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how long have you been drawing?
I've been taking it relatively seriously for about a year and a half I think
cool
i used to draw, but i got disillusioned with art for a while
i'm slowly getting back into it
Show me some of your work please
I've never been good at it.
It's really hard to be good at it, especially when you do stuff from imagination
I don't have any online, it's all on paper, and unfortunately I never picked up my art portfolio when i left school, so it's probably all lost
There is a lot to warp your head around
It's ok
I used to work on it a lot more, but the closest I got to drawing would be world building and making maps.
that's pretty cool
Well you are still young
You can get back to it if you want
This is 5 years of work.
It's a good career to have, you can work from anywhere and there is a lot of demand
And it isn't as dry as most well paying alternatives
5 years? wow
that's some serious dedication
started sophomore year of high school, slowly still add stuff to it.
You are very talented meratrix
I'm sorry for doubting you
the best art teacher i ever had was my middle school art teacher, and oddly enough the best thing i ever drew was in his class. I got an A+ on it, probably the only A+ i ever got in school lol
My middle school art teacher was similar like that.
the major point he tried to make was to not think about what you were drawing, and to actually not even look at the paper, but to just draw as slowly as possible and rely on negative space. he would actually have us turn things upside down to draw them
This one here is my masterpiece
negative space is one of a number of ways to maintain accuracy when drawing from life/reference
It's a very powerful tool
But you need to understand that it's just one tool
of course
You use it in conjunction with many others
Like plumb lines and triangulation
But I agree with your teacher, negative space is awesome
from my experience it's usually the most helpful
But I'm not sure about not looking at the paper, I've read about it in Betty Edwards' book and did the exercise
It's a unique experience but I can't really tell if it was that beneficial
I guess it's a way to stimulate areas of the brain that you want to develop for improving your technical skills