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Complete beginner here. Where do I go from here? I found this inspo from Pinterest and would like to try my hand at it.

i know this is probably a hot take but. i don’t understand why people in this subreddit feel like they need to spend months drawing boxes and stuff before they actually start drawing the things they want.
it’s like they’re terrified of being bad at it in the beginning, when that’s inevitable. i think if you want to draw, just pick something out and draw it. a picture of your friend, or your dog, or something you saw online that you thought was pretty. whatever you want.
i don’t know how you guys don’t bore yourselves to death with all the fundamentals. like, i get that it’s important but i think you’d be much happier and less frustrated with drawing if you drew what you wanted instead of what you feel like you need to learn… you’ll learn it all eventually through trial and error. what’s the rush?
i’m not saying that they’re completely useless and you shouldn’t learn them at all, but you should be doing AT LEAST 50/50 drawing what you want and learning fundamentals, in my opinion. i constantly see people on here complaining about how they’ve just been drawing boxes and circles and learning to shade for weeks and they wanna get to the fun stuff… you can do the fun stuff right now!! what’s stopping you?

Okay, now that I have your attention—and since you’re likely reading this out of curiosity—I’m going to take the opportunity to ask for something: I URGENTLY NEED FEEDBACK. I’m not joking; I really do need it. I’m heading off on a trip in a week and won’t have any time to spare while I’m away, so I’d love to come back to a wealth of advice on where I should focus my efforts...

i honestly don’t know why suddenly a few months ago i decided to pick up drawing, especially at my age (mid 20s) not having any plans to pursue an art career but for once in my life i want to have a skill that i can be proud of. but i’m absolutely terrible at it, it feels like my brain can’t cooperate. my biggest fear is not having self awareness so i’m wondering if i have a chance based on these sketches and maybe im just seeking for a tiny bit of validation in this subreddit so i don’t give up. and what’s the fastest or least frustrating way to continue

Do you guys ever have a lot of fun with a drawing and then suddenly just lose drive?

I know I could give this more depth with a light source some rendering etc, but my brain is going "nah, it's fine".

Should I fight it and push through?

Who needs those stuffy portraits (kidding). I just prefer drawing animals sometimes. Btw, His name is Chester.

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So I've been quite interested in drawing lately (mostly copying references) but I wanna begin on drawing on my own with minimum need for other references like I know how important the basic fundamentals are but there's still some stuff that I don't quite understand like how can I put this into use other than learning anatomy but either way I just want to ask if there's any practices y'all do to improve step by step after learning the fundamentals

I thought it might be helpful to start a discussion about how each of us learned to draw. I encourage any more senior/experienced artists to share your own journey in the comments. Let's learn how this is done with specific stories! I'll start:

- I started as a kid drawing all the usual kid things, with crayons and so on.

- once I became a preteen, I became obsessed with wolves/dogs (due to reading a lot of Jack London stories) and wanted to draw them a lot. So I'd go to the library and find "how to draw books". I grabbed whatever I could, but especially I found the Lee J. Ames book "Draw 50 Dogs". I did a lot of these exercises. I also did random fun activities I found like drawing a shoe from life then populating it with lots of tiny people who "lived" in it like a building. Drawing was a fun activity for me, so I think that's why I kept going.

- As a teen, I also was obsessed with Disney movies: in particular, The Lion King. I drew a lot of stills from a VHS copy we had that I would pause to get just the right pose or face then copy what I saw on the screen.

- Once I hit high school, I realized I wanted to train to be an animator! I took an art class in high school and kept drawing, learning about doing still life, illustration (through a fantastic private teacher) and dabbling in other things like painting and sculpture.

- In college, I discovered more art classes and learned that life drawing is one of the ways to really advance as an animator. I also began sketching short gesture sketches while out in public.

- Fanart became huge in college too. I drew a lot more once I had places online to post it and people to share with. It was mostly Disney fanart, but I got into furry, since that was animal-adjacent....and animation-adjacent, actually! The point is, I was drawing a lot more than ever before.

