Hey, I've been following your work for quite some time and I was wondering how long you'd been doing visual art for and if you have any tips on a starting place for people to get started getting into drawing - any resources, should I go and enrol in a local art course for beginners, how many hours a week should I dedicate to it, etc?
oh man so uh ive been drawing //serioulsy/// or whatever since middle school. and really its all about practice practice practice. like. spend every free moment you have drawing even if its just random doodles. the more you draw the better you will get. and so okay tips and tricks:
yes! enroll in an art class!! that would be a great idea!!! beginning drawing classes are boring and usually its stuff you dont want to draw (still lifes etc) but its so important that you learn the basics!!! and taking a class will make you actually learn it instead of like “oh yeah ill get to that at some point eyaah”
if you want to learn how to draw a person. draw. from. life. i cannot stress this enough. even if you want to draw in a more cartoony/simplistic style. draw from people and real things nOT OTHER DRAWINGS. if you dont know how to draw something google it. find reference pictures.
if there arent any life/figure drawing classes available in your area. you can always just go to a coffee shop with a sketch book and draw the people around you. this is really just to learn proportions so dont worry about random details. HERE IS A WEBSITE FOR figure-drawing!!!! It times you and everything! They even have a “class” option that goes from quick gestures into longer poses. SUPER GREAT. Also posemaniacs for reference pics.
here are my tutorials: http://cargsdoodles.tumblr.com/tagged/tutorials
here are other peoples: http://cargsinspo.tumblr.com/tagged/t
great site tbh: http://helpyoudraw.tumblr.com/
read tons of tutorials. practice all the time. tbh there are a lot of lil tricks that you can memorize that make drawing a lot easier. like:
FACIAL PROPORTIONS:
1 eye in between the eyes
½ an eye on either side
top of ears line up with the eyes/eyebrows
nose lines up with the insides of the eyes
bottom of the ears line up with the bottom of the nose
ends of mouth lines up with the center of the eyes
mouth lines up with the corner of the jaw
there are also tips for measuring the body against itself but i would just google it tbh cause theres so much haha and different ways to do it based on male/female/children/etc
the foreshortening thing
the perspective thing
hope this helps!! <3

















