/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2443427
Kind of. More like I draw a dragon from my imagination but can't get it to look right in perspective, something to do with the width under the jaw. So I do a few drawings of sneks, komodo dragons, dragon paintings etc to get that shape/thickness right. Then I draw a few dragon heads, till I'm satisfied that that bit is ok.

Then I move onto whatever else I want to draw, maybe a tree or something, but I see I don't know how the fuck bark works, so do some studies of that and how it wraps round the tree, then apply it with a few more sketches.

I think improving one key thing with each drawing is a good way to go, and then I've made a list and like main weekly targets for the next few weeks on larger things that I suck at in all my drawings. Like this week is gesture and getting more free flowing lines, next week is focusing on value, etc etc.

The smaller do sketch, learn how to fix what's wrong, make sure you have it in your head method is good, means I feel like I'm really learning a couple new things each day and that feels really good. And then having the weekly focus always in the back of my mind while doing studies or practice or whatever helps me steadily get better at that over the week too.

But seriously, it's not just important to do little thumbs or doodles of what you want to do as finished work, it's CRITICAL. Otherwise you will get to the stage where you have the technical skills, but no imagination/idea of what it is you wanted to create in the first place.