/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>5233670
I'd say to go through Brent Eviston's course first before anything else if you're a legit absolute beg.
After that, you need to decide what course you want to take. What do you want to do with your art and learn what are the fundamentals for what you are trying to learn?
If you're trying to do comic books, which is my aim, I have to learn Anatomy, Gesture, Composition, Value, Perspective, ect.
Then you have to separate the fundamentals and tackle them, giving yourself a realistic timeframes.
Like 1 month for perspective. I have to read as many books as I can. Do as many perspective drawings as I can. Maybe download any course I can on perspective but mostly just drawing in perspective. Then the next month you move onto another fundamental and do the same thing.
Throughout this time, you want to find an artist who's work you like and is something you think you can learn to do if you put time into it.
I personally dont like paintings so I would waste my time following painters but it would make sense for me to follow comic book artists and try to copy their style.
I'm doing all of this while still trying to learn specific fundamentals.
That's the mindset I have.

The last point I want to get across is that beginners often struggle with 3D drawing. Drawing is basically just 3D sculpting in a sense and because you have not achieved a level where you can subconsciously draw things with form or perspective, you have to sit down and work on this.
You do this by drawing tons of cylinders and spheres and boxes and wrapping lines around them.
Find a magazine with an object that has form and trace a wrapping line around it.
Do this enough times and you will intuitively understand form and your drawings will look much better as a result.
Another point is construction but that's a whole other point as well as proportion.

>>5209689
That's not the point.
The point is that Loomis is complete shit for beginners and shilling it as if its some kind of golden pill to solve all your problems is what is annoying about this board.
Tell me, did you read the ENTIRETY of Loomis' books?
No?
Then why the fuck would you recommend it to beginners without explicitly stating first the pages which to ignore?
I know why.
You dont know how to teach beginners.
Your fucking mind can't get its head wrapped around the fact that people can't just copy shit and learn what they need to know without trying to completely absorb the book.
>>5209694
Have you been drawing as a child?
If so, your opinions are irrelevant.
You idiots could learn from Mark Crilley's meme manga book so you can't fucking tell me or other adult artists what is or what is not a good resource.
Just because your art is good and you say that Loomis and Vilppu helped you DOES NOT mean that they are the reason your art is the way it is.
I'm 100% certain there are things that people like you forget to mention because they are so ingrained in your self conscious that you dont even realize that beginners need to be informed about specific ideologies or techniques or ways of thinking about drawing because they seem obvious or second nature to you.

So yes. I stand firm in my belief that Vilppu and Loomis are fucking useless.
Look at the fucking beg threads every once in a while.
If your advice about Loomis and Vilppu was so good, why the fuck do people still draw like absolute shit in the beg threads despite using Loomis?
I'm only stating facts. Look at the fucking evidence.

The Art and Science of Drawing by Brent Eviston seems to be, right now, the best for absolute beginners because he first teaches control and how to look at a drawing and the mindset you need without all the rambling that Volen CK does.
All the shit he teaches might seem redundant to you but you dont know what being an absolute beginner at 30 is like or how to teach.

>>5182293
how tf do people drink soda though?
I hate that shit

>>5172391
your ignorance and inability to find good western artists

>>2008607
yeah plus he drew pregnant chicks alot and women breastfeeding gorilla babies maybe he was fucked in the mind

fuckin love this particular drawing haha