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Jul. 30th, 2023 07:52 pmI've gotten into a couple of YouTube rabbit holes around art, mostly a mix of painting how-to and pen/pencil art how-to. I skip the bits that aren't relevant for digital art -- paint mixing, pencil sharpening tips (pun intended), canvas treatment -- but a lot of the stuff is. Perspective and color theory and composition and "how to do the effect of details e.g. tree leaves without literally drawing every single one".
(Paint has a slight advantage there, as the broad blotchy texture of paintbrush-dabbed-on-canvas looks like blurry foliage. Digital art, like pen art, tends to look more precise and sharp.)
Anyway. Suggestions welcome please! If you know any good sources for art YouTube, link me?
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I have a ton of things I *want* to draw: animals (including mine), my ttrpg characters (including my current, Bria, a half-orc ranger with a raptor companion zomg), landscapes, more animals ... but I'm not great at stuff from imagination and I'm also not great at working from photos and I'm . I just ... nothing I do works (but I hit the "no this absolutely sucks" way too soon, like "I can't even get the sketch to work" soon, when I know things like color shading and texture and little details add a LOT) and I am stuck, both because I feel like I have to do Pieces all the time, and because I just hate anything I do.
I saw a thing, possibly a screenshot of a tumblr post, that says that the process of learning skills is "unconscious incompetence → conscious incompetence → conscious competence → unconscious competence" and the thing where you get worse is really just going from the first stage to the second. So maybe some of this is that? But I just don't know how to ease up. I used to doodle all the time, both in my school notes and in sketchbooks. Now I can't really do physical drawing but I can do stuff on the tablet, but it's just ... bad.
Mrgh.
(Paint has a slight advantage there, as the broad blotchy texture of paintbrush-dabbed-on-canvas looks like blurry foliage. Digital art, like pen art, tends to look more precise and sharp.)
Anyway. Suggestions welcome please! If you know any good sources for art YouTube, link me?
#
I have a ton of things I *want* to draw: animals (including mine), my ttrpg characters (including my current, Bria, a half-orc ranger with a raptor companion zomg), landscapes, more animals ... but I'm not great at stuff from imagination and I'm also not great at working from photos and I'm . I just ... nothing I do works (but I hit the "no this absolutely sucks" way too soon, like "I can't even get the sketch to work" soon, when I know things like color shading and texture and little details add a LOT) and I am stuck, both because I feel like I have to do Pieces all the time, and because I just hate anything I do.
I saw a thing, possibly a screenshot of a tumblr post, that says that the process of learning skills is "unconscious incompetence → conscious incompetence → conscious competence → unconscious competence" and the thing where you get worse is really just going from the first stage to the second. So maybe some of this is that? But I just don't know how to ease up. I used to doodle all the time, both in my school notes and in sketchbooks. Now I can't really do physical drawing but I can do stuff on the tablet, but it's just ... bad.
Mrgh.