Will's channel is another one that I stumbled on years ago, subscribed, and then promptly forgot about while I focused on school and starting my family. His humble approach to drawing and loose sketch work is what caught my attention back then. It's still a great thing now that I've been drowning myself in the epic works of artists who have been at it longer than I've been alive.
For starters I checked out his video on how to get out of a drawing funk. Mainly because I am in kind of a funk of my own right now. Learning Manga Studio was a convenient reason to put down the pencil and get a breather, but I've still got that worry in the back of my mind. Am I going to get better? How much time is that going to take? Everyone says it takes years or even decades, but how much of that is spent in the "No one can ever know I drew this," phase?
Taking a day to fill up a whole sketch book seems insane to me. In a good day I can fill up two or three pages. Maybe. I've still got a lot of work to get comfortable with the idea that a practice drawing can be bad and that's ok.
Will's video on 5 tips for better drawings has some more practical advice, like drawing lightly during the sketching phase, turning the paper to see your mistakes better, and practicing to get confident smooth lines.
That part kills me. I did those choppy awful lines for probably the first ten or so years that I was drawing. If Youtube and the internet in general had been a bigger thing back in the 80's I could have found someone to tell me not to do that. Live and learn, right?
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