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You gotta put the effort in.

Mon Jul 9, 2007, 12:30 AM
I’ve been asked a number of times of late for tips on how to draw. As my answer is always the same; I thought it a good idea to post it here.

Practice.

You can look over as many tutorials as you like and read as many ‘How to draw….’ books as you can buy, but if you don’t put pencil to paper non-stop, you’re never gonna improve.
If you want to better your skills, get yourself a block of paper and just DRAW. It doesn’t matter if what you sketch out is crap (and it will be for a long time), you don’t have to show it to anyone. The whole point is that, with each stroke of the pen you get a little bit better, you become a touch more proficient and your personal style develops.
This is something I’m still doing. There are loads of artist out there whose work I think is FAR superior to mine (quite a few are listed in my DA Favourites) and I know perfectly well that if I want to become half as good as them I’ve got to knuckle down and put the effort in.
Practice practice practice.
THAT’s how you become a good artist.
Get too it, Ladies and Gents.

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Couldnt've said it better, i too am asked a lot how to draw this or that, and its true, the most common answer is: practice and exprerience.
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Do it instead of saying you're gonna do it right?

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A man u took the words right out of my freind!! nothing like practice to make u better!
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Damn straight!

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you become poker champion the same way o.o

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