Drawing Advice for Students – Asking Pros
Part 2 of Interviewing pros at Comic-Con! They talk about the biggest drawing mistakes they see from their art students. Spoiler alert: you’re gonna hear about anatomy a lot, so if a lot of this message resonates with you, go check out the anatomy playlist.
Comic-Con part 1
Comic-Con part 3
Comic-Con part 4
Thanks again to all the artists that participated:
Peter Han
Marshall Vandruff
Eliza Ivanova
Sanford Greene
James Douglas
Victor Olazaba
Ron Lemen
Chrissie Zullo
Marcelo Matere
Ross Tran
Patrick Ballesteros
Bobby Chiu
Howard Shum
Caleb Cleveland
Mike Hayes
Hai-Na-Nu Saulque
Stephen Silver
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So many cool artists!!
At this stage, I’m clearly not good enough to go for painting ot even anatomy, so quite clearly my biggest issue is structure. I can understand the concept of gesturing and then applying 3d forms to form a structure, but applying that to the paper is a all new story.
Really, I can’t wait for the beginners course that Proko’s been promising. In some way, I guess I’ve been waiting my all life for it: really, I lived in a small town, where any concept of “drawing teaching” was absolutely s*it. I even had art classes where teachers said stuff like “oh, I cannot teach you how to draw better faces, that’s impossible, how would I do it?”, or even worse, the worst of the worst “what’s important is for you to release you inner self!!”. Really, NO ONE talked about gesture, structure, applying 3D forms, and so on. F*ck, it was so frustrating that I just gave up for years…