#it will improve if i draw more i say to myself

[baudouinette]

(WIP) First page of some panels representing the wedding scene in HCW (in the following panels to these, which I haven’t started on yet, Baldwin does something rather cute if I say so myself 🥹)

I’m currently writing the two chapters before the wedding, but I’m also writing some of the wedding because I could not wait as I already had so many drafts and concepts in my notes app for it ✨😭🫶🏼)

This is a big deal for me, drawing panels. I never could before. With or without references. So far I’ve done this without (that’s why the top one is looking very messy and raw. I will reference some Holy Sepulcher photos and period-accurate cathedrals to make it make sense, architecturally speaking). Besides drawing without reference, with this style in particular I mostly struggle to figure out how many panels and which exact actions/scenes need to be drawn and how to arrange them.

Every time I tried to do this, I would soon give up from frustration. I have found the key to my improvement in art:

PATIENCE

Weening myself off references might result in frustration at first, but I realized, just giving myself a little more time to re-do or reshape what I have only just first drawn (that usually looks crap) gives the chance to actually improve (duh). I also realized eventually, after reshaping as much as necessary, the drawings end up looking kinda better than with reference (or at least have more of a personal touch and style)

PRACTICE

PATIENCE

If you are also an artist and struggle with something and would like to share some mutual support message me! I’m open to talking on discord, where I can be more interactive with people individually, as opposed to larger social media which I can’t browse or use much other than to post my creations, to avoid internet addiction 😞

[heavenlydevil-95]

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[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

At the start of this project all I wanted was to 'learn how to draw' using comics as a medium and the MDZS audio drama as inspiration.

I've come *very* far from making simple, 3 panel black and white comics, and I truly do intend to go even further. Thank you to everyone who cheered me on throughout 2023, it has been an incredible year in so many ways I never could have imagined. I look forwards to drawing throughout 2024 B*)

(2024 summary here)

[plutonious]

experimentation is forever and ever and emmet is guinea pig

[pushing500]

Behold!! The first cups of coffee we have produced in the colony!!! This is probably one of the happiest days of Mechi's life. Now we can really get started on this playthrough! his hair is so fun to draw

Mechi's ideology has one relic: a laser sword. He probably read about it in ancient surveys of this planet and decided he absolutely had to have it despite only having a melee skill of 2.

Randy decided that our mechanoid-centric colony didn't need something as trivial as electricity, so it looks like Mechi will be mining and stonecutting for a little while until this passes.

Oh, and studying The Monolith, of course.

He might hate people, but I wonder if he ever wishes there was someone to talk to about his research that wasn't an itty-bitty mechanoid.

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[lightbulb-warning]

i used to freehand comics all the time as a child and since the part i liked was the drawing part i would just draw panel after panel because i didn't want to stop drawing to think about icky icky words, plus the story TOTALLY still made perfect sense! to me! and noone else, but 'whoooo caaaaares omgggg its not like comics and sequantial art are a communicative meeediummmm lmaoooooo'. i spent my entire childhood telling myself stuff like "oh pfft I know this story by heart- ill SIMPLY remember the dialogue and write it later" ...and. I can't help but admire baby maiora's (call that a minora ba tm tsk) fucking audacity? hubris? confident wrongness? kid couldn't even remember to finish the comics in the first place? INCREDIBLE levels of unearned self assurance, wish that were me, genuinely- what an icon!!! anyway i think i have forever cursed myself

[silusvesuius]

this tree from my new drawing looking goated afffffff 👑👑

[heynhay]

How draw like you T^T

Do you have any advice for learning to draw better? Like, resources or practices or anything?

Time. and referencing. No way around it but to put in the hours.

[rubitheracoon]

Who knew the first humanoid I would ever draw decently would actually be the character I've been obsessed with for the last 3 months

ANYWAY I FINALLY MANAGED TO DRAW A PERSON IM SO HAPPY!!

[egg-emperor]

trying to finally draw the GUN Commander properly and while not the most amazing thing in the world, it's the best I've ever been able to draw a normal proportioned human that's not insane looking like Eggman lol. might even post it if I finish it

[britneyshakespeare]

My toxic trait is that I like how my incomplete drawings look better than the finished things

[enhanced-operatives-division]

Improvement :3

[sysig]

Anyway, back to testing (Patreon)

[heathcliffgirl1847]

i am honestly so insecure about my art of adults looking younger than they are but the issue is i just want to draw cute things..... i WANT them to look like childrens book illustrations.... so they end up looking young i think. but my friend mentioned this to me today that they look young and i was embarassed because its true i know 😭😭😭

[eggs-can-draw]

Wanted to draw a bit of isolation, I need to do slice of life more often

[pokeharvest]

i'm back for the end-of-year cheer thing to tell you to compliment yourself 😈

AAHHH!!!!!!! MY OWN POWERS USED AGAINST ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ummmm i think the biggest thing i can say about myself this year is my growth with my art :-) i've said it a few times already but i'm so so so proud of where i am with my art and i'm so excited to see where i go next!!!

send an ask and receive a compliment!!!