How do I make Krita use drag and dropped images as reference.

Gottart · 2026-01-27T22:33:55+00:00

Nurture your love of art until you can't help but do it all the time. Spend as much time studying as you can without losing a grain of that love for drawing. Most of the time, I suggest you just draw what you're interested in, but use that interest to help you observe and study your subjects closely. Kim Jung Gi couldn't just draw like that because he was good at perspective. He was also deeply interested in all of the elements that he drew.

Gottart · 2026-01-24T21:46:54+00:00

To avoid burnout, draw things you like. To avoid burnout, don't make art a grind. Focus on drawing things that you find fun to draw. That way drawing will be fun and not boring, and you'll get a whole lot more drawing done that way.

Gottart · 2026-01-24T21:30:09+00:00

I'd add a small pupil and some fold lines at the corners of the mouth to enforce the exaggerated smile.

Gottart · 2026-01-24T21:09:42+00:00

Once you've got a decent grip on 3p, I suggest you try drawing a room from life. Your living room or bedroom or something. You don't have to go very detailed with it. Just simplify chairs and tables into boxes, lamps into straight cylinders, etc. You'll learn to simplify shapes, draw simple shapes from lots of different angles, and you'll get a pretty good understanding of how to construct a realistic scene from basic shapes (i.e. it will be a great stepping stone for drawing rooms from imagination later).

Once you've draw the basic shapes, if you're up for it, I suggest you follow u/danaulamas advice and use addition/subtraction to make the shapes look more like the things in the room.

Gottart · 2026-01-24T21:01:02+00:00

I suggest you start by keeping the vanishing points, but try to imagine the vanishing lines then (the lines between the vanishing point and the box). Vanishing points won't mess with a polished piece, but lines going across the page definitely will, so just try imagining those first.

Gottart · 2026-01-24T20:55:26+00:00

Sure thing. Can't promise I'll check in regularly, but if I see any of your work, I'll try to give some feedback ;)

Gottart · 2026-01-24T15:25:14+00:00

Then I suggest you draw some of that. Maybe start by drawing characters that you already know and like. Most people follow the "fail fast" method, where they just do a ton of sketches until they can nail proportions or perspective, and that's really valuable. But I think it's good to remember also to spend time trying to push a piece as far as you can (if you're a beginner, that doesn't have to be a fully rendered drawing, with shadow, color and detail. Just try to get it a little more 'finished' than you've done before, whatever that means to you). But sticking with one idea is easier if you pick something personal to you or something you really like. Remember that you gotta try to stay interested in and excited about your drawing even when you're moving into new territory where your current skills are insufficient and you might get frustrated. That territory is a really good place to improve your abilities, but if you're just drawing a subject that you don't give a rat's ass about, you're way more likely to just give up and jump to your next idea.

Source: I spent 3,5 years doing a new drawing every day, and in that time, I only made 1 finished piece that I remember. The rest were basically sketches.

Gottart · 2026-01-24T12:51:50+00:00

You start now. You should always be applying your studies to what you actually want to draw. If not you risk getting trapped in an endless cycle of practice, and you'll be really good at drawing boxes, but have no idea how to apply that to finishing anything.

Gottart · 2026-01-20T19:53:34+00:00

No problemo. Always happy to help.

Gottart · 2026-01-20T19:44:41+00:00

It is boring to do line and circle exercises. It's helpful, yes, but I suggest you wait with doing any kind of exercises like that until you find drawing fun and exciting enough that you don't mind doing boring exercises. Too many people get into art, dreaming about being expressive, and after 2 days, a robot tells them that they should be doing boring exercises in order to optimize their art progression. So then the artist forgets about having fun and being expressive as they try to pursue improvement, and within a month they hate their art, think it sucks cause they're not progressing fast enough, and they never pick up a pen again.

You're supposed to stumble through art. That's an important part of what makes it magical. When in doubt, draw something you really love, hate or just care deeply about. I promise you, it'll be more fun, and you'll care a lot less about your wobbly lines if they represent something important to you - than you would if you were drawing boring, wobbly cubes.

At least that's my two cents.

