I'm absolutely floored. (Don't quit!)
3mo
Lockdown
Edit. I put the picture of my little bird in the comments. I can't see where to attach on mobile to the main post.
I've been learning to draw for about 6 months now, on and off. A tree destroyed half of my house in a storm, and that's the only time I took off a month to, well, survive. We had to evac. Even three months after that, we still don't have full power. I have to practice drawing before the sun goes down haha.
I say all that because after all this time I just kept at it the best I could. And today at work, I doodled a little bird head. It's not great. But it's not half bad! I don't know shading or textures yet, but I used big planes to map it out and then refined it the best I could.
If someone out there is on the fence about their work and they think it's "bad", PLEASE KEEP GOING. You'll never know how good you can be if you stop, or how much joy it can bring you.
Just pick up the pencil, even when you're supplies are covered in dirt and soot from your house collapsing. I love you all and I love this site!
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3mo
So glad you're keeping up with your drawing exercises in spite of the difficulties you're dealing with! You're in a good mindset about your artistic growth! Also, great bird! I think "KEEP GOING" is excellent art advice. It's slow progress, but when you start to surprise yourself with how far you've come that joy is unparalleled! There's an art/life axiom that I always remind myself "you have to push past the ugly stage." There is inevitably a point in every drawing where I stop and say... "this is ugly." The proportions are off, or the gesture is stiff, or something is going so horribly wrong in the piece it makes me want to rip the page out of my sketch book. That's the most important time to "KEEP GOING." You learn more by attempting to pull a drawing out of the fire, than by knocking it out of the park on the first swing. Thanks for sharing, hopefully the dust settles soon, keep picking up the pencil!!
