Do You Ever Plan On Making Any Tutorials For Beginners? Any Tips?

do you ever plan on making any tutorials for beginners? any tips?

I’m extremely late to reply to this, noooo

I don’t have any current plans on making tutorials, especially since my process is kinda...inconsistent?

I don’t follow my own guidelines properly, so it’s a toss-up how things turn out in the earlier parts of any drawing, so I don’t think I’d be able to put together a coherent tutorial anytime soon LOL

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That said, for tips for beginners, I’ll try to share things that I find are helpful that I feel aren’t talked about as often. They aren’t about technical skill, but rather, about motivation and such:

1) For beginner-beginners, draw what you like. Cultivate that interest in drawing first.

Don’t get caught up in trying to build your technical skill yet. Your interest in making art of what you like will be what helps carry you through the journey of learning. You’ll get more mileage out of that than starting off with dry, dry fundamentals that can cause that interest to fizzle out.

Studying the skills is difficult, and it can often be discouraging since it’s an uphill climb. Of course, don’t be afraid to challenge yourself if you feel up to tackling something you have trouble with, but be mindful that this can impede your motivation and momentum.

2) Draw often, make it a habit. Also, try setting a minimum length of time per drawing session (ex. 30 - 60 minutes).

From what I’ve heard and experienced, momentum with making art is very important, and this goes for pretty much anybody it seems. For beginners in particular, this can really be an issue: it’s not already part of their schedule or routine. Like any new activity, you have to cut out time from existing activities for drawing. It’s easy to put that off day after day, until you suddenly realize that it’s been weeks since you last drew something.

To address this, make time in advance to draw, or know when you will have time to draw. To do that, it’s good to have some idea of how much time you need to set aside.

Personally, I’ve found that setting a minimum time for a drawing session to be helpful for keeping momentum. There are those moments, 5-10 minutes into a drawing session, where you get bored, or feel like you kiiiinda want to do something else. Drawing is a slow activity, and it needs time to get interesting, so give it that time!

3) Don’t overdo your consumption of intensely impressive art. If you can, find peers at a more similar skill level to you to learn with.

This tip is probably a personality-based one, and might not apply to everybody? But nonetheless, this one got me real bad when I was younger, and that was before I was really using social media LOL.

Seeing beautiful work can be inspiring, but when I was a beginner, seeing too much incredible art at once could often become distracting or discouraging. I didn’t yet have a way to see how their skills could fit into my skill set. It felt...unachievable? Incomprehensible? Either way, it made it hard to want to draw.

Of course, that's not to say you shouldn't still look at good art that you like. That helps give you new ideas, and expands your visual library. However, scrolling indefinitely through gorgeous artwork on social media can cross over from inspiring to making drawing feel like “that’s something they can do, but I could never get there" . This is why I feel it’s helpful to meter your art intake in early stages of drawing, so you don’t overwhelm yourself.

On a related note, drawing is, honestly, a lonely journey a lot of the time. Try to find people to learn alongside, especially people who are working at a similar level to yourself. It’ll help you all keep each other at pace if someone loses momentum, and there’s a particular sort of emotional support that peers provide that’s different from what a master provides when giving a tutorial, lesson, or even a critique of your work.

I think that’s enough to start with for now, and I hope you (and anybody really?) find this helpful~!

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