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swissyarts · 5 years

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Your art is so soft and pretty! I’m a newb at digital art, do you have any advice on how to get better?

hey thanks so much! i’m gonna put this under a read more bc i feel like its gonna get long lmao

first off, i dont have a lot of advice pertaining to only digital art so i’ll add in some stuff thats applicable to art in general

i would say the first thing that’s important is to get used to your tablet and digital drawing program! i would take the time to just draw out some doodles and explore the brushes that your program offers while getting used to the gap in hand-eye coordination. from there you can explore layer functions and everything else that ur program has!!

imo, when you’re first starting out on digital art is one of the most prime opportunities for improvement!!! At this point, you’re probably more open to experimenting than someone who’s caught up finding their style. i remember in my first year i improved so much and it was because with almost every piece i would try something new. if you’re not sure you like lineart, try painting!! shading with black? add in some funky colors!!! i definitely think digital mediums are way more conducive to experimenting and trying new things cause there’s an undo button in cause you dont like it and you dont want to ruin what you have already! tbh i wish i did this more and i probably should since i’ve been feeling a plateau for about a year now

dont avoid things you dont like drawing!! when i was younger, i never drew hands by only drawing that classic hands behind the back pose and guess what? i never got better at them!!! i had to pay for that later by doing loads of hand studies and making sure all my pieces had visible hands, which was really frustrating and could have been avoided altogether if i had just drawn hands from the beginning. currently i’m still feeling this but with backgrounds since i never did them when i started digital art so now they’re a struggle and they arent coming naturally quite yet :^) but im working on fixing that now. if you notice that somethings are giving you trouble, dont ignore them! practice them by using references so you make sure you can draw them correctly

find artists online that you like and figure out why you like them! is it their coloring? their anatomy? their details? study what you like and try to recreate it in your own work!! of course, dont just flat out copy other artists, but use their art as references to improve your own!! your style should be your own, but that doesnt mean it has to be completely void of outside influence!!

that’s all i got!! these were the things that i tended to due when i first started digital art, and my improvement then is definitely way faster than it is now so maybe i should follow my own advice,,, lmao,,,, but i hope this helped!!

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