Every art class in primary school should start with this to get the kids psyched about drawing faces. I feel like starting with still life is such a big turn off for so many young artists. It definitely was for me.

Oh please excuse your art teacher , he doesn't know it 😂

how'd it go?

This is geniunely the best comment I've ever seen, I hope you have the most lovely life.

Did you digest good at the loomis method

Thank you for this comment! I spent a week learning the loomis method, and this was the missing piece.

Awesome, thank you!

@@DavidFinchartist u good

Yeah brother ive been drawing since I was 5 ..I'm 42 on thev30th of this month and I'm still shocked on how much new info I retain from your videos and iI DEFINITELY recommend your vids too anybody who has not seen urvstuff,which isn't too many..thnx to you and Meredith....

you said it

You should do Anime style, it worked rly well for me

@@Figure_591 doing anime before realism isn't good for long-term progress. it teaches you to draw in symbols rather than a proper understanding of form and why lines are placed the way that they are.

@@zent8324 I guess ur right, but for me, Whenever i used realism I ended with a deflated no proportionate drawings with faces that look like literal blobs, Anime drawing helped me to actually draw humans instead of dehydrating deflating throwup man

halo G-Notes85... lets connected, I Love drawing,,

Thank you Mighty!

Happy to help!

Exactly it's a little complicated but interesting to watch lol, I hope to come back and understand it a bit more

He already covered that in a video. Go through the channel vids.

He's the foundation for so many of us!

whats the exact name of the book?

That’s the exact title in the comment, it definitely helped me improve

Thanks!

halo Andres Villanueva,, lets connected, I Love drawing,,,

You are so welcome!

You can find PDF online.

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My pleasure!

If your good at copying, use a bunch of references and combine them to make something close to what you want. Use 3d assets, photos, other artist’s stylistic choices. It’s like photoshop but you draw it instead. Besides, if you have been drawing your whole life, you’ve definitely been improving. Look at earlier works and compare them to recent ones to see how much has changed. There is no way that you haven’t unless you aren’t working hard.

Since you realize that you copy well, spend a little time analyzing the forms you are making, break them down mentally so that you develop a mental library of values, shapes and forms. Next step is to imagine a full composition in your head with or without references (photo or real life); Now take the imagined composition and break it down on your paper into a series of shapes and forms, decide lighting and now add values. voila! you have your mental composition….. act like you have to teach this process and the steps will become more automatic in effort.

That's exactly the thing that annoys me, there are like hundreds of different books different techniques out there, it's like a big ocean and I feel like I only dipped my lil toe into it 😂. I think my biggest issue is that I have no idea what exercises to do in order to get better, in the last 8 months I copied drawing after drawing, studied the skull etc. And I think I made some progress but not to the extant I was hoping. The tip with the breaking down the forms and reconstruct them is actually a good tip, but that won't really help if my mind goes blank whenever I want to draw something out of my head. Thanks for the help tho appreciate it

@@robertpreda9741 if you can give us an example it might be easier to help you figure out which exercises might elevate your results. Example: if I want to draw a street scene I might start with one point perspective angles, including different sized buildings and roofs. Next I/you might add a few sidewalks, street corners, then a car or two. These additions all involve practicing squares, rectangles, cubes in perspective then with cars it would require practice of circles and spheres in perspective…. eventually you might add a few trees, requiring practice of cylinders, triangles and pyramids…. etc grounding them using rendering techniques, shading and including values so the viewer knows what time of day you are depicting.

@@citigirl3238 I didn't really got into perspective yet that's what I mean , there is perspective, anatomy, composition, gesture drawing, colour theory ( which I'm staying far away from cause I have no clue how to use colours right , blending etc ) I've been practicing obly anatomy for 8 months to build a foundation cause my goal is to illustrate good looking characters with the right anatomy. Well after all it's just a hobby I don't really plan to do it is a job someday, I wouldn't really be able to cause I don't think I'll have the skills 😂 beeing a self taught artist is tough, I wish I had like a mister miagi like mentor haha. That would be nice. I'm drawing on moleskine usually 165 gsm paper which is the best paper I have ever used, it's forgiven even when u make mistakes . I usually draw very light , like h4 - h6 and rarely go darker cause I'm afraid to screw the drawing up. That fear of making mistakes is my biggest issue I've been told that a lot of times that I need to step outside my comfortable zone in order to make progress. But each time I do the results are not very good

Thanks KillerTacos!