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[Ming]

Where are his collarbones 

[Ollistar]

under his collar.

[ScumbagSoldier]

How do I learn to draw?

I want to make pictures of wizards and cute girls and shit!

A friend tried to teach me once, but he gave up because I was awful.

[Kami_sama]

I began drawing with a tablet a few days ago. Here's the best I did.



When I draw things from my mind, it's shit. This one is a copy of a picture a saw in my twitter feed.

How do I learn to draw?

I want to make pictures of wizards and cute girls and shit!

A friend tried to teach me once, but he gave up because I was awful.

/r/drawing has some good resources. I'm not good but I'm a lot better than when I started drawing again 2 months ago. Drawing a little bit each day leads to improvement even if you're bad, I think.

[Ollistar]

How do I learn to draw?

I want to make pictures of wizards and cute girls and shit!

A friend tried to teach me once, but he gave up because I was awful.

Finding some guides and learning basic techniques is a great place to start. Also a literal shit ton of practice. I've been drawing since I was a child. It takes a lot of work.

Also some advice I gave Ming on improving in another thread:

Find art that you like and totally steal it. This goes for any medium. So like, for examle, say I watch an anime or something and I really like the art style, I'll find an image of my favorite character and freehand a copy of it, by doing so you get a feeling for how the artist kind of did it. Then I usually draw in that sort of style for a bit with different things, maybe drawing that character in different positions and other characters, and then I take everything I like from that and incorporate that into my style. I don't even know if I'm answering your question anymore. Uh, just look everywhere for that stuff that inspires you and find that thing that makes you go "God damn I suck, I wish I was that good" and then copy the fuck out of them and eventually start making it your own. That's how I go about improving, anyway.

2 specific anime related examples I can think of that really did this for me was Akira and Serial Experiments Lain.

Though you probably want to learn basics such as using frames to plot out what you're doing and stuff.

[Ming]

Just read the /ic/ sticky.

It's got all you need to know until you're about ready to start charging for your work.

[Ollistar]

I always forget /ic/ exists. I'm doing that myself.

[Kami_sama]

Drawing is hard. Not drawing sets of small line is really hard. 

[Hiro]

practice makes perfect

[McJongJing]

At least you got the perspective right

[Ollistar]

Congrats on the lack of chicken scratches. Now you should work on composition. Good start!

[Cooro]

This thread makes me want to draw more!

[Ollistar]

DO IT!

[Kami_sama]

Well thanks.

If you want to draw you should draw. Every improvement feels great when you can see it on paper.

[Cooro]

Something I drew the other week probably the newest that's not a doodle.
http://i.imgur.com/zWr6JOM.jpg