How to Learn to Draw 

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​@@natashabrennan5319 I agree

For real! The other day I tried drawing with my left hand and… about the same! It turned out pretty good other than the wobbly lines. I guess my brain still knows how to draw even if my hand doesn’t

i can draw pretty well, get paid to sketch people’s dogs and stuff, but i cannot do anything with my left hand even if it were to save my life 😅

I cant do that with either hand-

tbh I would be surprised if a 19 day old really did master the alphabet lol

@@NekoNyeil by rotations he meant years

You mean, revolutions?

@@Weeping_lover yup

@@willmerguzmanrodriguez6635 one rotation of the earth is a day

Yeah because he practices drawing and studies theory

(for a long time)

My hand writing looks like ancient hyroglyphics

For years, I used to draw with dots but over the years I've learnt to draw more bold and confident lines, my guy it's all about practice 😅😅

Do you mean his left handed drawing?

If it helps I'm a decent artist but my handwriting is illegible

I'm a pretty solid painter and illustrator (along with other drawing unrelated artforms) and I can't even read my handwriting. You're fine

Don't worry, I'm an artist with really ugly handwriting, so I guess it doesn't matter👍

Well, if we're talking about digital art, there's nothing to worry about. Most drawing softwares have features to stabilize lines, so you don't have to worry about having a steady hand, just about making the right movements.

​@@RafaelLacer that's bad advice. Stabilizers should be used as a tool, not a crutch. If you over-rely on stabilizers and it's not due to something like shaky hands, then all you're doing is severely impeding your rate of improvement.

Breh im left handed

​@@xxprogamerxxmaxpro9791same

@@xxprogamerxxmaxpro9791not all of us are left handed

​@@xxprogamerxxmaxpro9791 same

He probably draws better than your right hand too.

ikr, I have dysgraphia so I can barely write the alphabet without it looking like a foreign language

@@thelad9434do u often write letters in reverse? Just wondering

@@himanshu3103 no, i just write them illegibly. They also tend to float up or down substantially. It makes learning how to draw way more difficult than it should be. As a kid I would always draw, but because of my dysgraphia i never colored my work in as I knew that it was difficult to keep the colors insides the lines. My dysgraphia has gotten a little better since then, and I am trying to combat the issue.

@@thelad9434 oh ok thx for replying

​@@thelad9434 ooh, this is the first time I've heard of dysgraphia but thought of something like that probably existing! Thanks you for sharing your insights and experience here!

agreed! and not only muscle memory, but also genuinely UNDERSTANDING the thing that you want to draw. Everyone knows what hands look like, but not everyone understands the clutter of shapes and movements enough to draw them well!

It really does just take a bunch of practice and time@@banyani4048

Unfortunately, muscle memory isn’t even enough for me to write legibly without constantly paying attention to the shapes of my letters and where they go in relation to each other. If I keep writing while I look up from the paper for a moment, I usually just have a jumble of letter-parts instead of legible text.

That happens to everyone, I think.@@ragnkja

So glad to help and happy that you're making art!

He's not an Animator tho so I don't think that'll happen

​@@yourparalysisdemon1936 If i remember correctly he was offered to teach at Pixar, I dont remember exactly what but he did mention getting a mail from them to teach, PLUS Proko got alot of connection he can arrange a collab series for animation!

It's important to just make drawings for fun sometimes. Have wonky proportions, busted linework and more. But making a thing with the spirit of abandon just because. Try revisiting some of the things that made you want to draw in the first place. I find that helps a lot.

I'm no one to talk about stuff like that but I wanted to say this, I do have struggles concentrating (luckily can concentrate for 30 to 40 minutes with some will power) and I find drawing kinda helpful, as it's a way for me to pass time doing something and also trying to improve my attention time limit. Even if it's something I don't enjoy as a passion at all, it's like just making up something simple but challenging at the same time.

@@justsomerandomguy6042 oh no I know that!! I've been drawing for years now, drew my crappy pfp lmao, but because it's untreated and I believe causing my other problems like depression, it gets really really hard to do something as simple as feeding myself, to where I just won't for days. Hard to draw then lmao-- I can concentrate on a drawing until it's finished if I'm really into it, anything else I just procrastinate and absolutely hate, I really gotta make myself do it like you described or I just won't ahah. I've actually been drawing a lot lately and I'm really proud of that! Got 4 flat colored done in about a day so I'm happy with that!! I love drawing and always have, but it's so hard to just keep drawing you know? I've gone months without doing anything, because of depression and just not having the will, but I'm really really trying to get over that!! Thank you so so much though, best of luck to you!!!

