After thinking a bit.I've been seriously trying to draw really well for years now. It's been near 9 years, and I really haven't done that well at all.
I look around on different sites. I look even here. There are 13 year olds, 15 year olds, and people near my age who draw vastly better than I.
I've been trying so hard to draw better. I know someone who has fantastic art, and he's never taken an art class in his life. Yet he can capture anatomy just perfectly.
What I draw is nothing that great. There's plenty of crap out there that's way better.
I've been pushing myself to be able to draw realistic animals, to capture it and be able to draw more furry stuff... yet I'm also trying to still draw fanart and all. I've seem to have lost all anatomy that I think I had a bit of grasp on.
And beyond the drawing part? Coloring. There are far better pencil artists... I watch one of them, and am jealous. And then.. there are people who can color. Omg the coloring is just so wonderful.
Me? I try to. It takes me a long time just to do a shit job. I try to also draw with the tablet. I just...I don't know.
I've been trying to draw without any references at all. My art without me visually seeing something in that particular pose? Without taking pictures of myself and drawing from myself? Without getting out my toys of animals and looking at them close, I can't do anything.
I just. I don't think I actually have any talent, and have been lying to myself for all these years that I could get good enough to where people would WANT to see my art. That would ask me to draw for them, that my drawings would make someone happy, because I could draw whatever they want and it be GOOD.
I got into this big rut due to the fact I just tried to produce something over the past two hours, and NOTHING has turned out right.
I don't even know where I'm going with this journal entry really. But I just needed to write this.
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Also, sometimes it'd a good sign that you think what you draw sucks, and right when you're the most discouraged is when you shouldn't give up! You know how sometimes you look back on a piece of art you thought was really good at the time, and think, "Wow, that's really not too great." Your perception of your art changes as you improve, and to continue improving, it's important to be critical and pick out the flaws in what you're doing.
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(cuts off my hands and sends in a box) TADA!!
now you can tell it want to do and it will draw it for you, hooray!
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My advice here would be: don't. Drawing from references and from life is what makes you a better artist. Yeah, it sucks because you can't be as creative as you might want to be, but from studying things as they are, you improve. That's why in figure drawing classes they get live models to come in and pose for you: so you learn what real anatomy looks like.
I'm also not terribly talented in the art area, and it can be frustrating, yeah, but don't let a rut stop you completely. I find that I often improve in short bursts, even when I think I've hit a ceiling and won't ever get any better. Keep at it. Fighto~
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One thing I learned, no matter how good you are you will find someone better than you. THEN, when you feel like you've surpassed that person's art? You find another person who's even better. It goes on and on like that but you LEARN, you keep trying and pushing and doodling nonstop forever. In the beginning I learned by copying other people's styles. Not their artwork, just the style they drew in. when I felt like I got the grasp of how they worked, I did it with another. It went from Simpsons style to Soutine paintings to comic books, etc. you develop your own style and feel after a while.
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I think you're improving! It doesn't matter that there are people younger than you that can draw really well, you just have to keep your head high, and keep moving forward.
I use references when I can, because I've got some sad problems with my anatomy on my characters, too.
A lot of artists use refs, so don't get down on that.
And your art is awesome, I think it is at least, and I think you should keep going, and doing what you like to do!
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And, needless to say, I think you're a wonderful artist. Look through my gallery next time you feel down. C:
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That and I happen to be surrounded by furries that can draw.
Though with the satisfying myself? I'm not, that's why I feel so crappy with it. I'm lower than my expectations, I know I'm hard on myself, but that's just grah. I can't change it.;_;
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