>>7951665
too late; you're already old unc

>>7951665
Here's what I cobbled together (from someone who was in a similar situation):

the first month:
>grind shapes and forms
>do step by step tutorials aimed at kids
>avoid chickenscratch, do continuous line drawing

the next few months:
>start drawing cuboid and spherical forms from life: furniture, toys, glassware, etc
>start copying comics, film shots, music album art, movie posters, etc
>pick one artist and copy EVERYTHING from them, then start copying other artists

the General Process:
>do blind contours and gesture studies using live references or photographs
>draw the subject from memory
>collect references from multiple angles and break them down into shapes and forms
>observe the references, then hide them and draw from memory, then draw while looking at them

Other advice:
>pick up a ball sport, start biking/swimming, or get into origami or cooking (you need something to boost 3D visualization)
>get into Warhammer so you learn how to paint
>buy some Legos and put them together
>get into building miniatures or model kits
>start playing puzzle video games and sandbox building games (Portal, Minecraft)
>get into photography

>>7951680
If you want to get quick results, you need to draw consistently for either four hours every day OR two hours every other day. Your first few months should be spent taking things easy and slow since you need to have your brain build a visual library and mental-emotional stamina needed for drawing.

THEN you need to increase the amount of time spent drawing. Professionals do it for six hours a day at minimum.

>>7951682
>>7951680
If you want to get into making comics: read lots of comics and regular books.

Try animating: start small with something easy, like a ball. Make YTPs and AMVs.

>progress as fast as possible
The zoomer brain, forever poisoned by short form immediate satisfaction
Your generation is culled

>>7951665
Don't feel too upset over being 27 and just now getting into art. There are plenty of artists your age who have spent their entire lives drawing and suck at it because they either rested on their laurels, got lazy, or never got proper training.

If you're going the self-taught route, have no fear: it's the route many artists take should they have the right work ethic. You should only really pay for tutoring or programs if you have the spare money/time for it.

Learning how to draw (and paint) is something you can learn in a few years if you fully commit yourself to it. But it takes a lifetime to master the craft.

>>7951682
>draw consistently for either four hours every day OR two hours every other day
is this the other way around? or why would 2h every other day be as good as 4h daily?

>>7951665
But why? What do you want to do with your drawing exactly? Explain that first.

>>7951665
You're never too old to start drawing
You're always too old to be a furry

Anyway in my opinion the best beginner tip is to not get mad at your drawings, you're going t be frustrated, calm down, finish the drawing even if it sucks, don't lose too much time trying to make it perfect, it's gonna suck, the next drawing will be a little less worse

And before some fucker here posts outlier examples of some CWC tier autist drawing for years and not improving, yes of course you need to pay attention and have the awareness of what you're drawing, not just vomit drawings without consciousness like an autist would do

In other words just fucking draw

>>7951862
>You're always too old to be a furry
t. spends his time watching anime girls

>>7951848
I am not the same guy but I want understand where he is coming from, I just don't think he was very good at explaining.
So, to get "quick results" (no actual such thing) you will need to sink hours. "If you draw 8 hours everyday" you can cover practice on the software, motor skills with the hands and an overall familiarity with drawing.
If you do "two hours every other day" you will try to hyper focus sigma grind these two hours to squeeze mas much juice out of your training, rest and give your brain time to learn and do another highly productive two hours again.

I would suggest you do both, invest a lot of hours first to get familiar with the basics and navigate the software you need, this phase should last less than a month maybe 2 weeks tops, it should end when you can use your tools without being lost.
After that you will integrate hours of highly challenging training of topics you are bad at / need to improve at along with your regular easy daily practice. A good analogy is this: A taxi driver has over 40.000 hours of driving experience, but he cant drive a race car. You are the same, if you have 40.000 hours of basic drawings, you wont be able to draw complex drawings. So do not skip on challenging yourself and doing training on purpose, dont do what you know everyday, you do what you know everyday and something you can't and finds hard everyday for one or two hours at best, as long as it is training with intention and purpose.

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>>7951848
>>7957496

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Now about routine, keep in mind that everyday means every work day. God rested on the seventh day so don't think you will get away with not resting. Take at minimum one day off every week, two days is also fine.
Make peace and accept right now the fact that you will break your routine more than once during your journey. When you miss a day, two days, three days of planned training never compensate on the next day, it is impossible and this is not how the brain works. If you skipped two hours of training yesterday, today you only have today's workload. If you skipped a whole week of training, today you only have today's workload. Everyday you only have today's workload. You don't compensate on the rest day either. If you skipped Friday you don't start the week on Sunday (assuming Sunday is your rest). The rest day is sacred even if you skipped the whole week.

So anytime during your journey check with yourself: Am I sinking enough hours into drawing? Am I training on hard challenges? If you can reply yes than you are going as fast as you can and you will get the results as fast as you personally can.
Don't worry about age, what we old farts lack in brain flexibility we can makeup with wisdom and patience and experience.

I am not a drawfag btw I an indie dev, this is my method to play Osu! and keep developing my hack0z skills.

BNRAN and also FNRAN.

Being old is an advantage, as long as you are not retarded. Younger people struggle with discipline and doing boring practices.

>>7951665
I'm 35 years old and neck-deep in a dead-end wage slave job with barely any time for myself. I'm still trying to learn how to draw with what little time I have, even though I'm completely /beg/-tier. The idea of me being in my 40s by the time I get good (if at all) is scary, but I'd rather learn this craft late than not at all.

>>7951665
Don't waste your time and do something more fun

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>>7951665
Hey man, same age as you and I just started drawing this year as well. The first thing I wanna get across is that if you like drawing and you don't start here, you're going to regret it for the rest of your life. If you already feel guilty about not starting sooner when you're 27, imagine how you're gonna feel when you're 40 or 50. Secondly, I want to share what I've been doing that has gotten me to as far as I am today (picrel is one of my latest drawings for reference).

I draw pretty much exclusively what I like. I do studies now and then, but 80% or so of the time I'm drawing girls just because that's what I like doing. I draw at least 4 hours a day, usually more, but I do take breaks every now and then to reset my eyes. I also ask people for critiques all the time, especially artist friends that are much better than me. This is critical, as I feel like the moments where I experienced the most growth were from learning from their observations.

Lastly, and this doesn't apply to me because I'm poor, but I've heard that getting a mentorship is like one of the best and fastest ways to improve. Everyone who I've asked that has undergone some type of tutoring seems to share this viewpoint. Just make sure you're being taught by someone who knows what they're doing.

Good luck, and don't give up.

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>>7951665
The best time to start was 20 years ago, the second best time is today. 27 isn't even that old anon and old people learn skills so the time anyway. Try to be less doomer.

>>7951665
>>7957535
The hardest part of starting your art journey as an adult is the fact that you're much more self-aware and self-critical. So when you obviously make bad drawings as a total beginner it's a lot easier to get demotivated. It's also easier to get overwhelmed by what to study or practice, the most important part is just to get mileage drawing whatever you want. The difference between an adult beginner and child beginner is that the kid doesn't care that what they just drew looks bad, they just keep on drawing

>>7951665
$0 has been deposited into your account, shill.