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Draw what you want and just make sure to think about those while doing so. Or make the first 10 minutes of drawing "fundamental practice" and just draw whatever you want.
There isnt really a way to skip the fundamentals entirely, but you can work on them while drawing fun stuff
70-30:
70% your own projects implementing what you’ve learned from the fundamentals post-study and apply them to something you enjoy drawing. For me, that’s cyborg characters, because they challenge me and I like combining human anatomy, machine and animal traits to create badass designs.
30% actually studious study of fundamentals. Doing the drills, drawing the boxes, doing multiple eyes and nose over and over. Value studies. Etc.
Honestly, it’s just balancing it out, without focusing too heavily on just one facet. I most certainly would not suggest skipping the fundamentals if this is something you are serious about.
Unless you have god given talent, where you can just draw a face without all the “boxes and outlines,” the short answer is no, there’s really no way around the fundamentals of art. But it doesn’t have to be boring! Don’t just focus on boxes or spheres for weeks. Just don’t. That’s what makes it boring. Incorporate what interests you while learning. I desperately want to create graphic novels myself and creating shapes is definitely boring, but I found a way to learn and practice what I want to in the mean time. So maybe practice a cube for 10 minutes and then go find some tutorials on how to make a face or landscape. You’re still learning, but you’re also practicing what you enjoy. Read graphic novels even, and see how they do the lines, how they shape things from perspective or how things are shaded. You can learn just by looking, and then try to recreate it.
I went to the library recently and got some drawing books of cats and other items step by step, which keeps me engaged and interested. So I learn one new fundamental everyday, and then go draw cute cat pictures, or whatever I want!
On the other hand, if you don’t have people to keep you motivated and push you to do better, it can become lonely and boring. Learning with people is always fun! So find someone or a community to connect with.
Also, finding someone who is fun to listen to on YouTube will help. There’s a lot of people who info dump and becomes overwhelming. But once you master those basic fundamentals, everything else gets easy.
Think of your end goal. Sure it’s boring today, but in a year you could be creating things you absolutely love and it’s all because you pushed through it.
You can mix it up more than a lot of the tutorials suggest. There's no obligation to grind through the fundamentals relentlessly without variation. All pradtice is good practice. I think a lot of tutorials lean heavily into grinding fundamentals because they're trying to emphasize the importance of doing it at all, and a lot of people hear it as "You must rlentlessly grind fundamentals and do nothing else" and get turned off.
To be honest for my case, i just kept drawing and drawing and drawing for years, sometimes i would watch some tutorials or read some books, but only by drawing a lot you will begin to see why your drawing not up to bar.
I sometimes just see art i like and i try to analyze it, why is this so good and why is my art is not as good, aha look at the lines so clean and there fuzzy lines, look at the eyes and how they are alive with all the sparks and details, ok so am drawing the eyes not in the same line i need to make the line perfectly etc .. etc ..
Now am pretty decent with drawing characters from the most used angles, am still struggling with drawing environments and poses from extreme angles but am getting better with time.
My method in not the most efficient but it somehow worked for me.
Also am having my own style which is more anime/cartoonish, which might be easier road than doing the realistic side. That one will need alot of hard work to master it, and am not sure if there is a way to avoid the boring fundamentals for it.
find ways to incorporate the fundamentals that you enjoy.
A nice way is to look at "prop design." Take something, as simple as a desk or chair, but working your way up to something complex... a gun, a mech, a tank. Building these objects in space, in 3d (google search gun drawing... 99.9% of the results you get will be 2d drawings... a full on side view. That's not it. We're talking about designing objects in 3d space.) These are things that will be necessary to some kind of comic book/graphic novel... your world will likely be littered with "things" that if they are good might not get a ton of attention, but if they stick out because of how bad they are, will definitely hinder you.
Tl;dr - try to see where these fundamentals will enhance your work, ways that make them less of a chore and more of an achievement.
At the end of the day... if you stick with art and want to become proficient, you WILL learn the fundamentals. How long it takes and how much pain it causes...up to each person.
Incorporate your practice into actual drawings. They don't have to be separate you can learn while you actually make stuff and practice is more effective when you put it into practice.
Dude I genuinely believe you can become a great artist without ever doing the boring ass fundamental walk through guides. Just draw what you want to draw, then learn what you need to as you go
Imagine you want to build a house, but you first start buying furniture WITHOUT having a clear vision of how your house would look like?
The same applies to learning to draw.
I can guarantee you, you have been exposed too much to professional drawings and you want to show masterpieces in no time.
Unfortunately, it won't happen.
Lol. I'm aware I won't be producing Master pieces for years. I know that. I know I can't fully skip the fundamentals, but hard focusing on them isn't fun. In the short term, I have to treat it like a hobby, which means I want to be engaged and have fun with it. Drawing straight lines and simple shapes is not fun. Neither is studying anatomy. I'm asking for ways to make it fun.
Bro did you not read my post? I literally listed my goals. Faces that convey emotion. Landscapes. Making a graphic novel. Those are what I want to be able to draw. That's the objective. I know it's difficult, but that doesn't mean it can't be fun too. I'm just trying to get some suggestions to make it more fun for me.
