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5134068 No.5134068 [Reply] [Original]

What do you do when you want to draw something but realize you're not actually good enough to achieve what you want to do? Do you just go for it or do you put it off to the side until you're at that level?

>> No.5134074
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5134074

You get good then. Nothing is worth doing when you're not good, except getting good.

>> No.5134078

>>5134068
I live afraid, its a terrible life.

>> No.5134092

You do your best, go for it and learn from the mistakes. Being good enough is a forever moving goal and you will never be good enough in your mind.

>> No.5134103

learn through failure

>> No.5134105

>>5134068
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>> No.5134115

iteratively draw it until youre good at it

i should take my own advice

>> No.5134179

What do you mean "what you want to do"?
I don't think any art will ever meet the exact vision you have in your mind, even if you have a lot experience. Art is always an abstraction, right

>> No.5134184

>>5134068
>realize you're not actually good enough to achieve what you want to do

If you think you are not good enough and that stops you from drawing. Then you have lost, you have auto quit.

This is the same for those people who refuse to draw hands or find ways to hide their hands. Draw your fucking hands, you suck? Yeah, that is how it suppose to feel so you can improve. If you refuse to even acknowledge you suck. You will never improve.

>> No.5134187

draw the same scene repeatedly
dig through references
see how other artists deal with similar subject
play with designdoll if it's pose/angle i am having trouble with
repeat until i am satisfied or no longer care (usually the later)

>> No.5134193

>>5134068
Keep redrawing it until you are satisfied with the result