Nicole’s diary

[meager thorn]

Just started to draw after long time not drawing again hoping to drawing everyday so I will try my best to become an artist

Here is the list i drew of today

Will continue to draw more tmr

[soft glade]

I recommend starting to train on each part on its own (eye-hair-etc) then moving on to putting them all together
-I’m in the same situation but started a little earlier than you-
Either way good luck!

[meager thorn]

Eyes and hair practice drawing them is that what ur saying?

sorry I’m just bit confused with u said train

[soft glade]

Yes I meant practicing each part on it’s own may show faster improvement because improving many parts at one may be really confusing

[meager thorn]

Ok Tysm I understand now and what about the nose and mouth are they good?

[trim stream]

Just to add on from own experience, while yes learning about and practicing different features can help faster improvement, you should still be practicing the face all together. I would also recommend breaking things down into shapes. like choosing a shape for the eyes, could be an oval, diamond, square. Different shapes convey different feelings, a guy with sharp eyes might seem menacing compared to a guy with soft, oval eyes. Also breaking down things like the nose, ears or mouth into base shapes is also important.

Also great work for a beginner

[soft glade]

You’re very welcome!
-sorry just saw you replied-
The eyes and hair were examples, you should practice each and every part you’re not satisfied with until you are
It’s better to ask yourself if that’s what you want or not bc you’re the one that knows how good you want to be in them

What may be good for someone may be bad for someone else

[trim stream]

Glad you added that on lol

[meager thorn]

Ok Ty I appreciate it too

[meager thorn]

Ok 👍

[meager thorn]

Here’s a couple of practice I did of eyes and nose I did

Lately I’ve been busy so i couldn’t draw everyday but at least i try to when I have time

Also this was from yesterday

And this was from today

Still working on the facials features

[meager thorn]

More practice I did

These were from today

Jawline is off again I lost it

Was too focus on the facial features

[meager thorn]

@soft glade and @trim stream I’ve done what u guys have ask I can see I am improving

Here’s some arts works I did today

I’ve been thinking that drawings eyes and nose r pretty ez I’m slowly getting there but as u can see there I drew lips so from starting tmr ima to and also learn to draw mouths

[soft glade]

Honestly I’m a beginner too so idk- but I’m glad you’re improving keep going!

Oh use references if you don’t!

That helps a LOT!

[meager thorn]

I do dw! I use it all the time

[meager thorn]

Right I see

[trim stream]

You’re definitely doing better, but I would recommend being mindful that the face is made of planes, not one flat surface. Also to keep in mind the underlying structure of the skull. Also, when you’re thinking about that the face is a 3d object, also en mindful of how things change from different perspectives. Like how the eyelids wrap around an eyeball, and how that look can change from different perspectives.

[meager thorn]

Here’s couples of shapes I did more to practice!

Didn’t wanted to finish this knowing I know it was bad

[distant compass]

same goes for me too

[distant compass]

I love you for practicing faces, most artist don't do that and only focus on muscular anatomy

I recommend practicing individual parts ONLY first, before putting them all together

like by taking a help from a tutorial or a realistic picture/drawing for reference

tbh it depends on which art style you prefer, you not need to focus on realism alone if your goal is something else

If then, try looking into cartoonish or anime style references

[meager thorn]

Ty!

[meager thorn]

I do do that all the time

[distant compass]

Yeah

[distant compass]

I can see it here, these type of practices helped me a lot too

[meager thorn]

Yesss idk what I would do if I hadn’t learned it

[meager thorn]

Just a practice warm up

[meager thorn]

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[meager thorn]

@trim stream @distant compass @soft glade u guys I feel like I’m not getting anywhere to my art work

Im just repeating I swear

Like every time I try and draw smh from the pinest it nun like alike yk

[distant compass]

NO YOU ARE GETTING SOMEWHERE

don't think like that

you're a step closer every single day to that success you aimed for

[meager thorn]

U think so?

[trim stream]

Yeah def! Also when you’re drawing shapes, practice from diff perspectives and warping it

Here’s a great video by proko, he has a ton of good tutorials. Though of course he does offer paid courses
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6T_-DiAzYBc&pp=ygUaaG93IHRvIGRyYXcgYW55dGhpbmcgcHJva28%3D

[meager thorn]

Ok will I do this ty

[soft glade]

That’s not right! Progress can be slow sometimes that you can’t see it yourself but you are progressing

If you get sick of practicing something without seeing results you should go for the basics or change the subject of practice to ease the frustration

[meager thorn]

Don’t mind the back ground 🙈🙈

[meager thorn]

I fucked it up the background

Was trying to shade making to realistic but not sure how to

[distant compass]

background looks interesting tho

[meager thorn]

Not much i did today

Been busy for a while so I just got back to it

[distant compass]

