/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2958847
>Even the example of bad symbol drawing looks like a masterpiece compared to what I can do
Yessss, I remember this feel.
People will meme drawabox but I really dissaprove of the jump from musclememory straight lines&boxes to a fucking mouse/leaf or whatever it was.
Learn measuring and intuitive gesture, that's what really clicked for me. you wanna draw realistically, then what you see on the paper should match what you see in real life, right? So hold up a stick and measure the distances between shit. "The crease of this thing is two head-neck lengths& a little smidgerooni from this fold here"
And then, once you know all that? Say fuck it and throw lines wherever the hell you feel like. Draw shapes of negative space just as often as shapes of the subject. Is this shape miles off target? Just draw lightly in the first place so you can move the line to where it belongs. In between this, you can use measuring wellthis thing-o aligns with this thingyalong a horizontal line, this space is two times longer than that, this goes this way and whatever. When I was taking drawing1 this semester, my teacher put up a few boxes on the table in the middle of all our easels and put on loud rock music and told us to just draw. Then he stopped us and told us to go to the sisal to our right. A minute or so later, again. Again. Left this time. Right again. At this point it fucking clicked, and once we had rotated back too our original positions, I had drawn my favorite stack of boxes all semester. When I got home I started scratching out a couple big cats from google images, though it's just a quick sketch I enjoy the way it shows off my technique.
Here's a Proko video that my draw1 prof liked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzDGO0LssEM
Sorry for the blogpost, and sorry if I butchered this lesson, I just really connected with the "bad portrait study looks like a masterpiece to me" sentiment and it feels like such a hurdle between there and the starting line to getting gud

>>2893979
/ic/ doesn't appreciate stylization, and the stylization thread is trash. here, you should be posting more serious studies from life/photos and then using what you learn from that on your own personal subjects.
this bird has minimal to no shading, weird anatomy (are they wings or arms? is it's body shaped like a person or a bird?) sloppy linework (look at the hat, it's a perfect cone with concentric rings, mathematically the easiest shape, and you fucked it up) and it just looks wierd, but nothing we haven't gone through as beginners. the best advice would be to look for ways to accurately draw from life(without just symbol drawing it), like semi-blind drawing.

Also, anybody wanna bash my semi-blind drawing technique? besides >>2893444, what should i do? i just learned this shit and i am insane about it.

>>2886933
>>2886939
another intuitive gesture, another big cat

any thoughts? is there anything i'm doing wrong? should i keep on doing these and start looking at the value?