For people interested in drawing more gooder, if you haven’t spend more than one sitting on a drawing, your giving up WAY too early. Try 8hrs, yes, you will eventually be sitting they’re looking at this drawing going… ? What do I even do now? BUT that’s the next step. Layers. Layers layers layers. Or passes as they used to say before computers. You need to look at the whole work and think ‘‘are the lines good?’’ And fix them. This should involve erasing and transfer methods like carbon paper (witch you can make yourself with any paper and pencils rubbed out on the bottom of one paper, then you trace the lines for a clean transfer) anyway. Fix the lines, perfect the lines, check your points and proportions, again, fix, re do, re make, then tone, then color, then texture, then lighting, it sounds like a lot, but this is the simplified version. There’s paintings that took the artist half a lifetime until they were OK with it being done. It takes a lot, when you get it all nailed down you’ll see other people’s work and go ‘‘oh this is actually great, they just haven’t learned about [art principal] yet.’’
For people interested in drawing more gooder, if you haven’t spend more than one sitting on a drawing, your giving up WAY too early. Try 8hrs, yes, you will eventually be sitting they’re looking at this drawing going… ? What do I even do now? BUT that’s the next step. Layers. Layers layers layers. Or passes as they used to say before computers. You need to look at the whole work and think ‘‘are the lines good?’’ And fix them. This should involve erasing and transfer methods like carbon paper (witch you can make yourself with any paper and pencils rubbed out on the bottom of one paper, then you trace the lines for a clean transfer) anyway. Fix the lines, perfect the lines, check your points and proportions, again, fix, re do, re make, then tone, then color, then texture, then lighting, it sounds like a lot, but this is the simplified version. There’s paintings that took the artist half a lifetime until they were OK with it being done. It takes a lot, when you get it all nailed down you’ll see other people’s work and go ‘‘oh this is actually great, they just haven’t learned about [art principal] yet.’’