How to become a fast artist? T.T

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How to become a fast artist? T.T

#1 Post by King-sama »

Like the title says, how can one become fast with art? (especially coloring ^^')
I will appreciate every advice~

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#2 Post by truefaiterman »

This sounds obvious and silly, but I think is the only good way to become a faster artist:

Become a better artist.

If you work harder on anatomy and learn it better, you'll be able to skip a lot of intermediate steps when drawing. It's the same for the colouring, too: if you know colour theory well enough, you don't doubt your next step, and you know better how to shade, where to put the lights, which hues combine better, etc.

A more concrete advice is to learn a well-defined workflow (at least that worked wonders for me).
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#3 Post by mitoky »

Fast as in learning art or fast as in drawing fast?
For first, practice, no way around that!

For the second one is also pretty much impossible. First you should know that becoming faster with art usually comes wth experience so there is not really a way to become fast immediatly. Also, concentrate on the quality rather than speed. It does not really matter how long one takes as long as the product is good and that requires sometimes a loooot of patience. I know its frustating sometimes if you want to go on to the next step but it needs time.

However, you can learn saving time with some things. Example would be, selecting the whole lineart to-be-filled with coloring parts and make it a mask. Then, you wont draw over the lines and will stay withhin the lineart (which in my case saves a lot of time xD'')
It may or may not work deepeing on lineart. The thinner it is the higher the possibility of having to correct some parts of the mask.

Good luck!

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#4 Post by chocojax »

Can't get fast without knowledge and practice. We could use math as an example! When you learn a concept for the first time, it's slow. Reeeally slow. You're drilled to learn the concept, how it works in certain situations. When you can finally pull that off the top of your head, you still take time to think about the steps. With practice, you can do the equations quicker and quicker because you get more experience working with different equations/situations.

So, if you want to get faster at coloring, you should get better at it. Learn fundamentals, or figure out where you struggle at. (Either where you take a LARGE amount of your time on compared to every other step in the process. Spots where you constantly redo it, or where you have so much trouble knowing how exactly to do it so that it looks right.) Shading in folds? Study it, practice. What colors to use for skin in different situations? Study, practice.

Shortcuts and quicker methods of doing something like filling in areas and such also help. :D

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#5 Post by YonYonYon »

As everyone said, experience is the only way to do something faster. One more example, babies learn really long how to stand up and walk - it takes them years to master that. But when we master it we do it without even thinking, we even can run really fast!

So, be kind to yourself. Don't punish yourself just because you think you're slower than you expected.

I'd advice to watch tutorial videos by artists you admire. And then steal their techniques. These guys already have experience and know how to shorten their ways.

Also, drawing in lower resolution is faster - think about coloring your nails and compare it to coloring a sheet of paper with the same tiny brush. It's faster, but quality suffers more. Try to find a compromise between lower resolution and better quality.
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Learning the tools will help make you faster too. With Photoshop; Blending Options, Masks, Filters, etc there are heaps of quick techniques that can speed you along, so learn 'em all :) Also texture photos = time savers :lol:

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#7 Post by vigaman »

There's no quick way. You draw fast with experience, so practice as much as you can. Now learning quick is a different story. :)

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#8 Post by LateWhiteRabbit »

Laluune wrote:Image
Love that quote. So true.

Only way is practice. And you don't practice drawing fast, you just practice drawing, and naturally you will get faster and faster at drawing things you've already drawn. And it is worth remembering that most professional artists are not "fast" in the traditional sense. It takes comic book artists 9-10 hours to draw a page, it takes comic cover artists sometimes a week for 1 picture, and it can take famous artists years to complete a painting. It took da Vinci years to finish the Mona Lisa.

There is also every chance you'll never get faster. You'll get better. You'll be able to produce much higher quality work in the same span of time as you used to produce lower quality work, but you might never get faster. The results will just improve.

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