20 WEEKS DRAWING TRAINING PLAN 

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week 1-4 fundamentals and observational fundamentals - lines shapes basic forms observational - gradually progress to more complex subjects gesture drawing - capture the essence 1h each week 5-8 anatomy and figure anatomy - start skeleton progress to muscles figure drawing - apply anatomy knowledge to figure drawing anatomy/figure - create detailed studies fo different body part and experiment with dynamic poses 1h each weeks 9-12 Perspective and foreshortening - practice drawing environments from different viewpoints Experiment with complex compositions - create scenes that challenge your understanding of space Develop your visual library by drawing scenes from imagination - incorporate architecture and diverse environments week 13-16 storytelling and sequential art storytelling - create simple comic strips or storyboards character design - experiment with various characters and styles storytelling - illustrate scenes with multiple characters interacting in various enviroments 1h each week 17-20 explore advenced techniques - cross-hatching, stippling and shading (experiment with textures) pick your fav medium - refine your style final project (combine everything you learned) - create a detailed illustration or a short comic 1 hour each

This was the advice I needed. I’m “skilled”, but I fell into the same trap of just churning 3-4 hours of imagination drawing a day because I was burnt out seeing one Pinterest photo copied to another. It has its purpose, but I fatigued myself comparing fully imaginative works to other peoples studies. Wondering why it had tons of flair but I wasn’t nailing certain aspects as well. This is a happy medium of structure and fun that I need to reintroduce into my routine. Thank you for sharing!

Weeks 1-4 Fundamentals & Observational Drawing 1 Hour: Focus on fundamental exercises - Lines, Shapes, Basic Forms - Good shapes and line work are the fundamentals of any good art piece. Most objects can be broken down into more primitive shapes e.g. Most buildings are just a series of cubes, most living beings are a collection of cylinders, spheres, and cubes etc. If you can get a good understanding of form in space, you'll be well on your way to achieving your artistic goals. 1 Hour: Practice Observational Drawing. - Initially start with basic objects then move onto more complex objects gradually 1 Hour: Gesture Drawing - Capture the essence and movement of figures Weeks 5-8 Anatomy & Figure Drawing 1 Hour: Study Anatomy - Skeletal Structure > Muscle Structure 1 Hour: Apply Anatomy to figure drawings - Emphasize proportion & Gesture 1 Hour: detailed studies - Different body parts - Experiment with dynamic poses - Gesture from Imagination Fun Warm Up: Create scenes out of basic shapes and then place basic mannequins into that scene. Remember to always try to incorporate imagination during your drawing time. Imagination is a skill like any other, which means you can train it and get better at it. Maybe right now you don't feel like you have any ideas but the more you work at it, ideas and feelings that you have will slowly percolate and manifest into your work, but only if you keep training your imagination and creativity. Tip: Whatever study you do, whether its an animal, structure, mechanics etc. always try to then use whatever it is you just studied in your own drawing from imagination. This way you're not just blindly copying but integrating what you just learned. Its also a good way to check if you have a full understanding of whatever it is you just studied. Weeks 9-12 Perspective & Complex Scenes: 1 Hour: Study perspective and foreshortening - Practice drawing environments from different viewpoints. 1 Hour: Experiment with complex composition. - Create scenes that challenge your understanding of space (Don't get disheartened when things don't look right, its part of the process) 1 Hour: Develop your visual library by drawing scenes from imagination - incorporate architecture and different environments e.g. A City, A Jungle, A Jungle City, A City in a jungle, A Jungle under a city, A city under a jungle etc) Weeks 13-16 Storytelling & Sequential Art: 1 Hour: Begin exploring sequential art and storytelling - Simple storyboards - Simple Comics - Even a single image can tell a story 1 Hour: Character design - Experiment with various characters, designs - This part is really fun cause you can start looking into different cultures and aesthetics and then combining them to create your own designs 1 Hour: Illustrate scenes with multiple characters & in different environments While you're giving yourself a few weeks to understand the fundamentals of a given subject (anatomy for instance) you'll probably not gain mastery in 4 weeks (We're still going to try to), so you'll still be going back and repeating the different subjects over and over. Also, always keep in mind what you're end goal is if you have one. If you want to make simple chibi characters, you might not need to gain complete knowledge on the anatomy and structure of every animal. Godspeed

