I'm not gonna make it.

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Keys to drawing exercise

The light was weird.

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My hand twitches a bit if I try to keep it perfectly still in the air. Hands.

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>>2292771
Forgot pic.

Not your blog. Give up art or git guud

>>2292757
this one is really good but it's probably beginners luck. git gud but don't forget this

>>2292757
Congrats, you're good enough to do modern art

>>2292757
not with that attitude

>>2292928
Theres no such thing as begginers luck. Dont downplay his achievment.

You're not gonna make it
No! You ain't gonna make it
You're not gonna make it
Anymore!

>>2292757
keep it up anon! Trust me, its hard now but give it time and it will get better. I am glad i kept at it.

>>2293232
>>2293243
this

>>2293094
with a little bit of this, cause it's ok to panic but it's not ok to let this panic make you not draw #Paranorman

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>>2292757

You are doing extremely well. These drawings of your hands and feet should 100% be better than any hands/feet you've drawn previously. Don't compare yourself with other artists at this point, use yourself as the only frame of reference. What matters right now and in the future, is your own self improvement.

The most important thing to take away from these exercises and from the book is that you're NOT learning how to draw hands/faces/etc. You're learning how to SEE and how to TRANSLATE what you see onto paper, basically, learning how to draw. Don't feel down because you still can't draw things on your own. You learn how to draw things AFTER first learning how to draw.

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Saw a neat face on /co/, tried to draw it.
Sorry for shitting up the board for the responses that feel that way. This thread just provides me something to go to and make a goal to add to daily instead of a DA account or something. Nobody knows me and I prefer it this way.

>>2292757
Don't have a bad attitude. Keep going.

Art is fucking hard, dawg. It's one of the hardest things you may ever do, and it takes years to get good.

Everyone starts bad, and there is an initial hill you need to overcome. Some never overcome this hill, and just give up drawing forever. Some overcome it, and it becomes a lifestyle.

Just remember, you aren't the best, but you definitely aren't the worst. Nobody shoots out of their mother and begins drawing like a fucking master right away.

In my eyes, you've never failed at art until you give up.

>>2293736
>In my eyes, you've never failed at art until you give up.
That's some hardcore wisdom sir, you are a scholar.

>>2292757
What does make it mean to you? I hope you've at least clarified that to yourself, if not to us.

It's fine to have a dream (unquantifiable) but have goals (quantiafiable) as well. A goal is something you can measure, something with a definite end point. "I want to be good at drawing" is a dream, not a goal. "I will draw 100 figures in the next week" is a goal. Quantifiable, there's an end date, etc. Once you've achieved that goal, measure your progress. You will be better at drawing figures at the end than you were at the beginning. You will not have "made it," but you will have taken a step.

>>2293752
>"I will draw 100 figures in the next week"
Goal of this week.

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A speaker and some junk on my desk.

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Fun with a pencil sketches

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Keep practicing man. I would say 99% of the people i know, including myself, cant draw worth shit. The only people i know who can have spent thousands of hours trying to get to a professional level and than years of experience in the feild.

This is my quick/unfinished attempt of your exercise. Shit is hard.

ah lol i fucked up my image resize like every 1 else

>>2292757
Damn dude you have this thing about your art where I can tell you have a gift. You wouldn't happen to be autistic would you? Also how long have you been drawing?

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>>2294594
Kek that's the sticky's first practice exercise, I've never drawn this many consecutive days before beyond doodling as a kid, and it's only been two days.

Horrible soda can. Redoing now.

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Drew the can at a high angle; had to guesstimate the splash. Found a video on soda pouring, though. Tried to implement it to the already drawn can.

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>>2292757
Are these exercises only for total noobs that have never used a pencil before in their life?

I need to know because I'm considering doing all of these exercises just because some other anon did them.

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>>2294627
I have been drawing for 2 years and the damn thing it's almost imposible the first time. It forces you to try other methods and ways to work around it so you can do a decent copy, and I'm seeing myself in the future implementing the things he has taught me this practice.

Totally worth it, even if you are competent already.

>>2294634
>*the things it has taught me

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Another batch of Fun with A Pencil practice.

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Sticky pic ver. 1/??

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More Fun With A Pencil

>>2294627
>Are these exercises only for total noobs that have never used a pencil before in their life?

No, its for anyone who feel that their ability to draw isn't good enough. It is HIGHLY recommended for beginners simply because it teaches the essential foundations of how to sight/draw first and foremost.

The context of these Picasso drawing exercises are meant to be drawn right side up at first and then upside down the second time copying it. The point is that if you understand what the book is teaching you and you're actually practicing the methods it's teaching you then the second drawing, even though you're doing it upside down, will be the better copy. You learn that you must be able to view an image and tackle the method of drawing as an abstract puzzle of filling in the blanks. This eventually leads to the realization that copying/drawing something is the same difficulty, no matter how complex the original image is.

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Can't spook the blook.

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Part of my RC car. Trying to tackle the entire machine at once wasn't working out too well.

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Trying to mess around with some squiggly things in 3d.

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Tried to practice drawing from imagination, got stuck on how to introduce arms to the mecha. Still going to work on this though.

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Robot continued.

>>2292757
Me neither, and not because I'm a bad artsist, but because I'm fucking retarded.
if you come around my town tell me op, we're getting shitfaced. drinks on me

>>2292757
None of us ever make it, some get close though.

>>2296462
Will do, haha.

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>>2292757
..No! I ain't gonna make it!

I'm not gonna make it.. ANYMOOOOAAR!

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Legs.

Question: at what point does one start drawing bodies/full figures? I only ask because I'm not sure if you work on fundamentals in tandem with complicated things add additional steps by mastery.

Holiday junk, sorry. Uploads resume tonight; I did draw, but it was duplicating a friend's work by eye and I don't feel comfortable uploading a likeness of their work if they don't have it anywhere online.