/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3461236
>You didn't waste your time on the fundamentals
I mean even when I was drawing I didn't do much of them, I dabbled but never got a good grasp, all these guides, and books left half learned. But now I kinda feel motivated to try again, work on those fundamentals and anatomy while also not putting anime off and at the least copying it, and copying more in general

I realized a lot of what I did was trying to draw from imagination, without references despite collecting and saving hundreds of thousands of reference pics and stuff, and not having a full grasp of fundamentals, no wonder I gave up.

>West is also coming around on copying in the industry (photobashing
I actually want to try giving photobashing a go too, and yeah its interesting to see attitudes towards copying changing. As for me maybe it was these attitudes ingrained subconsciously that made me not even consider copying anime, and made me not once consider the fact that of course anime artists copy anime as well, and I felt like I had to draw from imagination or it wasn't acceptable, so these beliefs held me back but at least I can move past from them now and give it another go.

It's been too long.