I don't know where to begin, your art is genuinely among the most impactful and beautiful art I've ever come across. It's so very obvious how much you pour love and passion into your characters, I've been coming back to simply just. stare. at your work for the last couple of days (not to sound like a creep haha), before finally gathering the courage to send in this ask.
I wanna say thank you, first of all, for sharing your art. I've recently picked up a pen to start learning how to draw, and was overwhelmed by the amount of content I had to study. I was really close to just dropping it altogether, but coming across this blog and seeing all your pieces and the symbolism, the horror and the underlying beauty, it inspired me to keep trying, in the hopes that one day I can also make creative works like these.
Since I've fallen quite in love with your work, and I hope I'm not being a bother in doing this, but I wanted to also ask if you have any advice for total art babies such as myself? A general direction we should take to? Is art school needed in order to master this creative field?
Thanks so much again for your time
Oh hello anon! Thank you for stopping by and for remaining to watch my work so attentively. Thank you also for being so brave and approaching me, it's not a bother at all. I will take your compliments to heart and hopefully repay you equally in the form of advice. I tried to make it as solid but easy to understand as I could, feel free to ask any questions below.
SIMPLE GUIDE FOR STARTING YOUR ART JOURNEY
YOUR MATERIALS - Don't aim for expensive materials. Buy what you won't feel afriad of ''wasting'', because you will make many drawings that won't satisfy you fully. You can't be afraid of letting that sketchbook look ugly, you should be afraid of letting it look empty. Despite not being a beginner, I still stand for this advice and my sketchbooks are bellow 5Eu and I use materials students use in school, like a normal mechanical pencil, regular pencils, and a white eraser. I highly recommend you start your journey with traditional art, with the simple materials I mentioned above. The lack of ctlr x will build confidence within you and it will show in every medium you pick, even digital. It's easier on the eyes as well.
DRAWING IS FUN - Oh how tedious it is to study! So in the very beginning in your art journey having fun is important, because it will be a force that will nourish you thro the most difficult tasks. You can have fun in redrawing the things you like (I redrew visual novel sprites back in my day), study cosplayers and anime/action figures (they're great because they're stylized while being spatially accurate, since they're a 3D object), draw the characters you like (which can be made easier if you can create them on any character-making game and take screenshots of them interacting. If not, just take screenshots of movie or cartoon scenes you like and draws them like that. Can be original characters or not)
FIND SOMEONE TO SEE IT - While not obligatory it is a great source of tenacity to have someone see and react positively to your art. Social media is not necessarily the ideal place for it because it leads to numeral comparisons and self-doubts (you can join, but have a steady and confident mindset). What I mean is a small group of friends that will always interact with your art. I recommend writers with ocs, since they rarely see their characters visually. They will encourage you immensely and their reactions are priceless
DRAW DAILY - Oh how tedious it is to study! Where to start? I recommend you take any picture you like online (preferably a photograph) and re-draw it. What did you struggle with? Write it down in the corner and make that your next drawing goal. I once did that and realized I wasn't good at dynamism, then I re-draw an action photo the next day. The I realized I wasn't confident in drawing faces so I made Vogue cover studies the next day. So on and so forth. You don't have to make every day a grand piece (there were days where I only drew kneecaps or ears) but doing it every day, even for as little as 30 min, does take somewhere
FINISH WHAT YOU DRAW - Even if it's just a sketch, take that sketch to completion. The start-to-finish is a journey you have to experience, you can't leave it for ''when I'm good enough''.
Here are some other past answers regarding how to approach a sketchbook and how to make studies fruitful
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um, do- do you have any advice, or tips for wannabe artists?
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Art school is not needed. I attended art university (it doesn't cost a bazillion dollars in my country) but that is aimed for people more advanced in their art journey. Everything I learned that allowed me to get in was available to me online and thro a few books here and there (which...can be probably found online as well). So with a sketchbook, pencils, and access online, the world of art is open to you!
Best of luck in your journey! Feel free to let me know if there's any other struggle I can help you with
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