It's just the same image just not on twitter. Though it might have been broken cause I deleted the tweet and reposted it. Should be fixed now?
Oh right, it shows up now.It's just the same image just not on twitter. Though it might have been broken cause I deleted the tweet and reposted it. Should be fixed now?
Thank you!
So I started drawing in July, and have been dealing with my first huge art block ever this past week...so I'm not going by any prompts.. Just doing art as often as I can manage it for pentober, at least hopefully one piece per week.
Week 1 (Ari from Gilded Shadows)
Only 4 more to go. I'm determined to at least get a week of stuff in before I fall off. My linework isn't as confident as the master but I'll take it.
It's okay. I live inside my head too much and overthink about what to draw every time I try to do it. I rely too much on drawing from reference images since I worry about anatomy and proportion if it's a human or an animal. Especially if it's drawing from my imagination/automatic drawing. The other day, I was staring at at two blank sketchbooks with all my supplies laid out. Ultimately, I said "Fuck it, I'm going to the first thing that comes to mind on the word half." It was Bruce Timm's Two Face which I'm still working on. While I'm never going to replicate Timm's strokes and pressure 1:1, it's the experience of doing it that's the big takeaway for me. It's in my style but I get to appreciate the design of how he made it.
Oh gosh thank you SO much!!! I'm still very new and have huge imposters syndrome so hearing that has seriously made my month. Honestly...just time. Lots of time. If you look back at the beginning of my instagram, you can see my first drawing (junco bird) and I just kept going and learning from there. Mostly 8-12 hours a day, with a variety of different things I would try new each day. Did a skillshare class, started branching out to various youtube channels (love life drawing is one of my favorites especially!) bought some art books and just...absorbed and practiced constantly.Wait... like, started started? With no real experience? And three months later you can draw like this?
What's... what's your secret?
So I started drawing in July, and have been dealing with my first huge art block ever this past week...so I'm not going by any prompts.. Just doing art as often as I can manage it for pentober, at least hopefully one piece per week.
Week 1 (Ari from Gilded Shadows)
Days 4/5
Using the same brush but thicker. Not sure if I'm a huge fan of it but wanted to try.
The dynamism is so lit.
Another Soulstober post, I forgot to post the previous one..
Oh gosh thank you SO much!!! I'm still very new and have huge imposters syndrome so hearing that has seriously made my month. Honestly...just time. Lots of time. If you look back at the beginning of my instagram, you can see my first drawing (junco bird) and I just kept going and learning from there. Mostly 8-12 hours a day, with a variety of different things I would try new each day. Did a skillshare class, started branching out to various youtube channels (love life drawing is one of my favorites especially!) bought some art books and just...absorbed and practiced constantly.
I'm in my 30s, and drawing art was something I never thought I could do. I thought I was completely talentless, too old to learn, and never actually gave it a shot because of my anxiety+ocd issues. But during the pandemic I figured......why not? I can't go anywhere since I'm immunosuppressed, so I just...bit the bullet and tried it since a bunch of my friends were super supportive. They told me to get an instagram and keep track of my progress. And it's been honestly very freeing in so many ways for me.
Seriously though, thank you again!
Thank you so much for the advice, I really appreciate it!! You're definitely right that I've been recently sticking a bit more to my comfort zone, so I should try some new things.This is FANTASTIC for being a beginner, well done!! My hunch is youve focused mostly on faces and from the neck down things may be getting more hairy. Check out the other art threads as places to find helpful resources or just ask me directly if youd like any advice. Keep it up!
I can see the improvement and the ambition from these, its good to keep trying new poses, new angles and new expressions, thats the fastest way to get better, to try new things!
Somehow I missed this post but thanks! I'm in my 30s as well but I studied art in undergrad. Community college reignited my interest in art classes. So I took a bunch of art classes as electives, loved it, and pursued it further at a senior public college. When I look back at my old sketchbooks, it makes me cringe at some of the bad art I did. But it's part of the growing process.Thank you so much for the advice! I think overthinking it is a huge struggle of mine (especially with all my anxiety disorders lol). So just aimlessly drawing might be something I need to do for awhile to chill out. Your art is INCREDIBLE by the way, I think it looks amazing!! Honestly everyone in this thread has been super inspiring, I love seeing all of the super creative work in here
Oh gosh thank you SO much!!! I'm still very new and have huge imposters syndrome so hearing that has seriously made my month. Honestly...just time. Lots of time. If you look back at the beginning of my instagram, you can see my first drawing (junco bird) and I just kept going and learning from there. Mostly 8-12 hours a day, with a variety of different things I would try new each day. Did a skillshare class, started branching out to various youtube channels (love life drawing is one of my favorites especially!) bought some art books and just...absorbed and practiced constantly.
I'm in my 30s, and drawing art was something I never thought I could do. I thought I was completely talentless, too old to learn, and never actually gave it a shot because of my anxiety+ocd issues. But during the pandemic I figured......why not? I can't go anywhere since I'm immunosuppressed, so I just...bit the bullet and tried it since a bunch of my friends were super supportive. They told me to get an instagram and keep track of my progress. And it's been honestly very freeing in so many ways for me.
Seriously though, thank you again!
Starting with characters from The Locked Tomb trilogy by Tamsyn Muir.
From a storyboard I made early this year, tough just the first three. Didn't have time that first week to plan what I was going to do so I just did what was fresh in my memory, after the first one, I just stuck to it. I guess I'll have more characters if I need them.
From a storyboard I made early this year, tough just the first three. Didn't have time that first week to plan what I was going to do so I just did what was fresh in my memory, after the first one, I just stuck to it. I guess I'll have more characters if I need them.