rafa-droppa in the post "People who didn't have fun drawing bad stuff for the 50% rule, did you start to find drawing fun after you got good?"

2022-02-16 17:54

thanks, yeah I fee like any new thing is so daunting you just have to break it down into smaller steps so that it's surmountable.

rafa-droppa in the post "People who didn't have fun drawing bad stuff for the 50% rule, did you start to find drawing fun after you got good?"

2022-02-16 13:38

I would recommend starting with easier stuff to draw if you're results driven.

For example, if you want to draw a picture of a restaurant scene, and you felt discouraged trying to draw it, instead start drawing the various components of the scene such as a bottle of wine, the plates of food, the table, etc.

Don't draw these together, just start on a new canvas doing just a bottle of wine. It's much simpler and you'll get a good result faster. Then draw something else from the scene on it's own canvas, and so on.

Eventually, you'll have the practice to draw the original idea much better so then you're just focusing on improving different aspects of your overall idea, such as the people or the lighting or whatever.

That was sorta my approach; I'm saying this as a person who draws digitally but isn't very good, although I don't know of many artists who think they're at the level of competency they want to be at - all the ones I know always think they could do better.