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So I’ve been writing and drawing for fun since I was 12. I kinda improved my writing (even though I could improve even more), but my drawings still aren’t good. My friends that also draw have said that I’m improving, but I don’t see it at times. It’s even worse when people who are way better than me insult my art or point out the obvious about my skills. Even a teen a few years ago said that I need to improve and said that he “hates people in their 20s who can’t draw” even though people improve at different paces (I still wish someone would knock him down a few pegs -_-).
My plan was to somehow meet some of my online friends irl so they could help me with my art and maybe dumb it down for me, but thanks to the pandemic I can’t travel to different states even if I got the chance to meet them in person.
I just wish there was a very easy way for me to improve and get constructive criticism (I prefer the sandwich method). I really wanna draw my characters the way that I imagine them looking and make my own comics.
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I feel like there’s currently a very weird culture around having to be good at your hobbies so you can monetise them. It’s strange - if someone says their hobby is walking around & collecting feathers or whatever, you don’t get people asking them how much they’ve improved at it!
That said, if you just want to improve your art to create your own style, there are ways of doing that. Think about one specific thing you want to get good at, work on it until you see some improvement, then try another thing. Remember that your imagination is probably never going to match your skill, so you may never have anything that turns out *exactly* as you planned it, but to other people it’ll still look cool!
You can start by tracing photos of things at different angles until you can draw it from memory. Then you can gradually change things and add your own mark to it. There are other ways of properly learning it, that’s just the quickest way of seeing short-term better results.
ReplyThere are a few things I believe you could do. One, talk with a junior college art instructor, one who does drawing—not all art teachers cover the same topics.
Another idea is kind of obvious: YouTube has videos on learning to do most anything. Some of these will likely be of use to you. As above, there are different styles of drawing, and different styles of teaching, so you might have to go through a number of vids to find one which will work for you.
Also: Talk with the librarian at your school, and at the city or county library. There are books with simple illustrations which will actually SHOW you various steps to make a certain kind of drawing. This has the advantage of never having to back up to see something you missed.
I cannot draw, but if I wanted to learn how then these would be the first places I would look for help.
Look, proper criticism can help you. But just outright criticizing someone helps no one—avoid those folks, do not even listen to them—they are just bullies.
My best to you!
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