||bass
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Originally posted by Cymoro
Originally posted by ||bass The idea that bad handwriting is a sign of bad artistic ability is totally false.
Actually, I've seen it vary inversely; if your penmanship sucks, you're good at drawing.. and vice-versa. It's mainly just something I noticed over time, so if you draw good and have good penmanship, well, all the more power to you.
All of that stuff is a myth. My friend Jess (her real name is Chinese and I can't pronounce it) has both good penmanship and artistic ability. From everything I've been able to tell, penmanship and artistic ability are in no way related. |
Cymoro
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Originally posted by ||bass The idea that bad handwriting is a sign of bad artistic ability is totally false.
Actually, I've seen it vary inversely; if your penmanship sucks, you're good at drawing.. and vice-versa. It's mainly just something I noticed over time, so if you draw good and have good penmanship, well, all the more power to you. |
||bass
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Any "natural" ability will help you about 10% at absoloute most. Artistic ability is almost entirely learned through practice. Being exposed to art at an early age helps, but you can most definately "catch up" at any age.
My artistic ability was limited to stick figures up until I started to teach myself to draw along with getting pointers from Delial. I can do a fairly decent anime style now.
PS: Don't worry if your penmanship is bad. I failed penmanship every single year back when I was in grade school. The idea that bad handwriting is a sign of bad artistic ability is totally false. |
DarkSlaya
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Heh, really, as others said practice (don't do like me, trying to improve on drawing while trying to get better at guitar.
While it's true some people have a natural ability for drawing, in the end it will count for 5% of the work? The other 95% will be because of practice.
But I'm not the best to talk about these things, as I never shown any piece of work I've done (so I have no idea of what I did,....blah blah blah).
Also, always show your work to other people, and take their critism (if it's constructive, it will help) |
Ailure
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I stand by the firm belive that practice gives fruit. And when it comes to drawing... well, the big problem here is I would really need a place where I can sketch in peace. Every desktop is occoupied by an computer here and I feel too distracted in the kitchen.
It's a good idea to read a few books and look up a few tutorial on the internet. Sketching is something i'm halfassed on, I can design techincal things in a very basic way "Radios, Consoles, Tv's" but when it comes to humans or anything anthropomorphic.
Let see if i'm right by the time when I start in collage, where none would judge my drawings. (I wish my sisters would leave me alone for once )
Seen a few artists going from barely viewable to masterpieces. As long you have the will, you can do anything. Some people are masters at it becuse they kept drawing since being kids, but there is still a chanche for people to catch up who barely can draw a stick figure. |
Peardian
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I usually just practice alot. You could try art classes, but that never helped me. It just taught me to hate watercolors... |
Ramsus
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Most people who draw well have simply spent a lot of time drawing. Why? They like to draw.
There are a lot of skills that some people seem more inclined to have though. I understood the basics of perspective and foreshortening when I was six without ever having been taught anything about them. Control over direction, pressure, and angle has a big impact on what you can accomplish with your lines and textures. Try drawing a gradient with a ball point pen.
So there's basically two sides to drawing that you have to master. One is seeing, the other is actually drawing. That is, you have to be able to see an image and how to represent it on a 2D surface, recognizing values, colors, lines, and lighting while understanding things like texture, shading and reflection. Then you have to be able to control your medium to actually create the image.
To master "seeing" you have to study art theory and practice applying theory. To master technical skill, you simply have to practice drawing an image until you get it to look exactly how you want it.
Once you've mastered those two aspects of drawing, it the rest is studying how various things look (e.g. human anatomy, how horses gallop, complex reflections on surfaces, water, etc.) and studying composition as a tool to effectively express the ideas and feelings you want.
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Tarale
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Oh! I forgot the other thing.
Not just practice.... Observation is important too.
Look carefully at other people's artwork, watch others draw, observe people/animals/whatever it is you wanna draw, etc.
And if you're drawing people, it's probably a good idea to study a little bit of anatomy. I discovered that my former housemates' (medical students) diagram of the muscles in the human body was REALLY helpful when it came to drawing some parts of human anatomy I was having trouble with. |
Cymoro
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All I've ever seen from art classes is the same stuff; still sketches of objects, oils of other people, etc.
However, drawing is something you learn on your own. I've had people look at my sketches, go "wow have you ever taken a class" and I just reply with "Nope, never needed one".
Is there something you were thinking of drawing? Try to do it. It doesn't matter how it comes out, just try it. After a while, if you keep doing that, you'll get better.
(Yeah, what Taryn said, but more wordy) |
Tarale
Posts: 2031/2720 |
You can learn to draw, but you can't be taught how to draw.
You just have to keep trying. The only way you can learn to draw and the only way you can get better is to practice.
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Slay
Posts: 147/339 |
People tend to have very strong opinions about this subject, so I'll ask frankly. Do you think it's possible to learn to draw? Or is it an inborn trait that you either have or don't? I have ulterior motives behind this question. I see things, various things - worlds, people, objects - all inside my mind. It is unfortunate that I lack the skills of an artist; I cannot transfer these visions from my spirit onto paper, and I've tried for all my life. I've tried taking classes, even seeking personal advice from friends, but it all fails me; these hands which strum strings and tap keys refuse to drag a pencil across paper or paint across a canvas with grace.
Am I without hope? I'm busy at the moment, but later, I will attempt to sketch a few things and scan it to show you, so that you may more knowledgeably judge whether or not I have any potential. At times, I would trade all my other artistic skills to be able to create even one picture... |