Practicing (short as fugg though :3)

pretty good, but there should have been more anticipation before the punch

The following message goes to all artists on this forum...

If you're goal is to get strong drawing skills, this is my advice:

I've come to the realization that I can't seriously critique people if they aren't serious enough about this art form to study the (easily attainable) books and tutorials that exist.

If you start asking for free little tidbits of advice on this forum without studying the books first, you're going to waste months, maybe years, slowly discovering information that you could have completely learned in a week.

Take the time to read all the tutorials you can find. Absorb them. And when you apply them as best as you can to your drawings, THEN show us your work and ask for critiques. We are not going to spoonfeed all the information to you, just like you're not going to waste your time teaching everything you know to random noobs.

Do us all a favor, study art and anything else you want to be good at, then ask for our advice AFTERWARDS when you already understand most of the fundamentals (and trust me, literally no one that posted on this site, NO ONE, fully understands the fundamentals). That's the only true way Psuda can benefit you. It's not a classroom, it's a discussion board. It will point you to where the information is so you can come back and join us in putting the textbook knowledge into application.

Edyrem wrote:

The following message goes to all artists on this forum...

If you're goal is to get strong drawing skills, this is my advice:

I've come to the realization that I can't seriously critique people if they aren't serious enough about this art form to study the (easily attainable) books and tutorials that exist.

If you start asking for free little tidbits of advice on this forum without studying the books first, you're going to waste months, maybe years, slowly discovering information that you could have completely learned in a week.

Take the time to read all the tutorials you can find. Absorb them. And when you apply them as best as you can to your drawings, THEN show us your work and ask for critiques. We are not going to spoonfeed all the information to you, just like you're not going to waste your time teaching everything you know to random noobs.

Do us all a favor, study art and anything else you want to be good at, then ask for our advice AFTERWARDS when you already understand most of the fundamentals (and trust me, literally no one that posted on this site, NO ONE, fully understands the fundamentals). That's the only true way Psuda can benefit you. It's not a classroom, it's a discussion board. It will point you to where the information is so you can come back and join us in putting the textbook knowledge into application.

If drawing is so serious...than I must live in a hole, I always drew for fun, and im not bad at it...but now I have to read to know how to draw???
I always thought that the more you draw the better you are...

What Edyrem means is that people are way to quick on just asking fellow Psudans what is wrong with their animation while they already know what can be done to improve it.

Reading/watching tutorials can greatly speed up the amount of time it takes for you as an artist/ animator to improve the quality of your work.

This is why he ( and I ) highly recommend delving into the rich abundance of art related information that can be found on the internet.

Once you use that information, we can help you master the things you've seen and read about,
This is, unfortunately, only useful for us if you, yourself already have the strong desire to improve on your own and are willing to put time and effort into that fact.

TL;DR:

Yes, drawing is a great way to improve the quality of your future drawings, but understanding the fundamentals of drawing and art in general will help you speed up that process.

Tom wrote:

What Edyrem means is that people are way to quick on just asking fellow Psudans what is wrong with their animation while they already know what can be done to improve it.

Actually, what I'm saying is that they're asking fellow Psudans what is wrong with their drawings, how they can get better, etc. while they DON'T already know what can be done to improve it (even though it's easily accessible info).

It's actually best when they DO already know the fundamentals and we just help them adjust their applied techniques.

Tevin (KidKei) Is actually a really good artist. ( in my opinion anyway.) I think he just doesn't take his time when drawing frames, because he is/was a stick animator... and he animates really fast My advice would be for you to just take your time, Kei