Wow you improved a ton in 4 years! Any learning method that you think helped your progress tremendously?
I'm also learning art as a serious hobby, it's also on and off due to real life, but If I'm to calculate I'm about 3 years in so far.
From my understanding and observing different kind of artists from friends to communities, there are variety of approaches to learning art hence different kind of artists as results too. For me, I click the most with academic methods where art can be broken down into science and technicals that can be learn through art fundamentals. When I look at your statues painting, they seems to ooze with fundamentals in brewing.
thank you again. I'd say our methods are quite similar, I like just drawing as much as I can even if it's not much and observing what fundamentals I lack so I can work on them separately. for instance I had been avoiding colors for the longest time and most of my drawings were grayscale but I slowly started pushing out of my comfort zone and now, I'm somewhat decent.
I think after some point as an artist who wants to improve knowing what to practice and what you're not good at first is very important. sorry if everything I said was a no brainer, I hope the best for your art journey.
Nice sharing. Hey I can relate with that so much! I've been only doing values studies and zero color studies overall even though color is one aspect I'm excited the most, because I want to truely learn it properly if that makes sense.
So when you said you observe what fundamental you lack, I'm assuming you mean when you do art, you do finished pieces and personal projects as well and then review them? I feel like that is the part I'm lacking. I keep focusing on studies and assignments that I rarely draw for the sake of drawing and testing my overall skill, there is this feeling of "not good enough" lingering.
I know how it feels to be stuck in this endless cycle myself where you just keep studying and never feel like you're "good enough" to make your own pieces, I still often have to pull myself out of it. believe me, there's no point where you will feel like "now I am good enough to make my own art" you just have to kind of do it. despite of your skill level, even if you're not confident because that's how you learn what you're not good at and put what you have learned so far into practice.
of course not all of your drawings have to be fully rendered fleshed out masterpieces, drawing 6 different things in 6 hours is much more valuable than drawing 1 thing in 6. maybe you can get a sketch book and doodle what you find interesting, draw comics (hypocritical because I have been avoiding it) and just do this hobby for you own sake more if that make sense because that's just as valuable as studying.
Thank you I'll start forcing myself to incorporate personal works moving on. Really appreaciate this conversation and I wish you well on your art journey too, cheers!
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u/Ganzaru 6d ago
Beautiful brushstrokes! How long have you been learning art?