ART/VIDEO – Drawing What You Want Rather Than What You End Up With

You have a image in your mind that you wish to draw.  You sit down and begin drawing it.  When you’re done, it looks nothing like the image in your mind.

Has this happened to you?  Quite honestly, I think it happens to just about everyone.

It certainly happened to this person who asked me a question about it.  Here’s what he asked:

Hey Luis! Firstly, this website is amazing! The lessons are entertaining and fun to do, and I’m learning so much from this. Thank you so much for making these lessons.

I have one little question, which is a little weird because my characters have some sort of random life of their own. I have an idea in mind, then start drawing it out, but then I suddenly start drawing something completely different from my original plan. Don’t get me wrong, they turn out to be alright, but I’m having trouble drawing from the imagination (which I know a lot of people have problems with) and getting the character I want. Do you have any tips or advice about this?

Links Mention in The Video

Where’s The Level 1 Draw Fu Lessons?

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ART/VIDEO – How Much Practice Before You Get Into An Art School?

One way to get better at drawing is to go to an art school.  It’s not the only way but it’s definetely one way.

Once upon a time I was going to take that route.  However, I ended up taking a different path.  Although I still took drawing classes I never went to an art college.

Well, I was asked about getting into an art school and how much skill you need just to get in.  Here’s the question:

Love the work you have done here and I just had a question in mind.
Its been like 5 years since I drew seriously the last time and I feel like its almost hopeless to start again mostly because of personal problems. I’ve been into programming and 3d and I feel like I want to do more of the creative things like drawing/writing. I am planning to train myself up again before I restart my university plan in 2017. Would the time till then allow me to get into an art school if I really put hard work into this?

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ART/VIDEO – How to Create Your Own Anime Characters

Anime is huge. The people who love it often want to be able to draw it too.

My daughter is obsessed with wanting to draw in anime style. I give her the best tips I can, which is to say, I send her to my drawing website.

This week I answer the a question many people have about anime. Here’s how the question went:

Hi I’m new and I just created my own website on googlesites it is called artforpros. I want to create my own ANIME character and need to know what should I do first I want to create a male and female. Have any ideas?

And here’s my answer:

Links Mentioned in the Video

Head Drawing formulas:

http://www.thedrawingwebsite.com/2016/06/15/cartoon-features-and-parts-3-head-formulas/

Eye Drawing Formulas:

Cartoon Eye Formulas

Nose Drawing Formulas:

http://www.thedrawingwebsite.com/2016/11/02/cartoon-nose-formulas/

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ART/VIDEO – Color Blindness and Making Art in Color

Color blindness is something I personally haven’t dealt with.  Quite honestly, I don’t even know anyone who is color blind.

This week’s question is about color blindness and making art in color. It goes something like this:

I just discovered your website and I like what you have written very much. Your drawing style is charming. I have a question about color. Have you ever come across a colorblind artist? What does a person do when they don’t have natural color harmonizing skills?

In the video, I will attempt to answer this question. I’ve read and seen videos of artist who are color blind.  Which I will link to below.

And also, knowing a few things about the foundations of color make me doubt color blindness is as bad a problem as it may seem.

Links Talked About in This Video

Colorblind artist debuts Disney collection in Sac:

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