@Ipinu Yusuf . True - However - It may just feel overwhelming to some of us to encounter such a huge difference in ability and not feel like one knows where to start. But, essentially, yes - "Less crying and more trying." ;-)
@Ipinu Yusuf . Correct - Discouragement is one of our biggest challenges to overcome. Nothing wrong with being modest enough to try to honestly admit we're not where we want to be in ability, so long as we don't fixate on that negatively to such an extent that we lose sight of the bigger picture. Conversely, overestimating our ability can be a problem too. :-) Anyway, it's all a work in progress. If any are getting stuck with despair - Essentially - Chin up. Hang in there! It can get better. :-)
@@dready529 Ooh wee. I actually just took Anatomy and Physiology during this past first semester. So, uh, I now understand the human body in pretty high depth. It's, um... actually made it harder to draw. Now my shoulders and chests look like crap. So I have to rediscover how I drew. Because my art has taken a toll. Trying to use my detailed 3D model of the human body to draw on a flat, 2D sheet of paper is actually backfiring. Go figure.
i recomend the channel called Volen CK, he talks about practicing, reasons beginners are discouraged by it, and how to stick with it, the dude could barely draw a stick figure, and now he makes prettymuch photorealistic art pieces, his journey is quite inspiring.
ok quick speaking here uhm so here my problem is 1. left and right sides are not the same 2. i keep doing the same shape but mine turns bad and specially 3.sux to be me tbh
you need to continue even if it's hard, that's it. btw the problems you're talking about are classic and if you don't give up it will disapear by itself, trust me :p
Read some books, Successful drawing by Andrew Loomis is a good start and other Andrew Loomis books are good too and when you start reading them you will know what to do or read next. Also check out Steve Huston's books and his videos on RU-vid they are amazing, find other drawing channels follow the artists you like etc. Basically you just have to gather all the information you can get on RU-vid and from books, and work twice as hard than somebody who goes to Art School. Books will tell you how you should go about learning drawing, I use RU-vid videos just as reference I don't depend on them. Don't work hard work smart, and overcome every obstacle one by one.
dude, when I had that problem, I learned and redrew basic anatomy, just complete the drawing, and then redo it, but dont make the drawing so complicated that it takes too long to redraw think of it like shooting a target, first you will naturally over shoot, but with enough time+repitition (5-10min a day for a few week or 2) and L+R dont need to be exactly the same, like if you zoomed into a portrait and cut the eyes out and flipped one side over the other, it would probably not match exactly. this was quite revolutionairy for me lol
Q1. Circle Drawing a good looking circle takes times, try taking baby steps. 1. A circle is actually 2 semi-circle combined. Start by drawing 1 semi circle and then joined it with another 1. 2. Having trouble with semi circle? Then draw a quarter of a circle and draw 4 of those to make a circle. IMPORTANTLY, draw confidently. Meaning, take as little number of strokes as possible to draw, 1 long curve. After a circle, then draw a basketball. A basketball have lines on it. This will give your face a more 3D look. Q2. Left and right side This also takes time. A ruler would help. After practicing with a ruler, try it without a ruler.
A few takeaways. (in no particular order) 1. Learn how to draw in perspective. 2. Break down art into simple shapes, and practice those in perspective. 3. Learn to create complex shapes from the simple shapes. 4. Art of copying: Basically, when you're drawing another artwork, don't blindly draw what they've done. Understand what techniques they've used to get that effect, learn how to replicate the TECHNIQUE, and apply it in your art. 5. Draw mindfully, knowing exactly what you want to draw. 6. Other things that help are knowledge of anatomy, lots of practice, and knowing exactly what you're lacking. Edit: If I've missed anything, let me know guys!
Thank you for this advice on perspective, it actually really helped me understand what I need to focus on more when copying drawing, I feel like I can draw arms, hands, legs, etc. easily but have more trouble drawing faces and torsos even when looking at step by step guides and I think it's mostly due to how I drew simple shapes and memorized the bases, going to apply this with other stuff!
Also on your redesign series would you ever do some of the older classics like ronin warriors, saint seiya, beserk, etc. Maybe even some american made ones like thundercats, gi joe, ninja turtles
When You click on the video to learn how to become a better drawer but then know you are just skipping parts of the video to see how his artwork turns out.
You deserve a sub ! This video will hopefully help me ,I plan on coming back to this comment after a month or 2 and see how much I've improved ! Thanks for giving me inspiration to draw !
I thought men and women had similar types but i found out that they are totally diffirent when i started drawing i drew women figures but men figures are way harder
What is the best was to learn or even to start learning perspective? I have a really hard time figuring out what is right and wrong and how I get the right understanding of how it works. Any tips or ways? I would really appreciate some help. Thank you so much!
