Retarted attempts from the 13th dimension

[Fedodika]

Yea you are a lot like me man haha, It's like De Ja Vu looking through here hehe. Man well, yea, same stuff almost, tons of paintings, lack of direction, wild imagination, need to hone it down. Lots and lots of desire, i feel it...

Good news is you'll never lose that, you'll be the same way three years from now, i promise you. But you'll also be dramatically different. Makes no sense? Yea i know haha..

Number one tip 

DONT BE AFRAID OF YOURSELF. 

Ask yourself if you could draw anything you wanted to for a living, what would it be? I don't care how crazy it might be, naked girls, machines, demons, whatever, You name one thing and i'll show you somebody who does that for a career. 

Focus on that over anything, ask yourself, what is drawing stuff like this

http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/attachme...?aid=90050
http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/attachme...?aid=90054

Gonna get you in the long run? What are you learning from this? Your tools? Why not learn it on good information like sculpture and anatomy, something challenging. I know drawing animals feels easy because there's a lot of room for error, if it's easy, you're not learning. If you don't cringe, you ain't improving. 

Focus on as little subject matter as possible at a time, take figures for instance, okay, break that down, torsoes, okay, even smaller, pectoral muscles, okay got that down? abdominal, then obliques then so on, there's soooo much to learn in every field, it's best to stay in one field as long as you can.

Good ideas will come to you, the boring stuff is important right now; don't worry about losing your imagination; You've got more than enough my friend :)

Biggest fundamental tip; Painful repetition. 

http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/attachme...?aid=89646

Stuff like this, there's amazing information in that and you did a fantastic job of laying out that painting btw. Take this down to something like pencil or pen and paper. Okay? Take that same image and draw it until you get sick of it.
Try drawing it 5 times from ref, on paper; don't spend forever on it, like 5 minutes tops. Then pile those five drawings on top of eachother and look at how different they are. That's your observation skill; Always ask yourself questions on why your observations are different from reality.

Then draw it from your mind, it's gonna be really hard; Do a good job, the best you can, then check back and see what you missed. More repetition until you get it right because the quicker you get it right, the quicker people notice and you can move on to something else. Other people will see it before you do as brad rigney once said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEU03Q5H5sU

Also, cubes, cyllinders, boxes, ohh, whooole lotta those. Binders, notebooks full, do it. It makes EVERYTHING work, don't believe me read these:

http://michaelsstuff.deviantart.com/journal/?offset=20

http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/attachme...?aid=89627
Man you are just like me, i could probably find mirror images in my Sketchbook of things you've drawn haha. Clown nose on a hot naked girl, haha you got it bad man, so do I.

Also, take yourself seriously, you might not want to do that, but it's crucial man. You probably have a good sense of humor i reckon, but if that's not what you wanna portray in art, do what really is you.

Reflect a lot, sleep a lot, don't sweat losing time... You've got all the time in the world. You'll work as hard as you need to and that'll do it.

Get Hogarthe, he helped me the most, Dynamic anatomy. "Hogarthe, Hogarthe, Hogarthe," Marko Djurdjević

Hampton and Bridgeman rock too, I hate Loomis but don't knock him till ya try him.


Also get this book and do everything in it as soon as you can, really carefully read everything he says. This is the best art book an intuitive artist could read in my opinion.

https://www.amazon.com/Natural-Way-Draw-...0395530075

Download these to stay on track, and good luck, pm me if you ever need help 

http://algenpfleger.deviantart.com/galle...f-practice
http://miles-johnston.deviantart.com/art...-384868649
http://www.mediafire.com/download/n7v68f...Part+2.zip