Re: How did you learn to draw?
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 5:26 am
I loved drawing as a kid, and had great focus and patience for it. Back at that age (6 years old or so), just spending more than 15 minutes on a drawing already made you excel, so imagine how relatively good I was spending hours half copy-ing animals onto paper (6-year old me didn't understand the concept of tracing yet, so it was all look at picture, draw a bit, look again). In kindergarden I was that kid who could show you a drawing you know is a deer while the other kids had stickfigures impossible to define as either a horse or dog.
I kept drawing a bit throughout high school, but the artist in me died around the same time the bookreader did: when I got a computer and video games. And in school they went more and more towards painting (which I hated and sucked at). I excelled at those sketching assignments like the 'draw someone modelling within 15 minutes' but rarely got more than a passing grade most semesters.
It was not until I had free time and decided to make a VN that I picked up art again. And as I went to digital drawing, this meant starting all the way back at square two. Once again my biggest virtue was the ability to spend hours on a single sprite instead of rushing it, and I'm very slowly improving. I'm not good at it yet, just patient, but all in due time.
I kept drawing a bit throughout high school, but the artist in me died around the same time the bookreader did: when I got a computer and video games. And in school they went more and more towards painting (which I hated and sucked at). I excelled at those sketching assignments like the 'draw someone modelling within 15 minutes' but rarely got more than a passing grade most semesters.
It was not until I had free time and decided to make a VN that I picked up art again. And as I went to digital drawing, this meant starting all the way back at square two. Once again my biggest virtue was the ability to spend hours on a single sprite instead of rushing it, and I'm very slowly improving. I'm not good at it yet, just patient, but all in due time.