I think its normal though, since if someone get bored, they will do some kind of that thing, just draw the one they like, the character, making new characters. But basically, someone do that to save more paper and they feel that the paper still can be use for drawing even though that the space was not really big enough, they will try to make it fit
@Sam Fisher Whoa there Fisher. I think you need to take a step back and reevaluate your life. Randomly antagonising and attacking people over the internet where you have anonymity? Not only is it just sad but cowardly too. Why try and deliberately hurt someone else? What is wrong with you? Someone likes something you don't (even though you've probably never even watched it and given in to the "anime is trash" elitist mindset of people filled with bitterness at the world), what's the big deal? Why does that bother you? It shouldn't.
Jhakaro you have such a kind soul please don’t waste your pure and amazing positive energy on something futile...they probably won’t get you but am grateful u made my day🥺 have a beautiful day ahead my friend☺️
@Sana Waseem Thanks. Well I'm glad to hear it. Don't let others get you down and never let them make you feel ashamed for enjoying the things you do. By the way, Fullmetal Alchemist is pretty great. Have a great day!
Seeing this disheartened comment section makes me want to help 🤣 So, here’s how I improved rapidly fast. It may not work for you, but it did for me. 1. First priority is to learn how to draw from the shoulder. That’s how you get those satisfying sketchy lines. Draw circles or hearts over and over. As light as possible. When you’re doodling in class, fill up the corners of your page with them. This will also allow you to learn how to draw new styles/techniques way faster. 2: Don’t worry about style at first. Focus on being able to sketch and doodle. If you happen to stumble upon something you like, by all means, stick with it, but don’t make it first priority. 3: Watch everything around you. Inspect the anime’s you watch, look at the people around you, watch real life perspective. Now, everything around me looks like art because of the amount of attention I pay to detail 😅 3: After you can draw from your shoulder and doodle, then start binging art tutorials and following along. You’re already miles ahead from the comment section complaining how they can’t draw a circle properly or sketch. I’ve been drawing for about a year and a half, and I’m not to the level this artist is at by any means, but I’m at a pretty good level for my my age 😅 I can draw my ideas how I imagine them and sketch pretty well. As someone who didn’t even know what construction lines were three years ago, I can confirm that there is hope for all of you
I can't stress no.3 enough! It made me regret all the years I spent passively watching animations, once you look into the choices an animator makes you'll really learn a lot.
Is it just me or is anyone else here frustrated about the fact that everytime you watch one of these videos where someone tries to show you how to get better, they are already really, really good and when you open up your sketchbook and start doing what they do it looks like shit??! XD I know its a process, but it just always frustrates me, because videos make everything look like so damn easy, but the truth is, its not!
Your never gonna improve with that mind set you gonna get over that. If anything people being better than you should make you wanna push harder someone is always gonna be better than you in art your never gonna be the best
Well, if anyone is still here, here's how I got better: Basically I'm studying animation and we have drawing as the second priority class, First exercise: Blind contour - Pick up your book and pencil, ask someone to draw them, now without looking at the book, draw the person in one line only. Yes it looks awful for everyone in the beginning, even students who had arts for high school. This is great for line control. Second exercise: Textures - Find a texture, now draw it as best as you can, no you're not meant to do it with just one pencil, be resourceful, make your own brush if you need. Third exercise: Perspective - First take pictures of corridors, now trace the lines, you should find that it all connects, that's a vanishing point. IRL there's too many vanishing points, in illustration we keep it to one, two or three points. Fourth exercise: Model drawing - This is hard because you can't just hire someone whenever you're at home ready to draw, so find ANYONE, look at them once, now draw them super quick. You're not supposed to draw the faces or the hair or the fingers if you can't, just the body, understand weight and movement. Fifth Exercise: Lines of action - If the one before wasn't fast enough, this one is. You want to draw the person like they are movement and not even a person. Find the line of action on their body (Search it, it just be one simple google search.) Sixth Exercise: More Perspective - Like, we're getting into geometry here. Cubes, balls, triangles, rectangles, whatever, set up a small assortment of random crap, sit down, look at it and draw it with 1:1 scale (From your POV), use your pencil to take a medium measurement, now use that to guess the other measurements, you can however measure everything by pencil, but that's a ton of work. Seventh Exercise: MORE PERSPECTIVE - Not just any simple shapes anymore. Draw your room top down, now add a point where you're standing and draw your line of vision. You will now turn your 2D drawing into 3D! Super hard to explain in words, so I don't think you'll be able to understand this one, which is fine, you're here to be grow, but not take a whole class. Eighth Exercise: IRL Drawing - Use what you learnt in the 3rd, 4th and 6th exercises, go to a park, draw the scenery first (This is a must always, scenery first, characters second), when you're done doing what you can with your