Animals were my white whale for the longest time. I could draw a person okay, but the second I tried to draw a dog it came out looking like a sad balloon with legs. If that’s you right now, please know there is hope, because animals are way more learnable than they look. The trick…
Designing your own original character is one of those things that sounds way more intimidating than it actually is. For years I only ever drew other people’s characters, fan art of my favorite shows, because the idea of inventing someone from scratch felt like a job for “real” artists. Then I finally tried it, fumbled…
I avoided drawing faces for an embarrassingly long time. Like years. I’d draw bodies with the head turned away, or hair covering everything, or a little blank circle where a face should go, all because I was convinced faces were some impossible secret skill I just didn’t have. Spoiler: they’re not. Faces are just shapes…
You know that very specific kind of bored where you’re scrolling your phone for the hundredth time, you’re not even enjoying it, and somewhere in the back of your head a little voice goes “you could be drawing right now”? That voice is right, by the way. But the second you decide to draw, your…
Art block is the worst, and anyone who says they’ve never had it is either lying or has never actually tried to make art consistently. I’ve had art block last a single afternoon, and I’ve had it last actual months where I didn’t touch a pencil and felt guilty about it the entire time. So…
Okay, real talk: how many times have you opened your sketchbook, stared at the blank page for a solid ten minutes, and then closed it again because you had absolutely no idea what to draw? Yeah. Me too. More times than I’d like to admit. For the longest time I thought the problem was that…