- Weeks 1-4: Fundamentals n Observational = 2:40 - Weeks 5-8: Anatomy n Figure = 3:25 - Weeks 9-12: Perspective n Complex Scenes = 6:18 - Weeks 13-16: Storytelling n Sequential Art = 6:53 - Weeks 17-20: Adv. Techniques n Personal Projects = 7:35

Saying you should consistently practice a regimented routine for imagination to become more creative, very German of you.. great video bro, thanks

I actually love drawing from imagination. It often comes up with some odd poses and shapes, bit it's relaxing to just draw it without having to worry about accuracy

This is really what I need. I lack basic fundamentals in drawing especially in drawing dynamic poses and different angles. I love to draw from imagination but this is what I need to make my drawings seem realistic. I’ve been sticking to abstract art cause it’s within my shell but knowing that there’s more to art, I also want to think outside the box.

Yes! Train your imagination, we all need more of that

You are the second person I have heard mentioning imagination as a fundamental, and the first was the man that founded one of the best art programs I've been a part of. I subbed immediately. Great video.

Hell yeah love the written PLAN thank you !

This resonated with me, I’m a beginner and I've been struggling to figure out which fundamentals I should be practicing and how to structure it to the point where I've been following along with 4 different courses that are all teaching different areas of fundamentals. I figured if my week consisted of different fundamentals each day it would be a more efficient way of learning but all it’s done it’s filled me with anxiety and left me confused and feeling over stretched. When I tried to some imagination drawing afterwards, I would just draw as I normally would, unintentionally discarding what I learned, making it feel like the studying was kinda pointless. it felt like I was going through the courses too fast with information overload and none of it sticking. Studying one thing at a time for a weeks each day and then applying what you learnt in the same session makes way more sense to me. As a beginner how would you structure you’re foundation month in terms of topics? for example proportions, shading, would you do a whole month on proportions then move onto perspective/shading for a month or would you do a week of proportions then week of shading as they’re both fundamentals until the end of the month and then change to something like perspective for the next month. Probably overthinking this 😅

amazing brother thank you so much i will start this tommorow and give you a feedback in 20 weeks ! my dream is to become mangaka and write the best manga in the world and show to the people that you can become something from nothing

Omg, thank you so much . I've been doing self-study for a huge amount of time, but i always stuck with a plan, and you gave it to me. Sorry for my bad English, I'm Slavic ahah . Thank you ❤❤❤❤❤

Awesome thumbnail bro I hope it get you lots of traction

Thanks man I needed this. I'm fairly skilled but I get too complacent, complacency is my flaw on a personal level. Breaking it down to bite size like what you showed instead of drawing the same thing repetitively should help get me out of the rut, I need to branch out and explore. And drawing from imagination, I probably do that too much. Lol

Sure imagination is good but lets not forget the greatest artists of our time used models, a reference. Like how many artists use pinterest to find their references. Drawing from imagination is really good to help strengthen drawings you've done from studys. One must really think and refer to images one has drawn before. It truly helps solidify anything you are learning.

I'm following proko courses, wanted to practice 3 hours as well, but it didn't feel right, 3h whatever I learned from a topic during a few days, and move on to do the same. It makes much more sense, and it looks a lot more fun to divide the practice in different fundamentals

Dude! This is phenomenal information! Thank you!!!

I'm at the stick man and square box house level of skill, so I've a super long way to go yet! Just wanted to say how inspiring your sketch book is. And I love the idea of copy and practice on one page and then apply with imagination on the opposite side. I would love to see a video showing how you approach mistakes. Do you erase mistakes when practising or leave them in place as a learning reference?

Oh yea, this is the magic sauce to learning how to burn through sketchbooks. I’m having fun already!

cool jetzt weiß ich wie ich beginnen soll. Mal schauen was aus mir wird nach den 20 Wochen😂 Du bist meine Rettung. Danke!

