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Post by Suspicious Toast on Nov 14, 2016 15:34:15 GMT -5
How do you improve? you've all been told time and time again to practice and practice. But quite often that isn't enough to get a result within any reasonable amount of time.
Your brain has two main sections, the left and the right. As a general rule, your left brain is analytical and calculating, and your right brain is creative and imaginative. When most people start drawing, they draw with their left brain. From when we're children, we condition ourselves with symbols. You know how kids draw? Where the sun has rays of light around it and the trees are blobs on rectangles? Our left brain says that those things represent a sun or a tree. But they don't look like that. The sun is an ordinary white circle, trees complex and persisting of branches and individual leaves.
So when you draw with your left brain, youre conditioned to draw in symbols that are labeled as this or that. You stop looking at your subject and start just regurgitating symbols that don't look like the real thing.
So what you have to do is get out of that way of thinking and functioning. Shift over to the right side of the brain. Look at what you're drawing. You can draw anything, its just a matter of figuring out; which lines are important? Just go one line at a time, and I promise you, you will draw with amazing realism after only a few times practising. And one you know hoe to do that, realism becomes a waste of time.
Really. Its finicky, and if you want to draw something that looks like a photograph, just take a photograph. Right? Once you can draw realistically, you can develop a style of your own. You can go away from the typical "symbols" that we give things when we're just little kids. You have to know what something looks like before you can change it.
Everybody can draw, its just a matter of growing accustomed to drawing away from the left side of the brain. Figure out what lines are important. That's how you draw realistically. And eliminate further to develop a style. How can I warp these lines, make them simpler?
What is important? That's how you grow to be a good artist. Simply ask yourself that. It's most likely to solve any questions you might have as an artist.
Thank you for reading all the way through this, and enjoy your drawing. I'm hoping this is helpful to a lot of you.
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