/draw/ - Original Art

Hey anon I just started learning to draw in my early 30s, so you can't be worse off than me.

I suggest going over to 4chan ic and download their torrent - you really just want the Glenn Vilppu lectures - and then never go back that place its a shithole, but the torrent is legit. Then buy the picrel book, a used artists anatomy book (Rubens, Richer or Goldfinger) and Bridgman. Start Vilppu's drawing manual which should get you comfortable enough to do the master studies in the Hale book. After getting more comfortable with anatomy draw Bridgman twice:

https://davidfinchart.com/where-to-start-and-where-to-go-from-there-a-roadmap-to-professional-quality-art/

>>2914
I'm an /ic/ user and still getting adjusted to this board…
4chan is down at the moment, but…
Wait a minute, this was posted last October? This board is slower than 4chan's /i/.
Anyway, if you or someone else is still looking for resources that would normally be found on /ic/, you can just check out warosu.org instead.
Well, anyway.
>Is it even worth it considering I'm in my very early 20s?
Yes, this isn't some professional sport; you can start drawing at any time.
There are multiple ways to succeed when it comes to art, whether that's just personal fulfilment or different avenues of business, not all of which rely on peak rendered art (see ONE who made One Punch Man and Mob Psycho 100 with good composition and storytelling rather than polished art). You'll just need to find your strengths and where you want to take things; comedy comics or indie animations will require different strengths than becoming a professional concept artist or book illustrator, although there are similarities ofc.
>But where do I even start?
>I wanna learn how to draw.
That's exactly where you start. Where there's a will, there's a way. If you're just starting out, it's probably better to just draw what you like and try out different things, get a feel of what you like and what you have fun with.
It might be better to not to start by copying bridgman twice (https://warosu.org/ic/thread/7544131#p7544848) but that still better than not drawing; better a suboptimal start than no start.

>What's my study plan?
/ic/ has made multiple guides, especially for /beg/inners and maybe some /int/ermediate artists with lacking fundamentals.
Source: https://warosu.org/ic/thread/7548970
>STICKY:
Completed: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vm4IJpq0Mbvb-Krl5_mJ_m6TsC_qjsaN/view
New collaborative: https://hackmd.io/UMnZVhNITW-T2wZpHw6d0Q
w/ic/i: https://sites.google.com/site/ourwici/
Hardcore: https://hackmd.io/7k0XRnIQR6SValR77TDfZw?view

>WHERE to get study materials
>>>/ic/artbook
https://warosu.org/ic/thread/7360873
https://annas-archive.org/
https://e-hentai.org/?f_cats=766&f_search=other%3A%22how+to%24%22+language%3Aenglish%24&advsearch=1

>>>/ic/video
https://warosu.org/ic/thread/7548701
https://online-courses.club/

/ic/ is full of /beg/s giving advice to other /beg/s (I'm one myself, full disclaimer), so you'll have to figure out yourself whether recommendations make sense to you, don't believe everything you read (Gladwell's 10,000 hour practise rule is debunked) and be mindful that not every kind of advice will apply to your situation.
Not all /beg/traps are the same or ill-intentioned: https://warosu.org/ic/thread/6669785 but they can still do some damage, depending on whether you overcommitted. Rule of thumb: If you suddenly come to think that art is suffering and has no place for joy, something went really wrong…

My last post on 4chan was also on learning how to draw tbh lol:
https://warosu.org/ic/thread/7549883#p7549909
Someone recommended a youtube channel in the comments there. I'm not on youtube much but they probably also have a lot of great tutorials that probably easily rival some paid master courses.
Different anons have recommended some, but idk how good they are:
https://warosu.org/ic/thread/6960596
https://warosu.org/ic/thread/6570955#p6571793
Always take people's opinions with a grain of salt and look for yourself ig…
I thought this was pretty interesting https://www.youtube.com/embed/pMC0Cx3Uk84 but idk if any of this advice applies to me when I mostly draw digitally. Can't hurt to try out new things though. …I'm not sure if anyone will reply to this. Oh well…



If you want to see more stuff from warosu, you can click the advanced search and use the "subject" field to look for general threads.

