i got a couple questions

what do you draw?

how often do you draw?

how long did it take for you to ¨get good¨ at drawing?

how did you learn to draw?

im thinking about trying to get into it but idk how

I mainly draw people. I draw almost everyday, and have been for the past like 10 years. Sometimes it's just scribbles, other times it's elaborate drawings with detail. Getting good at drawing, as with most other things, is practice.

Everyone has a certain baseline when it comes to stuff, and that baseline is basically what defines talent. If your baseline is lower than someone elses, you're gonna have to spend more time getting to the same point. The amount of practice you put in will sharpen your skill. Some hand movements become second nature and your drawings will start looking more like the way you envisioned them in your head.

The best place to start is always easy stuff and then work your way up.

what would qualify as easy stuff thanks for sharing btw

For example if you wanna draw people, personally I'd say first get the basics down. Don't expect yourself to be able to draw your characters in complex positions. Just start with the regular hands beside the body or T- pose positions. Tackle the body proportions, don't worry about complex anatomical stuff like drawing muscles and bones yet. Like there's no point in being able to draw a detailed muscly arm with veins n s*** if the rest of the body is stickfigure status. I wouldn't dive into lighting positions and shading yet. Or downward/upward looking faces.

Make sure you know how to draw a face head on first because that's the features you'll be working with when you start putting them in different angles.

Once you've got down the basics you can start adding more detail and complexity as you go. Try studying how to draw individual body parts like the torso, hands, legs, feet, fingers etc. There's channels on youtube that can kind of give you a guideline, tutorials and tips much better than I can.

What I'd also do is look at those drawing timelapse pictures where people redraw a drawing they made years ago with their current skills, and try to identify what the key changes are that made their current drawings so much better. I still do that myself and constantly learn new stuff.

alright, yeah thanks for this i really appreciate it. ill scour youtube for those channels.

what do you draw?

I want to draw korean-inspired illustration, but I'm in a position right now where I can't really do that to pay bills, so I'm sticking to motion graphic assets/Adobe Illustrator-type work. It's pretty saturated in the market, and as of now during COVID, I imagine pretty fruitful work (though there's a fair bit of pro bono stuff you have to sift through). Lately in my spare time I've been emulating a lot of fine art painting using digital mediums though.

how often do you draw?

Anyway, I draw everyday. One because I have to, and two because I want to.

how long did it take for you to ¨get good¨ at drawing?

It's easy to say it takes a lifetime to "get good" because if you're measuring drawing based on other people's work (naturally) then you'll always feel like you need to "get good at drawing". A quick and easy way to humble yourself, but also a sure-fire way to dissolve your confidence and question your aptitude.
Though an easy way to answer that is simply based on your comfort/complacency level. People normally look at complacency as a bad thing, but it has its benefits. Are you satisfied with the way you draw? Do you think it has the potential to be marketable and profitable? Are you confident that your work is portfolio-worthy? Then that's good enough. An artist's grandest goal is to live off of the work they love to do anyway.

how did you learn to draw?

I learned from trial and error. School didn't really teach me a modicum of what I know, but my folks forced me to go.
It's important to know what you want to draw, though. If you want to be a old school Disney-esque cartoonist, then look for resources regarding that. If you want to be an Anime artist then look for resources regarding that. Scientific illustration? Same deal. Though to start, I'd suggest these resources:

Proko is a shoe-in for anyone who wants to learn the process of drawing things in an incredibly stream-lined format. He also hosts videos featuring other artists like Peter Han and the legendary Kim Jung Gi and other notable giants in the industry giving their philosophies first-hand on how they work.
youtube.com/user/ProkoTV

Matt Kohr (Ctrl Paint) A huge benefit to any beginner digital artist who wants to learn, probably in the most patient and soothing manner, how to organize your thinking as an artist and go about a vetted process for how you should draw things, digital or otherwise.
ctrlpaint.com

Drawbox
"Anyone can learn to draw. It's not some magical talent a few people are born with. It's a skill you can train. We can help."
drawabox.com

Michael Hampton My personal mentor and teacher when it came to learning the human form and figure in the most constructive and organic means. I studied this man's book like a bible throughout highschool. Drew every page of the book in sketchbooks--of course you don't need to do this, but I really loved the book.
anatomiaartistica.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/michael-hampton-figure-drawing-design-and-invention-1.pdf

The best way to get into drawing is to start.

some master studies i did recently

Good stuff

Ok wangjie li

instagram.com/p/BgjyVHbFP43/?igshid=1moxo0z3ij8bn

he's so fun to study from. dude's a living legend

I'm decent at charcoal and graphite drawing. I sort of developed my skillset naturally through trial and error but over time I also learned a lot online. Originally I just drew a lot of still lives, focusing solely on value shifts rather than contour, over time as I got used to the charcoal stick I would add different objects with different textures and figure out how to render those textures on paper. You can learn a lot from people talking but there's no better lesson in art than practicing yourself

Tabasco recommended some decent resources, Proko knows what he's talking about. For figures there's also moderndayjames on Youtube, his series on Bridgman's Anatomy is real useful

thank you. i don't have the brushes that the master has though. im not really good with texture brushes anyway those were done with default photoshop brushes

@proper
i wish i could have wangjie's brushes but this is all i could do with round and soft brushes

you're talented asf man these are really good