Making progress?

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APPETIZERS
I'm helping out :iconartofrivana: with a contest she is holding by providing a commission from me as a prize. If you're looking for good reference photos and a chance to improve your people-drawing skills, head over to her page and check out her contest!


THE MAIN DISH

I like browsing DA for things that help to develop my drawing style. I'm at a stage myself where I'm trying to push my style in a direction it has never gone before, and feel that I need to get all the help I can. That's why articles like this one are an absolute gold mine; while they don't really tell me anything I didn't already know, they still keep hammering the point home into my thick skull.

Draw from life! Practice! Try to see things in 3D! Teach your eyes to measure! We've all heard most (or all) of these things before, but at least I have a tendency to procrastinate with actually doing them.

Back when I started out, I stuck to drawing what was in my head because it required less effort and I felt that I was actually good at it. But later on, learning to learn again has been a huge struggle after I spent so many years disregarding good advice. I did pick up one or two things along the way, but now I see I could have gotten so much better faster if I'd bothered to open my eyes and challenge myself.

That's why, for the past year or so, my style has been changing heavily. I'm testing out my boundaries, doing things I haven't done before, striving to get better at something I only dreamt about before. Yes, I still occasionally draw in my old style (especially in my manga-style; that will always have a special place in my heart as the style that got me into drawing people). However, most of my finished works will be something entirely different. :)


DESSERT

I will be opening up proper commissions sometime after Christmas. Realized that I have waaaaay too much to draw before then (including current commissions and art-trades). :)

Hm.... not a very sweet dessert... well, here's a random awesome deviation to sweeten it up!
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I wanted to express how much I appreciate you helping out with the Workshop :hug:

And I can absolutely relate with you on the learning part. I drew a lot as a kid..well not a lot but I doodled and stuff. I never bothered learning techniques but mostly because of the lack of resources at the time and had no idea nor motivation to figure out where to start. (No internet and all I had was inspiration from my favorite cartoon/video game/comicbook characters). Never looked at art as a career either so it's something that I just did and winged it. Well getting a pen tablet this year changed all of that :D Still not looking at it as a means to get money though (that would be awesome if it does happen) but I gain enough self satisfaction being able to draw things from my imagination :)