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 No.4552

First off, let me preface this by saying how surprised I'm to find such a beautiful place within this myriad of fuckfest. As you probably have guessed from the title, I feel like I'm stuck and not improving; I have this idea of game character that I'd like to draw, but I can't get myself to put on paper. I've been drawing on and off my entire life (I'm not that old tho), and I've started to take drawing seriously for a while now in order for me to draw this character, but in vain. I spend a tremendous amount of time copying others art and trying to learn from it with no proper results at all. So, I decided to grab some books to learn from like "Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain" and some other book by Mark Crilley(the youtuber), and here I'm with my dick in my hands, as I've failed to achieve any proper advancements.

tl;dr

Been drawing on and off, really good at copying, but can't draw from my imagination, and have spent a good amount of time trying trying to learn from other resources without any good results.

Non-native English speaker. Sorry for any grammar mistakes!

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 No.4559

You have to practice drawing from imagination in order to get better at it. This is where "construction" comes in and the book "Fun With a Pencil" by Andrew Loomis is a good place to begin practicing if you can already draw from observation fairly well.

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 No.4563

>>4559

Thanks for replying!

I definitely agree with you, drawing from my imagination is my weakest area. I shall pick up the book you suggested.

Do you recommend any other books beside the one you mentioned?

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 No.4564

>>4552

Be careful about listening to Mark Crilley. The guy has no idea what the fuck he's doing when it comes to his "anime" drawings, but 12 year olds flock to him anyway because he's popular.

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 No.4565

>>4564

Could you please elaborate? I did actually pick up his book because of his popularity, but for someone who's trying to learn how to draw, how would you expect me to find out whether he provides good advice or not?

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 No.4569

>learn basic 3d shapes and perspective if you haven't already

>learn to use those to construct stuff ( I.E. >>4559 )

After that you should be able to draw virtually anything, and that's when actual studying begins. Say you want to draw people, you go and study anatomy, what goes where and how does it move and all. After you learn enough you'll be able to just imagine how people work and be able to draw it based on that, and not using another picture for reference.

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