing. I am a perfectionist so if I draw, I want it to be the best drawing possible. It's a terrible feeling when my idealized image isn't transcribed so well :c... It never occurred to me that I ever tried to improve. I would only doodle things on the margin of my notes in class and generally, they are unidentifiable as a thing. Sometimes I wonder why i draw what i draw when my mind is blank. Anyways, I want to get better at drawing, particularly drawing people for my own endeavors but I'm just looking for ways to just improve in general.

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Garnet
Profile Blog Joined February 2006
Vietnam9043 Posts
April 07 2013 06:09 GMT
#2
Post some of your drawings?
Coagulation
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States9633 Posts
April 07 2013 06:18 GMT
#3
practice practice practice
Kenpachi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States9908 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-07 06:19:33
April 07 2013 06:18 GMT
#4
I don't have much to show for which is a problem. I don't think my doodles say anything of my abilities. I drew this last year. couldn't get a bigger picture cause I can't find the original picture :/
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It would help to have what i was drawing to compare it to :x
I'll have to take a picture of it sometime later.
Nada's body is South Korea's greatest weapon.
endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
April 07 2013 06:21 GMT
#5
Don't be too perfectionist and post some of your drawings. You know, drunk Fakesteve with MSPaint is by far my favorite artist.
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BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
April 07 2013 06:22 GMT
#6
I understand your feelings about drawing and I figure that you just need to practice! That picture you uploaded looks great, although the cup are a bit asymmetrical and the base could use work lol but ya, as a perfectionist, you can never be satisfied if the picture doesn't come close to how you picture it in your mind. Worst feeling ever! ><
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FeltFace
Profile Joined September 2011
Australia577 Posts
April 07 2013 06:48 GMT
#7
Your doodle says you're not afraid of the details. When someone goes to a lot of detail it's awe-inspiring. Look at the Hot Toys models of the Joker. The sculptors say they can do better next time when they're already so good. The pay off when you see progress feels really good, trust me.
deathgod6
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States5064 Posts
April 07 2013 08:32 GMT
#8
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surfinbird1
Profile Joined September 2009
Germany999 Posts
April 07 2013 12:02 GMT
#9
On April 07 2013 15:21 endy wrote:
Don't be too perfectionist and post some of your drawings. You know, drunk Fakesteve with MSPaint is by far my favorite artist.

The Crotch Master is indeed a prodigy of the fine arts!
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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24771 Posts
April 07 2013 14:34 GMT
#10
Being good at drawing/art is a very cool skill. It can be fun, it can be a great thing to share with others (offer to draw the woman naked!), and it can give you unique money-making opportunities.

I wish I was better at drawing, however, it would require me to practice for several hours a day every day for the next 20 years to make any major progress given where I am now, so it just isn't going to happen. You don't seem to have the same setback.
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CatNzHat
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States1599 Posts
April 07 2013 18:47 GMT
#11
Look up some books and read away.

Drawing is a science first, and art second.

Learn perspective, learn value, and study form.

put em all together and you can draw.
Disregard
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
China10252 Posts
April 07 2013 18:57 GMT
#12
As an architectural student, I find its better to improve your ability to sketch then move on to actual drawing.
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Kurumi
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Poland6130 Posts
April 07 2013 18:59 GMT
#13
Kenpachi, even in blogs he does not speak a lot.
Nice drawing! More, more! <3
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CecilSunkure
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States2829 Posts
April 07 2013 19:54 GMT
#14
Sounds exactly like me. If you want to improve I offer two pieces of advice: copy traditional art from other great artists and do not be afraid of pressing down hard to create dark colors. The next piece of advice is to never throw away a piece of art you think "was bad", and to actually finish whatever you start. If you constantly erase and redraw, erase and redraw, you're basically guessing over and over again as how you should place your strokes. If you don't get through your mistakes and learn from them, you won't progress beyond guess and check artistry.
Kenpachi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States9908 Posts
April 08 2013 01:48 GMT
#15
On April 08 2013 03:47 CatNzHat wrote:
Look up some books and read away.

Drawing is a science first, and art second.

Learn perspective, learn value, and study form.

put em all together and you can draw.

oh I've been trying to search up any books I can find. I'm a lot more comfortable with a procedure/guidelines.

On April 08 2013 03:57 Disregard wrote:
As an architectural student, I find its better to improve your ability to sketch then move on to actual drawing.

Yeah, that drawing of the object was for my Architecture class last year. I think it was supposed to be a sketch but idr.
On April 08 2013 03:59 Kurumi wrote:
Kenpachi, even in blogs he does not speak a lot.
Nice drawing! More, more! <3

yeah Idk, I can't seem to make long posts. I always run out of things to say. I'll draw something tomorrow if I end up having spare time! Or rather, I should get into the habit of making my own spare time.

On April 08 2013 04:54 CecilSunkure wrote:
Sounds exactly like me. If you want to improve I offer two pieces of advice: copy traditional art from other great artists and do not be afraid of pressing down hard to create dark colors. The next piece of advice is to never throw away a piece of art you think "was bad", and to actually finish whatever you start. If you constantly erase and redraw, erase and redraw, you're basically guessing over and over again as how you should place your strokes. If you don't get through your mistakes and learn from them, you won't progress beyond guess and check artistry.

alright thanks for the advice Cecil!
Nada's body is South Korea's greatest weapon.
CecilSunkure
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States2829 Posts
April 08 2013 01:53 GMT
#16
Oh you should out the Loomis books! Andrew Loomis.
plated.rawr
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Norway1676 Posts
April 08 2013 14:28 GMT
#17
I've figured my best way to drawing, is to approach it more casually. I see some people here saying "YOU GOTTA FINISH, DUDE!". I'm advicing you to the exact opposite - start off whatever you want, then keep drawing till you feel you've hit a bump. If you're feeling tired, frustrated or just not happy with what you've drawn, put it aside and do something else.

However - at a later date, review your drawing, and if you feel there's something you could improve on it, go ahead. Don't erase - just add new lines. Change the old ones, fix the shapes that were odd. Just try to make it a little better with what you feel is wrong. Basically, don't be so concerned about getting a finished product. Be more focused on just drawing - anything, at any time. Even if it's just touching up on an old sketch, or starting from scratch on some basic lines and perspective exercizes.

Just - don't throw anything away! Even if you feel something is terrible, an absolute failure, and should forever be purged from the face of the world - hold on to it. For one thing, it's great to have some halfdone sketches to improve upon. For two, it gives you a corpus of your work, and a pathway of sorts where you can see your improvements over time.

Another thing that could help, is, find someone like-minded, and conspire together. Agree to draw one thing for each other every week or something. If you're lacking on motivation at times for personal development, I feel that peer pressure, or rather that feeling I'll be letting someone down if I don't sit my ass down and do shit, helps me do more than what I would otherwise.

But yea, the basics. I love doing this perspective exercize that someone here on the forum linked earlier:

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