/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>5142337
Not much I could really say that you haven't heard countless times if you've looked around on how to improve.

Being goal oriented helps a lot. Have small goals you can work into your repertoire in a few months time as well as long term goals over a year without getting over ambitious thinking you can do it in an unreasonable time. Knowing how you learn and what resonates with you helps too. Maybe you're not good at learning on your own, maybe you can't grasp something with reading alone, maybe you need a demo, a video or and combination of them. Knowing how you learn and what helps get the info across is important to your growth.

Keeping things in perspective in terms of how long it will take. It takes years to learn how to draw and is essentially a lifetime commitment. Understanding that the fundamentals isn't something you grind and graduate from, but you upkeep like going to the gym. Learning to draw is like spinning plates, you need to give everything the time it needs and forgetting any one will only begin to make things fall apart.

If you're going to be self taught you have to be able to hold yourself to your goals; No one is going to dog on you to get work done and no one can do the work for you to improve. If you want it to be a career you have to treat it like one. You can't just decide that you're not going to show up to work because you don't feel like it or are not inspired. You have to make the most of your time, even when you're not up for it.

>>5115151
I wrote a post in the last thread on how I go about studying. Its not perfect and it may not work for you, but you got do some leg work and figure out these things about yourself. On a side note, blanket questions can only really get you blanket responses. If you can find the right mentors and present specific questions about you work it would do you a lot better. Learning is to draw is a massive topic, theres so much to say and so little space to say it in a single post.

>>5130536