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@baal
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4yr
added comment inDoodling and Chilling with SINIX (LIVESTREAM)
Hey, Sinix! Can you draw Proko's majestic forehead so I can finally make a proper shrine?
@baal
4yr
Honored to have this question as an opener for the stream. You're welcome, Stan :)
@bic
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4yr
How do you deal with losing motivation? I haven't been motivated recently.
Make a mark on a paper with whatever tool you have at hand, don't think too much about it, don't plan to do anything with it. If you don't feel horrible making that first mark maybe you can try making a second one. Same thing. Maybe after a third mark you'll feel like drawing or maybe you won't. Don't beat yourself over it and go do something else. Try it again the next day.
@chubbybunny
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4yr
Do yall have any advice on getting over perfectionism? I feel like i waste a lot of time noodling over details that I end up erasing bc I go with a different composition
I have a natural disposition to be like that and I fight it by simply making a mess. Grab a big brush loaded with ink and start "drawing" with it. That blob wont go anywhere but you can begin to "fix" it by gradually utilizing tools that leave smaller marks and draw over and around the big mess of ink you just made. If you try to use a really fine pen after the big brush, you'll see that it looks like crap so it'll actually will be quite easy to go with bigger marks. This is for me a quick, natural and quite pleasing way to practice getting hung up with useless details from the beginning of your drawings. After a lot of the page is black use some white-out to carve out details. Once you begin to feel comfortable (actually having fun) with this process you won't feel so pressed to start noodling right away, I can guarantee it!
Phil
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4yr
Hello Sinix and Stan, I'm Phil. In digital art we have the transform tool, which is very useful for composition. But in traditional art, more specifically in still life drawings, I'm struggling to place multiple objects on a canvas, as they tend to go in various directions, or are too big for the sheet I'm using so I erase a lot. Do you have any tips on taking the image you see in real life, cropping it, resizing, filtering and putting it onto a canvas? How do I know where I start on a paper?
That's when the rule of thirds comes in real handy. Divide your canvas into three equal parts, vertically and horizontally. Then you can use the point where these lines intersect to place the "points of interest" of your subject. It doesn't have to be that exact same place, it's just a simple solid starting point. You can practice different framing and compositions easily by using this simple concept and taking a whole lot of pictures with your phone until you begin to feel comfortable with it and it becomes second nature, then you'll want to try wilder compositions like for example pushing the objects to one corner of the picture and seeing how it feels different to you having a lot of empty space around them, etc. Experiment and take a little time to observe the results. Then take all this knowledge and simply translate it into paper.
