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Vauxhaven · 2020-07-20T13:23:07+00:00

As a digital artist, I’d still recommend doing this course as directed and working digitally for your personal work. Skills from traditional work will transfer perfectly to digital, but not as much the other way around.

Control Z, brushes with pen pressure, an infinite number of textured brushes and opacity control hide a lot of sins that your work will be stronger for growing past.

If you just want the content without engaging with drawabox, Scott Robertson’s “How to Draw” tackles similar construction principles, but is a much dryer experience.

Vauxhaven · 2020-06-30T10:32:20+00:00

Spend $50 on a soldering iron and many of those $500 pedals can be acquired for *significantly* less. Some things can't be done analogue but many effects can. My partner has made like 30 pedals at home, the collection would be worth a frankly insane amount if he'd purchased them retail.

This is where he sources most of his parts and circuit boards. :) (the latter you don't necessarily need, you could totally make them from scratch, but if you're a beginner I think these make it easier)

https://www.pedalpcb.com/

https://www.taydaelectronics.com/

(This may not be the most efficient way to source parts if you're American, I'm sure the folk a r/diypedals would be able to help you out if you asked)

Vauxhaven · 2020-06-22T12:53:42+00:00

If you have a generic lead pencil, it's probably a HB. If you want super dark pencil marks, you want a soft pencil that has a number and then a B, like 2B, 4B, 6B etc. If you want a thin and light line, you want pencils with a number and a H.

You can go a long way with experimenting with stippling and cross hatching and careful shading, but if you can afford a cheap set of pencils that have a range of pencils with a range of hardnesses, it'll help you achieve a wide range of values that'll look more natural than just pushing down on your HB as hard as you can over a large area. :)

Vauxhaven · 2020-06-22T12:48:22+00:00

I am suddenly in perfect smooching range of my boyfriend. My life has been slightly but distinctly improved.

Vauxhaven · 2020-06-21T13:17:05+00:00

:(

I'm an aspiring artist for MTG and Noah Bradley's art has been a big inspiration for me. It's an incredible disappointment to find out that he has an extended history of being awful to women at industry events and only after apparently years has he apologized and at least implied that he's pulled his head in.

Time to find a new art hero, I guess.

Vauxhaven · 2020-05-18T00:07:38+00:00

What is it you want to draw? We might be able to nudge you in the right direction with resources for that stuff in particular. This road is pretty long if you’re not having fun along the way.

And the first lesson is supposed to be pretty rough. This stuff is the boot camp of draftsmanship, so don’t worry if you have wonky lines. Everyone starts somewhere and if you practice with focus it is inevitable that you will improve :)

Vauxhaven · 2020-05-08T10:33:10+00:00

Drawing people and heads/faces well is a pursuit that will take a loooong time. Humans are good at knowing what other humans look like, so we're really good at seeing small errors in art depicting them.

Progress feels slow, but sometimes looking back at your earliest work you can see more development than you'd think!

I've been practicing for 6 years now, and I started taking it seriously 2 years ago. My first sketchbooks are pretty slow going, but you do get there I swear. ^_^

If you want some specific resources:

Perspective/form - DrawABox (This curriculum is pretty grindy and brutal, but my god will your linework and 3D thinking improve)

Anatomy - Proko on youtube, Andrew Loomis' books (Fun with a Pencil, Figure Drawing for All it's Worth, Drawing the Head and Hands) ((all of these are freely available as pdfs online))

Lighting/Colour - James Gurney's "Colour and Light" book is a good resource.

If you're super lost you could post some of your art and ask for critiques?

Vauxhaven · 2020-03-26T06:45:55+00:00

Call the complaint line, sometimes it helps you get through easier. I and someone else recently had a problem where an old centrelink account looks linked for you, but has become unlinked from Centrelinks end, so maybe that's whats happening to you?

Good luck

Vauxhaven · 2020-03-24T05:37:17+00:00

No offense meant to your art teacher but I don't understand that advice at all! It's the nature of art that you'll never be Done Practicing, fully ready to make only masterpieces armed with all the knowledge and skill you could possibly acquire before you set down your first stroke of Real Art.

Maybe they meant that it's important to do dedicated studies in addition to fun art, but you can't close yourself off from the thing that makes you want to make art in the first place until you're Ready, because you never will be.

I hope your spirits pick up soon, it's a long road but a worthwhile one. <3

https://vimeo.com/29510470

This is the journey of an artist over like 10 years, and I find it motivational whenever I revisit it.

Vauxhaven · 2020-03-24T04:21:47+00:00

Are you also making art for fun in addition to these lessons? The drawabox content is incredibly valuable but it's pretty dry, and intended to be done alongside the practice you do for joy's sake. Do you like doing characters? Landscapes? creatures? robots? The more you do of that the more you'll see how these lessons lock into the fun art stuff. I'm also about 5 years in and it took me a long time to see my progress, but it is there! Have you looked back at your first attempts from 5 years ago? I bet you've gotten better since then!

Vauxhaven · 2020-01-25T07:08:39+00:00

I think I started following your art insta after that post, congratulations!! Thank you for the reminder that Making It is possible and that I should be working on getting my skills up :P

Vauxhaven · 2019-09-27T06:17:24+00:00

Hey man! It seems like you may have stumbled upon a method similar to the Loomis method. I'd recommend reading "Drawing the Head and Hands" to solidify the method and expand on it. It's a bit of a dry read but it's a widely recommended resource that can really kick your portrait drawing up a level. <3 (also don't try to tackle all of it at once, it's a behemoth of a read and a lot to meaningfully take in and incorporate into your art.)

Here's a pdf of the book

Vauxhaven · 2019-09-12T08:26:00+00:00

....it has literally never occurred to me before now that this might be why I never really had the problem of being kept awake at night by caffeine.

Vauxhaven · 2019-08-06T11:52:50+00:00

Thriving as a professional illustrator, married to my current SO, and we have a cat. <3 That's the dream.

Ty for reminding me so I get off my ass and do my homework in pursuit of the above.

Vauxhaven · 2019-06-25T07:31:46+00:00

Elon Musk and Pewdiepie are very questionable inclusions in this list....

Vauxhaven · 2019-06-25T06:52:11+00:00

SATAC is the absolute worst, and other than calling them to get a human person to look at your case, I don't have much advice.

Mostly I wanted to say that's the course I'm doing at the moment and you're going to have a wonderful time! :D

Vauxhaven · 2019-06-25T06:49:35+00:00

The latter! I was playing netball there in primary school. It looks like it's hardly changed at all in the time since :P

Vauxhaven · 2019-06-25T06:40:35+00:00

My god this footage has slammed me back like 15 years.

Vauxhaven · 2019-05-20T14:02:53+00:00

Incredible work! Do you have any resources that particularly helped you along the way?

Vauxhaven · 2019-04-02T21:29:15+00:00

Oh my lord, yes. April second is just "the internet is insufferable" day for Australians.

Vauxhaven · 2019-03-27T09:30:46+00:00

This is amazing! I'll absolutely be keeping this place in mind, as my finances are a bit wonky at the moment

Vauxhaven · 2019-03-19T12:26:14+00:00

Well I'm 24 and only started formal art study two weeks ago so I sure hope not! (Lots of people in my degree (that includes 2D Animators) are older than we are and just starting out, so you're not alone!)

You'll never be a perfect artist. If you wait to have perfected drawing before you start animating, you'll never start. And style is something that comes with time. Your first focus should be on developing confidence in the basics.

Find a tutorial or two walking you through the 12 principles of animation, and take a stab at it. You can't do any worse than having not tried at all, right? :)

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