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How do I into art, I would like to start learning to draw, I downloaded gimp what are some good tutorials?

>>45 Download Krita instead. Check Instebrak: https://www.youtube.com/user/Istebrak

>>48 Fun with a pencil is more of an intermediate book, it assumes you know a lot already. The exercises in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain will put you on the right track. Please ignore the pseudo-scientific parts and concentrate on the exercises. After that maybe watch Dynamic Sketching with Peter Han. cgpeers has em. After you can do basic forms well you can try Loomis.

https://www.youtube.com/user/BobRossInc

>>49 No. Both are terrible ideas. What he needs is pen & paper.

>>86 Digital and paper are just two mediums, like paper and canvas. You have different tools for each, but the skills translate. I would however recommend paper, if you don't have a tablet.

>>87 Skills do translate but: 1. You need proper tablet to work with digital drawing. There is no manual skills translation for working with mouse or touchscreen. 2. Your work flow is totally different. It will be far easier to learn without the need to first readjust to "digital pen" and digital techniques of drawing using layers, color pickers and different tools etc. as well as monitor-hand coordination. Both are irrelevant compared to time spent on practice but for wanting to learn to draw nothing beats just grabbing a bunch of different hardness pencils and you are good to go. You will be using the same tools you did in school and in a way you did for most of your life drawing and writing.

>>88 Yeah, agree. I guess it depends what the person's goals are. If you are set to drawing digitally and already have a decent tablet, go for digital, traditional otherwise.

>go to 8ch /loomis/ >get starter pack and ideas >draw ... >draw

get Keys to Drawing by Bert Dodson and draw from life, draw real people and real places, that will make you grow. After that you can step into making studies out of artists you like. >>48 Good books >>84 soykaf book >>86 >>87 >>88 >>89 beside pen and paper are cheap. As a person with lots of experience in traditional media digital will always feel phony while traditional just werks.

>>45 You don't have to look far. The sticky thread on 4chan /ic/ has links that are guaranteed to help. https://hubpages.com/art/how-to-draw-learn Follow these steps: -Stravinsky exercise -Vilppu drawing manual for learning how to sketch gestures in 30 seconds -grind the fuarrrk out of 30 second sketches. Use this tool: https://line-of-action.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/ -look at the rest of the stuff in the /ic/ link For the first step, draw Picasso's Stravinsky after flipping the image upside down. The point of drawing upside down is to change your perception, to focus on the lines alone. You have to break up the shapes you see, the lines for starters, into separate components so you can put them together again on your own without unconsciously trying to take shortcuts. You're trying to kill a bad habit called "symbol drawing". So you focus on one component at a time, without being distracted by the general image. When an image is flipped upside down, it's harder to see a person. This makes it easier to learn how to ignore the person, to focus on the lines and nothing but the lines. After Stravinsky, try sketching a portrait of Patrick Bateman upside down. I'm not some super duper expert. In fact, I'm stuck in my comfort zones and I barely get around to drawing anything lately. But I did move out of the babby levels thanks to /ic/, so I can confirm that the steps described above really do work.

>>98 >draw Picasso's Stravinsky after flipping the image upside down Is the result supposed to resemble the original? I tried this twice and the result was nothing but a jumbled mess of random lines and curves, with no resemblance to anything even remotely human.

>>100 You don't have to focus on exact likeness as the exercise is mostly just a demonstration of the "drawing on the right side of the brain" concept. It's used to help break apart soykafty symbol-drawing habits. However, it helps to have good line control either way. If your lines are too chaotic, consider doing "line art calisthenics" first. Also, just to be sure, DON'T DRAW WITH A MOUSE. Don't be a fukken masochist. Just grab a pen and a piece of paper. This is the first good link that came up: https://lineweights.com/tutorials-education/ You should look for youtube videos on the topic so you can see the movement of the artist's pen, and consider if you're going too fast or too slow when you put down a line. Instead of looking at the tip of your pen and just following it as you move your arm, try focusing on your pen's intended destination instead, meaning at the point where you want the line to end, before putting the pen down and making a stroke in a solid, tightly controlled movement, without accelerating or moving your wrist. Next, repeat the exact same movement, trying to draw over the old line and reach the same end. This will suck at first but you'll get better at it soon enough. After those boring straight lines, you can start doing curves, s-shapes and circles. This can be turned into a warming up exercise that you can repeat every time you're about to start drawing.

This guy helped me out a lot. He has like 80 something tutorial videos but these are the starter ones. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV2X3tgajVlEAo91iOj8w5YizC_fLULzu Hes also really interesting and used to have like split personality disorder and was in a mental institution for a long ass time which is where he practiced a lot of his drawing.

>>161 Proko, Sycra and moatdd are all pretty good.