Dee013 in the post "Why do I recommend doing the exercises in ink vs digitally?"
2014-11-18 21:28
I honestly can't agree more with this myself through personal experience. Point number one I find almost to be a fact regarding my own way of learning. I was a caricature artist about.... Five years ago? There were no pre-sketches or pencils that we worked with first. We were taught to work as quickly as possible, and that meant starting straight off with that chisel point marker. Trust me, it is not as easy as the more experienced make it look. I was terrible at it, and often messed up when I first started working. I've even had a ton of people turn down my drawings. But that was okay, because it helped me learn faster. It didn't take long to figure out what I could do with the marker and how to fix things on the go. Making mistakes look intentional (as long as you didn't spell a word wrong - if you're going into caricatures, learn how to spell ALL the sports team names), and selling the drawing like it's the best they could have gotten anywhere. And we often worked under a lot of pressure so coloring was no different. We had to create a somewhat "accurate" cartoon of the person as whatever they wanted to be, with color, in a matter of 10 minutes or less, often with a child's parents critiquing us from behind as we worked. And sometimes we would have a line building up behind us where just getting the drawing on the page had to be our only focus. I credit that work environment to why I am so much more comfortable with traditional drawing. I can manipulate the paper and the pen or medium as I see fit, and I just don't know how to do that digitally yet. So I'll definitely be sticking to traditional drawing until we get up to digital lessons.
So if anyone is particularly frustrated with traditional drawing - I hope I've provided some inspiration. It gets easier the more you practice!
Dee013 in the post "Who Are You? Introduce Yourselves!"
2014-11-14 05:21
Thank you! Much appreciated and I look forward to working off the lessons you've created!
Dee013 in the post "Who Are You? Introduce Yourselves!"
2014-11-14 04:50
Hi. I just came across this sub really and I'm only now reading more into it, finding that it also has a curriculum. Just at the right time too because I really need to go back to basics.
I'm 20 years old, and I've been drawing since I could eat a crayon (literally). I've taken art throughout high school, and tried to major in it in college, but found that I didn't have enough time to finish. I decided to take up an Olympic sport instead. Look at me being an over achiever huh? While I don't hope to base my career off of drawing (that's what my sport is for), I do hope to get better at drawing. It's one of my favorite past times and I even use it when I'm at a competition to help focus myself instead of overthinking.
I've been touching on digital art a little with "realism" and cartooning:
Though I find myself more comfortable with pencil drawings and I learned that through this piece I had to do in college:
St. Michael Vanquishing the Devil
And lastly, I found this subreddit after my boyfriend encouraged me to post some work on a different subreddit and I told him that I wasn't quite ready because my digital painting needed a lot of work. He said that there were other subreddits that were meant specifically for teaching so I went on a search and here I am. I'm ready to start learning and will be doing my best in my busy schedule to try out the homework. I'm super excited!
I'm also sorry if I mess up the link process - I'm really new to this site.
Dee013 in the post "Why do I recommend doing the exercises in ink vs digitally?"
2014-11-19 01:00
Yeah. It gets a little stressful. I was only 15 at the time, and it was my first job, so it was really scary. And I had a lady reject one of my drawings on the 2nd day! But now I look back on it and realize that it only helped me in the long run. Sometimes you just have to dive in head first. Though that's always easier said than done. I still struggle with it. It holds me back from selling some of my art pieces too.