Please I need to learn your secrets. How do you guys do it? I tried to learn how to draw for like a WHOLE YEAR and the best I got out of it was this ass pfp. What did you guys do to achieve such godly status? I must learn your secrets, your techniques, your abilities. And istg don’t just reply “get good” or “keep trying”, did that for a year and achieved very little. I appreciate pretty much any actual advice.
try guides on where you wanna improve
You’re the guy who replied to my comment asking the same question so I’m sorry but I have to make this quick.
What you said, in my eyes, is absurd. You made that PFP yourself?
Ten times better than anything I can draw.
I know you said not to say just keep trying but that’s genuinely what I recommend - I get it, it doesn’t work for me either, but in your case I think you’re already doing well!
Obviously I’m not one to talk - as I said, I suck, but that’s literally all I have to offer.
You got this, mate.
Keep cooking!
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Which ones? 
Kind of a stretch to say I drew it myself, I very heavily referenced another picture. But still thank you
It’s not about the methods in my eyes, it’s about the quality of the end result. Same mindset for just about everything ngl (why do you think I never show my working in maths lmao)
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mb just edited it
Like you still did the art right? If so, it doesn’t matter HOW you got there. Best art I’ve ever drawn was a SandWing from WoF and I needed a reference for that, there’s nothing wrong with using them - they’re called references because that’s what they’re meant to be!
So don’t beat yourself up for using them, continue to do art how you feel comfortable, and who knows? You might not need them in due time.
Now I just gotta take my own advice lol
don’t try and draw without references
TLDR:
UNLESS you absolutely feel comfortable and would prefer to
(sorry about that actra)
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It would be cool to reach a level where I don’t need them
dude don’t beat yourself up about it
what you’ve already done’s impressive enough especially for just 1 year of practicing how to draw
the artists you’re comparing yourself to have been doing this for 3-4, maybe even several times what you’ve underwent
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Drawing takes a lot of dedication and effort. Your PFP already looks like it has good proportions and anatomy imo, so you’re on the way there. But it takes YEARS of effort and dedication + improvement. I’d definitely suggest anatomy videos and drawing guides. I’m not an artist myself but I know a friend who benefits a lot from anatomy videos.
holy fuck is that alice
@Behe4d
i’ve got to play ***** souls someday…
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well now thats not nice
how would you react if i told you the same one day
It can be just genetics or the simple way you are
Some people just are born with shaky hands, bad hand-eye coordination, etc
Not to say that you’ll never be able to fix these problems, it just makes it insanely difficult to train and actually keep your skills.
Hello, artist here.
First, you need to understand that a lot of artists here have been going at it for a LOT longer than you or I. They’re good because, behind their posts, they’ve been drawing for a while. Don’t beat yourself up because you don’t think you’re improving quickly compared to them—they have the foundations down to make massive change, foundations you still need to establish.
Now, my key to improvement is references. I say my key because while this is what I did, I don’t know if it’s universal. To do this, plop images right on the digital drawing pad and go back and forth between it and the drawing. Ideally, these should be from real life, or by a skilled artist who you want to learn from.
Also, this is exactly the WRONG attitude to have. If you didn’t straight up trace the thing, then it’s still your own work. The idea that artists can just spontaneously create something from nothing is simply false. They’ve either drawn something like pieces of it from the past, or they’re drawing from references. If an artist truly tried to do something with absolutely no applicable foreknowledge or reference, it would look questionable at best, regardless of their skill.
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