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I think they want me to know they acknowledged my message and that they straight up don’t care. I would have preferred a straightforward "I don’t think I can help you" as a more respectful response, or they could have just left my message unread.

if they are being timid like Herbert said, they have a weird way of showing it.

Hi, seeing the current posts on the "Critique" tab I happen to stumble upon some really good artists that did very good exercises.

I asked two of them for some advice on how to achieve their level, yet i got only a reaction of "nice" or "helpful" from each of them an not a single response.

Is never asking for advise to other users some unspoken rule on this site or are users learning usually too timid to teach others?

Your figure drawing is exactly what the site intended, so if you want to add more, shading and anatomy studies are an other beast entirely.

This being said, my exercises fail to achieve that objective: my lines are messy and loose; i don't get the simplification of the shapes of the reference... I basically suck at making progress. So, i want to ask you some tips on how to achieve that quality in your studies.

i know in this case you are supposed to get more of a feedback, but in your case you are doing a phenomenal job that to me seems quite evident you already understand the subject well.

Thanks for the time you spent reading this and I wait for your answer.

Bye

Hi, i was wandering how can this one image cause me so much problems. I don't have a good relationship with static poses and this one is on a whole other level. I would prefer if someone could draw it and tell me how they did it.

https://imgur.com/a/hsj1IFE

thanks

I mean that, what did you learn to you to reach that level? besides telling me practice

Hi, something i discovered about myself is that i do not understand the references because i cannot see them as a simplified composition of shapes but instead as a mush of details that makes no sense. I feel my thoughts see images witht the clarity of an early in developement AI were all information is undefined and bleed into one an other.

Is there a way to rewire my brain into seeing objects more clearely? thanks

• Idon'tknow edited this post on April 9, 2024 7:57pm.
• Idon'tknow edited this post on April 9, 2024 7:58pm.
• Idon'tknow edited this post on April 9, 2024 7:59pm.

i started with the line of action, and then i draw a leg or the torso. yet they do not come out right. i don't know why it is like that and i do not like it

thnaks, i have one more question, how do the arms and legs come out? if i draw them as spindly tubes are going to feel disconnected again.

Hi, i did this stuff for i don't know how long and i can clearely see i am not seeing what i need to improve. Was i told a lie that practice makes perfect? I am getting closer and closer to the answer that starts with "y".

https://imgur.com/a/43jJIch

If there is something I keep missing about these exercizes please tell me and also, no more book recommendations, no asking me to have patience cos' i really have enough of this wandering around mindset. I get that compared to many others my age that are already professionals in the field I am on the level of a baby that pretends to cook when he puts plastic cookies in the toy hoven, but if they are getting actual critique, then I should not need to pretend to have the same.

thanks

• Idon'tknow edited this post on April 8, 2024 8:15pm.

how did you do that?

wow, thanks, you really gave me a motivation boost. You really have something all those "motivational art videos" don't have, you are honest with how much work is required to improve, it' not as easy as drawing anime faces on repeat but it is indeed a message to say that in an amount of time, there is gonna be improvement. thanks

I honestly do not understand how he became that better in just 30 minutes a day... i get that he is a man of spectacle so perhaps he might have taken some creative liberties in his recordings in order to make the public feel more entertained, but even if it is damn... he is too much out of my league so that totally doesn't sound like "if he succeeds, anyone can". I am done with that thing of being inspired by others, that ended up giving me extreme anxiety for not improving at their rate, comparing myself to them is like comparing apples to oranges, so I ended up doing it for myslelf.

I came back after i got really busy with drawing boxes in perspective, where i learned what perspective is and becoming better at understanding it, i still do not understanding how force drawing works, here i cannot understand how to improve or to correct what i do wrong. A lot of other artists came here telling me something on how to improve my technique but to me they had no sense at all. No, please do not ask me to buy more books, I have too many of them and are not helping me at all.

this is my latest attempt and that is my very first attempt. it's true they look less rigid now, yet i like one of them more than the latest ones i am doing right now.

OK, by the end, I arrived at a conclusion. I now comprehend how to sketch the scapula from various perspectives; they are essentially curved boxes with a slight base. However, I am struggling to simplify the clavicle, which appears distorted already, and drawing it from multiple vantage points has led me to trace it from references.

here is the result of my very first attempt.

• Idon'tknow edited this post on February 21, 2024 12:13pm.

Uhh, I can see the learning curve got stiff pretty quick, if I can aproximate the ribs as one single shape; how can i ever understand to draw this two connected bones?

https://imgur.com/a/KRFd011