You Can Draw!

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I went to a prestigious British art school to learn with horror that that level of drawing really does count as "skilled" in Britain

My drawing skills are at best at the level of a 7 year old. Both my brother and sister have above average artistic skills.

I want to draw. 3D art I can do as I regularly do it with my hobby.. But 2D artwork, I want to learn. What this short film has taught me is that art is about the methods used. Now this has cleared up a mystery to me and has enabled me to think that if I learn a few of these methods, I will be able to draw!

Take different artists with different styles and practice by copying. That way, you'll figure out how styles work, and then you can create your own.
The rest is drawing from observation (well, I guess so is copying styles, actually) and practice.

I want to draw scenery as a backdrop for my trains to pass through.

I used to like drawing even though I’m not very good at it, back when I was taking a medication that lessened my essential tremor. I had to stop taking that, though, because it was making my blood pressure drop too low, and now I just get frustrated with the tremor any time I try to draw.

Cool! There's lots of great landscape painters, British people like John Constable for example. But if you prefer to draw, rather than paint, then japanese woodcut artists, like Hiroshige, Hokusai or Hasui Kawase might be worth a look.

Just pick something you like, and don't worry if you need a lot of attempts.
It can be frustrating, it's hard, but if it weren't, it wouldn't be rewarding to learn.

OK, that was fun - I scribbled along while watching. A few years back I really wanted to learn to draw well enough to do a webcomic, but never got anywhere with it. I can kind of draw little cartoon faces- usually in 3/4 profile, like these ones. Not very consistently, though- if I try to repeat one it doesn't work. Still, this has made me want to start doodling again.

It is something that is great. It opens a new world of oppertunities.

Now illustrator is a very popular profession. There are many companies looking for talented people to draw branded bags, create badges, create movie characters, etc.

yikes...don't go to an "art school" if you want to see technical skill.

i drew/painted my current avatar, and a few before it. *here* is the full thing...

Thanks, MG. I’ll be on the lookout for more things I “can’t”do.

My drawing is at elementary school level.

"2224.1 Blue/Not Blue (mixed media, 2019). The abrasions in the scavenged concrete are a chronoclastic metonymy for the liminal reification of violence, building on the transiterative vocabulary of the "Unhappenings" of the Pinsk School in a way that engages with and yet challenges their work. The twisted umbrella spokes, obviously, constitute an ambiguous meditation on the Hamburg Stock Exchange crash of 1929 considered as Joycean epiphany. Please fund me."

Even the school level can be used in work, and will develop further.