HELP ME i can't draw for my life

[jeroentje]

Ehmm... the best advice I can give you is to take a pencil and a piece of paper... and start drawing the things around you. The rest is making miles and miles and miles (and along the way maybe some tips from this board).
jeroentje

[Kirt]

Just draw. The only way to learn how to draw is by doing it and doing it often. With practice and time you'll find that you have better control of your pencil, your ideas are translated to paper more easily and you'll develop your own unique style.

There are no incorrect ways to draw only different techniques to express your artistic visions. Don't get discouraged if what you're doing now doesn't convey your ideas accurately. Even the best artists can get overly critical of their own work and fill garbage bags of beautiful renderings that they feel is "crap".

If you're having problems with basic shapes, forms and proportions ... find a good exercise (www.letswiggle.com) to practice with daily and stick to the regiment (just like a daily physical excercise program). Warm up with a page or two of doodles before commiting yourself to finished pieces of work. And most importantly ... have FUN!!

If your art is stressfull to you, your not going to learn anything but how to hate doing it.

Good Luck :thumbsup:

[jeroentje]

Amen...

Give up waiting for a destination and start to enjoy the ride.
jeroentje

[eLm0]

thanks all but still i'm trying to tap into that whole mavel charaters spiderman etc doe with ink feel and i've been drawing for ages but i'm trying this style now neone no where to start?:bounce:

[ParanoidAndroid]

You don't want to steal someone elses style...maybe get inspiration from it but thats the extent of it. ;)

Draw what you see not what you know and sooner or later you will gain your own personal style.

[RormanKnockwell]

Forget about the SuperFriends, eLmO, you need to learn from the Master! I am speaking, of course, about Loomis!!! (http://www.saveloomis.org/)

[VShane]

Definatley practice the the Loomis "skeleton". I practiced that alone for 6 months before I went onto doing full figures, I was just 15 at the time.

Also to warm up your hand, I have my students (home school teens) warm up for at least half an hour just drawing interlocking spheres, oblongs etcc. Sketchy, circular wrist motion exercises, sweeping gestures, that kind of thing, no erasing aloud.

Ever notice how your working on a piece of art, and you really don't get into the "flow" until like a half to an hour later?

well I recommend doing what i suggested for that time to warm up to a "project" you are working on that you like, you'll feel more attached to its motion and find yourself erasing alot less.

Just one perspective that works for me and my acolytes.

[RormanKnockwell]

Great advice. It's good to see that someone is actually teaching drawing as if it were exercise. I have never taught (aside from a workshop, once), but have often noticed that many students take a posture and attitude in drawing class that makes it nearly impossible to make a good drawing.

Here's what I see: a student will walk into class and immediately strap on a pair of headphones, slouch over, holding the pencil as if he were writing, not drawing, and scratch out some baloony outline with his nose 6 inches from the paper.

Instead, here's what you SHOULD do: pick a soft pencil like an ebony or a china marker, prop up the drawing board at arm's length, keep your back straight and vertical (this really helps, believe it or not), hold the pencil by your fingertips, with the tip next to your thumb, and draw by only moving the shoulder. Not the fingers, not the wrist, not the elbow. Only the shoulder. Train your shoulder muscles to control the pencil, and the secrets of dynamic drawing will be yours!

Oh yeah, and no headphones!

[eLm0]

thanks heaps this advice is greating better and better i haven't seen a post on hear with this much help in ages dude THANKS HEAPS of loomis that link was a gold mine:beer:

[Renderedbrian]

Why did the artist die?

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Because he couldn't draw his breath! :applause:

eLm0, I'm sure you aren't as bad as the artist mentioned in the lame joke above, but heres a book you may want to get hold of,
"Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain", by Betty Edwards.

However, buying books is all well and good, but you do have to PRACTICE too.

Treat yourself to some decent drawing paper, some drawing pencils of various type (from hard to soft), and just draw!

hope this helps.

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brian

[Galo]

First read this thread, the think again :D

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9113

I've got problems beginning to so....

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