>>2151143I'm back hello. While I'm here, I'll first address the guy saying that the technical ability "comes naturally" and thus knowledge is the most important half. You're retarded. For real. The key to improving is focused, directed and concerted practice. Believe it or not you have to be fucking mindful and shit while learning. You can't just "draw" and get better. If you just draw a face 100 godsamned times without making each mark on that paper significant, and being conscious of every fucking decision you make while drawing it, you're not going to improve. You gotta help yourself out, and make the most of out every fucking second you practice. Mindfulness is so lacking when I see people practicing. Thoughtless repetition isn't goof practice. And I'm so fucking frustrated that I even have to say this shit. You need to be mindful while developing your technical abilities. It will not come naturally, unless you've got low standards in regards to what "it" is.
For beginners, I'd recommend warming up every session doing ellipse and wide curves. They can be random at first. Skate the page. But then move on to actual practice. Lay down straight lines of random lengths and angles on your page. Those lines are going to be the major axes of your ellipses. Fill up a page or two like this. Shouldn't take more than 5 or 10 minutes. Next you can just spend a page drawing straight lines (to avoid future bias, don't avoid drawing angles that are difficult. Do them until they're easy). Also fill a page with c and s curves.
So with that, you've got a 15-20 warm up. Then move on to form, form intersections and perspective rules. I won't go over this, because there are a million resources out there that cover it. After how ever much practice you can manage (we're all busy, I get it) move on to a subject of your choice.
So that's the basic session format I'd recommend for a beginner. Start with a warm up, move on to form and perspective studies, then end with whatever.
