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⌈ Secret Post #6569 ⌋

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Re: Things You Are Looking Forward To

[(Anonymous)]

getting better at drawing! i picked some courses during these last few months and a few of them finally clicked and i'm getting better and better by the day. it's very hard and i am practising a lot of fundamentals over and over again, but WOW finally i am seeing progress and having a lot of fun enjoying the process. i'm seriously having a blast just practising boxes. wild.
next year i am specifically looking forward getting better at ink drawing (I mostly sketch directly in ink) and watercolour/gouache. maybe finally get into some serious urban sketching, so combining little trips with going around drawing random stuff.

aside from that... MMMMH???? maybe my nephew growing up? He will be 3 in a couple of weeks and while we always connected, it's way more fun playing with him lately since we can do a lot more stuff together.

...damn, I'm boring. and old ahaha

Re: Things You Are Looking Forward To

[(Anonymous)]

That's awesome that the drawing clicked and you are seeing results! I have had a lifelong not-so-secret yearning to be an artist and I have been trying different classes and methods since I was a child, but nothing has ever clicked for me and I cannot draw (or paint, or sculpt, or art...) at all. I stop and get all depressed about it for awhile before the yearning comes back and I try another class. One of these days...

Re: Things You Are Looking Forward To

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oh... i have ADHD and a lot of trauma related to my very blatant lack of artistic talent when i was a kid (seriously, my elementary teachers didn't "allow" me to touch the seasonal decoration if not to cut them up with a scissor because everything I touched became a mess), but I've always doodled all my life, especially when I was in school and I had to listen to lectures or do homework (yep, the adhd). But having never took any class I had NO IDEA how to start learning how to draw. I was convinced that you either had it or you didn't. I had no idea that observational drawing was even a thing (yeah, it was this bad) and if you looked at any reference while drawing you were a cheater!!1!
Then IDK I went to therapy a couple of years ago and let go of a lot of trauma and preconceived bias I had against myself + saw some youtube videos that explained to me that talent is actually not required to learn to draw and how to actually start learning how to draw (observation + breaking figures into simpler forms) and slowly things began moving.
I'm in my mid 30 now, I will probably become half decent in my early 40s if I keep this up. Drawing is helping me a lot with my depression. I don't care much about anything aside that and my family (I have no career aspirations and I am happily single) and this little hobby just makes me happy and motivated to wake up in the morning, because I know that come evening I get to do my messes on paper.

Some online resources that helped me were: the virtual instructor (very beginner friendly, super motivational), proko for basics and a little bit of anatomy, lovelivedrawing for figure drawing, sarah burns for drawing/painting landscapes/nature and drawabox, that I am only now doing and having a lot of fun with (this is possibly controversial because that program usually burns out people, but IDK I just like figuring out how to draw stuff with boxes and cylinders. I find it soothing)
there are also a lot of books that are pretty good. If I remember correctly r/learnart has a little bit of a list in their FAQ for beginners.

I hope some day a course or a book will click for you. If there's something I learned these last couple of years is that the yearning to be creative doesn't go away. If you don't feed it, it's going to eat you alive.
to me being an artist is not about how good you can draw/paint, it's about how much doing art is required for you to survive. Me? I can't live without my silly doodling. Hence, I'm an artist. I get to do art, whatever and however I want. even if it sucks lol