"Make sure you draw every day." This plan doesn't work unless you're insanely dedicated. Even then, the possibility of a burnout is very real. You don't have to draw every day. You don't have to do it for three or even one hour. Just try to get into the habit of drawing by keeping a regular schedule. As for what you draw, that depends entirely on what you want to do with it. Even if you're a casual, you can have significant improvement if you learn the right things. As for what's right, look around and maybe you'll find out, or maybe you won't. I can't say, since I'm not a professional.

Really useful video love it! My motivation is back 💪

Drawing with pen actually really helpt me was to lazy to sketch and filled a sketch book with just pen few days ago i deceided to sketch first and made the best drawing i ever made hahah (still a beginner tho😂)

nice man, you've improve alot!

I really appreciate your advice, can give use a few suggestion on how to build a visual library and also, I want a lesson on how to draw directly with a pen like you. I like this way of drawing but I couldn't do the same

schöne Zeichnungen. Guter Lernplan.

Thanks for the advices!

hahaha ich setzt mir als Zeitlimit immer den Film den ich nebenbei schaue und üben tue ich gerade what ever. Mein Fokus dieses Jahr ist zum Glück eher back into art zukommen anstatt krass besser zu werden, einfach weil ich durch meine Uni eine superlange Pause hatte und ich hab so drei angefangene Skizzenbucher rumliegen die einfach mal voll werden sollen weil ich das papier in denen nicht soooo unglaublich doll mag

Can you make a video on how to enter and practice gesture drawing for beginners? Please. I know there are many videos like that, but I would like to know how you did it 👍

nice sketchbook :3

How to breakdown drawings for study and make journal entries for improvement ? I suggest that topic :-)

Come with me and you'll be In a world of pure imagination Take a look and you'll see Into your imagination!

Thank you! Very helpful 🩷 What I'm wondering is, if you are a beginner in drawing, do you need to work on reference works from real photographs or artists' drawings? ((Which one leads to faster development?) 🥺

I'm curious, as someone who is looking to do drawing as a hobby and stress relief, does 3 hours a day seem necessary to you? I was thinking maybe an hour at the high end of time, probably more like 30 minutes on most days.

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Do you think this schedule would work if I cut the overall time in half(half an hour per subject, one and a half hour per day)? Because of my work hours, I have from 08:00 to 10:00 to study.

Thanks for the vid Janos. Do you have any specific resources you recommend for learning complete beginner fundamentals? It's overwhelming finding somewhere to start 😭

Hey Hey! First of all thank you for your content! ^^ Just found you through your reaction to pewdiepie and got stuck on your channel! :D I wanted to ask what your plan suggest for week 13-16 because I did not see a slide that mentioned that?

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I really want to learn to draw and get to a high level, I just don't know where to start as a person who has never drawn before. I don't have money for a school which is unfortunate since I like structure. Do you have any good books or resources for beginners who have never drawn before? Epecially for the fundamentals since I imagine it is important to learn those before anything else. I just pick up my sketchbook and have no idea what to do. Cheers!

I really wanna give this plan a go... But i'll be doing it digital since im more comfortable with it but One thing i wanna ask you is when going through this 20 week plan how does one get over fear of failure/fear of failing? Im kinda stuck in a rut where i really want to draw and get better but when the things i draw dont turn out right it eats away at the motivation i have to draw and i end up walking away from drawing at that time. Any words of wisdom to a beginner on how to combat this?

hello im ana amateur i can copy and sometime i create weird not accuracy shape adn.... i'm still face probleme with fundemental how to crearte timeline for progress cuz i have imagination but the lack of fundemental stop me from goood think my goal style is urban/inking/black and firstly/shadowing using line and cross hatching/ i finnd prblm creating schedule yo get goo dresult

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I use a lot of photo references to guide my imagination. How can I get away from that?

here I am, happy now?

What resources do you use for each of these sessions ?

this is junji itos drawing exercise,

The problem it is I don't know how to start my studies.

Ich dachte ich bin der einzige der "Fuck" neben seine Bilder schreibt.

been lookin for this