Hey...

[Vendousizeous]

I've posted here before but never have had the chance to show any stuff...mostly coz of lack of a scanner. Onr thing however is bothering me. I really really want to get into this, problem is I just ain't! I've been told by some rather good people that I'm rather good and that does provide some motivation, but no matter what I draw...I find it always looks wrong or just totally crap. If I find it looks totally crap I throw it away and do something else, if it looks wrong to me I pretty much give up and leave it how it is. Even if I do soemthing I like, I'm proud of it but then I just don't have the urge to draw something else. I play guitar, when I first started I was really into it like my drawing, but then got bored as we couldn't afford lessons and I had no clue what I was doing, then I got this DVD that shoed me some stuff and when I could do that, I fell in love with it and now I play the thing none stop. Is there anything like this "DVD" or better said any advice from you guys that could help me find that "point" where I could just fall in love with art...this block is really bringing me down...

Cheers!

[Dizon]

It looks like all you need is motivation much like that DVD on guitar playing has given you. I advise to look at the artists you like, explore more of what is in Art( diff. styles, artists etc.), read magz/books on art and the most impt of all is to practice it! If you think your drawing looks like crap then that only means one thing...You need to practice or else you would just get stuck in that same position you are in now! I don't know what kind of stuff you like to draw but if you don't have any idea on what to draw then try drawing from life, meaning from nature itself, whether it be your family, plants, animals etc. Doing this is great practice and if you constantly do this you will improve. Goodluck!

[Eew]

yeh , the biggest motivation are the artists who you look up to, every time you draw something you dont like or before you start to draw take a look at work of an artist that you like, think of it : this is something i want to be able too. i pretty much get the frustration that you get from it , the fact that what you draw most of the time looks wrong is a good thing , it meens that you see your mistakes , now what you should do is analyse whats wrong and not imrove it on that same drawing but make studies ... like example : you draw some dude with a gun and you see that the dudes pose looks wrong ,out of perspective,.... dont start imroving that drawing over and over but start doing studies on perspective like till you understand AND WHEN you understand what was wrong and why, you'll feel motivated cause you actualy learned something ( i always say then : something clicked in my head ). But the main thing is that take your guitar for example : to be able to just play it you just have to folow few steps and repeat those over and over till your hand is trained enought, drawing is the same but there goes MUCH MUCH more work in your head ,much more thinking is involved just to the basics-> thats the main reason that many people give up on drawing much faster then on sports or anything ... i think that should help you , just search for the reasons,inspirations of WHY you want to draw and let those help you thrue the hard learning times .

oh and get loomis books from internet , they are pretty much the "magic dvd's" you looking for ;) :D

[Vendousizeous]

Thanks you guys. I took a look at Loomis on the internet and it really does put everything into more perspective and things should end up getting much easier. :^^: