I have like zero experience with drawing. But I have about 7 hours of lecture which is disposable time for me cause I would be sleeping, I think I could utilize that time to learn to draw. please help

    • Voltage@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I know, thats why im here asking for a direction or a guide or something. Theres not even a wiki in the sidebar.

      • Scratch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Hey there! I can share some of my drawing journey (still very much in progress) with you in the hopes it gives you a direction to follow.

        First things first, have a goal in mind. Mine is “To illustrate scenes from my D&D games, make stickers and badges”

        We can loosely follow these steps:

        1. Learn to make marks
        2. Learn to see shape
        3. Learn to see form
        4. ???
        5. Profit

        If you are completely new to drawing, start with Lesson 1 of DrawABox.com It will teach you how to mark paper in a consistent fashion. (You can absolutely continue with DrawABox if you like.) That’s step 1.

        Step 2, you can pick up Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Don’t be thrown by the LeftBrain/RightBrain phrasing, the book goes into it as an abstract concept rather than actually using each hemisphere.)

        As you’re working through that, you can use https://reference-test.sketchdaily.net/en for things to draw. Force yourself to draw the more essential aspects by setting a low timelimit, 30 seconds or so. With time you get much faster and neater.

        Around this time I found a Life Drawing class and it was very fun. We used pencil, charcoal and Conte on newsprint paper.

        Since then I’ve been sketching and drawing when I can (not as much as I should) but seeing steady progress.

        Do try to draw something every day, it really helps with retention.

        For materials, I love paper and soft graphite pencils or Conte for sketching, you can feel the drawing much better than digital tablets. I use my iPad, Apple Pencil and Procreate when I’m working on stickers or similar.

      • ArkthosEnglish
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        1 month ago

        I can sympathise with being overwhelmed and really not knowing where to start. drawabox.com has a series of free lessons that start totally from scratch and builds up.

        It’s a bit of a grind (learning any skill is) and at some of the early parts you can be left wondering what good the exercises do for you. Stick with it and you will feel that you have found your footing to at least get started though.

  • Lizardking27@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    So you’re sleeping through a lecture you presumably paid for and chose to attend? Stop doodling and pay attention.

  • kryllic@programming.devEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Practice, refine, practice, refine…etc.

    Seriously, you won’t be good at anything right out of the gate usually, so set a schedule and commit to practicing often and consistently. Like lifting weights, the more you do it the bigger you’ll get, generally. Take a break and you may be set back a little bit but still ahead from where you started.

    Discipline will be your strongest asset here. Motivation will leave someday, but discipline will not as easily.

    Learn to draw from real life, first. Learn perspective, draw from references (NOT stylized ones when beginning, just real life). From there, keep learning how things rotate, flex, twist, and move in the world. Your own style will come out of that.