01-12-2021, 10:19 AM
I really like the way you expressed your desire to learn art to know a language to express your thoughts. I think a lot of us artists start out that way, we have this image in our heads that we want to see brought to life in front of us... at least that's how it started out for me. Important thing is to always keep that at the back of our minds for motivation when grinding through the studies or other challenges.
Thanks for letting me know the Micron pens! I definitely want get into inking sometime soon, but there's so much to learn and so little time :/
As far as the cat drawing if you're interested in improving the anatomy and proportions I would suggest trying to draw a few cats from life to get an idea of how the head size relates to the body, legs, etc. And also try and draw the cat skeleton also to study the proportions. Then I would go back and try to draw a few cat skeletons (simplified skeletons that is, more for construction than anatomical detail) from imagination and then try to put flesh on top of it which will help you make sure the structure is sound. Hope that helps.
In general what I've heard about animal drawing it that is is very good to first learn how to draw humans and then translate the same skills to animal because the basic ingredients (bones, muscles, body parts, etc) are the same just the shapes and proportions vary considerably. A great place to start if you're interested is Proko's figure drawing videos on youtube (or dozens of others as well).
Also what are your art goals? Are you trying to improve in the art fundamentals? The advice above it generic advice on improving figure drawings fundamentals but what you should focus on really depends on what you want out of your art.
Keep at it, looking forward to seeing more :)
Thanks for letting me know the Micron pens! I definitely want get into inking sometime soon, but there's so much to learn and so little time :/
As far as the cat drawing if you're interested in improving the anatomy and proportions I would suggest trying to draw a few cats from life to get an idea of how the head size relates to the body, legs, etc. And also try and draw the cat skeleton also to study the proportions. Then I would go back and try to draw a few cat skeletons (simplified skeletons that is, more for construction than anatomical detail) from imagination and then try to put flesh on top of it which will help you make sure the structure is sound. Hope that helps.
In general what I've heard about animal drawing it that is is very good to first learn how to draw humans and then translate the same skills to animal because the basic ingredients (bones, muscles, body parts, etc) are the same just the shapes and proportions vary considerably. A great place to start if you're interested is Proko's figure drawing videos on youtube (or dozens of others as well).
Also what are your art goals? Are you trying to improve in the art fundamentals? The advice above it generic advice on improving figure drawings fundamentals but what you should focus on really depends on what you want out of your art.
Keep at it, looking forward to seeing more :)