practice schedule

i think the best way to get over it is to make an actual schedule. in a given week, try to set yourself what days youll spend on studies, drawing from imagination, or both.
then try to follow it through by practicing in the same time each day. this kinda helps with the fear aspect .you might start to realize that failing sometimes is not that bad. plus once you do it enough it becomes a habit, which makes everything ALOT easier.
im not saying this is easy though, it can be fucking hard to follow at first. just try to stay disciplined and push through.

lastly i feel obvious saying that but dont be afraid of faliure. failiure is a natural part of the learning process. you cant make cool shit if you dont fail first. actually, if you do something and fail, youre making alot more progress than you would if you dont do anything.

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Im struggling with this too...ima try keeping a sketchbook in my lap open with a pen in my hand n not letting myself get up till ive crapped out at least one fuckin doodle...work my way back up to making at least 3 finished pieces in a day.

You need to have a fever for art. Just let it consume as much time as you can favoring art over any other leisure activity. It's easy enough for me.

> what's a good way to organize and schedule yourself

Plenty of resources online on how to make effective schedules, just google it. Also I recently found a channel that is for helping college students, look up "Thomas Frank" on youtube. Even if you are self learning he still has useful information that can be applied to self teaching.

> my own fear of failure is making me procrastinate

If you want it commit and don't make excuses

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http://artprompts.org

Recently started using these for art block. Good way to jumpstart your brain.

>>3095788
>http://artprompts.org
Nice, thanks for this. I'm finally going to be able to draw after a whole month.

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I have written down the dates and numbers of the pictures on every page of my sketchbook in advance.

My autism wouldn't let me to leave a blank page in that sketchbook and the thought that the numbers of the pictures wouldn't match the actual amount of sketches even now makes me want to kill myself.

This basically forces me to shit out at least one picture a day. Lots of times it's making me feel like a piece of shit but it keeps me motivated to draw everyday.

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Actually shit something out today w my go nowhere till u draw thing...elevated the pressure by going to starfux so my anxiety would make me draw faster

Just make sure to do a couple hours before bed every night

>>3095788
really nourishes my niggertoes

>>3096812
are arrows that big?

>>3095474
I draw 8 hours a day

1 hour gestures
1hour anatomy
1 hour color
1 hour perspective
1 hour clothing
1 hour faces
1 hour values
1 hour composition


Everyday I notice enormous gains and it is no doubt in my mind that I will be pro in a year

>>3096986
>Everyday I notice enormous gains

How long have you been drawing for?

>>3096986

Post work. Must be good.

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>>3097008
>>3097010
I've been drawing for 3 months. Before that I have never drawn in my life

>>3097051
reee and such

>>3096986
Good luck with that, drawing less than 18 hours is a lost cause. You'll never reach any actual skill level only doing 8.

>>3096986
Wow nice dude, you my secret hero now. Ima try that too

>>3097073
lol

Wow you idiots will believe anything.

>>3096986

Can you post a little bit more?

>>3095474
bump

>>3095513
What if I ain't got no fever for art? Not all of us are head over heels in love with art or wanna be the very best like no one evert was. We just wanna learn to draw good.

>>3095474
A light schedule that produced good results for me was this:

Minimum: 4 hours a day, 5 days a week

Mon: figure/gesture
Tue: anatomy, heads, hands, feet etc
Wed: color/light/value
Thu: brushwork/edges/textures
Fri: perspective, composition, thumbnails, environment

Sat & Sun (optional): everything else I do - requests, commissions, portfolio work, stylization, design, animation

This is a good study schedule that doesn't push you too much and let's you apply what you've learned at the end of the week.
I often exceeded the minimum 20 hours and worked on saturdays and sundays almost always so, it's up to you. But 4 hours minimum is a good goal that will often kickstart you for more.

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anyone have any tips on how to school yourself into thinking your workspace is a workspace? i can get myself into the work mindset everywhere else except home, where i just slack off. i can't move my computer out of my bedroom either, so feng shui is out.

My schedule isn't really a schedule more a sketchbook organizer.
PAGE1: Forms/early Draw a Box exercises(they're super fun to do)

PAGE2: Freepage(draw whatever I want)

PAGE3: Gesture/Anatomy

PAGE4: Various studies of things I like, so it's a focused freepage (Vehicles, Effects&smoke, etc)

I don't enjoy painting very much, but I'll find a way that fits the style I want and fit in some form of painting studies somehow

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>>3097051
3 months? i'm legit impressed.

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>>3097051
>>3097055
>>3103041

damn /ic gets baited easily lmao

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>>3097051
Right.

>>3103090
what annoys me more than the talent meme is how that piece of shit thinks he's skilled

>>3095474

An Anon told me to stop scheduling drawing time and to schedule not-drawing time instead. Trying that now. I'll tell you in two weeks if it works better this way.

Don't worry about a schedule and just draw. Practice what you need for a good 2 - 3 hours, but make sure you always draw for fun and with fun.

>>3103110
He is skilled.

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>>3095474
>Draw whatever I want
>Don't worry about schedule
>Just always drawing things around me
>Become pro

But then again, I have talent, so this allowed me to skip a lot of basic stuff like studying fundies.

>>3095788
Thanks a ton, I've been looking for a site like that for a while now.

>>3103110
This. Just because you have the "talent meme", doesn't mean you have the patience and strategies of the person who worked hard to reach the same level. I even think this is a common trope in anime to show the underdog beating the talented person because they have more experience.