Hello, Crimson Daggers, a little bit about myself :)

[Lucil.M]

Welcome to daggers! Dont worry about not having natural talent in art. Thats a common misconception that you need talent to be an artist. Its a skill that you improve through lots and lots and lots of practice. So the first thing I recommend is to get yourself in the habit of drawing at least 10-20 minutes every day if you arnt already. I believe theres a study that says once you perform an action once a day, for 14 days it becomes a habit for you. Then if you dont draw for a day it will feel weird to not be drawing.

Also this site is invaluable for figure drawing http://artists.pixelovely.com/practice-t...e-drawing/

I also recommend Andrew Loomis's book Figure Drawing for all its Worth and Michael Hampton's book Figure Drawing: Design and Invention. You should start a sketchbook thread here so we can help you get on the right track. Good luck!

Thanks, I will, but, I sometimes have trouble on deciding on what to start drawing. What do I draw? I have trouble creating unique ideas through my idea.

Hello Hello first i would say you need to know who you are pratice is a good thing to build up discipline but you need to know a bit where you want to branch up it may be early to know where you want to go but you may feel it inside it important to be clear about what you want to achieve because you dont want for a example to be spending all your time on portrait if your not interest in that kind of arena if you let say love landscaping.By that example i mean that let say you want to be good a landscaping spend time to learn what is really useful to that particular field.It also mean do not be afraid to try new thing you may not be interested by let say portrait but with pratice maybe you will.Last thing Just don't do mindless pratice be goal orientated.

So You Wanna Be A Professional Artist?
http://www.youtube.com/watchv=JdpnBn9Cv9...J&index=30

5 Fundamental Skills Every Artist Should Master
http://design.tutsplus.com/articles/fund...-psd-28054

My youtube channel to find useful and quick tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW...PNuV3skDqJ

A direct link to the resource section if didnt look at it
http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-3.html

What is considered mindless practice? Read above response too.