[Nomadik]

I was wondering if anyone does some drawing practicing/excercises before they begin to really draw? Sometimes when I sit down to draw, everything comes out like crap and I get frustrated, assuming its just a bad day to draw, could it be because I should do some excersises prior to trying to draw something nifty?
Thanks,
Jesse Acosta

[Jason Manley]

Hi

I understand completely. the solution is knowing that your first drawings will be rusty. its not that they look like crap..its just part of the process. the more you draw...lots and lots and lots and lots...5 times as much as you draw now...that rust will go away and you can just tap into it...that mood.

if you dont draw for a while it takes a while to get into it.

at least that is how it is for me


jason

[quaternius]

Don't mean to steal from waylon's hard work, but this and other great topics have been compiled by him in the "threads of knowledge" thread compilation.

try this: http://fear.incarnate.net/~vlad/sijun/threads/warmup.html

I also humbly submit my own ideas: http://www.geocities.com/cubic44/better.html

Good luck,
Q

[waylon]

Hard work? Heh. That took me like 15 minutes to clean up.

I wonder what happened to the rest of the threads 'o knowledge....