A tip

[distant compass]

The neck has many muscles, so while making the shadow, you have to be careful

[meager thorn]

Couple of drawings I did today

[meager thorn]

Wow they r amazing

[meager thorn]

Tried to draw this at first

But sm1 help me and told ke my mistake so I redrawed it

And it turned into this

[meager thorn]

I had an idea so I choose to how to shade and make my work realistic

Did some practice as these 2 I was rushing don’t mind that

[left cradle]

You're definitively improving. Comparing the most recent drawings to your first ones, there is a big contrast. You shade really well, and that's something to be proud of! It adds a good lot of character to your drawings, and your art style is unique!
I think that studying proportions and more facial structures would help, too. Your nose is well-built, but it seems a tiny bit out of place. Maybe if you tried to move it down slightly as to place it closer to the mouth.
Your art is beautiful! You're impŕoving with every passing day! :D

[meager thorn]

Tysm I’m am glad i have improved I’ll also study more about facial structure and proportions! ☺️

[meager thorn]

@left cradle I’m a bit confused when you say I should improve facial structure and proportions can you explain that in detail?

[left cradle]

I mean, your faces are really interesting, looks like they're alive! But, some features are slightly misplaced, like the nose. Depending on your artstyle (if you're going for a more cartoon-like or realistic look), you can decide if you want to change it or not.
I meant that your features are very well-built, but, when you place them together in the face, they get slightly misplaced. Studying facial structure (how the face works) and proportions (the size of the features) would help!

[meager thorn]

Oh right I understand ty!

[meager thorn]

What should I do to practice them tbh I want my art works to be realistic but it always the size of the features and some time the nose is the issues

[meager thorn]

@left cradle

[left cradle]

Hello, good day!
Sorry for not answering earlier.
Well, uh... Let me see. There are many Youtube channels and videos in general that can help you. There are some really helpful tips, too! I'll pick some for you.

[meager thorn]

It fine dw im glad your answer at least 😊

Also Ty

[left cradle]

https://youtu.be/5VCiTcOYado?si=7dPF0dHrU_7VCKb4

This one seems nice, and he has a more realistic artstyle, too.

Stydying the anatomy of the face is really important; in this way, you can get the hang of every feature's place, like the nose. There are many different kinds of faces and its forms, but they all follow the same bone structure (the skull).

I'm also studying it right now, trying to get a little better and all. We can do it together. :)

[meager thorn]

Ok Ty 🙂

[meager thorn]

@left cradle

Dude the vid you send Dam like I thought it would be easier but nahhh it way harder than I thought like every 3 minutes? I must change diff drawing portrait Crazy for me. I mean what can I say yk I never drawn like this before every 3 minutes so yk

I’ll keep practicing it tbh. Looks nun like the pinest what I chooses

Sadly

😭

[left cradle]

GASP

OH MY GOD! You've improved so quickly?! That's amazing! Your faces look so much better now, dear!
Don't worry about them not looking exactly like the references. You're doing great. :)

[meager thorn]

Omd I have ? How I don’t see anything

Omd!!!

The eyes

Same size

Tysm brooo @left cradle idk what I would if you didn’t show me this im soo happy

[meager thorn]

Tyyy also ima do and more

[left cradle]

I'm glad that it helped! Seriously, you're getting the hang of it really fast. Practice is the key! :)

Give yourself more credit, too. You worked hard: that's why you got better.

[meager thorn]

Here’s couple more I did

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Day 1 learning how to draw fundamentals

[meager thorn]

These drawing was a while ago when I stopped drawing and took a break

Here’s is what I learned and did today

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[meager thorn]

Day 7

[meager thorn]

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[meager thorn]

.didn’t rlly feel like drawing but did some 🤷‍♀️

[cinder wraith]

there are some that look nice

Keep practicing

also slowly ur cubes look more 3d

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[slate helm]

Lol real

[meager thorn]

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Alr ima actually try and draw today 😭

[cinder wraith]

u got this

https://tenor.com/view/thumbs-up-baby-gif-5867472052584812355

[meager thorn]

Yes I believe in it

Guess what also

[cinder wraith]

yes

[meager thorn]

I just started doing my first work out after keep repeating saying I’ll do it 🙂

Already feeling great!

[cinder wraith]

hell yeah thats whats up

[meager thorn]

I can’t find my art help from before shall i make a new one or keep looking ?

[meager thorn]

Reallll

[cinder wraith]

ur art?

[meager thorn]

Yes

[cinder wraith]

its here tho

this is ur diary

[meager thorn]

I mean the other one but well I could use this

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[meager thorn]

Day 13

Tried to draw animals

[cinder wraith]

The racoon looks good!

