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I overestimated myself
11 years ago
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I feel very unsatisfied with my first artwork for Nekoneko, as it shows that I have no skills on drawing at all. I finally realised that I need to learn to draw step by step.
I will buy some books and practice drawing from them in the future. Once I feel satisfied with my drawing skills, I will release my own artworks again.
I will buy some books and practice drawing from them in the future. Once I feel satisfied with my drawing skills, I will release my own artworks again.
Human hands are mostly under control of that half of the brain that is responsible for logic and precision.
Doing creative work, especially at the draft level, is best done by a humans creative half of the brain.
How to achieve that? Hold the pencil that way that your fingers can't move the pencil.
Instead, use your whole arm to do the draft.
Your body on the whole is controlled by your "kinaesthetic sense" which is part of your brains creative side.
As an Artist you literally learn hand over control of your hands for drawing purposes to your creative part of your brain, or you train your motoric fine control to do proper artistic work.
It is, however, a gradual process, no matter which way you go.
As far as I know you are using ideographic script natively ( chinese script ).
That should be to your advantage as your hands ( when you learned calligraphic handwriting ) should be trained already to hook up with the creative part of your brain.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/12770166/
However, after I ran across this in the materials we used in the psychology lecture, and gave it a try, my very first results were these:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/15325990/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/15423935/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/15458389/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/15482513/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/15485503/
When I looked at those, and saw the difference it made holding the pencil differently, and thus allowing my brains other half take control of it, I was cursing my art-teachers from school for almost an hour for not having known or taught this know-how.
It would have saved me countless months, nay, years of frustration.