Art tips have arrived <3
1. Sketch from real life, this means sitting down and taking 20 minutes to sketch what’s on your desk or the view outside your window. Work loosely and inaccurately at first but then slowly start to focus more on the details.
2. Learn to see the shapes that build up an object or creature. Work on something that is small and relatively simple like a cube or cylinder at first and then slowly work up to animal legs, planes of the face, or human anatomy.
3. I highly recommend adding diversity to your work! try and include a variety of styles, body types, races, features and cultures! This can ONLY improve your art as you’re learning how to work with different shapes and colors. The only thing to consider with this tip, is that if you are going to depict real people or cultures (whether directly or indirectly) you need to research and make sure you’re doing so in a respectful way!
4. If you like a certain creators artwork and you want your art to look like theirs find a small part of their art and try to fit it into your own style, for example, the way that the show arcane shades the eyes, or the way that into the spiderverse uses small dots and lines to add texture.
5. TRACE TRACE TRACE! trace 3d models, photos you’ve taken, reference images. it’s totally fine to trace as long as you’re being legal and professional about it by this I mean DONT TRACE OTHER ARTISTS WORK unless you have permission! You are free to trace my work and even use it as a reference image or a compositional reference if you’d like!
6. Draw for yourself and no one else! Take the time to create projects or pieces simply bc you want to. Don’t let people pressure you into sharing your work if you don’t want to, and remember that your creative work has inherent value no matter how ‘good’ it is.
7. Art can be so many different things and it is a tool that you can manipulate to your liking. If you’re unhappy with how your art looks, try drawing something in the opposite of how you usually draw it. If your current style has highly stylized features, see what happens if you try and draw the features smaller.
8. Don’t throw out your earliest art! You’ll wanna look back on all your progress! I still have my first sketchbook ever and boy howdy is it such a jump from then to now. It’s quite encouraging to look through how much you’ve improved!
Hope these helped anon <333
