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Kafke  ·  3162 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dear Hubski, what do you want to learn?

    but I have no artistic ability whatsoever.

Nope. That's demonstrably not true. You have no patience to create art whatsoever. Huge difference. Most people who 'cant art' usually fall into one of two camps (or both!): those who simply aren't patient, draw something real quick, and it ends up sucking. Or those who simply don't know the techniques, but spend a lot of time making simple mistakes simply because they aren't aware. The 'worst' people at art tend to do both. That was me :P.

I found the two 3DS titles: Art Academy and Pokemon Art Academy really fixed that for me. Taught some techniques, and taught me to slow the fuck down and take time. My art went from this:

to this:

Granted, the 'after' images are from the walkthroughs/tutorials, but are 100% drawn by me (except the charizard background :P)

But yea. It's just taking the time and putting in the work, along with knowing some techniques used to make certain things.