Reocurring /ic/ threads are stuff like this:

>/beg/ & /int/ - Beginners and Intermediates general or /draw/ - Draw Thread
- Has the same advice I posted tbh
>/mmg/ - Manga Making General
- Links to resources for comic artists, such as https://e-hentai.org/g/2042453/83e7da6ed0/
>/PAG/ - Pixel Art General
- Has resources like https://pastebin.com/BK9s37m7
>/artbook/ - Artbook Thread
- Has mega-downloads that are encrypted in base 64
>Video Course General
- Quite big files, I'd still recommend just using https://online-courses.club/
>/dtg/ - Drawing Tablet General
- Recommends tablets. Rn,they are:
Screenless - Used wacom intuos (draw, pro, one, whichever)
Display tablets - Small (10-11"): Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite; Medium (12-16"): Samsung Galaxy Tab S8/S9 Ultra, used iPad Pro 12.9" Gen 1-5; Large (22"+): Cintiq 22, Cintiq Pro 27
>Animation General Thread
- Links animation resources like https://bitey.com/pages/fx
>/dpg/ - Drawing Program General
- Discussions and recs of programs: Krita (free and nice), Clip Studio Paint (CSP) (great assets), Procreate (for apples)
>/dbag/ - Digital Brushes and Assets General
- Links (mostly CSP) assets&brushes: https://rentry.org/CSP_materials
>/asg/ - Anime Study General
- They recommend youtube channels like Naoki Saito and more at https://pastebin.com/Yz2scAEc
/fag/ - Furry Art General
- guides like https://lackadaisy.com/ishkabibble.php and a fun tool: https://x6ud.github.io/

There's more ofc:

/fig/ - Figure Illustration General
/TRAD/- Traditional Art General
/NATURE/ general
/life/ general (drawing from life)
/mg/ - Mechanization General
/wmg/ Webcomic or Webtoon Making General
/sex/ - Sexual art stylization or /SALT/ - Sexual Alternative Art / Stylization Thread
REF-THREAD or Pose reference thread
/ALT/ - Alternative Art/Stylization General
/cgsg/ - cute guy study general
/cfsg/ - cute female study general
/lsg/ - LoliShota General
/Studies/ General
/dsg/ dynamic sketching general

And also more pacitipatory, less resource-y threads:
/DAD/ - Do Art Daily
The OC Redraw Thread
Drawpile Thread (I prefer https://draw.kuku.lu/ tbh)
Inktober
ART SUPPLY GENERAL
Self Promo Thread
/plg/ - Power Level General
Towergirls Drawthread
Redline Thread
/proj/ - Projects General
/icic/ — /ic/ Illustration Contest (I think this one got started very recently)
/wct/ - Water Cooler Talk

There are also guides among the popular images: https://warosu.org/ic/reports/image-reposts

…You'll find more, but I wouldn't even recommend all of these (lsg?). Proceed at own risk, honestly.




More Information:

On Warosu, you can use some google search operators such as * (placeholder), - (exclude) and | (OR), similar to google https://ultahost.com/knowledge-base/google-search-operators-cheatsheet/
On hentai-org, you can also use search operators; they have their own list: https://ehwiki.org/wiki/Gallery_Searching

If you want to download resources from /ic/, note that some of the links are encrypted in base 64. If you find something like this: aHR0cDovL3d3dy5tZWRpYWZpcmUuY29tL2ZvbGRlci8xN2F4cGY0ZDdrMDV1L2FydGJvb2tzI215ZmlsZXM=
…you can just put it in a decoder like https://www.base64decode.org/ and click on "decode" to get the actual link; some links are encoded more than once so you might have to do that multiple times. (Take it easy with downloads though, hoarding files won't improve your art…)

If someone posts a twitter/x link and you want to browse but can't access it without an account, just add "cancel" to the url after the x, like so:
https://x.com/animesijyuku/status/1717415459778347358
->
https://xcancel.com/animesijyuku/status/1717415459778347358

If any site isn't working, you can always check it with the waybackmachine: https://web.archive.org/

…Is there no character limit on this site? I can post multiple images in one post? Wow…

>>5135
not OP but thanks

>>5136
No problem, it was my pleasure really.