How To Improve Your Art by KristinaGehrmann, journal
How To Improve Your Art
"How do I improve my art work?" is one of the most asked questions in art related forums, mainly regarding drawing and painting in any media. Because the question is recurring so often, I wrote the following tips that I still copy-paste in various threads.
You can apply these universal strategies not just to traditional and digital painting media, but most of them even to photography and collage.
- Look at pictures by artists you admire, and try to figure out things. How do they handle light and color? What edges are sharp, and what edges are soft? Why do they use that particular color there? What technique did they use? How did they work?
Imagination Is Limited. by KristinaGehrmann, journal
Imagination Is Limited.
Have a look at this.
It's not so good, actually. Can you believe that it took the artist TEN years of constant drawing practice until she was able to draw this?
I believe it, because I'm the one who drew it. I was eleven years old, and had been drawing all my life because it was fun. Because it was an improvement compared to what I drew at age seven, I used to believe that improvement would magically come by itself if one just kept drawing from their imagination, and doing nothing else. New forms and understandings of anatomy would coincidentally happen to come, little by little. Hadn't it been like that for all those years? From my drawing
hello! this is my FIRST JOURNAL ENTRY!!! woah. in all the four months i've been here haha. i don't really know what to say but i figured this has been empty LONG ENOUGH!
hmmm, but i guess if anyone is interested i'd love to take some requests!!! i can't promise i'll get them done though with school and stuff uvu
hello!! i am currently not taking requests, as i am swamped with schoolwork :- (. but i am considering opening commissions when school ends next week, so perhaps stay tuned? :- )