Progressing to slowly( Bored with the basics)

~MYTHICSONOFGOD Jun 18, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

My amazing youtube teacher is current me teachingme the basics: Mainly how to cubes in any angle.

That is cool but I feel frustrated becuase I have only been drawing boring cubes :/. I have so many ideas in my head and I really want to leave this basic stuff behind.

I rely want iust to draw but I am nto skilled enough yet, how do you cope with this feeling of fritsation of advancing very slowly?

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~Fivefingersandapen Jun 23, 2012

Think of it this way: you can't do algebra without basic math, can you? You can't do fractions if you don't understand division and the quadratic formula would be total greek. If you do manage, you'll have a very hard time.

That's how it is with art and the basics. You can't do the complicated stuff without learning the foundations which they stand on. You can't climb to the top of the stairs without touching tge first few, and if you do, it's hard.

If you're unhappy with the cubes, go drawing from life. Observe how things work and try to understand it. You'll still be learning and you'll be ahead when your teacher changes the lesson.

~PippaOfShadows Jun 23, 2012 Student Artist

You need the basics to get to the more complicated parts of drawing. I still draw shapes to help me out with drawing.

If you're getting that bored why not do something interesting and turn the cubes into heads (or buildings), or even twist them! 8D Hopefully your teacher will be impressed that you tried to use the skills he/she is teaching you! (That's what I would do if my teachers actually taught me the basics every once in a while ...)

~JewelledDragon13 Jun 21, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

In the future, you will appreciate how conscientious you're being now.

~Vineris Jun 19, 2012 Student General Artist

Cubes are not boring. If you put faces and stick limbs on them you get robots. So you have been taught how to draw simple robots from any angle.
Use this knowledge wisely.

`saintartaud Jun 19, 2012 Professional General Artist

There's no rule that says you have to only draw cubes to get better. Well, actually, you're going to have to draw the stupid cubes and cones or whatever if you want to improve in terms of representational draftsmanship... But what I'm saying is that you can work on other stuff too. Keep a sketchbook in addition to your life-drawing studies and sketch out all those ideas while you're still learning. Or just start working on a finished piece in your spare time.

Otherwise, improvement takes time and you can't really rush it. Everyone learns at their own pace and some things are easier to grasp than others. Even once you get to a point where you feel confident in your life-drawing skills, there will be other things to learn and always something to improve upon.

~Phatmon66 Jun 19, 2012 Student Digital Artist

You need to have the basics learn at your own pace and draw on the side. But don't just stop at cubes there are many other shapes and stuff that you have to do, everything isn't flat its in dimensions. Like Gori said it takes time, like im doing digital painting right now and im trying to learn how shadows and light and color go all together its a very slow process and its not grasped in an immediate way. You should also look into proportions and anatomy for humans. Practice from a photograph learn how the human body looks and you'll have to use the basics no way getting around it. Even the ponies use geometric shapes despite their simplistic approach. There are tutorials on DA to help also.

*Xyires Jun 19, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

You'd be suprised how important shapes are when it comes to drawing, it certainly helps me construct my pictures anyway.

~Glori305 Jun 19, 2012

If you do not start with the basics, and work your way up, you will have mistakes and problems that you repeat in your work. Repeat something often enough, and you get in the habit of making a specific mistake all the time. Undoing that can take years of work, and some people are unwilling, convinced that since they have always been doing it that way, it should not be changed.

Take it slow.

It does not mean you can not draw other things, you can. But improvement is slow. In anything. No one jumped up and was excellent at anything instantly.

~DelphineApollo Jun 19, 2012 Student Digital Artist

Yeah, I'm basically in the same boat, I'm getting stuck on the very, very basics and unable to progress at all but I have more than just Youtube videos.

~Erymry Jun 19, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

I'd suggest keeping up with the basics and applying what you've learnt to your own stuff on the side. That's generally what I do.

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