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Count_Sprpr Vamp/ire Nothing I say is ever 100% serious, 95% at most :!marseywave:

1mo ago (image post) 106 thread views #316674

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Count_Sprpr Vamp/ire Nothing I say is ever 100% serious, 95% at most :!marseywave:

1mo ago #7319769 Edited 1mo ago

Decided to draw early today, as I will be studying from home. Started taking a peak into Andrew Loomis's "Drawing the head and the hands".

In theory, drawing should be the easiest skill in the world to master. Since there is immediate visual feedback, you should in theory always know what you did wrong, and can improve on.

But the same phenomenon that makes drawing possible (our brain's ability to attach meaning to even simple shapes) also works against me because it makes it hard to pinpoint exactly where I have made a mistake. I am just stuck with a sense of "wrongness" while the brain works overtime to hide that wrongness from me.

I think I have gotten better at noticing mistakes though.

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Count_Sprpr 1mo ago #7319824

>I think I have gotten better at noticing mistakes though.

This is what you should strive for :marseyagree:

I'm not an artist, I've never drawn anything besides stupid doodles to my teachers in school. But I'm not afraid to draw.

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Szrotmistrz he/man Mosquitoes carry the Vaccine. Count_Sprpr 1mo ago #7319822

I never really used any learning materials for my drawings, I think I watched a few YT videos years back that taught me nothing, and that's that. My school art classes were worthless as well. I found drawing tutorials frustrating since my results were never as good as I wanted them to be, and it was more demotivating than motivating.

So, while I really like drawing, and I don't have problems seeing my mistakes, I have a problem dealing with them. Drawing is not a science, so there is no easy solution to "not getting it right", not to mention I don't want to copy other peoples drawing techniques, it always felt cheap and unorginal to me.

Also, getting the motivation to do draw is an issue. I think at this point through the weekly drawing thing I drawn more this year than last three years.

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Idunnoknow they/them Szrotmistrz 1mo ago #7344717 Edited 1mo ago

>I don't want to copy other peoples drawing techniques, it always felt cheap and unorginal to me

This is r-slurred, and its really what's at the heart of the post-modernistic brain rot affecting art.

Nobody would say it feels cheap to copy someone elses math formulas, nobody would say it feels cheap to copy someone elses deadlift form but with art it's suddenly a bad thing. Copying is at the heart of learning any skill and style isn't something thats practiced independently or in opposition of technical skill.

In fact because scrubs all commit one of the same say, twelve different errors it is rather so that beginner art all looks the same. Style is rather contingent on skill. There's a reason nearly all the actual innovative early modernists were classically schooled.