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So I'be been drawing for the last something or other, I always carried around sketchbooks and filled them, trying to draw stuff from cartoons, from reality. Practicing poses, all that stuff. Most my "practice" was sporadic and mainly drawing just to draw, with a little bit of art knowlege consciously thrown in. My improvement over time has been unconscious, most of it has been repetition and things "click" after awhile. That's not saying much though since after all this time I'm still very much an amateur. So I tentatively "You know if I want to get better I should put more effort into practicing things" My main focus is the technical mechanics. I hate how bad my art is and it's mainly because I can't use any digital programs right. My lines are trash, and every time I open up an art program to draw now I can't because I feel bad about that second step. I never was good at drawing lines. I'm also bad at shading, coloring, whatever. You name it The worst part is I also thought I wanted to pick up simple animating, but I can't even figure out how to work a pencil 2D or Krita animation software...much less a non animated 3D/blender software. Maybe I just don't have the patience to figure out what I'm doing wrong because I really want to make something but can't even understand how to make it. Starting to feel like I should stop bothering trying to "get better" at digital art and keep doing what I was, draw just to draw. This is mainly a rant and not an advice thread because for some particular stuff I already tried that and it didn't work that much.