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New to drawing? Let us help you learn how to get started!

Drawing is a skill, not a talent. It doesn't matter if you can draw or not, with practice you can be the best. We welcome you to our community. Learn with us, the future artists of reddit.

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New to Drawing?

DAY 1: First day of Drawing? Start here!

DAY 2: Grid Drawing

DAY 3: Still Lifes

After that: have fun, set goals & draw every day!

If you want to follow a beginner's book, try

"Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" (referral link to Amazon)

Trick to learn drawing cartoons in 30mins: https://www.ted.com/talks/graham_shaw_why_people_believe_they_can_t_draw?language=en

After Your First Week: drawabox.com

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Free Resources

Loomis:

Free Art Books on drawing humans (pdf) - Beginners: "Fun with a Pencil" (free pdf in link above) - Intermediate: "Figure Drawing For All It's Worth" (free pdf in link above)

Proko:

Free Youtube Tutorials on Drawing Humans

Proko paid courses

Ctrl+Paint:

Free tutorials on digital art

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/r/learntodraw

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Day 3 of learntodraw

Forgot to share yesterday cuz I was tired

2 Comments
2024/06/28
17:30 UTC

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Another attempt at oil pastels to better understand light and shadow. Feedback pls

1 Comment
2024/06/28
17:18 UTC

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Fingers are so tricky. It's really hit or miss.

2 Comments
2024/06/28
17:15 UTC

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Trying a larger piece

Hey all! I’m working on a personal comic project and this was one of the pages I made for it. It’s my first time finishing a piece this big and I’d love to get critique on some of the composition stuff or maybe a way to make the ambience better! This took me 16 hours. Done on procreate

4 Comments
2024/06/28
17:08 UTC

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Would you say these are good?

Ignore the one down there.

2 Comments
2024/06/28
16:38 UTC

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Guess who I drew!

1 Comment
2024/06/28
16:20 UTC

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How good is it and are there problems with my drawing? This is my first time by the way.

13 Comments
2024/06/28
15:22 UTC

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Wanted to try shading, made this in 5 minutes

5 Comments
2024/06/28
14:35 UTC

63

Pls criticism (roast this pls)

21 Comments
2024/06/28
14:20 UTC

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Chinatown digital urban sketch.

Digital urban sketch I did of Chinatown using infinite painter, my Samsung tab s9 fe plus, and brushes: pencil and brush markers.

1 Comment
2024/06/28
13:54 UTC

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I made this for my tita's(or aunt for you americans) birthday. Think she'll like it?

3 Comments
2024/06/28
13:32 UTC

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How can I learn drawing bodies?

In my whole life, I've never drawn below the neck. So I want to learn it. But where to start? I watched few videos about it but not really understand. How can I learn anatomy, any tips/video suggestions?

9 Comments
2024/06/28
13:03 UTC

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actually kinda proud for once 🙂

I messed up a lot of things on this sketch so decided just to finish it, take notes and move on, the back sun and shading was a last minute random thing, but I really like this idea so I might remake it when I’m more skilled, and I know it’s not really good or anything but for some reason its has just made me really happy and proud of myself in a long time, so glad I decided to take up drawing :))

1 Comment
2024/06/28
13:01 UTC

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How do I draw comic??

I think I'm struggling with background the most, idk what to put/how to draw. And that I'm meh at drawing in general

7 Comments
2024/06/28
12:08 UTC

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should I still finish this?

I messed up the perspective on the left side and I’ve tried so many variations of the head and it still looks weird 😭

10 Comments
2024/06/28
10:56 UTC

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psychedelic portrait

2 Comments
2024/06/28
10:53 UTC

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HSwMS Manligheten sketch

1 Comment
2024/06/28
10:50 UTC

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Fan art of Furiosa. Do you have any tips for me?

1 Comment
2024/06/28
10:16 UTC

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How can I make faces not look so cursed and something about his body proportions seem off but I don’t know what. Please help.

12 Comments
2024/06/28
09:08 UTC

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today's drawing

1 Comment
2024/06/28
07:40 UTC

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