Anyone here good at drawing?

I used to draw as a teen, thinking of getting back into it.

Anyone here good a drawing pictures by hand?

@vivify

I spent 4 years in Art College. Drawing improves with a love of doing it and continued practice also sharpens the hand-eye coordination. Mine has now become really sloppy and I’ve never been very good at straight lines or circles basically because I have no interest in drawing them.

@drewnogal said
@vivify

I spent 4 years in Art College. Drawing improves with a love of doing it and continued practice also sharpens the hand-eye coordination. Mine has now become really sloppy and I’ve never been very good at straight lines or circles basically because I have no interest in drawing them.

You are a talented artist, Drew.

@vivify said
I used to draw as a teen, thinking of getting back into it.

Anyone here good a drawing pictures by hand?

I’ve been told I am good at drawing...conclusions. 🤔

@vivify said
I used to draw as a teen, thinking of getting back into it.

Anyone here good a drawing pictures by hand?

Not even remotely.

I'm decent at constructing pictures. But not freehand drawing. Not a chance. Similarly, I'm a decent - not a good, I'm self-aware enough not to believe that - calligrapher, but my normal handwriting is ragged.

Maybe that's why I'm a programmer, not a salesman, and also why I prefer villanelles and sonnets to free verse.

@torunn said
You are a talented artist, Drew.

Thank you 🙂 but it’s now been so long since I’ve made any art that I find it hard to get back into it. Perhaps I’ll find the time to join some sort of art class one day and recover my old momentum?

@vivify
A guy I grew up with a guy who majored in music in college and who had never tried drawing or painting, One day he was asked by one of his daughters if he could draw a picture of what she had seen in a book or newspaper. He told her he didn't know but would give it a try. He found that he had a good hand as an artist and now earns his living as an artist in Bozeman Montana. He does beautiful work. Check out https://www.michaelblessingart.com/

@great-big-stees said
I’ve been told I am good at drawing...conclusions. 🤔

Yeah, bad ones...

@mudfinger said
Yeah, bad ones...

You been “told” today? 😠

@drewnogal said
@vivify

I spent 4 years in Art College. Drawing improves with a love of doing it and continued practice also sharpens the hand-eye coordination. Mine has now become really sloppy and I’ve never been very good at straight lines or circles basically because I have no interest in drawing them.

So, uh, yer past tense at drawing, eh Drew?

@vivify said
I used to draw as a teen, thinking of getting back into it.

Anyone here good a drawing pictures by hand?

I was only ever moderately good at drawing. Used to draw and paint as a teen and sporadically into my late 20s, then fell out of it.

No formal training, just mimicry of comic strips, cartoons (print, not TV), science-fiction cover paintings and magazine illustrations (e.g., the ones in Science Fiction Art, edited by Brian Aldiss).

I did learn some things about perspective, composition, negative space, color schemes, etc. from instructional books.

@vivify said
I used to draw as a teen, thinking of getting back into it.

Anyone here good a drawing pictures by hand?

Do you count stick men/women as drawing? 😉

-VR

Prefer winning.

Mainly hanging and quartering for me. Drawing is just a little distasteful.

@very-rusty said
Do you count stick men/women as drawing?

I don't see why not - L.S. Lowry did.