I need advice as a late starter

[Anonymous No.6976906]

25 here. I've been getting into drawing because vidya doesn't do it for me anymore as a hobby. I've got some drawing books, a sketchbook, and some links of drawing tutorial videos favorited.
Anybody here started late and improved nicely? How did you do it?

And some inspiration from late starters that improved well would be nice too.

[Anonymous No.6976917]

>>6976906
just draw

[Anonymous No.6976929]

>>6976906
I'm 25 and I'm just drawing to distract myself from how much I hate my job dude

[Anonymous No.6976941]

>starting at 25
go back to video games, you non-playable character

[Anonymous No.6976944]

>>6976906
why is there a rat image like this on every board's catelog

[Anonymous No.6976951]

>>6976917
I'm pretty stuck in the Sonichu comics tier artstyle right now but still chugging through.
>>6976929
I hate my job as well, dude. I need something that can count as "productive" and still be an entertainment to myself that's why I went with drawing. How long have you been drawing, anon? It never clicked with me to draw when I was much younger. and man this hobby seems like something one should have been practising since childhood.
>>6976941
Like I said. They just don't do it for me anymore, anon. I think I've grown out of them.
>>6976944
Do you prefer loads of cartoon frog pictures over rodent pictures?

[Anonymous No.6976953]

>>6976951
>drawing
>productive
art has not "productive" unless you cant to draft blueprints, and that is so much harder than any of the How To Draw Anime tier garbage in this catalog that you will require four years of schooling to do it
moreover the world has enough artists, a majority of them being total shit
go take up a hobby with actual practical use, like something you'd find in /diy/

[Anonymous No.6976966]

I not only started late (around your age) but didn't apply myself properly until much, much later besides. Improvement happens bit-by-bit but the struggle is real; there's just no coming back completely from throwing your life away on video games and the like.

However, nothing's hopeless either.

Resources I'd recommend:

Dynamic Sketching - exercises for rapidly developing drawing-related motor skills (use a clipboard, printer paper and a mechanical pencil, you don't want to waste sketchbook pages on this):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaif0PpNMas

NKU Drawing Database - a college course in trad media by a professor covering a wide variety of topics:
https://www.youtube.com/@thedrawingdatabase8743/playlists

CTRLPAINT - old but still some of the best content on digital painting/drawing around:
ctrlpaint.com/library

Fun with a Pencil, a book covering beginner/intermediate topics:
https://archive.org/details/andrew-loomis-fun-with-a-pencil/page/n9/mode/2up

Tools:
Clipboard
Bulk office paper
A mechanical pencil and ruler (Perspective)
Bulk graphite pencils (Figure drawing, portraiture and still lives) [https://www.dickblick.com/products/blick-studio-drawing-pencils/]
A large format wacom tablet for digital drawing (ebay, visibly lightly used is fine)

[Anonymous No.6976968]

>>6976906
go track down yatsuo otsuka's joy in motion and watch it

[Anonymous No.6977216]

>>6976906
Just don't bother. It's a miserable hobby and it will take ages for you to get any decent. There's easier dopamine literally anywhere else. Get a better hobby where you can actually see improvement on a realistic timeframe
I'm 29 my skills are pretty decent with a sizable following. I've been doing this for years, and I regret it and want to quit every single day.

[Anonymous No.6977223]

>>6977216
post work

[Anonymous No.6977240]

(that's what I thought)

[Anonymous No.6977281]

I was watching the Crumb documentary and one interesting thing is his obsession with drawing. From a young age he's carried sketchbooks and notepads everywhere he goes, and said if he didn't draw he'd go nuts. This obsessive tendency is something you feel in certain artists like Jung Gi or many Japanese artists. All questions of talent aside you just gotta draw a whole fucking lot. Pick that pencil up and don't put it down

[Anonymous No.6977284]

>>6976906
i started by drawing dumb shit like picrel, just draw retarded shit and post on social media.
the times when you can't draw are the good times where you make the funniest drawings, savour it
>>6977216
lie and wont post work

[Anonymous No.6977289]

also i made some comics too with 0 skills and they still hold up up because of the bad drawings, i'd say just do it and have fun

[Anonymous No.6977290]

>>6976941
Why would be against someone starting a positive, creative hobby that develops discipline and many other skills?
>no don’t learn to play violin at 30, go back to watching goyflix

[Anonymous No.6977315]

>>6977290
The goal of this board is to mislead and discourage anyone who wants to learn anything artistic

[Anonymous No.6977358]

>>6976966
Thanks anon I appreciate it. Favorited your links.
>fun with a pencil
Nice. One more for my PDF collection.

[Anonymous No.6977402]

>>6976906
I'm not a late starter, my whole teenhood was getting pumped with drawing for 1 month then losing motivation due to the lack of improvement and quitting for 3 more months. regardless, my advice
>estabilish a long term objective so you keep yourself motivated. find an artist you like and decide you want to reach their level, or maybe you want to draw a comic or something else
>try out different mediums. I drew traditionally all my early years but I wanted to learn coloring and there was no solution that was cheap and on the go so I bought a simple drawing tablet and fell in love with the digital art process and haven't felt unmotivated ever since
>if a specific resource isn't working for you, try another. don't force yourself studying a book if you don't like the drawings. people recommended I started out with fun with a pencil but I wasn't really enjoying it and skipped to loomis' head and hands and hamptons design which are books I love to this day. currently I'm studying rockhe kim's book

[Anonymous No.6977448]

>>6976906

This anon already gave a solid blueprint >>6976966

I just want to add some advices from personal experiences:

>Number 1):
You must to establish your long term goals, what kind artist you want to be, what kind of art you want to make. Do you want to be concept artist? Do you want to make comics? Do you like make environments? Do you want be mainly a painter or a draftsman?
This is important, because it will give a blueprint on what to study.

>Number 2):
Long terms goals aren't enough, if don't manage you psychological relationship with art, you going to end up studying fundamentals forever and burn out. Short terms goal are just as important, draw what you want, do little projects, fail, and see where you failed and focus on your weaknesses.

Peter Han's Dinamic sketching and https://drawabox.com/lesson/1 are good starters to give some basilar to your draftsmanship.

Check out Marco Bucci experience coming from 0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmUMhMs5vFE

Here's another blueprint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-CZGR5tja0&t=1s

Be also aware between the bidimensional (atelier, classical art schools) draftsmanship, and the tridimensional (construtive way of drawing: Loomis, Kim jung gi etc etc.)

Check this channel out for more blueprints for studies: https://www.youtube.com/@ModernDayJames

[Anonymous No.6977455]

I started at 24 and made good progress these are like 1 year apart
You can probably make good mileage if you just follow >>6977448 this, or just draw in general, I don’t think 25 is very late anyway that’s like young adult

[Anonymous No.6977485]

>>6977448
>>6977455
Thanks guys.

[Anonymous No.6977753]

>>6977448
Tho guy is the biggest crab of all. Thread carefully if you really want to learn to draw

[Anonymous No.6977755]

>>6977455
no way these are just one year apart, holy shit

[Anonymous No.6977786]

pro tip: in order to master art you need to first master video games

[Anonymous No.6977818]

This is only a very small fraction of everything I've done since October 19th, 2022.

I started when I was 25, I'm 26 now.

(Original higher resolution image file of my progress) Decoded using a certain base of 64:
aHR0cHM6Ly9waXhlbGRyYWluLmNvbS91L2RGU3l3ckc5

[Anonymous No.6978187]

>>6976906
you can do it, we believe in you