Hi, I'm also trying to learn to draw, like I_HATE_JOHN_CALVIN, who's beautiful birbs inspired me to post some of my progress. Here's Lenin, some birbs, a predator, and some women. Been drawing with Krita everyday for 22 days so far. Everything is from reference image, not good enough to be original. Is there a thing with commies and birds what the hell CALVIN?
So sick! In a similar situation rn and this progress is inspiring.
Damn, you're already sick at drawing and its only 22 days?
Do you just draw something from reference every day? I kinda want to get in on this. I tried CTRL+PAINT a long time ago and didn't do too great with it.
Nah this is my second try to stick with it. My first try was a couple years ago. I could do nothing but stick figures. I read through a good chunk of Drawing On The Right Side of The Brain and did some of those exercises. Kept with it about a month. I credit that book with my quick initial progress, there's a bit of maybe pseudosciency stuff in it, but it will legit jump start your drawing ability cause it teaches how to actually observe and draw what you are actually seeing, and has some good exercises and drills to help.
Yes i just pick a fun reference everyday and give it a go, often with different styles. Sometimes i mimic pencils and sometimes i jump right into color, but my most successful attempts so far are when i stay away from lines and just dry to draw shadows and texture and highlights and kinda carve away as i go. It usually looks a disgusting mess at one point but i kinda claw it together and keep refining and fixing as i go.
What. I tried to learn to draw for like half a year and it looked way worse than this the whole time. Is this like u coming back to drawing after learning and practicing a lot in the past or something
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article185/tutorial-getting-started-with-krita-1-3-bw-portrait This is the one i did that made me go hey i can actually do this
Oh it's a digital thing I see. Do u use one of those tablet and stylus setups?
Yes i got a cheap tablet under a hundred dollars. It's kinda weird hand eye coordination issue at first cause there's no screen on the tablet. You draw on it but look at the monitor. But i like digital, don't need paper or materials just draw and draw and erase and draw and undo and undo try try again lol. And once you get good at how the layers and other features work it really becomes interesting. In traditional media if i made a large proportion mistake i would have to erase and start over. Here I can select and warp and stretch and duplicate and liquify and mirror and a bunch of other tricks to solve problems that might stump me on physical media.
I had some practice in the past, about a month of really going through that drawing on the right side of your brain book. But i let it slip and this is my second try, really trying to stick with it this time. I think my advantage is having experience playing around with photoshop as a kid. I'm still not that good at actually drawing. Like I can't draw a straight line to save my life without hitting ctrl Z 15 times straight, but I have a pretty good grasp of Krita and am good at using it to my advantage. Devouring a ton of tutorials helps too. David Revoy has some great ones , i think he's one of the krita developers, and i think you will surprise yourself how good it comes out of you try them
Thanks! Bob Ross attempt lol. Good practice for color mixing and using the smudge brushes, which i haven't gotten the hang of yet
From what i can tell you really gotta get into the brush editing to have success with them. There are so many interesting options to play around with though , i mean look at all this shit https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/brushes/brush_engines/color_smudge_engine.html