[meager thorn]

Say truth it bad 🤣🤣🤣

I mean it looks like a wolf almost

Or maybe a fox

[cinder wraith]

No really It doesnt look bad

the squirrel tho is not great, understandable its not a front view its more like to the side

[meager thorn]

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I fr need to catch up

[meager thorn]

I finally drawed but didn’t do much

I wanted to draw protrait since it been a while and notice I lost all my skills on it

I forgot how to draw face like normal if you can give me tips again?

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[cinder wraith]

Mb i didnt see this in a while

maybe try the loomis method out

Or try to learn the guidelines and measurements to put every part of the face

[meager thorn]

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[meager thorn]

Alright ty

[meager thorn]

I heard a year ago aka also on my note book that practice to draw every 1 min improves ur protrait drawing

[cinder wraith]

I would first learn how to draw circles and spheres and understand how they work or look like in 3 dimensions

Then u could move on with how to draw heads

At least thats what im doin rn

[meager thorn]

Alright ty I was literally struggling on what to do I’m glad your here to help

Smh like that

[cinder wraith]

Yes

Also

Everyday, try to do line accuracy and confidence exercises

So that ur lines get cleaner overtime

[meager thorn]

Alright

[slate helm]

You should focus on being able to know anotamy of a human face by hard before practicing 1 minute portraits, trust,I did this and there was slight to no improvement and I even stopped drawing for a while 🥲

[meager thorn]

Anatomy of human face you mean by loomis method?

[slate helm]

I would also suggest you putting less pressure when drawing, but not to a extent till you can't see it but also not until you engrave the paper

[meager thorn]

Right I see

[slate helm]

I would suggest you drawing different angles of the nose, face eyes and mouth

Also known how far away each facial feature is from another

[meager thorn]

Ohhh I see I was literally struggling on them where should I start find smh on yt?

[slate helm]

I recommend you to trace some sketches first just to get an idea on roughly how to draw

Personaly I learnt by tracing a few times then practice on my own

After a while it's muscle memory

[slate helm]

I recommend sam does art, some of his advice is quite good

[meager thorn]

Trace I never rlly traced before plus I need like another to copy it don’t I ? How does tracing work on mobile

[slate helm]

Find a image, download it or screenshot

Turn the brightness all the way up until it feels like there's bleach in Your eyes then put a paper on top and use tape or bluetack to secure and trace

:D

You can also trace the basic anotamy rlly lightly then draw the rest yourself like just the outline of the head or sm

[meager thorn]

Woah dude I just checked it out seems very helpful thanks 👍

[slate helm]

And once you get a bit more advance you can use picrew for OC design help

[meager thorn]

Alright

[meager thorn]

Did some practice I now know a bit how to draw the front view

I think I’m improving

[meager thorn]

Omd I’ve been trying do as you said fir the past half hour now for tracing but I can’t do it when I put my phone under nesthe the page and tape I can’t see the outline even if I do with pencil I can see but it keeps moving

Do I probably need a bigger device

Or smh

Or is there like another way maybe ? Other than tracing

[slate helm]

How thick is your paper?

It's just one of the practices like any other practice, I still do it today sometimes if I struggle on a particular piece

[slate helm]

When it comes to 3/4 face angles, the chin goes inwards not outwards

[slate helm]

Mm I'm not sure

[meager thorn]

How think hmm idk but it says A3 idk if that means anything oh also if I do felt tip it won’t go through the page

[slate helm]

1 to get better, don't draw the lines on the side of the nose

[slate helm]

A3 is paper size

[slate helm]

Stay away from felt tip for now, trust me

Your time has not come yet warrior 🪖

[meager thorn]

Ngl while I was trying to do tracing I was just thinking if I do that I can able to draw anything be even without it you using muscles to mermorise it

[meager thorn]

Dw I haven’t been using them for 5 years now 😂😂

[meager thorn]

Oh flip

[slate helm]

Lol

[meager thorn]

Then shall I

I mean I just did a bit of tracing idk if it good I used many objects that near me to hold it still but still not very cleary

[slate helm]

Also the ears are alone from the ears to the nose

[slate helm]

Now you should try and draw that without tracing

[meager thorn]

Oh so the ears is beside the nose gotta. Length right then

[meager thorn]

Flip that going to be hard but I’ll try

[slate helm]

Just focus on the basic shapes

Also try not to do chicken scratching

And less pressure with the pencil :3

You got this

[meager thorn]

Hopes so

Did a few

Day 1

[slate helm]

That's pretty good!

