How to draw like a pro

Sep 16, 2016 9:50 PM

MikeDeGrasseTyson

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I don't need to draw like a pro- just good enough so people don't think a child did it...

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Twinkle twinkle little star, why is art so fucking hard

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

If you erase the more detailed features you get a circle... Thingy

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

basically, draw better

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

This really helped me! I made a great drawing

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Why would you do that!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Obligatory

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Drawing is easy if you know how to draw

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

/a/bTTcq

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Draw the fucking owl

9 years ago | Likes 122 Dislikes 4

Draw the *rest* of the fucking owl

9 years ago | Likes 46 Dislikes 2

I see you got the detailed version of that tutorial.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

After 8 easy slides, I draw like a Pro!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Artists hate him!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Instructions unclear, ended up drawing this...

9 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 2

Gnarly dude

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

thatsapenis.gif

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

No that's a hairy finger. Do you see a penis in every picture?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

All of this is lies. To draw like a pro you need to draw like a fucking amateur for 4-5 hours every day, every day

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Did I mention you have to do it every day

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Sorry, but this is useless. You require years of drawing just to start understanding those.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Drawing tips

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Why draw hands when you can just put them in pockets?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This will most definitely help me add the additional detail I required for my stick figures....

9 years ago | Likes 303 Dislikes 1

You'll never get both eyes the same!

9 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

Ever, without program assistance. But then that's like cheating (where as using the circle tool, layers, lens flare, etc is not.)

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

carefull stick figures are a gateway drug, and before you know what happens you are full on doing illustrations and graphic design.

9 years ago | Likes 52 Dislikes 0

dis true I started abusing stickfigures and now im a full blown painter addict and now I have no money or food and my family worry about me

9 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

and taking fetish requests ._ .

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

Gotta earn a living somehow.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Hahaha nope.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I always hate these posts because they downplay the amount of work it takes to draw well.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

As someone in their tattoo apprenticeship who has been made to draw 70 different hands this week. Thank you.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Instructions unclear. Still only draw penises. Not well, either.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Inktober is coming up - gonna use these as guides!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

This post is helpful only to a very narrow slice of artists: Those who know quite a bit, but just haven't had a few weeks to progress more.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

TL;DR: you suck at drawing, and you won't get better reading this.

9 years ago | Likes 157 Dislikes 13

You get better by practicing, and this will help you practice.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

really the way to learn to draw is to look at and observe things instead of trying to make them up in your mind

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Honestly, as an artist, I found the only thing that helped me improve was practise. No amount of others 'teaching' me did much.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Actually, I find these to be extremely useful! Practice is key, of course, but it's always good to have something to refer back to.

9 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 6

Yeah, DA tuts like this have helped me so much. My eyes went from shit to far less shit! I love 'em.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You aren't just born amazing at art...

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Everybody seems to think, that reading alone does will do. Don't forget the thousands of hours you'll eventually have to put in to be a pro.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Definitely. Learn the theory and then practice it until you master it and when you master it, bend the rules!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

God, no matter what I study my hands look like mutant hands. Whyyyyy is it so hard to draw hands.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It helps to reduce everything to its simplest form. Find the major planes of any surface and you're 3/4s of the way there.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's all about finding the shapes in the hand and understanding basic anatomy, hands though are so complex that a lot of artist hide them

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Keep going, you'll get there one day

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Also. Hands are insanely dynamic and challenging to draw, even for pros.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

FUCK HANDS AND FUCK FEET TOO!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I didn't learn a damn thing.

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

Jokes on them, my head isn't proportional

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Are you Brazilian?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nah just a bit odd

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Ha! Nice.

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That's handsome squid ward

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Gold

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

Jerry, gold!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 357 Dislikes 2

Just finished a Chalupa! Wife's eating a Nachos Bell Grande.

9 years ago | Likes 38 Dislikes 3

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Must always upvote "Draw An Owl"

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

No offense but for those learning how to draw, this is essentially introducing them to driving a car and then throwing them in formula 1

9 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 4

Excited for Singapore?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well, to be fair, where exactly does OP claim this is a guide for beginners?

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

In some of these images, there are "bad" drawings marked with an X, but they don't tell you what's wrong with them or how to improve.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 4

They aren't bad, they are actually perfect. Clothing is suppose to be summarized and choppy to make the important things pop like the face.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If the goal is tutorialization, they've done an awful job. nothing is explained, they just show you good and tell you to replicate it.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

The problem is that in order to properly draw the rest of the body you need to understand basic anatomy but they don't explain it

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Forget all of this. Two rules: get the proportions right, draw as closely as possible to what you *see*.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Replicating what you see is a good place to start, but if you don't understand the 3d forms, you'll never make anything original.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A coworker explained it to me this way and I totally got what he said, but when I tried it, I felt like a toddler performing brain surgery.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If you see a painter closing one eye and holding up his brush, he's observing the proportions.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well to explain better when your walking back and squinting at your work your looking at where the darks and lights are in your work

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And holding up your brush/pen while locking your arm is used to get the angle of an object (more specifically in buildings) correct

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0