What's The Best Drawing Advice You Evr Got?

[Faymos]

TWO rules to being a successful artist:
1. dont give out your adivce
2.

[ianking]

Honestly the best advice i got was none, do as you want to do not what others want :/

[junkbox]

This is some advice I've thought of giving, and it seems pretty sound;

Take your signature, or handwriting. Draw some basic letters(for beginners here I guess)... if you find yourself naturally more prone to straighter lines, sharper angles, work that into your style... if your more into curves, work with that..


I'd be interested to know whats though of this advice...

[ChemDawggyJohnson]

"draw like a madman"

[ChemDawggyJohnson]

and im paraphrasing this one but " like a diary is to an adolescent girl, thats what your sketchbook is to you. but it's gotta be one of those really torn emotional adolescent girls

[G_CAL]

My best tip's are just to draw some random line's and you'll eventaully make your own character

[junkbox]

this isnt for drawing but while back the guy that sort of got me into graffiti about 10 years ago (when i had an atrocious handstyle) told me to not move your wrist at all, keep them completely stiff and make sure your flowing with can and moving as one with the can, it seemed really weird but it actually improved my hand style overtime by so much. so after that i started bombing in gloves and putting rubberbands at the bottom around my wrist and putting the can in there. it helps alot with not moving your wrist and not pointing the can up or down.

damn dude thats very uhm... reminds me of Martial Arts or something, the writers equivalent of push-ups on the knuckles or repeatedly punching pots of stone? Really cool advice. Rigorous training.

and im paraphrasing this one but " like a diary is to an adolescent girl, thats what your sketchbook is to you. but it's gotta be one of those really torn emotional adolescent girls

Awesome quote! As awesome as your user name, whatever it means its got this aura of cool ((if you detect sarcasm my bad, meant none))

My best tip's are just to draw some random line's and you'll eventaully make your own character

JB is gonna take this advice, I still suck at characters...



Keep it simple was/is one I heard a lot. Not so sure I took that advice. I found for drawing it helped to do a lot of handstyles then outline with a thin pen to practice cleanliness, and adding 3Ds. Sometimes I think maybe it'd be good to suggest 'if you're gonna bite, bite locally', thinking preservation of a city/regional style is a good thing in this era of global communication... yet I'm sure most would say the better advice is DON'T BITE.

I've always admired a well-rounded writer, you know?, dope handstyles, nice characters, solid throwups and tight pieces, good with the blackbook & the cans (I see the Brazilians and I read in an All-Nation article Peruvians, for two, are quite skilled with bucket paint also)... I can't say I'm one of these myself, but some more advice would be to [HOLY SHIT! my box got unplugged and my post was Auto-Saved~] develop all the skill you can at every aspect of this. Not limiting one's-self to one word/4-5 letters, trying all 36 characters (haven't tried much Arabic yet) has been nice for this writer.

[ealkrab1er]

I'd say 30 minutes a day

[ealkrab1er]

And the longest I have ever drawn for was 2 hours I'd also recommend listing to music while you draw what ever genre you prefer

[cautionflamable]

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[cautionflamable]

Some chick from my school..... i hate her

[biffcreature]

wtf? wrong thread dude.

[lilbmxking]

"you arent good unless you can draw a PERFECT star" is what i tell all my learnies

just something for hype

[Turb0]

And the longest I have ever drawn for was 2 hours I'd also recommend listing to music while you draw what ever genre you prefer

+1 totally agree

[ryda]

best advice i got was to start again! go simple! go light so u can change parts you dont like or add what you want in. it deffo made a differance been drawin nonstop since then lol had more ideas, its easier to add something in and remove if it dont look right than to remove a whole load of shit!!