If you're not failing, you're not learning

Quantity beats quality

>Just draw

draw backgrounds

>>7868336
You just have to feel the form

Draw what you see, not what you think you see

>>7868336
If you draw 100 boxes every day youll master boxes in 100 weeks

gesture

learn realism before learning anime

>>7868336
Analyze what makes it work (or not work)

>>7868336
if you're drawing from reference, you know exactly what you're doing wrong in your own drawing, motherfucker. LOOK AT IT!! fix your mistakes. you don't need a magical anon to come save you with red lines, you have eyes

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>>7868336
fun is most important
art is not craft
literally just draw
value is king
color is easy
drawing is a engineering problem not a craft problem

>>7868439
>you have eyes
having eyes and being able to see are 2 different things. The latter requires a brain, which most of IC lacks.

>>7868341
begtard here
really?

>>7868460
I think what he's trying to say, is that in the time you spent polishing one turd, you could've finished 3-4 other drawings and improved a lot more.

>>7868460
You need to grind muscle memory

>>7868336
No rules, just tools

>>7868460
Turd polishing only teaches you polishing turds.
All that awkward correcting won't teach you to draw a thing in timely manner

>>7868439
Kek. If people actually listened to this 70% of all art forums online would go silent

>>7868505
Thanks anon!
>opens up ChatGPT

use reference
where is your reference?
did you follow your reference?

just draw

>>7868439
Oridays made a video that was literally this and it's probably the only video I'd show to a beg, aside from fundies and all that other stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB9yTNfE3go

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>>7869471
Where is his reference?! He can’t draw without his reference!

>>7870849
>he shows 2 drawings implied to show improvement at 0:30
>they both look amazing to me and I cannot tell why one is better than the other
I'm not even beg anymore, I'm just a ngmi prebeg who reads theory

>>7868376
REEEEEEEE I DON'T WANT TO

persistence is key. even a little bit a day will help you improve, even if it doesnt seem so at that stage. recreate a month or two month old piece to see if you've gotten better and it might surprise you even.

>>7868439
while this is true, there is several outside factors influencing ones own perception. mostly stamina and a certain tunnel vision. it's good to take breaks when hitting a roadblock, even a whole day in order to look at it refreshed.

take breaks, stay hydrated! eat some candy maybe for a little boost!

Here's one most won't get. Many people have been broken from not realizing this lol:

The relationship between the centerlight and the midtones are more important than the relationship between the light and shadow.

>>7868460
Not that anon but unironically yes. It’s why working in pen is so important, so you don’t erase your mistakes and keep pumping out as many drawings as you can. If you truly want to make it as an artist, it’s better to have 100 mid drawings of what you’re learning than 20 really good ones, because the latter will teach you more

>>7871150
The former will teach you more* not the latter

>>7871078
Is this the "clean light" thing i.e that the value stays over 90 pretty much right until turning to shadow? A lot of begs have murky rendering because of it. Yet you can fully omit midtones and be fine so how could it be more important?

Protip: No one knows you're a beg if you don't post you art
Stay golden my fellow ints

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It is actually really satisfying to draw boxes if you take it seriously
Hell, just freehand drawing a perfect straight line or circle feels good if you give it everything you got
Like, if even boxes are fun to draw, wouldn't it be fun to draw just about anything?

>>7871303
Irshad, shouldn't you be scamming begs right now? Go back to shilling drawabox and your private lessons.

>>7871342
>says the /beg/tard spending 24 hours a day posting in /ic/ beginner threads, whining about the brown box man because he took years to get filtered

>>7868376
https://youtu.be/_L4qauTiCY4?si=9dJtnt6h2Dm22iWj

You should do more of what you don't like doing

Controversial opinion:
Do not only base art off of references
Instead draw over references and copy their forms until you have trained your visual memory to draw most angles
training memory allows for you to create better proportions for less usual styles or character shapes

>>7871586
Amen to this.

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>>7871078
I need an explanation...

>>7871685
The ultimate key to a professional smooth finish in shading, is by using at least 3 tones instead of 2
(The original tone, a shadow color, and another shadow color)

>>7868336
3 points per finger

>>7871303
i noticed this when starting to take drawing more seriously last year. just stacking the boxes to become a building with each layer is satisfying and looks pretty neat in the end with little effort. and its a good and simple exercise that makes you compare the angles and parallel lines which will help you later on with basically everythign you do.

a good foundation is important.