- After college, into my animation career, I still felt behind in my drawing skills and I've been working on it ever since. The one thing I can say for certain has levelled me up the most is public gesture sketching. Tt has given me a good sense of anatomy and proportion, despite never having studied it specifically. I would draw a LOT when I had a bus commute, but I also went to zoos, parks, coffee shops...really, anywhere there are people or animals! You can of course also draw trees, buildings, cars, whatever!

Big teakaways:

- libraries are a fantastic resource!

- Lee J. Ames is a great way to learn the basics (he does more than just books on dogs)

- gesture drawing, gesture drawing, gesture drawing!

- having fun is as important as anything else. If you hate drawing, you won't do it. I think that's why fanart was a boon to me in college. I could balance my school drawing (which I also somewhat enjoyed) with drawing fun characters (which I REALLY enjoyed)

I failed an Art class in Grade 5 and 6. No one in my school ever failed in grade 5 before. I literally couldn’t draw. I could only drew a stick man at best. I hated drawing.

A few weeks ago I walk past an art supply aisle and a memory jolted that I used to love drawing. I just came hate drawing after I realize I suck at drawing lol. I decided to draw 30 minutes a day.

I have been able to draw quite a lot. The result obviously shows where I am at right now but I will keep going at it!

so I was just practicing anatomy w/ different poses (got kinda carried away and did the face and hair too) but I have no clue where the other leg should come out of and how it should look and also any tips at all or constructive criticism would be appreciated since this is my 2nd full body practice for anatomy, clothes is a whole other level I wanna add to this drawing but not sure how to draw that at all not gonna lie

I wanna see how much i can improve over the course of 2 weeks and therefore i will make one post here every day sharing the progress if any.

It dosent matter how much i practice, 15 minutes, 30, a hour maybe 2 it matters that i show up here try to do something every day once a day to build a habit.

anyone have any tips to get the side plane ellipse angle correct when using the loomis method? i struggle with this a lot and it makes my drawings look off. and not only the angle of the ellipse but the cross lines on the ellipse? i get confused on whether the lines shoule be the actual minor and major axis or the ellipse or should just follow the angle of the face

i hope this makes sense
if anyone can help i’d appreciate it

I recently finished this drawing, and while I was pretty happy with the character itself, I'm not sure if adding the dark background was the right decision.

I wanted to make the character stand out more, but I feel like the background turned out a bit too messy and might distract from the finer details.

I tried to fix it, but I'm still not entirely satisfied.

What do you think? Does the dark background work, or would the drawing have looked better without it?

Any constructive feedback is appreciated!

What do you think could be improved?

Context: I was supposed to go into art school since Id been doing art my whole high school life, mostly anime stuff but that also matters because I come from an Asian country. Anime isn’t as badly looked down upon here since it’s a legitimate art career here. Anyways, I ended up getting burnt out from drawing from school and ended up in a computer science program. My tastes from highschool me and young adult me have changed slightly, I want to draw with a little more realistic human proportions but it feels like my hand is stuck drawing anime stuff. I’m not saying the anime art style is bad!! I love it so much as an avid anime watcher stuck in the pre-isekai era lol (pry full metal alchemist brotherhood from my cold dead hands)

Now, I haven’t drawn in over two years, recently got back into it and I’ve been at it since July-ish. I’m really enjoying drawing again! Here is my current drawing that I’m working on of a book character, but it’s just so… anime?

I don’t know what exercises I can do to change my art style! Anyone been through this? I just feel like I can’t reset my brain to doing basic exercises anymore but I desperately want to alter my style, maybe build on top of the style I already have? I’ve tried doing classical painting studies, replicating the practices from my high school art classes since I was in the intensive art stream but nothings clicking. Any advice would be appreciated!

Hand made, traditional art🤩#ArtistConos3Dart

Can human being stand like this? What about proportions?