@@MartianCandies thx, my family has told me before that I surely had depression, and if it's so (which I guess is true bc I'm always in some mental trouble), then I could say I've always had depression even without knowing it. But I'm doing my best to overcome it even with a little shitty social circle (mainly comparisons and jokes about what I do in my free time which is considered failure-like habits), in Argentina this is no new thing, it always happens (people shaming on other people), but it's so annoying when it's about something you want to change for your well-being and they don't seem like caring about it, not even your family.

that's really true, once I started (and now restarted) drawing mainly on my tablet I can get the letters easier than I used to, the only downside is that I still take a lot to make them as I want it to look

same here, every once in a while I forget how to draw certain letters and/or how some words are spelled like, and that gets worse when we go to dictating lol

I’m like this too. I never successfully learned how to write; I have to use a tablet and type. I literally cannot _trace_ simple lines or curves accurately. It physically feels like I’m moving the same way as the lines I see, but they all go the wrong ways or they’re oriented wrong; when I trace lines I literally watch my own line stray further and further away but I can’t correct it. When I try to draw lines on my own it’s no different; my S’s are flat infinity signs, or m’s, or they only have one curve and they’re severely rotated the wrong way. I don’t feel any of this happening. I’ve been studying the fundamentals seriously for a fucking decade now, seven years of which were daily hourslong art sessions that ended up turning me into a basket case and I stopped eating due to the stress, and I still can’t trace a single curve. It’s impossible to learn to build simple constructive shapes if you can’t write your own name. I’m having to accept that art is just not accessible for me, but it hurts when everyone around here keeps saying that anyone can learn. I don’t know how to let go. I really hope he can find something that works, but it’s possible he won’t, and if that’s the case then I hope he doesn’t overdo it to his own detriment like I did. Please let us know how it’s going for him if you can!

​@@jasond.b-wMy goodness you're adorable thank you, I hope you can find a way that works for you to express your art. When I struggle in drawing I try to change up and do something else, like poetrie, songs, stories or even sculpture, of course it's drastically different and it's not accessible for everyone but it's still art. But most importantly take care of yourself, your health matters more. :)

How have you done this, if you don’t mind me asking? I’m not able to write by hand at all; my OTs all gave up on teaching me and I was referred for a tablet to type instead. I literally cannot _trace_ simple lines or curves accurately. It physically feels like I’m moving the same way as the lines I see, but they all go the wrong ways or they’re oriented wrong; when I trace lines I literally watch my own line stray further and further away but I can’t correct it. When I try to draw lines on my own it’s no different; my S’s are flat infinity signs, or m’s, or they only have one curve and they’re severely rotated the wrong way. I don’t feel any of this happening. I’ve been studying the fundamentals seriously for a decade now, seven years of which were daily hourslong art sessions that ended up turning me into a basket case and I stopped eating due to the stress, and I still can’t trace a single curve. I don’t think I’m capable of learning, but I’m so desperate to be wrong. I’m willing to try anything to fix myself at this point!

@@jasond.b-w oh yeah that does sound like quite the struggle- My coordination issues are definitely less severe, but what helped me was: 1. Drawing lines over and over again. I can often get sort of close to where i want my hand to go, so i'll draw a line over and over again so it eventually approximates the line that i want, then i'll clean it up with an eraser 2. I do details digitally Digital art programs are harder to draw with, but functions like zoom and undo make for pretty handy cheats 3. When working traditionally, i use mediums that can be easily "corrected" mainly pencils and acrylics. But yeah this is all with the caveat that my hand still cooperates around 20% of the time, so i can get something usable *eventually* So i'm not sure how applicable it is for your situation, but i hope there's still something useful here?

Same for my brother, as a doctor he used to draw what he needed from the store because nobody could decipher what wrote 😂

Same!

Not very good advice :-_)

Thank you!

Sir your drawing @retasloc

#retasloc

Bro your drawing is so amazing your logo #retasloc drawing

Absolutely! That's a massive part of art making!

Someone hasn’t been reading the comments or met anyone with illegible handwriting. Or anyone who writes in “cursive” which is actually just swirls

Aww, thanks!

It's a drafting pencil, but I'm not exactly sure what brand he's using.

That really did change my perspective of my belief of "everyone can draw" lol I didnt think something like this could exist, i like to argue that even a scribbly whatever could already be considered art/a drawing but to persist and yet struggle to draw simple shapes, it must suck to not be able to draw like the artists you look up to