The most common beginner mistakes?

[Anonymous No.5079921]

[Anonymous No.5079923]

Using anime as references

[Anonymous No.5079925]

Thinking they know better

[Anonymous No.5079926]

>>5079921
thinking that loomis is a meme

[Anonymous No.5079927]

drawing from imagination

[Anonymous No.5079929]

>>5079921
not drawing

[Anonymous No.5079930]

>>5079921
Thinking "just draw" is a meme

[Anonymous No.5079932]

Thinking "just draw" isn't a meme

[Anonymous No.5079953]

>>5079921
Visiting /ic/

[Anonymous No.5079965]

drawing too much (until you burn out/suffer from health/sleep issues)
not drawing enough
thinking there is a magical book or course will teach you how to draw for sure
never reading/watching books/courses/guides
always studying, never doing original drawings
doing only original drawings, never studying
never trying to copy images, trying to match as many details as possible
only copying and never analyzing forms and shapes
not listening to critique
taking every critique too seriously without any doubt
drawing only traditionally
drawing only digitally
thinking your favorite style or subject is superior to others
thinking fancy brushes will make your drawings better
thinking brushes don't matter
thinking tracing will teach you how to draw
thinking tracing is inherently bad
visiting /ic/
not visiting /ic/

[Anonymous No.5079970]

>>5079965
>drawing only digitally
why is that bad

[Anonymous No.5079983]

>>5079970
Undo/redo, layers, and select/transform can become too big of a crutch. Also drawing traditionally is fun every once in a while

[Anonymous No.5079989]

>>5079983
hm not a good reason

[Anonymous No.5079991]

>>5079983
?????
I draw both trad and digi and I mostly main inks/ballpoints when doing trad so the "undo" "redo" crutch seems far-fetched and bullshit to me.

[Anonymous No.5079995]

>>5079989
>>5079991
He said "can become"
Especially when you're just starting out, you need to make mistakes to learn and you need to learn to live with your mistakes.
Jogging those Ctrl+Z keys might get in the way with that.

[Anonymous No.5079996]

>>5079921
asking on /ic/ for most common mistakes

[Anonymous No.5079997]

>>5079995
>you need to make mistakes to learn and you need to learn to live with your mistakes
why

[Anonymous No.5080007]

>>5079921
muh style

[Anonymous No.5080015]

>>5079921
"studying" art instead of just doing what you like

[Anonymous No.5080021]

>>5079997
What do you mean why?
If you don't make mistakes, you're either perfect or not drawing. And if you're afraid of making mistakes learning from them is much harder.

[Anonymous No.5080038]

>>5079921
Not having fun, but on a technical level, hairy lines / chicken scratch (but see pic related)

[Anonymous No.5080042]

short repetitive strokes
stop doing that

[Anonymous No.5080059]

>>5080021
But undoing your mistakes is acknowledging them and actually putting extra time in observation / coloring. Consider how much time do you put in making corrections when you are not allowed to fix them versus when you are

Before I used the eraser, one wrong line stayed in. Now that I use the eraser, I spend much more time comparing and contrasting. I don't know how moving on and living with the failure would be more useful.

[Anonymous No.5080072]

"Don't draw what you see, draw what you have seen."

[Anonymous No.5080086]

>>5079923
FPBP.

[Anonymous No.5080087]

>>5079921
thinking they're better than most because they found the "secret" way to getting good fast

[Anonymous No.5080113]

>>5080059
>Consider how much time do you put in making corrections
exactly. time better spent moving on to the next thing. in the end you end up drawing more things and progress faster. why do you think timed figure drawing is such a useful exercise?

[Anonymous No.5080134]

>>5079921
taking anonymous critique on /ic/ seriously

[Anonymous No.5080209]

>>5080021
>make mistake
>go to layer where you fucked up
>erase
>fix up mistake

Serious question, isn't that a good thing? You don't have to worry about erasing things and having the paper look bad. You can also preserve important layers like the foundation of what you drew.

To me, digital just seem incredibly optimized and streamlined and I like that.

[Anonymous No.5080223]

digital is trash bro

[Anonymous No.5080279]

>>5080209
As >>5080113 said sometimes it's more useful to just move on to the next thing instead.
Of course if you're done practicing and want to get a good looking picture done, digital is probably easier.
Also it's just my opinion as someone who's never really drawn digitally so far

[Anonymous No.5080313]

>>5080209
I mean, if you want to illustrate a good art piece; you can use whichever tool you want. If you just want to practice/study; limiting it to the eraser, re-doing the sketch and iterating it differently is really helpful. Keep the fucked-up sketch/iteration, that way you will have both your mistakes and your improvement to compare and learn from.

[Anonymous No.5080340]

>>5079983
no rules, only tools

[Anonymous No.5080346]

not studying
only studying
having drawn for a while so you get arrogant and don't listen to sound advice
not getting into the habit of drawing every day
browsing /ic/

[Anonymous No.5080351]

>>5079983
>hbuyrr erasers are a crutch
not a good reason.
digital is a poor platform to learn on because of the amount of shit to learn and keep track of, and the physical disconnect between your motions and the output.
putting a mark on a paper with a pencil requires a pencil and a paper. doing digital art requires knowledge of your tablet, your OS, your drivers, your software and a whole host of other shit.
as a beginner it's difficult to know where the problem exists if you e.g. can't draw a straight line. is it your software settings, your tablet being wonky or your arm not doing the correct thing?
learning traditional first completely sidesteps all these issues and gives you a great foundation for you to learn the quirks and pitfalls of digital drawing without also having to battle with the act of learning how to draw on top of that.
that's not to say you shouldn't ever draw digitally unless you spend 5 years doing charcoal etchings or whatever, but that you probably shouldn't be doing your fundamental studies digitally.

[Anonymous No.5080356]

>>5079921
Posting on 4chan

[Anonymous No.5080383]

>>5080059
did the flow of time have a glitch or sumthin? im pretty sure that image and thread is pretty old. why does it say nov 2020.

[Anonymous No.5080393]

I'm not good at drawing [insert a subject matter] so I don't draw that.

[Anonymous No.5080401]

>>5080113
It can be useful for gesture, not for learning proportions, contour, shading and so on.

[Anonymous No.5080411]

>>5079921
thinking that drawing will cure your depression.

[Anonymous No.5080412]

>>5079983
>drawing traditionally is fun every once in a while
only smart part of your post, dumbass.

[Anonymous No.5080423]

>>5080209
For a beginer, you will have to redo every fucking thing and it will take forever, when training a little with ink will quickly give you skill, because you need to make it right from the first try, and you need to think before you act. basically you will not picking the basic skill and waste your time. Once you know how to organize a drawing and have a confident stroke, sure go digital.

[Anonymous No.5081810]

>>5079921
Not painting
Not doing Bargue/Keys/Betty Edwards