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[Anonymous No.3286530]

do you guys have any tips for increasing drawings gains?

[Anonymous No.3286554]

>>3286530
Sleep enough, eat well, 3 meals a day. Drink a lot. Don't start drawing too late.
Don't listen to music while drawing, or only white noises/not distracting.
Take short breaks if you can't focus.
Have a good posture, back as straight as possible.
Take actual notes of your mistakes and improve on them.
Have a PRECISE idea of what you want to accomplish in a session. Ex: Complete X pages of a certain drawing book, draw that many poses,... I can't stress how important this is. Without good directions you won't know in where you will be going and what the purpose of the exercises are.

[Anonymous No.3286582]

>>3286554
i usually draw until late because i have sleep problems , is not like in want to sleep at that moment i just dont feel sleepy , and is it bad to spend too much time fixing something like drawing the face and then you realize that you suck at drawing ears and then you spend the next 2 hours drawing nothing but ears i do that shit a lot and usually get too tired to continue studying with what i was doing in the first place

[Anonymous No.3286597]

>>3286554
nice pongis you got there.

[Anonymous No.3286681]

>>3286530
look into deliberate practice, but forget all the self help guru crap

don't jump around with your practice a whole bunch. Don't practice perspective for an hour, then anatomy, then gesture, then color, stick with one thing for a while

get at least a basic understanding of each topic and then go back and go more in depth, if you have at least some understanding you can kind of build a lot of skills indirectly while working on other stuff. like improving perspective while working on anatomy as an example.

Don't get hung up on details, if you're practicing figures dont sit there and try and get the face perfect for an hour. Work on figures when you do figures, work on faces when you do faces, that kind of applies everywhere (unless you ARE tyring to work on both)

Everyone learns differently but the whole deliberate practice thing has worked out very well for me. What I mostly took from it is that mindless repetition is the enemy.

[Anonymous No.3286704]

>>3286681
thats very helpful anon , thanks

[Anonymous No.3286712]

>>3286554

>Drink a lot

I hope you mean water, anon, drunk drawing kills your gains

[Anonymous No.3286716]

>>3286712
What? I like to get drunk and paint with my tears. Is it really bad? Can you prove it?

[Anonymous No.3286739]

>>3286716

One drink in and your hand-eye coordination is trashed, and it only gets worse from there.

[Anonymous No.3286747]

>>3286739

[Anonymous No.3286749]

>>3286739
>decreased hand tremors
You know people will defend this.

[Anonymous No.3286752]

>>3286530
something I'm only just discovering is: test your memory! If you're interested in drawing from your imagination this can't be understated

Recently I've been drawing everything a minimum 3 times -- with every repetition being faster in order to to condense the information as simply as possible. Then I test myself to see how much I remember. After that I try to manipulate the form, for example by rotating it.

It SOUNDS like a massive chore, but it actually feels super liberating. When you don't have to constantly glance up at a reference, you can focus 100% on the drawing in front of you.

[Anonymous No.3286774]

>>3286530
>do you guys have any tips for increasing drawings gains?

1. Don't worry about rendering - focus on lines. Rendering takes a lot of time and doesn't teach you much compared to how important lines are.

2. Focus on one thing at a time. Instead of doodling random shit, sit down and commit to drawing like 200 feet or noses or insects or something. Do 20 from reference and then 10 from imagination, then another 20 from ref, etc.

3. Make time to draw from life and do studies of drawings you like.

[Anonymous No.3286778]

>>3286774
>Don't worry about rendering

What? How am I going to learn how to paint?

[Anonymous No.3286805]

>>3286778

Until you learn how to draw, trying to learn how to paint is an exercise in polishing turds. You'll just keep re-painting the same spots that don't look quite right dozens of times until you realize your painting is terrible anyway and abandon it.

Drawing is everything. - Ingres

[Anonymous No.3286810]

>>3286805
And how do I know I "know how to draw"?

[Anonymous No.3286812]

>>3286704
das a cute pic senpai

[Anonymous No.3286839]

>>3286749
>I can't make the line go where I want anymore but at least it's not shaky!