Fuck man you have no idea how bad I needed to hear this, and I had no idea either. I'm picking up music at 19/20 and felt demotivated at first because I could've done it a long time ago. This warms my heart, thank you for sharing this
This is also true about writing, but in my personal experience and opinion, the fundamentals of learning art at an introductory level are a lot more standardized than in writing. You won't find anything quite like Shape -> Perspective -> Shading -> Color in writing.
As someone who didn't start drawing until a couple years ago in my 30's - FUCK YEAH!
JUST DO IT!
It's a bit painful at first having to learn from scratch, but it's hella fun to see stuff that previously was just in your imagination and nowhere else take form!
I made a PDF guide with my favourite books, info on buying art books in general, drawing fundamentals, & a few YT channels to check out. It's messy & incomplete, & I'm certainly no expert or teacher myself, but if this helps some people I'll be pleased ❤️ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TOYka_NGX87UppK_tivzBO33-aj3OteE/view
I stopped my new years' resolution one month back because I couldn't be bothered, but this post might be enough to help me pick it back up. I drew this last month and now I think I did pretty good. I don't know why I'm so hard on myself.
I started drawing earlier this year at age 40 (mid February, actually); I hadn't drawn anything since I was in grade school. It's been a blast, and I've advanced quite a bit in the past several months.
Proko is a great youtube channel with lots of info. Marc Brunet is also good, though his intros are silly and he tends to repeat his videos in cycles - just check the playlist tabs for both of them. Aaron Blaise is an ex Disney artist/animator with lots of good stuff too. Let me think of some books
Figure Drawing: Design and Invention is one of the most useful books I've got. Those recent Furry Manga books aren't actually too bad but they definitely teach a very narrow style. The publishing company 3Dtotal puts out lots of really good books on various styles plus using different software
The Morpho series of books covers a bunch of different topics. They're compact and useful. For so many art books you can look up the title on youtube and find videos of people flipping through all the pages so you can decide if you want to buy them.
Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll check them out. :)
I will say that (for better or worse) 3D work has always come a lot more naturally to me, and while it's targeted at that audience, I'll offer this "quid pro quo" as it likely applies somewhat to 2D as well:
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Someone tried to do that to me once. I just found it baffling.
This makes me better doodling the dumb shit I've been doing lately
It sucks, but I drew it myself, and no AI bro can say that.
Structure -> Pattern -> Flow -> Flair
JUST DO IT!
It's a bit painful at first having to learn from scratch, but it's hella fun to see stuff that previously was just in your imagination and nowhere else take form!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TOYka_NGX87UppK_tivzBO33-aj3OteE/view
Do you have any suggestions on particular books/videos that are useful? I've found a few and they're "alright" but really obtuse.
I will say that (for better or worse) 3D work has always come a lot more naturally to me, and while it's targeted at that audience, I'll offer this "quid pro quo" as it likely applies somewhat to 2D as well:
https://anatomy4sculptors.com/