/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>7003937
Don't believe that anon. This progression is from three successive attempts with only a few practice drawings in-between. It's less about breadth of time practicing and more about having an "aha" or "click" moment that pushes you to the next level. The trick was to challenge myself. I got really good at rendering/copying from picture reference to build up a drawing skillset but had only ever used graphite pencils. So I decided to try painting something. Top left is my first oil painting, which I did from life to add extra challenge, did some drawing inbetween, then did another oil painting from life which was a little cleaner. Stopped drawing altogether for about two years to focus on painting miniatures exclusively because I became obsessed with it. Just this past week I decided to draw something but using pastels for the first time, and I made that piece on the bottom. I truly attribute most of my progress to that one month I subbed to New Masters Academy which unlocked my brain a bit. In that past 4 years I've maybe drawn/painted about 10 pieces? And maybe 30 miniatures? The point being it seems like a lot of time spent practicing but its really something I do once in a while, the trick was the click, once you see it you have it. I suggest really looking at techniques on HOW to draw instead of just trying to draw an anime girl or some shit like half of you guys do. This video should do something for you, once you can draw a head you can draw anything using the same principles.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=drawing+faces+academy+steve+huston

Sorry for the blog post, I'm here for critiques and to encourage you anons to stop bruteforcing shit and just slow down and learn for a bit.