I’ve started using my shitty wacom tablet I stole from highschool and photoshop, its just I lack the talent to draw anything other than extremely basic line art and use the fill tool. I have no idea how to progress
I used to be limited in my art by the idea of perfectionism. But just start with moving your hand freely. Draw like you’re sketching in a notebook. Don’t focus on creating perfect lines, but drawing with something like a permanent marker could be a cool activity because you can’t erase, so you just keep building on.
Smiling Friends has been a show that’s eye opening for me to draw whatever I want because there’s no coherent art style.
Just have fun with it. Start with a shape. Give it some arms. Give it some eyes. Maybe a bowtie for personality. Look around the room for random inspirations.
Art should be fun and if you’re enjoying it casually, you’ll just improve over time the more you do it.
My strategy has been youtube tutorials, and a lot of practice. Proko has a lot of great tutorial videos with a lot of variety in terms of style and difficulty. Marco Bucci has been probably the biggest help in terms of color theory. David Revoy is another good teacher, though most of his tutorial videos are more focused on Krita.
I’ve started using my shitty wacom tablet I stole from highschool and photoshop, its just I lack the talent to draw anything other than extremely basic line art and use the fill tool. I have no idea how to progress
I used to be limited in my art by the idea of perfectionism. But just start with moving your hand freely. Draw like you’re sketching in a notebook. Don’t focus on creating perfect lines, but drawing with something like a permanent marker could be a cool activity because you can’t erase, so you just keep building on.
Smiling Friends has been a show that’s eye opening for me to draw whatever I want because there’s no coherent art style.
Just have fun with it. Start with a shape. Give it some arms. Give it some eyes. Maybe a bowtie for personality. Look around the room for random inspirations.
Art should be fun and if you’re enjoying it casually, you’ll just improve over time the more you do it.
thanks to both of you, I’ll have a look/keep those things in mind
I got a set of greyscale markers; super easy to build shading with those instead of pure black markers.
My strategy has been youtube tutorials, and a lot of practice. Proko has a lot of great tutorial videos with a lot of variety in terms of style and difficulty. Marco Bucci has been probably the biggest help in terms of color theory. David Revoy is another good teacher, though most of his tutorial videos are more focused on Krita.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Proko
Marco Bucci
David Revoy
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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