I started learning drawing in July 2023. Here's my progress so far. - eviltoast
Jesse Kaukonen - Art portfolio
art.plantmonster.net

I marked this as NSFW as I draw nude models.

I started essentially from zero. I tried DrawABox last year, but I gave up in lesson 2 as I couldn’t quite understand what I was supposed to do with the texturing and it was difficult to get help in the Discord community.

Now I just got myself a private teacher and found working with pencil much easier than working with ink. I started doing 1 hour per day, but eventually ramped it up to 2-3 hours per day once I found a nice podcast to listen while practising.

  • Xanthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Nice! For graphite, split a soft pencil, take a strip of lead and spread it around so there’s no white showing. It helps with blending and it’ll force you to use more contrast.

    • Gekkonen@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      That does sound easier than trying to sharpen the pencil and using the side to draw. I sort of prefer charcoal as it makes it easier to get more contrast and automagically creates texture.