Drawing

[buchvecny]

If i get you are asking for inspiration :O
you know everybody has another source of infomation ...
someone just sit and then =o whoa a great composition someone goes to nature and seeks some ideas...
personally i like to view abstract graphics be sure to checkout on deviantart.com

[Rebeccak]

TaGGeD,

You should definitely check out this sticky thread, which has lots of great links to resources here on CGTalk related to Drawing and Painting:

FORUM PRIMER FAQ: Drawing / Painting - Where Do I Start? + Human Reference Resources (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=357772)
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=357772

Cheers, :)

~Rebeccak

[TaGGeD]

Thank you for the link.

However, the thing is, I don't know what to draw... Usually I don't do things unless I have a reason for doing it. I'll take a look at the link and see what I can get from it.

If anyone else has any tips, it would be greatly appreciated.

[Rebeccak]

TaGGeD,

Master Copies are a great way to boost one's technical skills.

Why not participate in the most recent Master Copy Workshop, which I run on the Anatomy Forum?

Open Figure Drawing Workshop - Hals, Waterhouse, Velazquez, and Leighton - 018 (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=371709)
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=371709

See this useful thread with links to Master Copy Resources:

Master Copy Resources (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=354836)
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=354836

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

[sturmkim]

for me, why and what to draw is
" what mother nature is telling me, and express my imagenary _not good at drawing yet but way better then writing."

[Lunatique]

You draw because you feel compelled to. If you don't know what to draw, then maybe it's simply something you enjoy, but don't feel is your calling. If you really want to draw but don't know what to draw, then maybe you should consider making up little stories to illustrate. Having a story with characters, environments, plot, messages..etc is what drives many images.

[Azhrei]

I started drawing from an early age and I think it has a lot to do with the fact that I used to read a great deal. i wasn't too interested in television as I was always happier with my nose stuck in a book. As I read these amazing stories my imagination used to go wild and I would see in my mind all the characters and the story as it went along. When I started drawing it was almost a way of remembering these images, drawing the story out so that i could show other people what was happening in the book, and in my mind.

Nowadays i don't seem to have so much time to read, but I still find that when I read, i have much more inspiration and many more ideas for compositions, and when i go through a dry spell of not reading much, my ideas seem to dry up too.

If I was to therefore try to give any advice, i would say read, let your imagination go wild, and then try to capture those thoughts in your head.

[embryotic]

I think you should just draw what you 'like' - when I was younger all I drew was big muscled fighters beating up my friends, When I discovered girls... :D I was quite excited to draw them but then they just ended up looking like big muscled fighters.

I think if you just draw what appeals to you pretty soon you'll get an artistic slap in the face: 'Gee I really need to start blending my colours better' - 'I cant draw trees or buildings' etc - then you start focusing on those things.

One moment youre trying to draw nakey girls and all of a sudden you start researching why you pictures dont look as good as you should like - thats when you become a struggling artist.....or you will just keep drawing nakey girls.

either way its fun.

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