/lit/ - Literature

Drawing is 95% innate talent.

There's an entire board for this, retard
>>>/ic/

Drawing is 100% hard work. Believe me I tried reading the meme books like Bridgeman and Loomis and they DO NOT HELP. It is cool looking at how other people do shit but it's not going to help you get better unless you're already good and can change styles on a whim.

Some beginner art courses might teach you what the best pencil to buy is and how to sharpen it but you can look up that shit on youtube.

>b-but what about college
Only good for peer review. You don't need it if you're objective and enlightened enough.

>>>\ic\1579290
Can't even read a goddamn sticky OP? ngmi

>>19113035
You're right, but no one wants to hear this. I draw a little as a hobby, and follow some artists I like online, and the one thing they have in common is that they draw basically anytime they can. People get good at drawing because they enjoy it so much that they'll spend 14 hours a day drawing and not even think about it. Some of them were naturally good, some of them were not, but after just a few years drawing nonstop they were all the same. Passion/determination is the true source of talent. Most people think they'd like to make cool drawings, but they don't actually like drawing itself.
I do think that books and courses can help, but if you're spending more than 5% of your time on them you'll get diminishing returns

This is alright but I'd skip Perspective Made Easy and start with How to Draw instead.

>>19113721
And here's another one.

>>19113665
These two helped me a lot
Here is something that helped me a lot min19.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY_t2cwJQnw&feature=youtu.be

I couldn’t draw for shit, after this I started to have a better hand. My drawings went from “wtf is that” to “oh I see it now, it’s us”

>>19112993
/i/ btfo

Nothing less than papa Vilppu. Sit at his feet for as long as you can, and absorb everything that he knows.

>>19113721
>>19113735
>>19113815
terrible recommendations. Why was Vilppu not included?

>asking /lit/ how to draw
ngmi

you dont learn it from books

>>19113912
based

>>19112993
nuh uh, its
ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name

>>19113735
that lady's spin loke like a fucking chickwing sans meat. wtf is that indent in the middle?

>>19114205
ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
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Six hundred percent knowledge and desire
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>>19113912
>rewatching his figure drawing lecture series
>"A friend of mine... well.. student... Sheldon... starts the figure with the eyes"

>>19113721
>>19113735
Started doing these before and then realized I don't like drawing

>>19112986
Honestly, books suck ass for drawing. Even drawing on the right side of the brain or whatever the fuck it's called. It all sucks. All resources for drawing suck ass, actually. There's no tried and true method to learn to draw.

I think you should nail down perspective first because that's something that can actually be learned and understood on a mathematical, objective level. Don't get too deep into drawabox (it's a program created by an autistic idiot who sucks at drawing), but it's a good starting place.

A big part of drawing is just nailing down the underlying geometry of what you want to draw. If you're able to draw shapes in perspective, you can draw nearly anything.

But once you're done with perspective and geometry, just start fucking drawing. Observe stuff and draw. No books can help you after that, it's all practice. Learning some gesture shit helps too if you wanna draw people, but that's a whole clusterfuck of shitty resources that aren't straightforward at all.

>>19112986
>>19114349
Ignore this retard OP just feel the form

>>19114389
>feel le form xD
kys

>>19114418
ngmi

>>19113665
I'm in the camp of aspiring retards who are trying to learn how to draw.
This is probably true and it kills me because drawing doesn't come naturally to me, I don't exactly have to force myself to do it but I do have to make some effort to pick up the pencil, my problem is that I have no idea if drawing just isn't for me or if I'm just currently in a fucked up enough state that I can't focus on anything regardless because there is literally nothing that comes naturally to me, even brainless leisure activities require me to make an effort to engage in. Vegetable mode. I have passion in my life but only for the imaginary world in my head, I would do anything to have motivation. I feel like this is a common problem with the current generations, I wonder if it was at the same level for previous generations.

>>19113019
stop being mean

>>19114427
doesn't mean sh*t coming from a fag like u

>>19112986
https://boards.4chan.org/ic/thread/5616246#top

>>19113735
/ic/ says keys to drawing is AIDS and I agree.

>>19114232
Based

>>19114389
gmi!

>>19114208
The lady is extremely thin. The two strips are her spinal erector and the indent seems to be due to thinness, because there is actually no bone there in anyone's skeleton. I agree it's very oddly contorted and I'd be surprised if it was true to life

>>19113721
How to Draw is way too advanced and complicated for a complete beginner. Start with Perspective Made Easy, OP.

just steal some cans of spray paint and go out writing

>>19112993

Indeed: >>/lit/thread/S18606919