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@izel-scribbles

lee or izel - any pronouns - minor art blog - free palestine 🇵🇸 dollins enthusiast
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I simply adore your art style and wanted to ask if you have any pointers for developing my own style and/or advice to improve in general. (already doing 1 min figure drawing as routinely as I can)

Also Happy New Year 🎊

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Happy new year!!

thank you so much!! heres my advice for you <3

i would say find something to get like INSANELY obsessed with. For me it was malevolent. From april to august i improved a crazy amount just from that. Also, use references!!!! References are your best friend!!!! once you get confident enough, you can start combining references or just skipping them altogeher, but using references helped me a LOT when i was learning how to draw realistic anatomy, hair, faces, clothes, etc. Also find an artist whose style you like and do some studies of their art! I really love early-to-mid 20th century art. J. C. Leyendecker was a massive inspiration to me, especially with color work and rendering. Heres some of his art:

(Yes theres two cowboy ones dont ask)

I love the way he renders skin and fabric particularly, making them look so vibrant and alive, so I studied a bunch of his pieces (did it with my fav characters to make it more fun) and figured out how to achieve his style with my own art supplies. Even though his work is mainly gouache and oil paints and I use alcohol markers, there were some characteristics i could apply. if you want to do studies quickly and easily, trace over photos and isolate shapes- this helped me figure out which aspects to keep the same and which ones to stylize or exaggerate.

!!! ALSO !!! DO NOT FORCE YOURSELF TO DRAW. THIS IS HOW YOU GET FRUSTRATED WITH YOUR WORK + MAKE SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE FUN DRAINING. if you want to draw something but you cant pin down the idea, go read a book or go outside or do another hobby for a little bit! this always helps me because my thoughts flow a lot more freely when im not pressuring myself to come up with something.

I know a lot of artists learn from video tutorials and the such, but i personally never watch those so i dont have any to recommend. Ive also never really taken any art classes other than school required ones.

hopefully this helps! Lmk if you have any more questions :)

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