I highly HIGHLY suggest an artist called Peter Han. He's been featured on the proko channel several times, has his own channel as well, and is also a part of the superani team. He teaches and practices a method called dynamic sketching and it has helped me immensely. He also has a book called the Dynamic Bible (it's sold out)

i'm struggling with this as well, but I'm learning to fall in love with the process. I try to focus more on consistency and actively learning than how bad I am at.

Apart from meditating on the idea that failure is your friend and that it's inevitable, here are a few tips that may help : - Do smaller exercises so you can focus on a few specific aspects at a time, until you get them right. Sometimes, making a complete piece from start to finish or attempting a very complex exercise can be overwhelming, and there is a higher chance that one mistake snowballs and affects other areas of your drawing. Smaller exercises are quicker to make, more manageable, and the mistakes you'll make will be easier to fix specifically. Like one of my teachers used to say "Making a good drawing is like making good breakfast. It's somewhat easy to make an omelette, or to make toast, or to cook bacon or home fries or make coffee, but it's much harder to prepare all of these so that they're all hot and ready at the same time. Same thing goes for a drawing. Getting the colors, the calligraphy, the perspective, the composition, etc. so that each aspect is good and they all fit together is very hard." - Try another craft or another activity in which failure is inevitable or you don't mind starting over when you fail. Pottery on a wheel for instance is great for this, because it is much harder than it looks, but also, you can't work endlessly on your piece. There is a limited amount of work you can do with each chunk of clay before it's no longer workable (at least for beginners). The point is, if failing at art is too painful for you, get used to failing at something else, and see what benefits it brings you. - Find good ressources that will help you not fail as much. I know the idea is to get used to failure, but there is some argument to be made on helping yourself feel more prepared so you'll have more confidence that you can actually succeed. Find references and tools that will help you learn and perform better. As for perspective specifically, I wish I could give you ressources, but alas I learned all I know in a perspective class that I took in person and that is not available online. One of my dreams would be to actually build an in-depth perspective course for everyone who is struggling with it. (though any course I could make could become irrelevant the day Marshall finally releases his own new perspective course that he's been working on forever) I don't have any general fundamental advice to give either, because it really depends what you're attempting to do. I'm willing to answer specific questions if you have them, though. Last words of wisdom I can provide : consider failure as nothing more than the indicator of a lesson you have yet to learn, and trust that the future You will figure it out.

Hi @Aerial Smith, in my opinion the @Marshall Vandruff 1994 lectures on fundamentals of perspective are phenomenal, and easier than teaching yourself alone from Technical books. As to fear of mistakes, i admire skateboarders, with that mindset a person just keep trying till land the trick, it doesnt really matter if you land the skateboard trick on first try does it? Hope that helps.

Wonderful question and so universal! Here is what I have to say. Failure in life is inevitable. And bouncing back from failure is the most fundamentally creative thing we can do. By failing, learning and bouncing back from it is how we expand into the best version of ourselves. And the best way to do that is to get comfortable with failure. It's part of the path of success. To help you get moving forward into failure, and cultivate the confidence you need to bounce back from failure, here are some super inspiring quotes about failure. Nicolaides in The Natural Way to Draw says: "The sooner you make you first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them." Seneca says: “It is not because things are difficult that you do not dare. It is because you do not dare that things are difficult.” Tal Ben Shahar says: “We have a haul of fame for achievers but we need a hall of fame for failures.” Thomas Edison: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." “We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.” “Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.” “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this—you haven’t.” “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” “If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” John W. Gardner "We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure - all your life." Teddy Roosevelt "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." Paulo Coelho "There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure." George Bernard Shaw "When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work." Winston Churchhill "Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." Robert F. Kennedy: “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” Thomas Watson, Sr. (founder of IBM): “The fastest way to succeed is to double your rate of failure.” Also I want to share my website with you. It's purpose is to show other artists what it takes to pursue mastery. https://chrisbeaven.com I've been doing art daily for over 3300 days straight and I log EVERYTHING including all my failures. And recently, just like you, I'm going back to the basics because I too have a lot of issues with perspective. Check it out, and if I can help in any way please let me know. chris@unrelentingart.com Thanks for sharing.