>afraid to do bad work >keep doing studies >imaginative

First is always trash once you think of the work flow as an iterative process.

It's all about mileage. Feelings of accomplishment from first-round accuracy are a distraction from the main goal. Don't cash in too early.

>>2719996
Do imaginative work and push it as far as you can, then spend some time to find or make some good reference and fix it up. It will A) look better, and B) teach you a lot.

Get a cheap sketchbook or just a bundle of printing paper in a folder or something.

That's your imagination sketchbook. No references, no studies, just imagination drawings. You can do referenced works/studies elsewhere, but this is your imagination book.

Do at least a page a day. Doesn't matter if they're shit, you're not 'ruining' a sketchbook anyway. Nobody is going to see it. Ideally, do the same stuff you've been doing studies of lately, IE your perspective work. Keep track of what parts you struggle with - if you're doing figures from imagination and you forget how feet work, write it down. But fill your page before you start looking up tutorials. Examine what's shit, and try to fix it yourself first. If you really can't get it right, remember it the next time you do a study.

It's a little weird but lately I've actually found it exciting when I do imagination stuff and find a thing I'm shit at. If I sit there going "how the fuck do I do this?" it gives me a very solid sense of direction for my studies. When you're just doing endless studies you sometimes lose grasp of what you actually need to practice. So consider mistakes as opportunities, a guiding hand for your practice.

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>>2719996
I'd rather FUCK you t b h not-gonna-make-it girl!

>>2719996
Just do it quit drinking the muh studies Kool-Aid

>>2719998
>not thinking of work flow as a recursive process
Not gonna make it.

I don't understand /ic/ obsession in doing bare-bone studies without a sense or purpose.

If anything, what I noticed is that art of a lot of people don't progress because they aren't accurate. And how you train accuracy and line control? By copying, drawing from reference (also caligraphy and graphical design, but shush) and generally making big, complete drawings.

Then you can improve on top of it, learn perspective (but mainly "boxing" it), values etc. - but to lay on proper values you have to be patient. Accurate. Think before putting pencil down.

Studies in the /ic/ version seem to be grinding stuff for 10h to get that XP and get on the new level. It's idiotic. You never complete drawings, like you have nothing to say or imagine.

>>2719996
go actually draw instead of bitching why you can't you fuck

>>2719996
Draw porn.

>>2719996
Not gonna make it

>>2719996
thumbs

cheap and fast, perfect for experimenting

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>>2719996
I was like you a year ago. This is what you do. Just focus on one part of the body. Draw as many hands as you can from imagination, and go back to the hands, and start drawing arms attached to them.

/ic/ will argue you need to focus on the body as a whole, but they dont realize to a complete beginner, the whole body is like an impossible feat to start out with .

>>2719996
The only answer is "stop being afraid to do bad work".
It's like if I was to go to the gym but refused to lift weights because I'm not lifting a thousand kilos and that's the standard I'm holding myself at. You're in "never gonna make it" territory now. Just fucking relax, just fucking unclench your butthole and draw. If you're just drawing for yourself and it isn't even client work then there's no reason to get stressed over the result.