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by IMAYousaf 8y ago
Hello. Thank you for your optimism and encouragement! Do you have some suggestions about good technical exercises? I have a good understanding, I think, of the different aspects of a drawing, like shading and coloring etc. But I was wonderi
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by IMAYousaf 8y ago
Hello. Thank you for those suggestions. I think that I've always really struggled to understand color and shading techniques. I'll check that book out.
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Hello. Thank you for your thoughtful response. What is the name of that Facebook group, and similar groups that you think might be helpful? I think that finding communities like that online could really help me. I'll make sure to check
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Hello. That's what I'm really trying to find out as well. With things other than creativity, it's easy to benchmark progress. I'm not versed enough technically with art to know what those benchmark points are to assess m
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by IMAYousaf 8y ago
Hello. I think that it's interesting that a lot of people talk about clay specifically. I like to think that I was actually quite good at pottery, after my half-year long art credit in high school which was spent in a pottery class. Ma
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by IMAYousaf 8y ago
Hello. Thanks for those suggestions. I'll check those out.
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Hello. Thank you for that anecdote. I appreciate it. An artist friend, or maybe it was something that I read about art, said that you have to make more or less 100,000 bad drawings before you get a "good" one. Now even if it'
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Hello. Thank you for the suggestion. I will look into it.
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Hello. Thanks for the book recommendation. I'll look into that book. I was also recommended Charles Bargue's "Drawing Course" and Harold Speed's "The Practice & Science of Drawing". Do you have any par
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Ask HN: How Do I Become as Proficient with Art as I Am with Computing?
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