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So, uh, mind asking me how you learned to draw, Pirate?

 

I've tried many (many, many, many, many... many, many, many) times, but I just can't seem to do it. I know practice makes perfect, but when all you keep making is crap, you only get good at making crap. =\

 

What I try to do (in order):

 

1. Sketch - I already failed at this part, I can't even draw people right. My experiences with with drawing landscapes and backgrounds is laughable at best.

 

2. Detail - Even worse, it's only my second-worst compared to...

 

3. Shading - This literally makes me want to pull my hair out because I can never understand how artists get such perfect lighting details on their works (things like clothing shadows are the ones that really tick me off).

 

Coloring - The Forbidden Zone, since I've never gotten far enough to actually do it.

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This is all miles better than anything I could ever hope to do. I have an extremely insecure hand for pen motions for some reason. I can just barely make my own name look readable. :unsure:

 

I used my mouse and MS Paint. I don't have photoshop... :bun-cry:

Isn't Gimp pretty much Photoshop for poor- I mean people who do not want to spend all their money on some stupid image editing program? :P

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So, uh, mind asking me how you learned to draw, Pirate?

 

I've tried many (many, many, many, many... many, many, many) times, but I just can't seem to do it. I know practice makes perfect, but when all you keep making is crap, you only get good at making crap. =\

 

What I try to do (in order):

 

1. Sketch - I already failed at this part, I can't even draw people right. My experiences with with drawing landscapes and backgrounds is laughable at best.

 

2. Detail - Even worse, it's only my second-worst compared to...

 

3. Shading - This literally makes me want to pull my hair out because I can never understand how artists get such perfect lighting details on their works (things like clothing shadows are the ones that really tick me off).

 

Coloring - The Forbidden Zone, since I've never gotten far enough to actually do it.

Since it was buried on the bottom of the last page without being read.

 

ಠ_ಠ

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I've been drawing since I learned how to grab--I think a lot of it had to do with the fact my mom loved to draw, herself. As far as learning goes, most of the techniques I learned were the things they taught me in art class in my school years, and everything else is trial and errors. It does help to look up tutorials online for specifics.

 

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I was only able to take a single year of art class when I was in high school. Due to that, I have very limited artistic capabilities. If you look at any of my horribly failed sketches, you can see that all my body proportions are way off the board. Can never seem to get rid of that... I'm not even sure how you people draw. Q_Q

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  • 2 weeks later...

Both my parents are artists (not by profession, save my Dad being a photographer): my Dad is a sculptor, a painter, a photographer, a sketcher; my Mum is a painter, photographer, sculptor, knitter, embroiderer.

 

And me?

 

I struggle to draw a believable square.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

However I make up for that with being good at writing literature and writing/playing music. Thank fuck. (I'm actually pretty good at photography, too, but just as a passing interest.)

 

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