>>70536>you aren't gonna get better if you just randomly doodle either.Yes you will. You can get even better by not having those doodles be random. By imaging a drawing you'd like to see and then just having at it, comparing what you've drawn to how it holds up to what you envisioned, and then working out what you need to change in order for it to look more so like what you had imagined… That is the best way to become a better artist.
>some people need more direction than "just draw".If a man already in to his adult years hasn't yet developed a desire to create a specific type of artwork so much so that he picks up the $0.31 worth of stationary on his desk and just begins doodling, then he's not cut out to create art. To be someone who creates requires being of a creative personality and belonging to a culture. This creativity must feed that culture and vice-versa.
Imagine a young man in his teens who really likes middle school anime succubi. He likes them, and so he likes to view art of them all day. He associates with the subculture renowned for idoling these 2D and he appreciates the feelings, opinions, and companionship of other men belonging to this subculture. The value he places on his fellows' approval and feelings gives him a desire to contribute to the pool of things he and his fellows enjoy: middle school anime succubi pics. He has an idea of the kind of art he'd like to see of them. He understands what they look like. He knows the standards of quality for 2D art and he's developed his owns particular taste over the years. He has:
- Himself to please with art he enjoys
- The motivation to please others he considers to be the same as him
- An established sense for what makes a good drawing
- A clear goal to shoot for
- And as a bonus, his subculture provides him with positive and constructive feedback
So he has the culture, the motivation, and the goal. As for the resources? $0.31 worth of paper and pencils. He combines what he's learned from appreciating this art and combines it with how he knows that a pencil makes lines on a paper, and he just starts trying to create middle school anime succubi art. Is it crap at first? Of course. Does he know what non-crap 2d succubi art looks like? Yeah. He has a lot of fun doing it all, but not without the odd frustration or loss of mitivation. He draws more but tries to do things a bit differently and now his art more closely resembles what he envisioned to be a good drawing. He shares his art with his fellows and they show appreciation and offer their own ideas for what our hero can try differently to make it closer to the 2D art they all so revere. This continues as a loop and eventually the art is good and our hero has done his part to further his subcultures existence. He dies a happy virgin surrounded by drawings of his waifu. He has over 200 (two hundred) followers on DeviantArt.
Now imagine a young man who is bored. He has no hobby and he is looking to kill time. He may even be chronically apathetic and consider himself to be depressed based on someone online telling him that he is. He doesn't belong to a subculture and so he has no history of staring attentively at any particular types of art. He hasn't developed a sense of what makes a good art piece look good in his eyes. He has no history of art, no subculture to contribute to, no goal to shoot for, and no positive feedback to receive from people who he identifies with. For him to pick up drawing will not materialize in to anything. To ask "is this book good to learn drawing from" exposes someone as one of these types of guys. It is easier for him to begin drawing that it is for him to type that question and post it, yet he's so on the fence about drawing even being worth learning that he'd rather ask questions then try for himself. The only fun he can have with a pencil is shoving it up his urethra because even if he starts to draw, what does he gain? What does he even draw? Does he draw what the book tells him to draw and then he imagines an XP counter going up above his head? What about when he's completed all the challenges in the book, or even when he's mastered the art form on a technical level? What then will he draw? Nothing, if he's not a creative person who invents his own way to appeal to a culture which he belongs.
>>70534Don't ask. just draw. Show one of your drawings. Is it crap? Who cares? What kind of art do you want to draw and why would you consider that book to be the first step towards making that art? Will you die a happy virgin or will you merely die?