/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4973438
It's honestly less a thing of confidence and more to do with me figuring out the drawing as I was doing it, aside from using a pretty blunt pencil and the drawing being about 5 inches tall.

>>4973508
I'm a "been drawing my entire life" fag, never really improved because I didn't even know what to practice. In late I started doing research on how to properly improve, and this is what I came up with:

0. The way I forced myself to actually put in the hours every day was through a service called Beeminder. If you fail to meet the goal you set yourself, you get charged the amount you also set.

1. I started with Gelnn Vilppu's gesture drawing course (the newer one, I downloaded it all through a free trial in NMA because I couldn't find it on mega or CGPeers), and even though I never finished it, it finally made me get a grasp for gesture. I also did Drawabox but gave up after lesson 1 because it's really fucking boring. If you can take it it's really good though, I still plan to finish it sometime.

2. Figure drawing every single day for at least an hour (croquis cafe sessions + I got 15k+ reference images from CGPeers). During my first 3 months or so that was almost the only thing I did and I was improving a lot, though I suggest you also start with the following points to make quicker progress. I also did Proko's figure drawing course. If I ever felt like I was having a bad day with my gesture I just rewatched some of the sample NMA Youtube videos of Glenn gesture drawing and tried to draw along with him.

3. It was through attempts at drawing from imagination that I realized how shit my construction/structure and perspective was. I took Marshall Vandruff's perspective course and did a sort of figure drawing that I haven't seen suggested before: I basically did what Steve Huston does for his gesture drawings (there are Youtube samples), but with a felt tip pen in as few strokes as I could, really trying to simplify the figure as box shapes (pic related)