/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3840110
Well before then I'd just been drawing pretty bad characters just by sight. I read Loomis and searched up tutorials. Asked on /ic/ how to properly study, etc.
I learned about construction and thinking in boxes and cylinders to build the body from Alphonso Dunn's mannequin tutorial. I eventually learned how to construct them and from then on I learned anatomy and built onto that.
The key I found was learning how to observe an object and not just copy it. You use it as reference and then draw without looking. That really helped me ground everything into my mind. Experimenting, iterative drawing from Sycra, teaching myself to think in 3D with Mark's Art Tutorials especially (If you take anything from this, please check it out, it helped me a shit ton.) The tutorial I watched was called 'getting better at art with brute force. I found it here.

Also looking at every style, even the ones I don't like and taking a shape or piece you like from it and incorporating that into your library. Also try visualizing. Learn to see things properly in your mind and use that as a source instead of scribbling. But that's something I learned recently with the kim thread. It has helped me tremendously.

>>3840117
Not him but this was one of my drawings when I was beginning in 2018. I wouldn't say I improved to /ic/s standards but I improved way above what I would have, had I continued to just draw mindlessly like I did in the first place.
I'll level with you and say 'just draw' isn't bad advice. It's just used incorrectly with beginners. It should only be towards those that struggle with beginning or are hesitant. It's used too universally to be useful. I've encountered several people who were given this advice and came back a year later talking about how they never improved. Then after being told how to 'just draw' properly, they improved faster than they have with all of the previous time they took added together.

Been at it for a few months. Just keep it up and you'll probably reach my level.