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skills

I want this information, too. I dislike my art. I picture something in my head but can't ever seem to put it on paper. People tell me to learn the basics to improve, but I don't actually know what the basics are and I don't want to spend money on an art school to learn it.

I have the same problem

As an artist, my advice is:

- Watch YouTube tutorials.

- Draw and draw and draw and draw and draw and draw and draw and draw and practice and fix your mistakes and try to mimic better artists until you understand how to draw correctly.

It will take a long time. You will look at your art and think a pre-schooler could draw better. You will hate drawing because WHY CAN'T I DRAW TWO EYEBROWS THAT LOOK THE SAME AND WHAT EVEN IS THAT HAND. It isn't fun at all when you're trying to draw at a level you haven't reached yet, like trying to Mega Evolve a Bulbasaur with a Venusaurite.

Not once in the many years I've "enjoyed" drawing have I noticed my improvement across just a short amount of time or a few months. It will take years for most people and the only way to improve is to keep trying. It took me years to just somewhat understand some anatomy and I still don't fully understand how to draw legs.

But, eventually, if you just practice and work hard enough, you'll reach a point where it's actually not that bad. Obviously, most people will compare that "not that bad" art to art made by professionals that have been drawing and painting for decades and be sad that the five or ten years they've taken drawing seriously don't make them as good as someone who's been studying art for fifty, because it often takes someone who isn't the most sane person in the room to keep doing this for years and years in hopes of getting better. Don't compare your newbie art to the Mona Lisa or professional artists who draw a billion drawings an hour because it's their profession. Just improve at your own pace.

What helped me the most was YouTube videos from professionals explaining how drawing specific things like faces or expressions or perspective or poses or anatomy or hands or colours or shading or line art or backgrounds or etcetera, and trying to mimic professional artists. I wasn't that good, but I kept doing it until I figured out what I was doing wrong and tried to fix it and repeat and repeat and repeat, and now I'm at a level where I'm genuinely confident in my art and skills (while still improving because art is never that easy), when I used to draw like a child when I was a child (meaning I used to draw ugly stick figures and things you'd expect from a child at one point, like all people, until I spent literal years working on getting better at art).

And never compare yourself to young prodigies or people who understood how to draw quick or at a young age. Most people aren't like that and would take longer to reach that level, and starting later would obviously mean that the age you learn how to draw a hand right is different than someone who started at the age of five. Some Pokémon learn moves at later levels than a Pokémon that learns the same move, and you can't change that. Just keep training your art skills. Sorry if the Pokémon metaphors are corny, but I really wanted to express my points in the easiest way to understand.

In conclusion:

-Art is fun and suffering simultaneously, and it will continue to hurt you for years and it's not fun sometimes, but eventually if you continue to suffer long enough it might end up being something awesome occasionally and you might find it fun. Ten out of ten experience, would recommend. It's amazing that humans are weird enough to invent something like this to express their complicated thoughts and preserve short moments and memories for absurd amounts of time.

I’ll try that I might just have a go at making the comic anyway to the best of my ability because if I don’t try I don’t know what I need to improve on and I may never do it because I feel incompetent (also the story has been in my head nonstop and I think having tips afterword can help me know what I have to improve)

My biggest question after all that is; How long did it take to type all that? Just kidding, though I am curious, but what I do want to know is what people you would advise to watch on YouTube? I never considered that. I always use those art books for how to draw anime and manga (the two I want to learn) and they give you steps on what to do but they don't explain it. They say draw a circle and a cross in it for the face, but they don't explain the point of the cross. They say what shading is but not actually how to do it. I need someone that will walk me through each step and explain its purpose and how to do it properly. We can move this to my page of you want @clasingla so that a question you didn't ask is taking up space on your page.

It looked a lot shorter when I wrote it since I was on Landscape mode (I'm not saying how long that took)! I haven't watched art YouTube in a while, so I'll give you recommendations on your page after I search through it again.

cool I think my biggest weak points are definitely multi legged creatures, hands, perspective, shading, lighting, texture, basically everything else too also consistency from one drawing to the next

I agree with practically everything you just said!

Why not all gens?

because we haven’t gotten any new profile pics since I joined (pretty sure Johto was added a bit before the time I joined) and Gen 3 is the next gen

I don't know what the anonymized analytics mean, but I agree that there should be more pictures by now.

@clasingla what does anonymize analytics mean?

I have no clue

I don't know what ost is, but I like the sound of that title! I'd play it!

ost sounds for original sound track

Oh! My bad. Sorry!

I think it would. I used to have Red and Blue DX, got pretty far into it, and got bored. I remember liking the system, though. I think it'd be good.

That'll be me but for Gen 4 profile pics.

Lol I love that

I want Gen 3, Gen 4, Gen 6, Gen 8, Gen 9, and Hisui.

Espesialy Hisui for me.

already wrote a good chunk of it want to have it done before October so I can write part 1 of mystery dungeon story 3

I’ll probably alternate between the two

my draft didn't saved a big part that i wrote, that hurts having to completely rewrite that part (45 minutes of work down the drain)

I feel that. It happened on my chapter of the Forums Story. Anyways, I'm looking forward to it!

finally finished it its going through the approval system right now