How to improve my art ( I do not trace my artwork.)?

[Newman's Lovechild]

What the fuuu...?

I get this is the internet, but I don't want the stress, I have a mental disorder that thrives on stress and I'd rather not deal with it.

So you came here!?

That's ok, trust me, a lot of people on this site who pretend to work don't.

I'm not working right now. Shh.

Can I draw something different? I suck at drawing Sonic, I can draw a person for you .

Wasn't the point to go outside your comfort zone?

Here's the video of me drawing.

Your strokes are labored and timid, and the results suffer from a lack of solid construction and anatomy. You aren't fobidden to draw guiding lines or go over contours again to pull them into a better position, but you should try to leave the chicken scratch look behind. When you draw a line, rotate your arm as far up as you comfortably can shoulder or elbow rather than fingers or wrist and be confident. It won't immediately improve your art but it'll gel with your observational skills as they develop.
Also, when you sketch like this, use a brush with less opacity or density, and jigger with its pen pressure settings. I.e. make it more like a pencil. It'll help if each and every stroke isn't a solid black line getting in the way. Also it'll help the spontaneity and flow of your drawing if you don't have to pause every couple of seconds to erase large parts of it. Sketch light and build it up.

For construction and anatomy, people have already mentioned Loomis. It almost always comes back to Loomis, for good reason. Here are pdfs of his books.

Save Loomis!

These were made available when the books were OOP. If you find them useful, I'd encourage you to buy the new editions.

Regarding that weeb Naruto? face: @Solid Snek time to introduce head construction? Or a drawing grid?

That reminds me, Proko exists too.

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And this is proof I didn't write 3,000 words.

I say this in kindness: no one gives a shit. Don't waste time being this obsessive over some obvious dickhead troll.

Oh shit, he's actually on here?!

You didn't know? Shit, that's the reason I'm on the farms, to a-log at him.

 

[Emily Cassidy]

Thanks for all the advice guys, I'll work on my faces. I'll check out some tutorials on faces etc.

 

[Solid Snek]

You didn't know? Shit, that's the reason I'm on the farms, to a-log at him.

I spend most of my time archiving furries and pedos; afaik EVS is not a furry. I guess the ComicsGate thread just slipped my notice, but thanks for the heads up, should be fun to scream juuulllaaaay at him!

@SamanthaPrater you should definitely reach out and try to contact that FROGS user. He's a pretty good artist and I bet he'd teach you many wonderful things, if you pester him enough.

 

[Emily Cassidy]

And you still haven't delivered the artwork.

Delivered the artwork a while ago.

I spend most of my time archiving furries and pedos; afaik EVS is not a furry. I guess the ComicsGate thread just slipped my notice, but thanks for the heads up, should be fun to scream juuulllaaaay at him!

@SamanthaPrater you should definitely reach out and try to contact that FROGS user. He's a pretty good artist and I bet he'd teach you many wonderful things, if you pester him enough.

I have learned that bothering people too much bothers them. :/

 

[BoobWhiskers]

If you're serious about wanting to stream art, get a tablet. Watching you draw looks an awful lot like mouse work. Not saying incredible pictures can't be drawn with a mouse, because they can, but for someone who's still working on the fundamentals you want the most intuitive tools for the job.

 

[manic dainty gorl]

you're one of the dumbest people i have ever seen.

 

[Newman's Lovechild]

Watching you draw looks an awful lot like mouse work.

Now that you mention it, I think you could be right. I made assumptions.

 

[Emily Cassidy]

Now that you mention it, I think you could be right. I made assumptions.

Do I need to show that I'm using my tablet?

More art work proof Hopefully this shows that I'm using my tablet.

you're one of the dumbest people i have ever seen.

I'd rather be dumb than mean about it.

 

[NekoRightsActivist]

you're one of the dumbest people i have ever seen.

she is literally a downie and has the mentality of a 10 years old, what do you expect lol. At least she is humble instead of defending with "muh style".