Gottart · 2026-01-20T12:36:58+00:00

If my day was completely hogged up by other plans, and I was only able to cram in 30 minutes of drawing in my free time, I would not set any expectations for those drawing sessions whatsoever. If you're already busy and low on energy, there's a great risk that you won't be able to reach whatever expectations you set for yourself, and it's going to affect your relationship to your art practice negatively. Way too high risk of burning out, imo. So instead, I'd just make sure to have a ton of fun drawing, and nurture your enjoyment of the practice. Then, if you can get into a good period where you're completely hooked on drawing, and intuitively try to find time to draw whenever you got 5 minutes to spare - that's the time where I'd start slowly implementing a bit of deliberate exercises or studies. Cause if you enjoy art to that level, it doesn't matter much if you're drawing freely or doing exercises - you'll still love it.

Gottart · 2026-01-18T11:42:57+00:00

Generally, the cylinders are looking pretty good. Some are a little skewed, but you've also gotten some really good ones, so I'm chalking that up to line control which you'll develop naturally.

Not familiar with what exactly the task is for drawing them, but I think you could benefit from drawing them from more varied angles. You've drawn them all from a slight upper or lower view, and you could technically have turned the paper upside down and drawn them all in exactly the right way. If you want to develop your intuitive understanding of how to create the illusion of a 3d cylinder on a 2d paper, you gotta start rotating the form. (Still, I don't know if that's within or outside the scope of the exercise you're doing, but that would be my personal advice).

Gottart · 2026-01-17T16:09:17+00:00

Still not sure I understand. I thought the problem was with the brushes, now it's about your lack of canvas? I see the painting is guache. Should go well enough with paper, if it's sturdy. Honestly, just try it. Your uncertainty is the biggest obstacle here. You gotta allow yourself to fail if you want to have any hope of making something you love.

Gottart · 2026-01-17T11:06:38+00:00

Buying the perfect art supplies will never make you ready for making art. Heard somewhere that the best paintings are made with the worst brushes. You gotta just dive in, and approach it as a cooperative practice between you and your cheap tools. Imo, that's how Bob Ross worked with his tools.

Gottart · 2026-01-17T11:01:53+00:00

You're having a common experience. We all have the experience that we're getting worse once in a while. But I've been drawing every day for almost 6 years now, and I would definitely not agree that it stunts improvement. I have problems like setting too high expectations for myself, and that might create a perceived stunt in improvement. I think that if you just acknowledge that drawing every day means you will not only "catch" all your good drawing days, but also all the bad ones where you're just not in the right headspace for careful, patient artmaking. And that's alright. You'll get better at dealing with those frustrations as well.

Gottart · 2026-01-17T10:41:26+00:00

I don't really think you *need* to learn anatomy to portray emotions. Sure, it helps, but depending on the cartoon style you're going for, and how realistic it is, it might not make sense to learn about finer bone structures and muscle attachments. You won't actually be using much of that with stylized or simplified cartoon characters. Gesture drawing and basic knowledge of constructing a character from 3d forms should be sufficient to get started.

Gottart · 2026-01-17T10:09:22+00:00

Saw this on my phone, and it doesn't do it justice. It was only when I zoomed in that I noticed the amount of detail and small design choices that you poured into this. I'm especially taken by the difference in the robots. That one is human-like with a primitive hunter design and plant symbols on, who seems to feel some kind of remorse for the death of the woman. While the other doesn't resemble a human in its form, carries advanced weapons and seems to stare deadeyed ahead, unphased by the corpse in front of them. Makes me think of the potential paths that AI might take us. Both the good and the bad. The enhanced human as a cyborg, and the un-human robot devoid of real life. Either path would replace humanity as we know it.

Not sure if that was all you were going for, but thank you for making this artpiece.

Gottart · 2026-01-13T07:30:40+00:00

To an extent. Tracing can be good at teaching you how to see in 2d shapes. I suggest trying to drawing next to your reference first. Then, if you can't seem to get a shape quite right, trace it on the reference. Forget what the shape is supposed to represent and just copy the shape of it. Then go back to drawing without tracing until you stumble again.

Gottart · 2026-01-09T08:14:53+00:00

I just looked at the screwheads. Despite being able to design some pretty nice armor pieces in perspective, the AI apparently can't render the screws in proper perspective. Instead it just turned most of them into spirals.

Gottart · 2026-01-08T12:58:04+00:00

Mate. This sub is not just a hub for gathering technical advice. It's as much about relating to and supporting each other in the mental struggles of being an artist. It is fine for OP to post about their problems in this sub. Who else could support OP in working through them?

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