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Any advise about how to improve my art?
11 years ago
No wonder that the more I navigate on art sites, the less I like my style and more I feel like I do not belong here.
And is not only for the mouse but also when I draw on sketchbook where supposedly I have better control over the strokes. I see my style as strange, unstable, ugly, asymmetrical, bizarre.
Either way, I want to get an advise or two about what can I do to improve. Yeah I know that practice is the key, but I've reached the point where the practice produces slow progress and I need a little help to accelerate the improvement.
Also, what are my weaknesses?
In a few words; what's wrong?
And is not only for the mouse but also when I draw on sketchbook where supposedly I have better control over the strokes. I see my style as strange, unstable, ugly, asymmetrical, bizarre.
Either way, I want to get an advise or two about what can I do to improve. Yeah I know that practice is the key, but I've reached the point where the practice produces slow progress and I need a little help to accelerate the improvement.
Also, what are my weaknesses?
In a few words; what's wrong?
I have always believed in getting out of the comfort zone, Always trying to do a bit of everything. Yes, it's fun to do it and brings variety to the galleries, but when I try to do it the art always end even more strange, To be honest, there are a few drawings that I tried to do with another style that I like how they look, but unfortunately usually I forget how I did it... due to the unfamiliarity I suppose...
I hope I helped!!
although I always try to think that I can do it better, I know I have that capability and therefore I ask for advice rather than give up... (although I still without find what I have).
You know? I began to draw 3 years ago, before that, I didn´t drew anything. Just wanted to write, but the translation was a real pain (is noticeable, right?) so I tried to make some sketches. And that´s how I started drawing.
Almost everyone has the ability to do what whatever they want if they really really like it and give a try. is a phrase I always repeat when I want to do something.
I've been in the fandom for about 4 years now and have mostly been a writer, with the help of my boyfriend I started doing line art in March 2014. I actually think that your English is perfect as from the replies and notes. At what stage did you start drawing? You should live by your mantra as it's doing good for you my friend, sorry I haven't been more than helpful on this subject.
My Young brother was the one who gave me advise about drawing...
Don´t tell anyone, but to be honest I always keep translate google open, to correct the words where I have doubts
When I began to draw? well it was before November 6, 2011 (that´s the date of my first digital sketch) that's for sure.
Write have its own magic and technique, but drawing can do things that writing can not do (like show the forms and appearance of physical and abstract things), and vice versa (writting have a ease to describe feelings and sensations),
I think that is better to handle both styles.
A few other things I did to get better was like cannibalxmuffin mentioned I looked at and kept a lot of my favorite artist's work around and tried to recreate it. The way I learned to draw people when I was in middle school started with drawing comic book characters.
Watch a few streams of other artists drawing if you can. Sometimes I do that when I'm struggling with drawing something.
You can try breaking things down into basic shapes as well. I was against the method till I took a art class and learned the fundamentals now I almost always start with at least a circle. I'd still be doing horrible anthros without the class. One thing you can keep in mind when your having a off day or looking at another artist's work and finding it incredible is they had to work to get there we're not seeing all the drawingings they're not proud of that they came across on their journey. I myself have a few pictures that I will never post here or anywhere I'm so unhappy with them.
Another thing you can do is look at tutorials. Many times have I gone to deviant art searching for tutorials heck I still do when I'm trying to draw female characters. There's this tutorial series called the 5pencil method while you have to pay for some he still offers plenty tutorial videos free. Then there's many others
Overall though my most rapid of progress came from drawing everyday.
A SCAD art teacher once told me if you feel like you look ridiculous then your doing it right
Second, sorry for the late reply, my Pc as beem acting weird in the last week
The problem here is that I feel in a stagnant state with my style, there is little improvement and needed ideas.
I have never taken art classes or something like that and I often don´t know or not understand the purpose or the usefulness of certain practices, like that one of the basic shapes, and maybe thats one of the greatest problems.
if I want to use it, I should understand it.
Ok I will try to draw everything I see, even if is just for a few minutes, I suppose that the feeling of "when a drawing goes wrong, you do not feel like finishing it" is also a big problem, so I will try to learn of it too.
5pencil? I will add that name to my list, Thanks.
I understand what you mean. The basic shapes thing is one of those fundamentals that's hard to understand at first. You see if you can break something down into shapes it's less intimidating and makes it slightly easier. For example a hand looks like a rectangle with 3 cylinders on each finger of varying length. The way I use it though is a way to block out what I'm about to draw. Its great for proportions for example Draw a circle for the head a rectangle shape for the snout triangles for ears, rectangle for torso etc. After you have that basic form lightly drawn out all you have to do is refine the shapes and add details meanwhile you have something to go by to keep proportions in check. My art teacher would always use kids as examples since most young kids draw in basic shapes. Here's a example of how someone uses basic shapes for a drawing.
Another exercise we did was set up still lifes with a set of basic shapes and we drew them as close to it as possible after we felt we were set there we added shading.
A lot of the exercises while they seem meaningless they actually are teaching you something that you may not notice till you start drawing it out.
One of the lessons we learned when we were taught proportions and things was to use our pencils to measure out where something goes or how long something'd be on the page.
That feeling was a very common one in my class I still struggle with it every so often especially when my hands don't seem to be listening to me. Sometimes it helps just to take a step back from it think about it and possibly switch to something else for a bit then return to it and keep going. Sometimes working on something else can either give you inspiration or give you time to just think about something else for a bit. If you sit staring at the same thing for a long time sometimes it just makes it worse.
Yeah the 5 pencil method's pretty helpful even though it's based around graphite pencil drawing he has a lot in his tutorials that helps plus on the website's message board you can get something critiqued or get answers to a question relating to a drawing.
VJCoon nailed it pretty well. Look closely at the work of your favorite artists, attend streams, and ask them questions. I learned the most from others.
It would also be useful to draw more from photos, and copy exactly what you see. This might not be as fun, but it'll definitely help with lighting, anatomy, and such.
Ok I will try a bit of everything here.
Photos? Sounds fine. I got lots of magazines, Stored, I guess it would be a good idea to try to draw something of each page, particularly something I've never done.
That one of asking questions sounds good too, I just hope don´t run into a stream of one of those "divas", I you know what I meant...