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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.

We don't believe in talent, we believe in DRAWING.

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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

FAQ

Quick & Dirty Drawing FAQ

  • Do I need talent?

  • How do I develop a style?

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

Drawing Discord Chat: open for suggestions!

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  3. No porn, extreme gore, hateful/political art

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14th head study

2 Comments
2024/04/23
03:41 UTC

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Day 60 of 1000: One point respective.

1 Comment
2024/04/23
03:40 UTC

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Somethings wrong with how I drew this but I can't tell what

I mean I can tell I messed up on the head and the shading A LOT, but there's something else WAYY wrong with it.

1 Comment
2024/04/23
02:50 UTC

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Thoughts/ Crit?

2 Comments
2024/04/23
02:16 UTC

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Trying out some new angles with new guidelines, how’d I do?

Feel free to point out any mistakes

2 Comments
2024/04/23
02:03 UTC

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Confusion (shading practice)

1 Comment
2024/04/23
01:52 UTC

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Not sure what to do with this drawing from here.. suggestions?

I wanted to make a freaky deaky silver surfer but now I don’t really know what to do with the rest of the drawing and leaving it like this irks me

2 Comments
2024/04/23
01:23 UTC

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Is it too fat??my father told me there is no cat that is that fat

24 Comments
2024/04/23
00:31 UTC

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Fundamentals: How and when to learn

I started to learn to draw recently, and I have mostly been copying (not tracing) other drawings to practice, and tried making my own from using references.

I know that I need to learn the fundamentals, and when I look online people just say to watch youtube videos, but I feel like I need more guidance and structure than just looking up videos at random. Theres probably a general order I should learn them, but I'm also unsure of that aswell.

I understand what to learn, I just don't know how to practice and when I should start diving into each of the fundamentals.

If you guys have any tips or advice please share🙏

9 Comments
2024/04/23
00:10 UTC

2

Help?

How do I do the face? Help?

1 Comment
2024/04/22
23:24 UTC

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practise :D

4 Comments
2024/04/22
23:15 UTC

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Anyone else love drawing with a ball point pen?

11 Comments
2024/04/22
22:59 UTC

2

Welcome to the Gulag

1 Comment
2024/04/22
22:04 UTC

4

side profile help

i looked at a bunch of refrences and tutorials and tried my hand at a side profile but something about its composition feels off. any help?

4 Comments
2024/04/22
21:55 UTC

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Here’s a bunch of characters designs that I came up. They should go together in a sitcom right?

1 Comment
2024/04/22
21:43 UTC

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Please suggest good online figure drawing classes with personal tutors?

I am decent at drawing but I want to master life drawing. I have taken many art classes over the years and I feel like I am taking art classes with people who are less proficient at drawing than I am. I have bought life drawing books and I have watched Youtube Channels like Proko. They are helpful and I feel like I am improving but gradually. My issue is I am too chaotic and disorganized. I think having a teacher boss me around will help me improve faster. I need structure. Does anyone know of any advanced online life drawing classes with 1 on 1 tutoring?

4 Comments
2024/04/22
19:23 UTC

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need help w drawing this style

i did the forbidden act of making two posts back to back but how does one start with drawing a style like this?

like techniques, order of doing things and why, etc ^_^

4 Comments
2024/04/22
19:05 UTC

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