your art is suuuuuper super good. it's a really great style and i love it a lot! i was wondering if you happened to have any resources, videos or guides for a beginner artist on learning the fundamentals, specifically form!
i'm starting + trying to take art seriously at the age of 23 and i figured the best course of action would be to ask artists around tumblr and try to get as much info as i can while i'm practicing, since a lot of the art videos i find on youtube kinda feel like they're made just for the skillshare sponsor ๐
thanks a bunch!!!
(side note if you happen to know of anyone on tumblr i can hire who's willing to give one-on-one art tutoring that would be great :O probably a tall order but wouldn't hurt to ask)
Thank you!! It's an honor that you ask me for tips and resources!
Sadly uhh, I am self learned. And I have adhd . SO...I have looked at videos and tips and everything but I still don't remember anything about color theory. I just fuck up the coloring until I fix it at some point. Sometimes I don't fix it, sometimes it's just bad. And then I post it. Might be the reason why I do so much linework, it's so much more fun for me.
So knowing that uhh, don't rely too much on tutorials. Watch them! Read them! But also, draw what you want. If the tutorial says that practice by drawing fruit but you wanna draw Naruto? Draw Naruto. Be in the right headspace to do art you don't wanna do. Don't turn art into a monster. DISCLAIMER: This is a tip for taking casual fun art serious.
Mindless doodling is effective. Sometimes it's about shapes. Don't try making ART ART every time you draw. For example, here's doodles I do when I just wanna "feel" making the shapes and lines:
I draw what I want. My brain fights me every time I have to do something I absolutely don't want to and then my art is not good. I hate it. I hate myself. I hate that I can't do art like that.
So I don't!! This is why I can't be a professional artist.
Figure out how you want to make art. Do you want to learn all the shortcuts in the program to make things fast and easy, use the blending modes and lasso tools with almost everything. ORR do you want to draw more traditionally. Slowly painting things, feeling the lines and taking the time. If you wanna draw for fun, don't turn it into a chore. Don't "maximize" your productivity or paint slowly because "real artist do so".
Don't try to do art like others. Take the tips you want and leave the ones you don't. Look at others art. You like how they draw the nose? Start drawing the nose like that. You like how people shade? Start doing that too. At first you will copy things but eventually, without even realizing, you will mold what you've taken into your own thing. You tweak the nose a bit. You change the blending modes.
Sadly, I don't know who would give art lessons. I bet people advertise those in ko-fi etc. I could set up a art disco or something for people to join but I don't uhh, well I'm not a teacher nor (like I said) do I really follow "art rules" in any way that I am myself aware of them. I can only share how I do things.
Oh! I draw with long lines. This demands a bit practice and getting used to. Or hey? Don't draw with long lines if it feels off. You know what you want to do the best
AND NOTHING MATTERS WHEN SKETCHING. CHARACTERS DON'T EVEN NEED TO LOOK LIKE THEMSELVES. SKETCH UGLY, THEN SKETCH LESS UGLY, THEN HEY, SKETCH AGAIN A BIT LESS UGLY. OR START THE LINEWORK WITH THE UGLY SKETCH. DIGITAL ART IS A SKETCHING PLAYGROUND.
And you don't even need to make the linework if you don't want. Sketches are lovely, too. I love sketches.
Hey. Wanna know where I learned about blocking and shapes when I was a kid? Simpsons S2 episode "Brush of Greatness". I am not kidding. I had a "you can do that???" moment
I hope this helped even a lil bit! People share pose sites like
SketchDaily Reference Site (the only one I've used I think)
Also use PoseIt from the app store with difficult poses. I do. References are GOOD. It's never CHEATING or whatever losers call it.
If you wanna be professional, art is a lot more mechanical. If you wanna draw for yourself/others for fun, it's about your needs.
