/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2807772
Starting from zero?


Being able to CONSISTENTLY draw with that level of APPEAL, without relying on one-trick-pony-gimmicks will take you:


Less than a year with great practice.
1 year with good practice.
2 years with questionable work ethic.

These are super rough estimates and natural tendencies play a role as well.


>>2807801
>>2807801
>stop drawing anime
Stop giving this advice for crying out loud. There is absolutely nothing stopping an artist from drawing anime and doing figure drawing.

"Abandon everything and start figure drawing" is the worst /ic/ advice that people parrot all the time.

Instead, have a goal, keep pursuing that goal, while you ALSO do studies and figure drawing etc.

Find a couple artists to study. Not artists that you like, but artists that you want to be able to draw like.(yes there's a difference.) Make sure they're good (ask someone who knows better than you). Pay special attention to their (rough) sketches, they're the most valuable work to observe and study when starting off. COPY and reference these drawings. I know your artistic integrity says otherwise but it's really helpful (just don't present the work as your own). Just keep in mind the goal is not to replicate, but to feel out the process.

>>2769692
>he thinks that learning art is all about drawing from life
>he thinks that you can learn appealing stylization without studying cartoonists
>he thinks that Yoshinari Yoh is a no-name
>he thinks that studying 5 pages worth of rough sketches is so much work that one can't also draw from life while doing so


You fell for the /ic/ meme, ngmi.