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ART/VIDEOS – Steal Like an Artist Book Review

One of my favorite books to recommend to artists.  I don’t know what else to write here except to say that you should watch the video.

Especially if you’re an artist that really needs a bit of inspiration and motivation to get you moving forward on your work.

Link To The Book

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Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon

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ART/VIDEOS – Reusing Your Own Drawings In Your Art

Reusing your own art is something that may or may not have occurred to you.  Perhaps you’ve drawn something so well that you think it would be to hard to redraw so you trace it all the time.

Or perhaps you think that doing something like that is cheating and a “real” artist wouldn’t stoop so low as to do something like this.

The point is, is it okay either way? Is is true that pros do or don’t reuse their own art?

This week, I’m answering a question that doesn’t directly ask this question but leads me to talk about this stuff, anyway.  Here’s what was asked:

“Luis you’ve given a good read here, it’s a lot more fun to read your lessons then some of the “vanilla” stuff elsewhere.

What I’d want from learning is a style quite familiar to anime/manga, so I imagine that’s a bit less then a true master (which would of course be level Da Vinci) my question is more of a statement, to the trained eye, how often does an anime/manga artist reuse lines and features for all their characters? just curious, it may affect my outlook when I’m at the stage to create my own”

And here’s my answer:

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ART/VIDEO  – The Best Way to Start a Drawing

Starting an observational drawing can be tricky if you haven’t drawn enough.  There’s often way to much information and it’s tough to distill it down.  Where do you begin?

This week I answer a question about this very problem.  Here’s the question:

Hi.

Thank you so much for this! I really like the definition of drawing as Kung Fu. When I’m sketching from observation, I never know where to start, even after mentally sketching before I put pencil to paper. I worry about not starting at the most efficient place or the place with the most light. Any advice?

Thank you

I answer the question in the video below:

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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?

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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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