Forum posts by Weles

I'll do that then. I've been keeping the daily routine for the last couple of days just like you suggested and it does feel nice to have some sort of habit. It's easier for me to find the time for it. :)

That sounds familiar. I think I've heard it somewhere before. And it hits the point well, but if we leave rendering "for later" and focus on a more careful linework? I don't think it would still be "polishing a turd".

Now, as I've tried some 60 second hands, I understand what you meant by disassembling the objects. It's nice and oddly satisfying to see how the simplest shapes make sense of what I'm doing. It's not exactly pretty, but... interesting.

Thank you sooo much for all the advice and words of comfort. :)

One more thing to work on is my thinking that I'm wasting materials. But that's the point I'm slowly starting to comprehend. There is no wasting. There are only practise and improvement.

EDIT:

I've just thought of another question. If I don't have time to do everything during the day, is it better to do gesture drawings, to keep it daily, or should I rather do a more detailed sketch?

Thank you Sanne for your answer.
After watching this video and looking at my drawings again, I see I have some problems with overdoing things. I make shapes more complicated than they really are. I'll try doing some 30 second gestures, as you advised, and we'll see how it works for me.

10-15 minutes feels not enough for me. I know it's not true, but the kind of feeling when I have just a couple of minutes to spare makes me quite discouraged and I don't pick up a pencil at all. That's another thing to work on.

I think I'm aware of what you said about hard work and regular practice, but on the other hand I expect more progress than is possible in shorter time than is needed. Slowly I'm moving away from the "I'm not talented and I'll never be good at it" attitude, but it's still a long and bumpy road ahead of me.

Thank you again for all your advice, and I hope I'll make good use of it.

Hello everyone, It's great to be able to use such an amazing tool.

Let me share some of my attempts of hands and feet drawing in pen and ink (currently I've fallen in love with dip pens), but first let me give you some of my background.

For a couple of months I've been trying to learn how to draw and paint. These were periods of on and off drawing, sketching and painting in oils, but I keep losing my motivation and there were weeks, when I didn't even come close to touching any pens, pencils or anything art related (aaand I'm lazy as ...).
Now, as I'm trying to take it more seriously and spend at least an hour drawing every day (which doesn't work 100% yet), I start hitting the wall with some aspects of my sketches. I can see how the line should be drawn but I can't get it right. I think it's most visible in proportions.

Disclaimer: I've never been good in anything related to art. I have never been able to draw well (I think even my stick figures were terrible), so don't expect too much.

Now for the sketches. Those are just a couple of tries, but I hope you'll be able to point me in the right direction.
The sketches took me between 3 to 7 minutes for every hand or foot.
I've drawn them on A3 paper (~11x16 inches).
As I don't have an A3 scanner, those are photographs.

(I hope I posted the pictures all right. I can't see any preview button)