Like damn how do you draw those realistic looking people I can barely color within the lines

It's my dream to make an awesome webcomic with cool characters that fight and go on adventures and stuff but I just can't do it I just can't do it.

I mean I know it's impossible for me to ever reach the really details awesome looking people level, but I just want to draw some cool stuff and make a comic. It doesn't even have to look like real people I don't want it to. I just want to be able to draw simple cartoons that look semi professional atleast. Like you know if someone is standing on squishy ground then you draw a curved line to show their foot sinking into it.

I can't do that stuff i can't draw complex things. How do people see what they look like in their head then they add them together and it looks awesome.

If I were to draw a stickman, I would start with the head, then add on the stick body, easy, right?

Well people like Sherlock who make really good art start by drawing something like I don't know a nose maybe. But the line won't look like a nose at all, the line will keep going in really weird curves and stuff

So I'm sitting here like " hey what the hell is that supposed to be its gotta be said" I'm looking at someone in the middle of drawing a weird line, and then, BAM, my brain sees it become a nose. HOW DO YOU PICTURE THAT? HOW DO YOU VISUALIZE THAT SHAPE AND THEN START DRAWING IT GOOD LIKE THAT?

And if you do visualize that how,on gods green earth DO YOU DRAW IT AND VISUALIZE IT AT THE SAME TIME?
I mean jesus I'm not frickin I don't know jimmy neutron.

Ok I'll be honest with you I'm a below average drawer altogether. My drawing stopped improving in kindergarten. If I go to an art class right now, all these really good people or semi good people will be mowing through it AND ILL BE THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE CLASS.

But I mean if I ever want to go to my dream of making a webcomic, I'm going to have to do it. There's no other way around it.

Sorry I just had to let that all out.

Particle man said
I mean jesus I'm not frickin I don't know jimmy neutron.

Wow, been a long time since I've heard anyone reference that sho-

....Wait.

OH MY GOODNESS I CLICKED THE QUOTE BUTTON AND ALL THE PARAGRAPHING AND STUFF REMAINED INTACT. o.o Took a minute for that to sink in...

Sorry. Just felt the need to bring that up. Because wow. Guild improvements actually happening!

But um, yeah, back on topic:

I'm no Holmes but I do at least have some experience with art, and from what you've said in your post... yeah, an art class probably just sounds like the best thing for you to do. I mean, really I can only think of two ways in which a person can really improve with art: and that's from being taught (either in a class like you mentioned or just casually like learning from a friend or, hell, even internet tutorials or w/e), and practice. That's... really all I can recommend.

Also, if you do take an art class, I highly doubt you'll be a "laughing stock" unless you wind up taking a class with some reeeaaaally snooty people. Is this art class 100% hypothetical or did you actually have some serious plans to potentially take one? If so, what sort of class is it? Because I really can't imagine anyone really discouraging you like that. O_o I mean... everyone's there to learn, after all.

Oh my days. Holmes has literally been drawing for years and years on end as both a hobby and a passion. Put that level of work in and of course you'll be awesome. I highly doubt you've even been alive long enough to have put that many hours into this hobby. So here's the common sense answer that not-even-very-deep-down you know already: put in the elbow grease and you'll learn. It takes time and practice, and comparing yourself to someone who professionally draws for a living and has done so for years is ridiculous.

One of the most important aspects in the creation of visual art is... visual experience. Find a few tutorials (plently of 'em) on the most basic drawing techniques, so that you won't feel completely lost, and then just go on drawing anything you can see. Objects with a simple geometric form, such as jars, boxes, soccer balls and ect. are the best to start with, since they are easy to apply to more complex structures later on, for the sake of fully inderstanding their form.

Just keep drawing at a steady pace, and you'll soon come to understand in which direction to go. Oh, and before i forget: studying the works of experienced artists is a great way to learn as well.

P.S. - i, too, dream of making a comic of my own. Ur not elone.

It's pretty much been said -- first you put in the effort, then you make the progress. Get some anatomy books. Study life. Learn color theory. Educate yourself.

Drawing isn't some mystical talent that only a few are blessed with. I don't know a single successful artist who hasn't put in hours upon hours of work to hone their craft. We all pretty much start at the beginning skills-wise, but it's those who are willing to go the extra mile that actually wind up doing anything worthy of notice.

Anyone can draw. (With enough time and effort on their part.)

For instance, this was my daily schedule until I sold my home last year. (Things have been to hectic to stick to truly stick to it anymore, but I do plan on getting back into it. This schedule is borrowed from another artist who was using it to improve his own skills.)



And you know what? My skills did improve during that time. Doing the exercises made a huge difference. That all said, I'd still only consider myself an intermediate level artist. (Compared to the skills I want to develop, I'm realistically only about halfway there.) There's a TON of room for improvement and more hard work on my own end before I'd even be happy at my own skill level.

Even if you only have the time to put in an hour a day -- it's still something. Put down the video game controller. Tell your friend you can't come over. Turn off the TV. There's always some way to squeeze in practice time, if you really want to. And you have to really want to do better to succeed.

Make studying/practicing art a priority in your life -- that's the only secret the greats throughout history have.

Or you can steal other people's work and pretend that you did them.

Much more efficient