Wheeler's Art #1
This is the best art I've drawn so far. I know my foreshortening is crap but I'm going to be brave and post it here. I could use some honest critique.
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I am by no means an artist, but I draw quite well.
Seeing your art, I notice that you are trying very hard and as far as I can see there has been a lot of erasing going on.
Since you are asking for an honest opinion, I am going to give it to you:
The drawings are not good, but they could be a lot worse. I have seen people post crap and claim that they just put Picasso in his place. The fact that you do not do that is a plus for you. A big one.
Because only as long as you know that you need to be better, you can become better.
So what I recommend to do:
1. start by training your drawing hand. You'd be surprised as to how everything you draw can be reduced to simple shapes and how much practice you can get from just drawing these simple shapes.
Even comic characters such as the ones that you have drawn (which remind me of Rocko's Modern Life in style) need a "loose" hand. A hand that goes swift and easy on the shapes and from there draws them into what it is.
2. Stop pressing the pencil so hard on the page. You might not be aware of it, because no one ever tells people in school to not press the pencil down hard. There is a difference between writing and drawing. The drawing pencil is seldom pressed down hard. The pressure of the pencil is used sometimes for shading and for drawing outlines. I am not going to elaborate on the different variations of shading, see pencil pressure as an example here.
3. try an art tutorial video, do not be ashamed to start anew with the basics. You'd be surprised by how much you can learn from treating drawing as something that you have never done before - even if you have done it for years. Just try it and see what happens.
4. I think you have been trying to paint them in "final lines" - this is just a guess because I don't know for sure. Try going to produce shapes not from a single final line but from lines as small as possible, slowly working your way around the shape by pressing the pencil down just light enough to produce a faint line. Work it over until you like the shape and then erase the other ones.
5. VERY IMPORTANT: KEEP DRAWING, KEEP PRACTICING. The second you stop practicing is the second you have given up. Never let that happen.
Cheers
Munkus69
PS: I am curious as to what you make out of my advice so I am going to subscribe to you. I would be glad to see you make progress in the future. I am certain that you can get better and I would like to see that happen.
I'm working on the shapes thing. That's all I can tell you there. Without whining, anyway. LOL I've drawn a lot of lines and shapes and after a year of that (and dealing with skeletons) I went mad and literally tore my hair out and started doodling things on the side that didn't bore me.
I absolutely agree I do have a habit of making the lines too bold and hard. In the case of these drawings in particular, though, I didn't bold the lines until after I felt I drew things accurate to the references I used. I tried dynamic poses with the cow and chicken one but I knew the udders were crap. Just me doing something different than things I've drawn with simpler poses.
I've seen many art tutorials and I either feel overwhelmed or just didn't feel in my reach. I did see one of using lighter lines which I did in the last sketch I uploaded of the raccoon bust and the cup (that was meant to be a vase) and the classic apple, the vase and cup I drew from the the recent art tutorial video. The raccoon is one of my characters and while I don't like how the ears came out it was an effort at least.
Yes, I erase a lot. Haha
I'll keep working at it. Thanks for following me.