 

[Ultrapenguin]

I'd rather be dumb than mean about it.

Oh hey there you're back. I actually thought about you yesterday and wondered if those people from lolcow were still pestering you.

They seemed sort of stupid and I didn't like them very much. Plus worst of all they're cowards.

she is literally a downie and has the mentality of a 10 years old, what do you expect lol. At least she is humble instead of defending with "muh style".

Weirdos and tards should be embraced and allowed to flourish so long as they're able to be appropriately quarantined. If people want to see normalcy they could just leave their house instead of hanging out on an internet stalker forum.

 

[Newman's Lovechild]

More art work proof Hopefully this shows that I'm using my tablet.

You don't have to take photos or vids of everything including yourself to 'prove' anything to anyone. Nobody's going to have an aneurism or call the cops over what drawing instrument you use. A simple 'yes I use a tablet' would be plenty.

It was an observation about some of your slow and sometimes wobbly brushstrokes that maybe you used a mouse. You don't, so that's alright.

 

[Emily Cassidy]

she is literally a downie and has the mentality of a 10 years old, what do you expect lol. At least she is humble instead of defending with "muh style".

Uhmn. if you are talking about Down Syndrome, I do not have Down Syndrome, I have 22 Deletion, it's completely different, if you are going to insult me get the right disability at least!

You don't have to take photos or vids of everything including yourself to 'prove' anything to anyone. Nobody's going to have an aneurism or call the cops over what drawing instrument you use. A simple 'yes I use a tablet' would be plenty.

It was an observation about some of your slow and sometimes wobbly brushstrokes that maybe you used a mouse. You don't, so that's alright.

I am still learning my tablet settings etc. and believe me, they have called the cops on crazy things and made me wind up in the ward four times, so trust me, the fear of that happening is there.

Warning Suicide mention. Trigger warning.

For those of you that think I have Down Syndrome, it is actually completely wrong. What I have is known as Velo Cardio Facial Syndrome, aka 22 Deletion or Digeorge syndrome. ( It has a few names.) My Disability consists of minor disorders on top of it like Schizo-Affective Disorder. (This has Bipolar attached to it.) and I'm heavily medicated for it, which is how I can explain this. if you are going to try to insult my disorder-at least get the right disorder instead of auto assuming what I actually have. I also do not have the mentality of a ten-year-old, the paper said fourteen. This is why Assuming is bad and has led people to even assume that I've been suicidal and they got blocked on Crisis Phone lines ( Our Suicide prevention lines.) because of this, this drama has been going on for Four years + now- and a lot of it is all based on assumptions. Like they assumed that I was a "Big time hacker." if I was that, I'd be getting paid a lot more than I am- and all I know is basic CSS and some Javascript, ( I edit my Tumblr and blogger and they thought otherwise. I don't even write my own scripts.) but they don't think to ask that at all, they auto assumed, which isn't right. you can say what you want on the Internet until it crosses over into real life, which I've had happen. They sent me to the ward four times as I've explained all trying to say I was causing harm to myself or another person which in reality, I wasn't. They have even tried to lie and say I was causing harm to them out of state, and I was sitting here in another state entirely, with proof of where I was. So you see, this drama isn't new, it's actually old- and I'd love to teach you all about my correct Disorder/ Disability if you'll let me! In short, I just want to be left alone by these people to the point they are blocked on ALL Social Media including this one and Reddit. ( which is a hot spot for them.) In short, please stop auto assuming you know what Syndrome people have, just asking usually does the trick.

 

[manic dainty gorl]

I also do not have the mentality of a ten-year-old, the paper said fourteen.

That makes sense.

 

[Emily Cassidy]

This is the paper i'm talking about , my last name has been covered up. I also no longer live in Livingston county so yea. For the record, Samantha Prater is not my real name.

 

[Bad Gateway]

Delivered the artwork a while ago.

Im not watching you suck donkey cock at art for any amount of time, and I significantly doubt that you have the balls to draw She Came For CWC. You are as useless as you are ugly.

