CLASINGLA’S art journey
I’ve been trying to improve my drawing skills can you tell me how to improve
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That’s really good! it’s much better then my art! but that isn’t a high bar to pass.
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Better than anything I could ever hope to do. Also drawing/art takes years of practice and refinement. One YTuber I follow is Rebecca on Let Me Explain Studios who, if she wanted to, could go work for Disney, Dreamworks or pretty much any Animation studio you can think of.
One of her videos she looks back at all of her old artwork and that might give you some inspiration because she herself was unrefined and mentioned that the only way to get better is through repetition and practice. She’s a Pokémon fan like we are with Squirtle and Butterfree being her favorites. One of her very first videos, if not the first, was based on her as a Trainer with an overleveled Butterfree. Her videos take a long time to produce but man are they funny. Particularly her one on Charlie the Basset Hound.
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The proportions and shapes are off, so I'd recommend trying to simplify the original design into shapes and trying to draw and replicate where each circle or triangle or square is supposed to be and their sizes. Art with wrong proportions and shapes can look really good, but it's best to learn the rules before you break them.
Other than that, all I can say is keep practicing things especially if you're bad at them and remember to observe how the things look like in real life (for example, looking at a cat in any pose will help you know how they move, pose, act, and help you with their anatomy. Then, you could use that knowledge to help you draw cat Pokémon. You can do this with anything. Looking at how the pencil you hold looks like from different angles can teach you a little about perspective. Looking at how people's faces differ can teach you how to make characters that look unique from each other and looking at how features are stylised in different styles can give you ideas on how to make them look more cartoon-like. One time I was near a coloured light and thought about the colours of the shadow in comparison to the light, and it taught me more about shading and lighting).
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Other than what UnovanZorua said...
There is this term negative space. When doing what UnovanZorua said remember that the basic shapes do not have to be perfect and are just guidelines. Negative space refers to the areas you don't use. Keep in mind the negative space because it is the reason centering or having something placed purposefully at a location in a panel/page looks good.
For example your Cleffa looks good where it is but the placing feels like something is happening on the right. Maybe put something on the right like a bouquet or some candy. Or something is happening just off the page to that side.
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These are so cute, @clasingla! I'm not an artist, so I have no tips to provide, but it looks like you already got some great ones above. 🤗 Keep it up!
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