I bought some simple pencils and paper a week ago. And then I started researching what books I should buy if I want to learn how to draw. It‘s been A WEEK and all I did was RESEARCH. I have not drawn a second.There are dozens of beginner how to draw books. Everyone is shilling something else. Then there are dozens of books on gesture drawing, figures, faces, perspective etc. What do I pick here?Okay, my goal is to draw anime illustrations, lame I know. But again. In the anime study general there are like 60 pages of Japanese drawing books. Should I really translate and study them? Then you also have 30K anime artbooks on e-hentai referenced in the artbook thread. I looked through /ic/ archive and everyone is saying something different about learning anime style. My head is spinning. I don‘t know which advice, books, resources to actually follow.And then there is a big hole for resources in between. What about coloring your anime girls? Shading? What is even „rendering“? CSP guide? What kind of brush do I need for what?Fuck I just want to learn how to draw and then just draw a lot. Help
>>8075562You don'tAt least in my experience as a high /beg/You find something you enjoy or what you like the idea of and you do thatMaybe you can stick with it, maybe you can find some flaw that makes you want to try something elseThat important part is that you draw as much as possible.You must take action.It doesn't matter what you do as long as you do it.Try things out, don't just be in tutorial hell drawing boxes for 9000 hours. You draw what you want to make, see what wrong, try to fix it, and draw something else with with the new bit of knowledgeThere is no perfect course, just one that gets you to draw.
>>8075562stop procrastinating and just draw
I saw this in another thread an anon posted stating that this is all you need.When it comes to books, you're supposed to draw something, and keep drawing and keep drawing, if you don't understand something, or you want to learn something in order to incorporate it into your art, you read a book dedicated to that subject. You read and copy references and read and draw and understand. Repeat this process.
>>8075562I have had a similar experience. In all sincerity, most of the books that this site (or others) pushes are not beginner friendly in the slightest. What worked for me was Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Cognitive Drawing by Jason Brubaker, and the Art and Science of Drawing by Brent Eviston. All of the other books should only be done if you've been seriously drawing for more than three years, the same applies to the courses. I also focused a lot on gesture by doing timed drawing sessions from various sites (line of action is a good one) and I'm getting better results when it comes to shape/form from doing simple sculptures with plasticine clay.I've managed to compile a good routine based on doznes of Youtube videos and their advice when it comes towards structured learning. You are free to use this if you'd like, and modify it to your heart's content.>sketch simple shapes/forms (of various sizes) using continuous overlapping lines>do timed gesture drawings, negative space studies, envelope method studies, and blind contours>make simple sculptures with plasticine clay>pick your references and trace over them (breaking them down into simple shapes) before drawing them from memory extensively from various angles, then take out the references and make copies >come up with an idea for a project and draw everything exclusively from memory, then note what you suck at and spend time studying those weak areas before redrawing except this time using references>do a month-long master study of your favorite artist: copy everything you can find of their art, then switch to a different artistI would also recommend not using a pen when first starting out. Go with a pencil, only switch to a pen when you've gotten very comfortable with the former. Also, most courses aren't worth it if you're a total beginner. You can pretty much teach yourself a lot of stuff from Youtube alone. Soloartcurriculum is apparently decent for digital stuff.
>>8075562You're a beginner right?Draw lines and circles and post it here.If you have no control on your lines, then start from there. Practice drawing lines, circles, S lines, etc. No need for books for this exercise.
>>8075562Nigga just pick one of the highly shilled WESTERN ENGLISH BOOKS, start reading, start drawing. Stop overcomplicating it. You'll see these names again and again and again. There is no secret, these are the most popular ones for a reason, just pick one and stick to them. Pic related, this is from the /beg/ general, if you've been researching then you already saw this (and promptly ignored it). Literally just pick a book or course from any of these niggas and start going through it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBqEj3tKD6oHere's a Japanese animator, hide, who you should also know about because his figure drawing courses are shilled on here. What does he recommend? The same books. Michael Hampton, Loomis, Vilppu.Just start doing the work. Stop overcomplicating it. I disagree with other anons who say "just draw", I think practice is useless without theory. The point of practice is to internalise theory so it becomes instinctive and you understand it better intuitively, so you do need theory first. But the theory is very easily accessible and everyone knows about it, the best art teachers aren't niche or hidden, it's not some niche Asian book that's untranslated and you'll need to OCR translate yourself, it's literally just Loomis.
