I am looking for suggestions where you learning to paint/draw? I would love to take online free class for me and my kido too. Where to start?

  • whyderrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    I used to teach this shit. And my opinion is that people make this more complicated than it is.

    Want to learn? Awesome!

    So… uh real shit, try to do quick drawings / paintings (using a timer) with a model (can be living or not). Think 1 minute, 30 seconds, 10 seconds. Doing this consistently (like drawing people in the public transport, which is time limited by default) will make you better at observing and putting those observations to paper.

    The other key is to TRY to draw the model and not your IDEA of the model. This often implies painting/ drawing a bunch of amorphous blotches as opposed to straight clearly demarcated physiological features.

    Happy arting!

      • whyderrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        3 days ago

        Example: notice how we clearly see David, and David’s eyes, nose, cheeks, mouth, hair. However, notice how this isn’t really the case, we see a bunch of shades of gray.

        If you wanted to paint using this model you would try to first observe, REALLY LOOK at his face and try to notice what stands out. What characterizes him to you? What would you ABSOLUTELY need in making him look like him (since you have limited time, as you’re in the transport).

        After that you would attempt to add lines or strokes to your page while observing your model, looking at the page only to calibrate and execute strokes.

        The process is intuitive, takes time to develop, but IF you can laugh at yourself, it’s pretty fun throughout, ELSE it will be painful at the beggining, cause (at least for me) my first tries looked terrible, but with time, they looked less terrible and so on.

      • whyderrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        4 days ago

        One thing I didn’t say in my other comment.

        Drawing like a child is a compliment. Children are yet free and mostly unburdened by the aesthetic demands of adulthood.

      • Saiwal@utsukta.org
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        6 days ago

        it is ! but thats why i like it, there are many tutorials on youtube about sketching but these show you the principles. i’ve been very interested in figure drawing and there are very few good teachers who have a deep understanding of it. This channel is one of them. Give it a try, i’m sure it will be useful at any stage of learning.

  • Melobol@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    Drawing can be really easy and really hard. You can just stick to stick figures - but if you really want to learn you have to start with the basics: Shapes, forms and shading - these parts are the boring parts usually in school they make you draw cubes, spheres and later drapes for months.

    A quick search came up with this video, and just skipping through it seems like a good basic lesson that shows the first professional learning steps