/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6887856
>i can't tell if im making the right shapes,
master copies, master copies, master copies

Drawing from real life is a surefire way to a land in a dumpster fire. Even realistic painters from the 1800's would make you copy Bargue and Julien, before moving onto plaster casts of STATUES, and then finally the life drawing model as the last stage. They went through years of nothing but copying from other artwork.

You should just get an anime and copy that frame by frame, along with copying Morpho for the realistic anatomy. When you do a study, redraw it from memory, so you get an easy transition to drawing from imagination

PSA: Don't draw with music.

>Have trouble focusing?
Don't draw with music.
>Quality of work is dipping?
Don't draw with music.
>Drawing seems boring compared to surfing the web?
Don't draw with music.
>Getting urges to play games or watch anime?
Don't draw with music.
>Work takes more and more time to complete?
Don't draw with music.

Drawing in silence is the key to flow state. Hearing the scritch scratch of the pencil is what soothes the artistic soul.

>>6693685
you're amazing. thank you

asg fails because they didn't go through the preliminary steps of learning figure drawing fundametnals.

If you want to avoid this fate, I suggest reading through this guide:

https://davidfinchart.com/where-to-start-and-where-to-go-from-there-a-roadmap-to-professional-quality-art/

Actually bad advice:
>Gesture means you don't need to care about proportions
>Ignoring accurate drawing and observation
>Ignoring exercises that train your arm, like drawing circles and ellipses
>Not finishing books, or finishing books in less than 3 months
>Not copying books cover to cover, over and over again
>Trying to draw heads, even anime heads, without studying the skull
>Drawing less than 30 minutes a day
>Believing you don't need to finish your drawings with clean lines or rendering
>Believing you're "too advanced" for beginner exercises
>Believing you don't need to ever draw from life (at least buy a fucking skull)
>Believing the video courses you don't have teach the secrets you need to learn
>Not making master copies, because you believe you need a course to teach you to draw like a certain artist
>Not becoming a bodybuilder and drawing yourself in the mirror for anatomy's sake

Did I miss anything?

thank you for using that image, op <3