>>8076446>the best art booksAll overrated
>>8075584brent's book is good/begs/ don't need scott robertson or xiao weichunno idea about the rightmost one
Just pick up a book that:A) Is well regardedB) You yourself think the art within looks good.Nothing worse than studying from a book where you think the art within looks like dogshit.Most drawing books will be decent starting points, though there are some more geared towards those with a bit more experience (Loomis' Figure Drawing for all its Worth is great, but not a good first drawing book).As for specifically drawing anime girls, I honestly don't know any highly regarded books in that area, but maybe a general cartoon/animation would be a good start? Preston Blair's Cartoon Animation is well regarded, and I think a pretty good starting point for learning to draw. Study through that book for a bit, and then use what you learned to start drawing/studying anime characters from anime character sheets and anime stills.It should be noted that anime and manga tends to often lean far more into realism (bar the faces) than a lot of other art styles, so continuing to study figure drawing, anatomy, how to draw more realistic figures may be beneficial to you, but learning to draw simple anime girls in a basic way should give you confidence to keep moving forward.>What about coloring your anime girls?Colour tends to be a more intuited thing, though there are some rules. Just focus on your draftsmanship to start with, don't overcomplicate your learning.>Shading?Any beginners artbook worth the paper it's printed on will have at least a simple section on shading.>What is even „rendering“?Rendering is a bit of a vague term, but in drawing it's basically just a way of saying 'the technique used to depict the subject'. It's moreso used when referring to tightening up a drawing and turning it into a final image, but really, sketching and scribbling are both forms of rendering as well, so I suppose rendering can really just be used interchangeably with the word 'drawing'.>CSP guide?What?>What kind of brush do I need for what?The basic brushes are fine.
>>8075562I am also curious on how the japanese learn, but here everyone is talking of western books/courses.
>>8076473>>CSP guide?Clip Studio Paint
>>8076475The Japanese learn through Western books just the same. Here's an Eromanga author's guide. Notice what books he mentions?
>>8076479Oh I got that, but are they asking us for a guide? Were they asking for a csp guide on rendering? I'm not sure what they were asking for.>>8076480I see this image thrown around a lot. Are there other pages line this in the 'one point advice corner', or is the advice always on different topics?
>>8075562first get rid of racing thoughts anon. draw for hundreds of hours until all that mental yapping ceases. then i just recommend you start with some guide like big sticky https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uwaXKU7ev6Tw_or__o8ARpUb6r2rCZYJGqwSFV9AD98/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.9j4wgcn1ns9aJUST DRAW NIGGA
>>8075730>Drawing on the Right Side of the BrainAbsolute dogshit advertisement pamphlet and in no way a serious instructional book>Art and Science of DrawingThought you meant The Practice & Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed at first, but no, it's another modern trite by some shitter
>>8075574Ok and for people who want to draw a little as possible because they don't have a lot of time, what's our option?
Same boat :(
>>8076505another anon replied in this thread already but it might not have been clear, try reading mini-habits by stephen guise and be happy
>>8076480I doubt they use almost exclusively western books...
good job gatekeeping THE book, anonswe don't want westoids to get their dirty hands on it
>>8076589>thinks a book can teach him to drawI guess gatekeeping happened in OP's head before the thread was even made desu
>>8076589The best book on drawing for beginners is "Just Draw", it was hidden in plain sight. Easy to dismiss.
>>8075562You don't
These are the books that are currently helping me:Figure Drawing Design and Invention for gesture and anatomy and other minor subjects like construction, clothes, designFreehand Figure Drawing for Illustrators for construction of a mannequin Framed Perspective volumes 1 and 2 for perspectiveBurne Hogarth's Dynamic Figure Drawing for how the figure operatesFramed Ink for compositionMorpho Simplified Forms and Morpho Clothes and Folds for further detail into how anatomy and clothes can be constructedRendering in Pen and InkDynamic Bible volume 1 for grindy practice techniques for improving line confidence and breaking down certain difficult subjects
>>8075562You suffer from analysis paralysis.The secret to learning to draw (and I am very specific about the word draw - not painting, not art in general) is that most people are not "taught" how to draw, and cannot be. Rather, you have to discover how to draw. You have to be a bit of an autodidact. You have to be willing to experiment over and over again, i.e. practice. Because drawing is ultimately about developing your own process that gives you results reliably. It's the space between your mind and a blank page, and no one else can really get in there. Some books can certainly point you in the right direction, but ultimately you still have to convince yourself that it works. When it doesn't, people blame the book/teacher.There are some basic things you can learn that are collectively known as "the fundamentals", but I bet you already know which books to get for that. The fundamentals is actually a relatively small subject compared to other fields of study. You'd never know it based on how much bloviating we do here, but that's just to make us feel what we do is important or serious. But it's all mark making, and a few geometric rules and tricks. Certainly not worthy of dedicating entire websites to, especially not a paid one.What you actually need to spend more time on, after learning the fundamentals, is understanding the subject you want to draw. Figure books don't really teach you to draw, they teach you some shorthand about anatomy. If you want to draw sci-fi mechs, then some engineering experience, or even having just worked on a car before, will be infinitely more valuable than downloading another book. If you want to draw anime style, watch and study anime.You don't necessarily need a book on anime style. You need a grounding in the fundamentals so that you know what to pay attention to, so that you can translate to paper what you've visually absorbed.
>>8075739We need one more FUN shizo
