Help me please.

[AxeRaidon]

Hey I need Help with drawing, I can draw still life and Portraits but I can never draw a person out of my mind or make up ideas very well but when I have an idea and I do draw it i hate it becasue somethings wrong with it becasue it doesnt look right or its out of porportions and i was wondering if anyone could help me just with concept art in general.

[Calcaneus]

Hello, welcome to CA by the way. This is my first post too :teeth:

I reccomend that you draw a wide variety of things, not just portraits and still life. Drawing from real life is invaluable too. Draw all sorts of things like architecture, electronics, organics, clothing, tools, machines, etc.

Copy the art of different artists and in different styles.Exercise your creativity by making variations of pieces, like adding, subtracting, multiplaying, mixing and modifying features. (for example you might copy a head with goggles and then redraw it and change the shape of the goggles and change the hairstyle. Then maybe do the same and add a scarf that covers the chin or whatever.) The greater the variety of things you draw the greater the variety of things your creativity can pull up to draw.

You can learn proportions from drawing life, tutorials and general practice. You've probably heard this a lot but practice, practice, practice.

I hope that helps. I may be on to something with these ideas but I'm not a proffesional yet :wink: Hopefully some others will respond too.

[Big-Dave]

I'm the same. Only thing I can suggest would be try to learn to draw people as skeletons then add muscles and skin onto it to create a body, rather than just drawing exactly what's there. Then when you draw *without* a reference you can use the same techniques Learning anatomy can be helpful for this. To start off though, the first couple of chapters of Burne Hogarths "Dynamic Figure Drawing" can be helpful, although the later on ones are a bit too advanced for someone starting out drawing without reference. Also, there's always the Loomis books at http://www.fineart.sk

Anyway, good luck with improving this. It's really just a matter of practice (like pretty much anything else)

[nafa]

To solve the problem of wrong proportion, you should get a wood drawing dummy and arrange its posture according to what you have in mind and use it as your model.

[AxeRaidon]

:teeth: Thanks so much for the help I'm going to try to get better and oractice. :bashful: