10 Mistakes Beginning Artists Make and How to Fix Them
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Published 2018-02-04
Here we have some of the main mistakes/ habits I see young artist make when they start to draw. This is obviously all my own PERSONAL OPINION and all of it can be ignored if you feel the incentive to. I hope this helps, thee are obviously did not cover everything, though I hope what I have decided to cover has helped a smidgen, that’s all I can ask for.
Special thanks to:
@WahotsWolf (twitter) for letting me make a fool of myself in your fursuit
@make_it_artistic (Instagram) for letting me use your art for tracing and examples for heavy referencing.
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Music by:
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Momentum by Zplit soundcloud.com/zplit
QUEEN OF THE SKIES, ON AND ON, PACIFIC SUN, and BACK IN SUMMER by Nicolai Heidlas Music soundcloud.com/nicolai-heidlas
Masked Heroes, and Tevo by Vexento soundcloud.com/vexento youtube.com/user/Vexento
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Other references: • MFF 2017 Floor Wars Nonsuit Semi Fina...
All Comments (21)
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Alright, so today I finally decided I wanted to get back into drawing. I'd stopped when I was quite young, so my skills really haven't increased. I'm still better than I was (and some of my stuff actually looks pretty good), but I'm not where I'd like to be. Not even close to being a "good artist." Thus I began trying again. So I started looking up simple guides and reference images. There was one issue that jumped out at me: Every single guide I looked at told me a different way to start drawing; Every single reference I found had different tactics for getting the shape. I was being told to focus on the shapes, just make small lines, to make a single solid stroke for each line; being shown that I should do chicken scratch, that I should use fluid strokes, that I should just make line after line without using basic shapes. It was all just... overwhelming. And killed my motivation instantly. I sat back, defeated, and just stared at my drawing pad for a bit before putting it up and doing something less productive than bettering myself. Deciding that it's too late in my life for me to advance my art skills enough; that I should just focus on the couple of things I'm already good at. But now I've seen this and checked out some of the other videos you have on your channel. And I want to try again. You've rekindled my motivation and given me hope that perhaps I can still do this. Perhaps it's not too late for me. Thank you.
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Eraser companies are built on your mistakes
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When I was a kid I used to chicken scratch and I thought it was so cool- that 'iT wAs My sTyLe' lmao.
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"Look at the skeletal structure." Me who draws octopuses and squids: srsly
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5:33 his "quick doodle " is 10 times better then anything I have made TwT
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"Use the other end of your pencil!" B-but... I've erased it all away...
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This whole video I was just screaming YES!!!!!! Great work please make more!
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8:18 I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH. I remember seeing a gacha edit on twitter somewhere, and it had a really realistic and odd looking nose. The shading was amazing, and when somebody tried to KINDLY say “The shading is amazing, but the nose looks off!” And the person who made it BLEW UP. They got pissed, they started saying ‘IF YOU DONT HAVE ANYTHING NICE TO SAY DON’T SYA ANYTHING.’ Dear lord, never face palmed harder.
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"Don't draw only wolves" only draws wolves throughout the entire video
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My art is slowly turning into anime Which, is fine. But I don’t watch anime I’ve never drawn anime I don’t understand Edit: holy SHIT that’s a lotta likes Edit 2: there are too many comments I am too tired to read this many comments y’all please
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"you should use your shoulder" "you've probably been using your wrist" me, someone who uses their elbow: is this okay????
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“Using the whole arm to draw” Me: h o w-
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Me: * constantly draws dragons * Also me: * draws a fox * The fox: "Meow?"
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Sees bullying part Reaction: Wait people are supposed to criticize me? Then why am I the one bullying myself?! Life has failed me
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“I don’t need no underline structure just like I don’t need no man” That made my day 😂
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For a while I chicken scratched my traditional lines cause I couldn't draw long lines without making them shaky, especially when lining my sketches. My brother made fun of me for it a lot, which only made me feel worse about my art and my single stroke long lines started looking worse than they had before. It took me ditching the medium entirely and switching to digital art for like a year to start feeling comfortable trying out traditional art again. Basically, it's fine to give kids helpful advice on how to advance their art, but don't like… bully kids because they're not good yet.
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10:47 I've never been so offended by something I 100% agree with.
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Me: has been drawing for over 5 years 1: chicken scratches Me: *guess I’ll die*
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People bitching about not having a tablet: Too relatable
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Personally I always have this procedure on different layers for my sketches. 1 - Guidelines (Stick figure and circles where the head and like wrists and such are) 2 - Shapes (Drawing basic shapes to plan out the body type etc) 3 - Body Chicken Scratching (Sketching the body in chicken scratches and maybe adding little indicators for details I wanna add later) 4 - Add details (face, clothes, jewelry etc) 5 - Refine (Go over the entire sketch on a separate layer to define the lines better) And afterwards I go on to lineart and the rest of the stuff.
