Getting Back into Drawing

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Originally Posted by Cowutopia

Have you ever considered that you're just creatively bankrupt?

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that would be a negative. One of my flaws is I'm a daydream. Half of what I do in class is come up with original content.

I think you really just need to practice. If you have an image in your head then copying styles isn't going to help. Work at it, going over a sketch ten or twenty times until you come up with something good.

Books can teach you fundamentals and techniques but that's it.

Why don't you draw something, tell us what you wanted it to be like, and then come back and we can critique.

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Originally Posted by Cowutopia

Why don't you draw something, tell us what you wanted it to be like, and then come back and we can critique.

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that's a really good idea. one of the most helpful things i've found is having someone who can honestly critique my work and tell me what i'm doing wrong.

Also post an example of one of your detailed but not-original drawings, so people can see what you're talking about. If you don't have any left then make a new one.

Lots of vagina flapping, not a lot of drawings. Hmm.

You want to start drawing creatively? Then draw creatively. You gave up at that first hockey-duck drawing and didn't want to play anymore because it wasn't any good? Well boo-hoo. You've gotta break through that shit, and I assure you, you will make 1000 drawings before even ONE of them is worth a shit.

But then you'll make that one drawing. And you'll like it. And you'll keep trying to hit that spot where you get it right. And you'll miss. A lot. But in the next thousand scribbles, you'll get TWO drawings that are worth a shit.

That's how developing a skill works.

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Originally Posted by buttcheeks

Did anyone read the first post? The reason I quit was not due to a lack of ability in drawing things I see, but drawing original things.

Not one single person has done anything to give advice on that. I drew things I saw for almost a decade and saw no improvement in drawing original works. So obviously I don't see a connection between the two.

I have no desire to get really good at drawing real things. I don't enjoy that. That is why I stopped.

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That's because you can't learn to draw original things. You are either really creative, and can come up with original stuff easily or you aren't creative and can't. The technical processes of drawing something creatively original and realistically accurate aren't that far removed from one another. The creative process of coming up with how unique armor will hang on a foot soldier and a cool gun will look is entirely reliant on the creative ability of the drawer and his or her experiences. So read creative stuff to inspire you.

So if you want to be good at drawing original shit, start drawing original stuff more. If your ability to draw original stuff is hampered because it's not looking right on paper, then you need to draw more realistic stuff and take those principles with you while you draw new stuff.

Start putting pencil to paper or STFU.

Andrew knows.

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

You want to start drawing creatively? Then draw creatively. You gave up at that first hockey-duck drawing and didn't want to play anymore because it wasn't any good? Well boo-hoo. You've gotta break through that shit, and I assure you, you will make 1000 drawings before even ONE of them is worth a shit.

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don't be an idiot. I said over at least a ten year drawing period in my youth. Their were tons of failed attempts. Tons and tons of horrible frustrating shit.

Hey, fuck you buddy. We're trying to help, and you're getting the same advice anybody else would get.

You want to do this thing, you do it. No visual memory? Copy elements of other things directly and string 'em together until it makes sense. How do you think most concept artists get work?

Hell, draw hockey ducks. part hockey, part duck, all cop.