[cinder wraith]

Yep much better

[slate helm]

Bro the chicken scratching 😔

https://tenor.com/view/no-more-go-t-sam-mercy-stop-gif-4954655

[meager thorn]

Im kinda proud of what im doing

[meager thorn]

Th

Alright ima try and draw some protrait now

[meager thorn]

Alright I’m done for today

[cinder wraith]

theres alr some noticeable improvement

[meager thorn]

That good to hear

[meager thorn]

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Day 3 did nothing

Day 4 was busy again

[meager thorn]

Day 5

Did this today

[meager thorn]

Day 6 did not draw was sick

[meager thorn]

Learned more about head method and this time with the vertical lines also

[cinder wraith]

They are looking a bit better now

[meager thorn]

That good to hear

Still working on it

[cinder wraith]

cool cool

just keep drawing and drawing

[vestal nest]

Hola! sorry for randomly posting in your are diary, but i just went through your progress and holy WOW! you've improved so much since when you first started your art diary. hope you see yourself just how much you're growing! Much love-

[meager thorn]

Thanks so much dear 😊😊

[meager thorn]

My pages broke while I was drawing 😢

[meager thorn]

Getting the hang of it now

Also did 2 pages without no references proud of it

[meager thorn]

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[meager thorn]

It hard to draw noses like Dam

[meager thorn]

learning how to draw fundamentals

[meager thorn]

@paper tusk

[paper tusk]

You need further practice on the Loomis method, but for now I'll let you know that you need to better understand what your drawing

You need to know what each guidelines means when you draw it and if you don't need that guideline, don't draw it.

And the Loomis method is a good method, but you need to understand a couple things about it.

When drawing the Loomis method, you're drawing a circle with another circle in it that doesn't really mean anything,

imagine it as drawing an apple then cutting its sides off a little, it's supposed to give you an understanding of the side planes and the a front and back planes of the head, and give you the direction and tilt of the head, if you look at the ones you drew in the photos you can see it doesn't really give you much of either.

[meager thorn]

From watching the video are you saying I should be more accurate what I see I drew not correctly accurate but more of an angled if that makes sense to you compared to how you did it, I also drew circle and just connected the jawline I thought that was the point but I see it wasn’t. It very understanding the video as well which will help a lot for me thx

[paper tusk]

The point is you don't draw a line if you don't understand its purpose, the side planes are meant to serve you to understand what angle the head is tilted at, the width of the face and the proportion of the eye sockets, ears and jawline, but the circles drew rarely support any of these guidelines.

[meager thorn]

Ohhh make sense

[meager thorn]

There’s some mistake I did on the heads I noticed but I can do better tmr ✊

[meager thorn]

Try to shade for the first time

Missed drawing boxes and cylinder

[meager thorn]

I don’t get what I’m doing wrong I can defo see I’m doing it wrong but I don’t know what

[brittle skiff]

im not an expert but from what i remember about cylinders is that the line that goes across both the circles is supposed to cut both of the circles into equal parts, like a mirror! keeping that in mind could help a little with drawing them

so you could start by drawing the first elipse/circle and then draw a line that cuts it in half (angled in a way that makes the two halfs mirror each other) and then based on that line draw a second circle that is also cut in half by it

[meager thorn]

Smh like this

[brittle skiff]

ye a lot better! the upper left one isnt really right but you are getting there :33 good luck with those!

[meager thorn]

Alright thanks for helping

Also I was wondering do you know any tips for drawing nose I tried to some on yt but it just Donest fit

I’m not sure if I should go back to doing tracing it then draw it by myself

[brittle skiff]

i dont have any sorry :(( i struggle a bit with drawing them too, i usually just put a line there and hope for the best

[meager thorn]

It ok dw

[meager thorn]

Didn’t rlly feel like drawing today so did a little sketch

[meager thorn]

Fail the last page was meant to be a horse but at least I tried right?

The last guy I drew was meant to be him but then half i wanted to do my style which turns out to this

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[meager thorn]

Didn’t draw much today was busy

[cinder wraith]

Ur forms look much better than before

bravo 🙏

[brittle skiff]

true! they look a lot more firm

[meager thorn]

Yay thanks guys 😊

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[meager thorn]

Fail most of the potrait they look like a cartoon 🤦‍♀️

Drew this with no ref

Just learned drawing the one point vanishing dam I love doing it

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Forgot to post my artwork today

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Failed my drawings today it seems

[meager thorn]

Nicole’s diary

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[meager thorn]

Wondering if I’m improving I can’t see any difference

Lmk guys

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https://tenor.com/view/wide-cat-wider-gif-3879805434184283975

[rugged stratus]

Hi guys this is me nicole I lost my acc on my main I couldn’t log back in but here I am once again drawing back to day 1

Last week when I started to draw I noticed that I had forgotten how to draw, so I had to go back to the basics. To refresh my skills, I looked through my old drawings and compared them to where I’m at now. Then, I redrew some of them to help regain my confidence and improve my technique.

This is what I have done today