What did you started drawing?

[Chutzpar]

Here's the major secret teachers won't tell you till you're good enough to do "self-critiques":

Drawing from life doesn't mean drawing in realism. Ever. You will never be able to duplicate or emulate a figure or subject perfectly. If you wanted that, you might as well get a photograph. A drawing is an interpretation of what you personally find interesting in a piece. There are countless, possibly infinite number of factors or variables that make up what your drawing. You just have to choose the ones you want to illustrate in that piece. If you notice how especially bright that white plastic chair is in the sun, so much so that it appears to glow, emphasize that! If you're drawing/painting mountains and you find the atmospheric perspective interesting (the mountains, as they get farther away, get more obscured by the moisture in the air and become less color-saturated), than emphasize that.

At the end of the day, its always your INTERPRETATION. If you only focus on making it exactly as you see it without taking interest in certain details, it WILL suck.


And those are my 2 cents. :v

You're right, but it's important to understand HOW to interpret things, without sounding too straight-laced.

There's always an element of realism (maybe 'convincing' is a better word than 'realistic'? IDK, I'm SLEEPY), so obviously you can't do ANIME STYLED KAWAII GESTURES, just to make sure nobody's misconstruing what you're saying here.

That kind of intepreting eventually becomes second nature, but holy crap is it a steep learning curve