line work, draw people and their poses as quick as possible, don't try to get that finger right, can be up their bum for all you care for now. Ninth Exercise: IRL Shading - Apply what you can from your 2nd exercise to your Eighth without ruining the whole thing. How? If you don't have enough line control, refer to fifty pages of the 1st. Leave the people white pastes on the sheet. Tenth exercise: Deconstructing - Now you'll start drawing faces and whatnot. But first, animals! Horse, now draw him, using rectangles, no smaller than the hoof as a singular unit. Apply perspective ALWAYS. Like just have a one point perspective, fuck the scenery for now. Done? Good. Other animals like dog, rat, birds. Just keep doing it. Eleventh Exercise: Human Deconstructing - Using perspective, draw a person with hands as cubes and singular units. Feeling good? Use the thumb as a singular unit (Fingers, wow, also forget the face for now). Twelfth Exercise: Facial Deconstructing - Same as above, but the face only, but cubes won't do it now. The name is the same but the exercise is quite different, use a mirror to decode your facial construction with a pencil, just measure distances from eye to eye, eye to mouth corner, nose to ear etc... The objective is to draw your face in 3/4ths with the things you learnt on this exercise comment. This is the extent I'd go, but here's a list of easy exercises that just help you out without feeling like a college chore (Like it did for me): Blind contour; Model lightning sketches (Same as 4th + 5th but just faster); Textures; Applied Perspective (Basically deconstruct bodies like the tenth). As a matter of fact this sheet doesn't cover a fifth of what I did in one semester, but I'm learning real life drawing (Which just helps with any drawing down the line), but it does cover most of the essentials. Two things you need to note: No pictures, as you lose sense of depth; Work harder. If you REALLY want to draw better, nothing like drawing all day long, perspective is good, with textures even better. Also, if you feel like your line control is shit, just refer to the first exercise. Nothing better than to draw to increase control, especially when you can't see what you're drawing, so pay attention to it, follow the lines, the curves and the spikes, not the nose or the mouth, think in lines. Unfortunately there's no better cheat to drawing better than to keep drawing with methods, and the real one is the best because it surrounds you. Extra exercise I forgot: Negative Drawings - Search it, easy to understand, easy to do, and it helps with thinking in objects.
How to draw good anime Step 1: Find a reference photo. Step 2: Try to copy it. Step 3: Throw it away. Step 4: Find an easier photo. Step 5: Spend 5 hours on trying to draw the sketch. Step 6: Erase the deformed face, Step 7: Fix the deformed face. Step 8: Get bullied by your family because of your drawing. Step 9: Cry for 2 hours. Step 10: Attempt to redraw. Step 11: Throw a tantrum cause u can’t get the hand right. Step 12: Give up. Step 13: Yeet your paper across the room. Nvm don’t do that that’s just how I did it ;-;
Does anyone think my plan is possible? 1. I will learn to draw. 2. I will learn to write/draw a manga series. 3. I will learn to animate. Is that possible to do or is it too much?
Go for it people might tell you it's gonna be not possible but you can learn to do all of these things just keep in mind that it'll take aloooot of time but it's probably gonna be fun
The last time I checked any artist from any period of time they were all humans. Are you a rock? I suppose the answer is not. Therefore, anything ever done before by a human is absolutely possible for any human, you just need to bear in mind the high level of perseverance and dedication that it may take to do some of those things and be willing to commit to that.
I'm trying to learn anatomy and prespective, but can't figure out what i'm doing wrong. I end up drawing the same thing over and over without learning what my mistakes are.
Thats when you need to really do the research and learn the rules to what your doing wrong. If you need to learn 1 2 and 3 point perspective for free look up some videos on RU-vid and watch several of them. A good place for reference is pinterest 🙂
SAME. I´ve heard that you shouldn´t draw from imagination though. You should always base yourself on something because believe it or not, you subconsciously already do. Everything must come from somewhere, from artstyles to references.
I recently improved A LOT, but now I'm back at the rut I was in at the beginning, where I view that everything I draw is trash, and all the comics I read hurt me because of how good it is
For the people that are struggling and thinking it’s too hard I’ve been drawing for 10 years I started drawing when I was two and never stopped drawing and I’ve improved a lot but I still have to learn a few things like hand and anime boys hair T-T I’m mostly a self taught artist but I have watched multiple videos in RU-vid I spent 3 months practicing realism by watching videos and I was able to draw an object in front of me not the best but I was still able anyway when I started i literally drew stick men but now I can draw actually characters boys and girls I just want to say that even if your drawing looks like trash it takes years for an artist to become good at drawing I’m not even that good I mean many people say I am but I still have to improve anyway GOOD LUCK ON YOUR JOURNEY!!!
Same here, I’ve been practicing for 7-8 years and I’m actually pretty proud to say I’m getting better as time went on with practicing and stuff. Thank goodness drawing cutesy anime girls actually got me to the level I am right now lol XD Good luck to everyone!
i supposed to keep drawing the perspective for my brain to know how to draw the drawing but instead my brain is stuck with the word perspective on how many time im hearing it in the video.
