01-29-2016, 12:48 AM
Hey, welcome!
I feel familair with your situation, about half a year ago I also decided to start drawing for realz. As far as I can see you picked the right exercises to start with. I mainly focussed on portraits, but now I realized I lack some fundamentals so I'm getting back to that as well.
For studying; Books are nice, really important is to practice what they write/illustrate. I refused to do this, being like when I read it I know it. Well, I might know it, but being able to do so is something entirely different ;).
Some stuff that might be helpful to check out as well:
www.proko.com a lot of videos on figure drawing and anatomy
Burne hugarth also has nice stuff on figure drawing, dynamic poses and stuff.
... And I have another figure drawing book at home, but I can't remember it right now. I'll get back to you
And I just bought 'How to draw' from Scott Robertson, people here say that it is really a great book to learn perspective.
And I know it seems like a lot in the beginning, and well it is. There are so much aspects to learn and to train. What I think is important to realize is that by practicing one thing, you also improve other things a bit. So by practicing different subjects like gesture, anatomy, lines, perspective at the same time, you learn quicker than by taking it one by one.
That said, I think this is a good base to start and sure there is a lot more but I don't want to overwhelm you ;). Good luck!
I feel familair with your situation, about half a year ago I also decided to start drawing for realz. As far as I can see you picked the right exercises to start with. I mainly focussed on portraits, but now I realized I lack some fundamentals so I'm getting back to that as well.
For studying; Books are nice, really important is to practice what they write/illustrate. I refused to do this, being like when I read it I know it. Well, I might know it, but being able to do so is something entirely different ;).
Some stuff that might be helpful to check out as well:
www.proko.com a lot of videos on figure drawing and anatomy
Burne hugarth also has nice stuff on figure drawing, dynamic poses and stuff.
... And I have another figure drawing book at home, but I can't remember it right now. I'll get back to you
And I just bought 'How to draw' from Scott Robertson, people here say that it is really a great book to learn perspective.
And I know it seems like a lot in the beginning, and well it is. There are so much aspects to learn and to train. What I think is important to realize is that by practicing one thing, you also improve other things a bit. So by practicing different subjects like gesture, anatomy, lines, perspective at the same time, you learn quicker than by taking it one by one.
That said, I think this is a good base to start and sure there is a lot more but I don't want to overwhelm you ;). Good luck!