>>5787166-don't get distracted with colour. disregarding value is good too. focus on learning to purely draw, lines on paper. from there you can build up to value and then colour.
-drawing an object, person etc. purely to replicate it, to get a likeness, trains mainly observation, secondly things like proportion and stuff. observation is number one in this section. do things like blind contour drawings and the kind of shit they do in books like drawing on the right side of the brain. you need to learn how to observe things as they are. try isolating observation from proportion and crap, then try isolating proportion. work on one aspect at a time, it removes a lot of factors so you don't get confused by messing up somewhere else (say, if you want to draw a square. by drawing it with a ruler it removes the factor of having to freehand straight lines, allowing you to focus on purely getting the proportions of the square right. if you're freehanding lines and are also messing up those a lot, you have too much on your plate. narrow things down to one factor at a time. i think of it like controls in experiments or whatever you call them)
-observation skill has BASICALLY NOTHING to do with imaginative drawing. that being said, learning to observe well is FAR easier than drawing proficiently from imagination. learn to copy first (don't go too nuts with this tho. you don't ahve to be a perfect printer. just to the point where it's alright enough), then move on to all the nitty gritty imagination crap. construction, perspective, all that
-keep drawing the things you like to draw. try to still have fun. and don't follow this stupid shit i've typed too rigidly. also don't expect to get everything right away. say, gesture, i thought it was stupid artsy shit for years and didn't understand it until in the past year where i realised how fundamentally and logically important it fucking is. just, (cont)
