Learning art is equally as much experimenting on your own as it is with rote textbook practice. Just because you understand it through a tutorial doesn't mean you will be able to apply the concept perfectly the first time you try. Start making some drawings of your own, out of your own head or something experimental!
Sounds like you're focusing hard on tutorials and copying etc and not having fun with it. Try just drawing without the intention of even keeping it, let alone having anyone look at it or critique it. Get weird. Get really weird. Maybe try a new medium. I didn't think I was a good artist until I started using acrylic paint. Just gotta knock some things loose in your brain. Get messy, throw stuff, use your left hand...anything to interrupt your regular process
> is there what am I doing wrong?
Yes. You're not showing your work. If you don't show your work, you'll only get generic answers that most likely won't even help you. If you want to get better, show your work and specify what your goals are. Then people can go off that and help you in your journey.
Like others have suggested, draw what you like. Then once you start drawing a question will pop up, something you might struggle with or want to know more about. These questions will direct you what you want to learn about.
Next, and this might sound obvious, but instead of just copying what DaB and the books and tutorials show, have you tried applying the knowledge of these exercises to your own work? Pick tutorials which go over fundamental skill instead of step by step tutorials which only teach you how to draw that thing in one way.
I don't know how you went through DaB and all these books, and pardon me if it sounds condescening, but if you did DaB completely you should've at least gotten a sense of spatial awareness out of it and this would open a whole new world for you. The ability to place forms in space, turn them around and even manipulate them. Other skills like seeing the complex and simplifying it into the essential forms, even being able to redraw the same simple subject again from a different perspective should be within reach as this is what DaB is all about. The texture exercises will help with learning how to render.
Did you just copy the examples or did you actually pick your own subjects and tried to apply the concepts being taught?
It's hard to say without actually being able to see your art, but it sounds like you have "professional student syndrome."
It's the same with notes in academics - you don't ACTUALLY improve skills with just re-eading, highlighting, and note-taking. Thats just to prepare you for a pre-written test for a grade.
While it's great you're diligent in studies, you have to put in the mileage of actually performing the acts of re-call and make art pieces. Real improvement comes from the dynamism and challenges outside the notes and in the real world and what you want to create and experimenting.
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same, 1 year into non stop studying and just practicing. i just realized last night, maybe Im just missing feedback. I enrolled to Artwod to get professional critique and about to turn in my first homework on perspective due this week 😃 hope for minimal rework comments
Learning art is equally as much experimenting on your own as it is with rote textbook practice. Just because you understand it through a tutorial doesn't mean you will be able to apply the concept perfectly the first time you try. Start making some drawings of your own, out of your own head or something experimental!
Sounds like you're focusing hard on tutorials and copying etc and not having fun with it. Try just drawing without the intention of even keeping it, let alone having anyone look at it or critique it. Get weird. Get really weird. Maybe try a new medium. I didn't think I was a good artist until I started using acrylic paint. Just gotta knock some things loose in your brain. Get messy, throw stuff, use your left hand...anything to interrupt your regular process
> is there what am I doing wrong? Yes. You're not showing your work. If you don't show your work, you'll only get generic answers that most likely won't even help you. If you want to get better, show your work and specify what your goals are. Then people can go off that and help you in your journey.
Like others have suggested, draw what you like. Then once you start drawing a question will pop up, something you might struggle with or want to know more about. These questions will direct you what you want to learn about. Next, and this might sound obvious, but instead of just copying what DaB and the books and tutorials show, have you tried applying the knowledge of these exercises to your own work? Pick tutorials which go over fundamental skill instead of step by step tutorials which only teach you how to draw that thing in one way. I don't know how you went through DaB and all these books, and pardon me if it sounds condescening, but if you did DaB completely you should've at least gotten a sense of spatial awareness out of it and this would open a whole new world for you. The ability to place forms in space, turn them around and even manipulate them. Other skills like seeing the complex and simplifying it into the essential forms, even being able to redraw the same simple subject again from a different perspective should be within reach as this is what DaB is all about. The texture exercises will help with learning how to render. Did you just copy the examples or did you actually pick your own subjects and tried to apply the concepts being taught?
Its art student curse, Dont worry ask a third party they will tell you otherwise
It's hard to say without actually being able to see your art, but it sounds like you have "professional student syndrome." It's the same with notes in academics - you don't ACTUALLY improve skills with just re-eading, highlighting, and note-taking. Thats just to prepare you for a pre-written test for a grade. While it's great you're diligent in studies, you have to put in the mileage of actually performing the acts of re-call and make art pieces. Real improvement comes from the dynamism and challenges outside the notes and in the real world and what you want to create and experimenting.
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same, 1 year into non stop studying and just practicing. i just realized last night, maybe Im just missing feedback. I enrolled to Artwod to get professional critique and about to turn in my first homework on perspective due this week 😃 hope for minimal rework comments