How I Learned Drawing
Drawing is a combination of two skills
- Artist Eye: The ability to see and understand the aspects of any image. In order of importance you must be able to see: Gesture, composition, geometry and perspective.
- Motor Coordination: the ability to execute marks on a medium. With time, any being with an eye and limb capable of making marks can master these to levels unthinkable to their own mind.
How to improve quickly
The struggle of art is the mismatch of your imagination and the outcome. It takes time to find what you love and hate.
- drawabox.com: Training gauntlet. Take all frustration from your art not meeting your expectations and channel it into the difficulty of this course.
- line-of-action.com: "I want to draw humans"
- creatureartteacher.com: "I want to draw animals"
Imminant Critique
When you have a drawing you dislike, write what you'd do differently. Don't waste your time with useless words about judgement or abstract quality.
If you have a drawing implement which is a different color, draw the corrected version using this implement.
If you are in a digital program, the rate at which you do this becomes staggering. I take the Lasso tool and isolate the mistake to an ERR folder. then in a seperate folder i draw out my corrections and notes. "I hate this" is useless "This part looks bad" is okay "Here is how this could look good" is magic.