 

[Emily Cassidy]

Im not watching you suck donkey cock at art for any amount of time, and I significantly doubt that you have the balls to draw She Came For CWC. You are as useless as you are ugly.

Thank you very much for the compliments, I'd rather not draw sexual things at all because of the platform I choose to draw on. Hope you understand ! yes Im aware its weird to accept those as compliments, but I'd rather not cry about it !

Oh hey there you're back. I actually thought about you yesterday and wondered if those people from lolcow were still pestering you.

They seemed sort of stupid and I didn't like them very much. Plus worst of all they're cowards.


Weirdos and tards should be embraced and allowed to flourish so long as they're able to be appropriately quarantined. If people want to see normalcy they could just leave their house instead of hanging out on an internet stalker forum.

They are not pestering me, They just don't get my disability right. They needed to realize they were assuming, which is bad.

 

[Bad Gateway]

Thank you very much for the compliments, I'd rather not draw sexual things at all because of the platform I choose to draw on. Hope you understand ! yes Im aware its weird to accept those as compliments, but I'd rather not cry about it !

Not a compliment. Seethe.

 

[BoobWhiskers]

If you are using a tablet, your hand is very tentative (to the point I assumed you were using a mouse, because you draw in quite small, timid arcs). This could be just a lack of confidence from inexperience, or maybe a side effect of certain medications that can cause hand tremors. You could probably benefit from either a brush stabilizer, which some programs have built in, or maybe a drawing surface with a bit more resistance. If it's a display tablet then I believe there are matte display protectors you can get, if it's not a display tablet try putting a piece of printer paper over the drawing surface itself. Resistance against the pen tip can be helpful in mimicking a traditional drawing surface and can help make for a steadier hand in some cases.

It's probably from inexperience, in which case practice more (the best aid to drawing better is a few hundred or a few thousand hours of doing it), but these might be helpful too. Drawing from your elbow rather than your wrist like someone already mentioned is also a good general tip; you CAN draw from your wrist if you're quite precise, but your work could benefit from a bit more fluidity and sweeping lines.

 

[lolcow yoghurt]

Do you have 45 chromosomes?
Also, I think you should practice on paper first. Tracing isn't inherently bad and actually can help you learn.

 

[Emily Cassidy]

Not a compliment. Seethe.

Rather not, but thank you anyways for them! I know I'm ugly, don't have to tell me twice! LMAO! Gee, just how ugly am I? lets see, I can't get a date, I'm fat, so there's that, but wanna know something silly? I'm HAPPY being ugly, which is why I took it as a compliment, being pretty is too much work. I'd rather find someone that loves me for me and not my looks. Ya know? Ya know. Tell me something I DON'T know instead of repeating an insult I've become accustomed to.

If you are using a tablet, your hand is very tentative (to the point I assumed you were using a mouse, because you draw in quite small, timid arcs). This could be just a lack of confidence from inexperience, or maybe a side effect of certain medications that can cause hand tremors. You could probably benefit from either a brush stabilizer, which some programs have built in, or maybe a drawing surface with a bit more resistance. If it's a display tablet then I believe there are matte display protectors you can get, if it's not a display tablet try putting a piece of printer paper over the drawing surface itself. Resistance against the pen tip can be helpful in mimicking a traditional drawing surface and can help make for a steadier hand in some cases.

It's probably from inexperience, in which case practice more (the best aid to drawing better is a few hundred or a few thousand hours of doing it), but these might be helpful too. Drawing from your elbow rather than your wrist like someone already mentioned is also a good general tip; you CAN draw from your wrist if you're quite precise, but your work could benefit from a bit more fluidity and sweeping lines.

Thanks so much for the tips ! I'll take them into consideration.

Do you have 45 chromosomes?
Also, I think you should practice on paper first. Tracing isn't inherently bad and actually can help you learn.

I don't know how many I specifically have, but that's the usual thing about my disability.