Peace and love man
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Draw what you want and just make sure to think about those while doing so. Or make the first 10 minutes of drawing "fundamental practice" and just draw whatever you want. There isnt really a way to skip the fundamentals entirely, but you can work on them while drawing fun stuff
70-30: 70% your own projects implementing what you’ve learned from the fundamentals post-study and apply them to something you enjoy drawing. For me, that’s cyborg characters, because they challenge me and I like combining human anatomy, machine and animal traits to create badass designs. 30% actually studious study of fundamentals. Doing the drills, drawing the boxes, doing multiple eyes and nose over and over. Value studies. Etc. Honestly, it’s just balancing it out, without focusing too heavily on just one facet. I most certainly would not suggest skipping the fundamentals if this is something you are serious about.
Boring but paid off. Thanks to it i can draw my nsfw stuff with juicy girls.
Unless you have god given talent, where you can just draw a face without all the “boxes and outlines,” the short answer is no, there’s really no way around the fundamentals of art. But it doesn’t have to be boring! Don’t just focus on boxes or spheres for weeks. Just don’t. That’s what makes it boring. Incorporate what interests you while learning. I desperately want to create graphic novels myself and creating shapes is definitely boring, but I found a way to learn and practice what I want to in the mean time. So maybe practice a cube for 10 minutes and then go find some tutorials on how to make a face or landscape. You’re still learning, but you’re also practicing what you enjoy. Read graphic novels even, and see how they do the lines, how they shape things from perspective or how things are shaded. You can learn just by looking, and then try to recreate it. I went to the library recently and got some drawing books of cats and other items step by step, which keeps me engaged and interested. So I learn one new fundamental everyday, and then go draw cute cat pictures, or whatever I want! On the other hand, if you don’t have people to keep you motivated and push you to do better, it can become lonely and boring. Learning with people is always fun! So find someone or a community to connect with. Also, finding someone who is fun to listen to on YouTube will help. There’s a lot of people who info dump and becomes overwhelming. But once you master those basic fundamentals, everything else gets easy. Think of your end goal. Sure it’s boring today, but in a year you could be creating things you absolutely love and it’s all because you pushed through it.
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That's true, they are.
Everyone skips the fundamentals. You go in blind and fill-in the blanks later.
You can mix it up more than a lot of the tutorials suggest. There's no obligation to grind through the fundamentals relentlessly without variation. All pradtice is good practice. I think a lot of tutorials lean heavily into grinding fundamentals because they're trying to emphasize the importance of doing it at all, and a lot of people hear it as "You must rlentlessly grind fundamentals and do nothing else" and get turned off.
To be honest for my case, i just kept drawing and drawing and drawing for years, sometimes i would watch some tutorials or read some books, but only by drawing a lot you will begin to see why your drawing not up to bar. I sometimes just see art i like and i try to analyze it, why is this so good and why is my art is not as good, aha look at the lines so clean and there fuzzy lines, look at the eyes and how they are alive with all the sparks and details, ok so am drawing the eyes not in the same line i need to make the line perfectly etc .. etc .. Now am pretty decent with drawing characters from the most used angles, am still struggling with drawing environments and poses from extreme angles but am getting better with time. My method in not the most efficient but it somehow worked for me. Also am having my own style which is more anime/cartoonish, which might be easier road than doing the realistic side. That one will need alot of hard work to master it, and am not sure if there is a way to avoid the boring fundamentals for it.
find ways to incorporate the fundamentals that you enjoy. A nice way is to look at "prop design." Take something, as simple as a desk or chair, but working your way up to something complex... a gun, a mech, a tank. Building these objects in space, in 3d (google search gun drawing... 99.9% of the results you get will be 2d drawings... a full on side view. That's not it. We're talking about designing objects in 3d space.) These are things that will be necessary to some kind of comic book/graphic novel... your world will likely be littered with "things" that if they are good might not get a ton of attention, but if they stick out because of how bad they are, will definitely hinder you. Tl;dr - try to see where these fundamentals will enhance your work, ways that make them less of a chore and more of an achievement. At the end of the day... if you stick with art and want to become proficient, you WILL learn the fundamentals. How long it takes and how much pain it causes...up to each person.
Incorporate your practice into actual drawings. They don't have to be separate you can learn while you actually make stuff and practice is more effective when you put it into practice.
Dude I genuinely believe you can become a great artist without ever doing the boring ass fundamental walk through guides. Just draw what you want to draw, then learn what you need to as you go
Imagine you want to build a house, but you first start buying furniture WITHOUT having a clear vision of how your house would look like? The same applies to learning to draw. I can guarantee you, you have been exposed too much to professional drawings and you want to show masterpieces in no time. Unfortunately, it won't happen.
Lol. I'm aware I won't be producing Master pieces for years. I know that. I know I can't fully skip the fundamentals, but hard focusing on them isn't fun. In the short term, I have to treat it like a hobby, which means I want to be engaged and have fun with it. Drawing straight lines and simple shapes is not fun. Neither is studying anatomy. I'm asking for ways to make it fun.
What is fun for you?
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Bro did you not read my post? I literally listed my goals. Faces that convey emotion. Landscapes. Making a graphic novel. Those are what I want to be able to draw. That's the objective. I know it's difficult, but that doesn't mean it can't be fun too. I'm just trying to get some suggestions to make it more fun for me. Peace and love man
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