#i always struggle with broad questions and end up being ultra psychological instead oof

[lack-a-lenierka]

I know you’re asleep right now but for when you wake up/when you get the chance, do you have any advice for drawing?

Good morning! Well afternoon where i am now-

I had whole paragraphs of replies originally written down. But then read those and realized “wait this is pretentious not helpful” so in the trash it goes and actual advice in 3 2 1:

-Draw the same thing differently. An example is how i learned (still am learning) to draw rocky, turn his head in different direction and angles and draw it to learn facial structure, expression and shape language. References are KING and if u need to take a selfie first of you doing the expression or set in the angle then do it! Infact i encourage everyone to always use references! Especially as a learning tool.

Dont know how to draw hands? Take a picture of your own hand in different positions and replicate that!

“I did that but it doesn’t look right and feels flat or wrong”

-shape language, repeats that 50 times over

Everything in art started out as a simple shapes and grew more complex overtime. Honestly tracy butler said it best in her tutorials!

Credit ofc goes to @lackadaisycats

Respective links: Bleep and bloop

These tips apply to everything, and the best part about learning is that you can stop at any point, as long as u feel u did something new today. No need to draw everyday, no need to grind out a 100 10sec drawings on a single page. Those are learning tools too! But they can be very intimidating and demotivating to someone not used to drawing a lot.

My process:

Honestly it’s as simple as, thats a funny cat picture, im drawing my favorite pyromanic cat as this now. Honestly i don’t draw cats or anthro stuff usually so just having fun with this new learning process is the greatest advice i can offer!

In short, youtube tutorials are the grestest gift to free recources online and looking up “how to draw xyz” has never been easiet thanks to it!