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How do you teach yourself art without getting lost and becoming a permabeginner? 06/06/26(Sat)16:52:08 No. 7959038
How do you teach yourself art without getting lost and becoming a permabeginner? 06/06/26(Sat)16:52:08 No. 7959038
How do you teach yourself art without getting lost and becoming a permabeginner? Anonymous
06/06/26(Sat)16:52:08
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So far, I've spent a year of my life learning the fundamentals of drawing, but I never really improved my observational skills. My ultimate goal used to be drawing cartoons, but now I don't know how I should continue.
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>>7959038
Draw what you want
Identify what went wrong
Learn how to not do that anymore
Repeat
Marc Brunet has a video on his channel called “how to draw anything” or something, I can’t remember.
Point is just draw what you want to draw and be self-critical at the same time, that’s really all there is to it. Just keep putting one foot in front of the other and you’ll improve
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>>7959078
Learning about process is also important. Having a process which fits to you can work wonders.
Also just collecting inspirations. If you are not inspired then you don't even know what to draw and feel less motivated.
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>>7959038
Anon, I will tell you my way
draw, just fucking draw until it ''clicks''
even if you are bad, the bad ones are the best, at some point you will got tired/angry of ugly stuff and you will realize what make things better
drawing is a thing milliage is the king
just draw
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>>7959038
You have to struggle. If you only draw what you've already learned or what comes naturally to you, you'll never improve. Your goal should be to draw what you suck at, find what needs fixing, figure out how to fix it, and then apply the solution.
For developing observational skills, you're gonna want to do lots of blind contour drawings, upside down drawings, negative space drawings, and memory/active recall drawings (find references and observe them, then hide them and draw from memory, then take them out and draw while looking at them).
Draw consistently. Draw new things constantly.
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>>7959095
Worst advice possible, we have INNUMERABLE examples of people who have drawn for 5 or even 10 years and have remained permaprebegs the whole time because they are incapable of learning from their mistakes or critically evaluating their own work
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>>7959428
Nope, don't do Keys to Drawing, it's mostly a waste of time. You don't even really NEED to read DRSB, just do the exercises. The book is indeed pseudo science but the exercises get results not because the woo-woo crap is legit in any way, but because the exercises were originally part of your typical beginner art education when public schools were better funded.
I would recommend you buy these books as well: The Art of Responsive Drawing, The Natural Way to Draw, and Cognitive Drawing, then do the exercises within.
At the very least, please study simple 3D forms and grind shapes/lines.
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My rule has always been that anything I can do, I must be able to understand in my mind, Rotating the apple idea.
If you can't rotate the apple start with the simplest thing you can manage.
This is also how programmers work.
You should feel proud for asking the right questions OP
>inb4 pyw
ok.
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>>7959499
Fucking larp. No one completed Natural Way to Draw’s crazy curriculum on their own.
And Drawing on the Right Side and Keys to Drawing are literally filled with exercises and ideas adapted from Natural Way to Draw. Fucking larper.