Why do most people fail at "just draw"? is it really that complicated?
if you're a teenager just draw doesn't work because you still lack lived experiences to develop some critical thinking skills that allow you to develop your other skills.It's was easier to learn something new at an older age.If you just do thing and never think, then you might as well just keep goonscrolling on tiktak.
>>7936468half the population has sub 100iq
>>7936468to just draw means to resist the most mind crushing, addictive, demotivating distractions in life that are pushed on you DAILY by governments and corporations (who are working together to ruin your life). As burnt out millenials we can just draw because we don't need tablets or even the internet really. We can unplug sometimes. But imagine being a teenager born with an ipad in your crib. Its over.The fact that he acn even draw the second picture and finish it is an enormous achievement for a 2026 artist.
>>7936468I could be wrong but "just draw" works for most artists because most artists copy. "Just draw" doesn't work if you're just doodling and drawing from imagination all of the time when you're still a beginner.
/ic/ has proven time and again that “just draw” is a beg trap.
>>7936468mogs toyotaro
>>7936468i'm not an ultrabeg so seeing this i can tell that the artist has enhanced a lot and went out of his way to perfectly mimick the low skill drawing on the left as a joke while also displaying massive skill improvements
>>7936468honestly, there's clear improvement, even if it's still shit and slow for 6 years.
>>7936468A lot of people fail at "just draw" because they don't really get that drawing is a skill and has more in common with learning a language or picking up a musical instrument. You can't just randomly fumble your way through art for years and hope to come out with success, you have to strike a careful balance between targeted effective study and play while also being fucking consistent.But I can't totally blame people for going ahead with random fumbling because the online American art community is broken: >it's full of gatekeepers who DON'T want the practical methods available to potential new artists (because that would mean competition)>there are artists who are happy to mentor and share their methods, but they're horrible at teaching and forget the massive gap in skill between the mentor and student, let alone how to help a newbie improve without shit flying over their head>public school art programs are ass and are generally run by hacks who couldn't make it through art school, leeches looking for an easy paycheck, losers who don't value art history, or artists who don't fully commit themselves to their craft (which means they can't actually help students improve quickly)The Practical Way of Drawing is something like this:warmups/exercises/training:>continuous overlapping lines/shapes>grind lines/shapes/forms>blind contours>gesture studies>negative space drawing>envelope method>drawing upside down/flipping the canvas>draw with your non-dominant hand or with one eye closedstudy:>draw a subject from memory>find references, then trace them and break them down into shapes and forms>put references away and draw from memory, then take out references and draw while looking at them (repeat the process)>draw from life (nature, toys, plastic models, cups, furniture, etc)>read lots of comics and look at artwork of all kindsplay: when not studying, just draw...anything you want!
>>7936472i drew better than OP at 15
>>7936468this is why every academic makes you draw from life. Realism is not in the hand, its learning measurement and observation and having a target goal to hit.
>>7936748I aint drawing lolis from life anon wtf, ARE YOU?
>>7936769Why not?
>>7936548>jokeanon, he actually draws like that....
>>7936803Report this nigga for being too epsteiny
>>7936468soul
>>7936468"just draw" isn't an advice that you should take and run it to its logical conclusion, rather a quip at howies to snap back to reality, stop sciencing art, and to actually start practicing techniquesimprovement comes from analyzing what's wrong
>>7936769why not? you think you're too good to draw god's creations?
I have a friend who draws even worse than this but wants to get better so hes constantly asking me for advice. I tell him what I can but none of it matters because every single thing I say requires drawing it over and over and he only draws one thing per session and then calls it a day. And not even every day, more like once a week. I don't know how to get him to realize he has to draw the body frame over and over for hours, at least ten of them in a row.
>>7937598Have you tried telling him that you have to draw the body frame at least ten times in a row
>>7937598just out right tell him that he needs to draw 1-2 hours a day of constant studies. That should be the bare minimum. Pros draw almost 5-6 times as long on average. Just say it's like studying for a class or test. if that scares him, just out right tell him to quit wasting time at this point.
The blank expanse intimidates. And most fledgling artists think whatever makes it to paper must represent them, but they are but the bricks one makes their first real drawing from.
>>7937603Yes, you ESL. That was implied already.
>>7936468I get super fucking depressed when my twitter posts under perform likes/engagement ratio then I don't have the energy to draw for like 2 weeks. Nothing worse then not being able to know why something Is under performing, why does one post do well and not another?
