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Alright, recently I have been hanging out with an awesome, pretty girl who has renewed my interest in art and brought back to life my desire to somehow learn to draw/sketch myself.

Er, as far as I can remember the only time that I've actually tried drawing something like a portrait was in 3rd grade for a class project where we had to make a picture of a president that we were representing, and a far as I can remember I did a pretty good job copying the presidents face that was plastered high on one of our classroom walls. I also drew a duck in 5th grade that I liked a lot, but it seems irrelevant to me since I want to be able to draw people and characters.

Two years ago I thought that I was going to start learning how draw so I went out and got a bunch of lead and charcoal pencils along with sketchbooks and erasers, but I never even drew anything because I got busy and forgot that I had all that stuff. Since the girl mentioned earlier sparked my intrigue again I dug through my entire house, doubling the already chaotic mess that was there, and found at least 75% of my art supplies... I'll be tearing through it again soon since I know my best stuff is still in that last 25% that I havn't found yet.

I know that I don't know the basics of human form, as any other attempts throughout my life have resulted in obscure stickish looking figures that were all lopsided and looked nothing like any living thing from this planet. So my conclusion to educating myself a to a point where I'll be able to create my own figures is to start by copying other figures. Since I'm not currently enrolled in any human form classes for art, I'll be using some sort of web or book photographs and trying to copy them, since I'm fairly confident in my ability to look at something and then create something similar on paper.

So that will be my first step, along with that step I'm going to use the same copying technique using old biology reference books relating to the skeletal and muscular systems. I know that I'm probably doing all this in the wrong order, but it's how I feel comfortable learning (something that was never considered by a single one of my teachers throughout my entire gradeschool experience). I have always prefered to start a little more complex and then later break down to the basics.

From there I think I'll either move to real life portraits, rather than photographs, assuming that I have any willing friends, or family members.

Step 3 will be to use objects in different lightings to be able to see how the same object looks with different lighting and shading. Maybe I can get somesort of complex sculpture for this step... I think that would be easier than say apples and bananas in a bowl

Then eventually move to the stick and ball human figures to simulate human pose and movement. Followed by the manequin action figures.

Step 5 in my personal program will allow me to start my own imaginitave work. I'd like to start drawing original portraits here, maybe from the shoulders and up. Hopefully, if my interest has held for this long, this step will renew my interest since I'm sure so much copying will have begun to wear me down.

Last steps: Learn to draw good hands, since I see them as a critical point in making full body artwork look realistic. Learn to see how clothes fold and fall naturally, and learn to mimic the states of clothes in different positions and situations.

Then later on I'll start learning how to draw rooms and landscapes.

Hoping to get a first drawing completed and on DA tonight, finally putting this subscription that I paid for to real use.

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