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Starting to learn to draw?
9 years ago
I gave myself a couple of birthday presents. The one of interest is a Huion H610Pro graphics tablet, which I got from Amazon for under $80. It's a nice big tablet with high resolution and a nice-feeling pressure sensitive pen. I'd bought Clip Studio Pro a while back at a steep discount.
So now I'm all set. I find myself confronting the same problem as beginning programmers, though: what should I do to work my way into it? I know what I want to draw, eventually: furry fetish porn. There's a long way between the drawing equivalent of printf("Hello world!"); and the kind of images I have in mind.
How do I get there from here? I know, practice a lot. But practice at what? What approach should I use so that I'm working to progress, and not spending lots of time learning things I'l have to unlearn later?
So now I'm all set. I find myself confronting the same problem as beginning programmers, though: what should I do to work my way into it? I know what I want to draw, eventually: furry fetish porn. There's a long way between the drawing equivalent of printf("Hello world!"); and the kind of images I have in mind.
How do I get there from here? I know, practice a lot. But practice at what? What approach should I use so that I'm working to progress, and not spending lots of time learning things I'l have to unlearn later?
From there, I would focus on basic anatomy: learning proportions and how things are constructed out of basic shapes like spheres, boxes, and wedges.
And use this:
http://www.alexhays.com/loomis/Andr.....a%20Pencil.pdf
Furry fetish porn. :) If that's what you want to draw eventually I think it's best to practice drawing exactly that.
But no matter what you draw you really can't go wrong, except if you don't draw at all. So long as you draw something, it'll help you, and so long as it's something you enjoy drawing you'll do it, so above all else make sure you're having fun.
I'd also say try drawing a wide variety of things. Different characters, different species, different situations, different poses, different toys, and so on. Use references for anything and everything you're not yet familiar with, until you are. :)
If you have a good book store near by, maybe take a look at their art section. Burne Hogarth's books are good, but I'm sure there's many others. I'd also recommend getting one of those posable wooden mannequins, they're really useful for drawing people (including furries) in different poses.
But yeah, do have fun. That's the single most important thing.
First thing from a previous poster: So much this: https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Righ.....ing+side+brain
It's very good. Do eeet.
Second of all, don't get discouraged. Don't give up hope. Ever. Harder to do than to say, but I had to pull myself up from the bootstraps quite often.
Set aside a hour every day or every other day to draw. Do it after dinner, do it before going to work, do it after getting home from work, but make it a habit.
Use references. Lots and lots of references. No shame in using them, everyone does.
Don't be afraid to ask for help.
It will take time to get used to a tablet, it's not intiutive when drawing on a tablet and looking at a screen, but it will come to you.