What worked for you thread!

[Anonymous No.4652170]

You don't have to be good to respond, just someone who truly got better. Tell us things that you personally know worked for you in terms of helping your art get better that you don't see pushed as advice enough online or elsewhere.
Please please please don't forget to pwy when you comment anons!

[Anonymous No.4652189]

>>4652170
pyw

[Anonymous No.4652195]

>>4652170
Not grinding fundies every day, that sucked any fun from art.
Also doing commissions and treating them as assignments where I use what I learned.

[Anonymous No.4652214]

Using the Rielly method instead of loomis for faces

[Anonymous No.4652251]

Just do what you want

[Anonymous No.4652252]

Working on multiple works instead of just one at the time, got me more mileage because i Was hardly ever burned out

[Anonymous No.4652253]

I draw every day
That how I kinda got better

[Anonymous No.4652280]

>>4652170
I used pen only, omit pencil underlay, and got much better much faster

[Anonymous No.4652288]

>>4652280
What is the deal with that why pens make you better?

[Anonymous No.4652312]

>>4652251
Fuck off crackhead, you only want to shill your stuff because you want more crack money.

[Anonymous No.4652319]

>>4652252
I struggle with this
What kinds of stuff do you make?

[Anonymous No.4652331]

i started using thinner lines

[Anonymous No.4652332]

>>4652312
What are you talking about??

[Anonymous No.4652354]

>>4652288
you can't make mistakes

[Anonymous No.4652398]

>>4652214
Is there a book/video course that you used to learn the Reilly method?

[Anonymous No.4652417]

I started a big project that I well knew I would probably never finish. But having something big to work on gave me the motivation and focus to keep working every day. No wondering, "What should I paint/draw today?" just a big old block to chip away at a little bit every day.

Of course, I never finished it, but I came out the other end a much better artist than I went in.

[Anonymous No.4655379]

writing down a schedule in the morning

[Anonymous No.4655401]

>>4652417
wtf is this and why is so funny?

[Anonymous No.4655456]

>>4655401

Dark humor?

[Anonymous No.4655458]

>>4655456
There is nothing dark except the black color on it.

[Anonymous No.4655469]

>>4652417
this paneling is weird

[Anonymous No.4657689]

>>4652170
This last month I made a switch from working every day on different thing, to working on one or two, perhaps three things along the week. I've been taking a more relaxed approach with a slower pace. Or at least it seems slower. And for the most part I went from trying to participate on challenges and trying topics with friends, to immersing myself both in certain basic things that I want to learn out of sheer personal interest (One of them is composition, for example) as well as doing studies of certain subjects that I've either have wanted to tackle for a while or that I came across and liked.
Having in mind that for this I'm mainly working with line drawing and trying my best to push my knowledge and skill in this area. And training my line weight too.

It's rather simple but this approach has made me draw much more. Often losing myself on the sketch for hours. And I've noticed a decent increase in my speed, as well as my stamina. Plus I'm properly working a study until it's done. while before I'd fine this pretty hard to do, I couldn't make myself sit down and work so much on a drawing.
I'm thinking that perhaps the thought of "I'll just work on this a tiny bit for today" rather than the "alright, time to do a full drawing that must look great" is more helpful when you're sitting down to draw.

Pic related. It's some current ongoing studies as well as quick silhouette exercises that I came across and deiced to try out. Sorry if the image is small, I just resized and re arranged everything onto a single layer.

[Anonymous No.4657702]

>>4652170
Learning makeup helped me with faces

[Anonymous No.4658924]

draw a box. Before I had no control over my lines, it was like a had two left hands. Now I can put my lines where I want.

I still shit tho. Because I don't know where to put the lines yet.

[Anonymous No.4658931]

>>4658924
I’m doing draw a box and I still have no fucking control over my lines. All wobbly, always have that curve at the very beginning, always overshoot or miss the mark. I feel Ike I must be making some critical error, like I’m holding the pen too tightly or something.

[Anonymous No.4658935]

>>4658931
>I’m doing draw a box and I still have no fucking control over my lines.
How many weeks?

[Anonymous No.4658968]

>>4658931
well it did took me some time

>All wobbly, always have that curve at the very beginning
even with ghosting?

[Anonymous No.4658972]

>>4658935
I’m on the 250 box challenge right now. I guess it’ll go away with some time.

[Anonymous No.4659464]

Actually doing the “boring” obvious stuff in the books I read like loomis.

[Anonymous No.4659505]

>>4652214
What is the Reilly method?

[Anonymous No.4659513]

>>4652189
I don’t consider myself good or someone who has found things that “worked for me” if that makes sense. That’s part of the reason I wanted to start the thread to see what I could do better.

[Anonymous No.4659519]

>>4652331
Could you explain more?

[Anonymous No.4659553]

>>4652417
What's the history of this? Not gonna lie i quite like it

[Anonymous No.4659641]

>>4659553

Comic I started years ago and never completed. I still draw the characters from time to time.

[Anonymous No.4659652]

>>4659641
You should probably get the noose, but I like your rendering, the fire thing here >>4652417 is awesome.

[Anonymous No.4659699]

>>4659652

I regret nothing. Working on that comic taught me so much about rendering and light.

>the fire thing here >>4652417 (You) is awesome.

Thanks.

[Anonymous No.4659855]

>>4652170
Coming here and talking to you guys every day