deft brook
I think I’ve hit a peak in art; I believe I can’t get better without the help of studying techniques and whatnot. I’ve tried starting at different things. Whether it be anatomy, facial anatomy, trying digital art, or art studies. But whatever I do, I just have no idea what I’m doing. Where do I start? How do I learn? I’m stuck at a high-beginner level and I hate it, please help!! (All of the photos are a couple of drawings/practice I’ve done)
silent sluice
i cant say that ive done these things consistently at alll but i wish beginner me had done them, as an artist you have to learn to observe things well, so you can study them well, so you can implement your learnings into your art, i'd begin with trying to replicate simple 2D shapes then moving onto 3D ones especially with different lighting scenarios and trying your best to replicate your references, and then you can move onto more complex things (humans, animals, statues..etc.) using what you learned from observing the 2D and 3D shapes to simplify human anatomy and whatever complex shapes you have in front of you, because if you get too lost in detail too early in a drawing it usually ends up imbalanced, and i'll look into a few references you can study as examples in case i've used intermediate language and its hard to understand TT
I'd begin with something like this so you can start seeing forms and 3d shapes better, even if its depending on lines more than shapes
then after a few studies like that and understanding 3D forms a bit more, you can study something like this, how light and shadow interacts with these objects
and after some more of those, you can start using more complex shapes like fruit and how to simplify the shapes
and then after than studying human anatomy and the more intermediate fundamentals for art becomes a lot easier