Do you train? (drawing, writing)

[brianhanes117]

I personally don't. I have my own life and if I trained, I'd never make the time to create what I want to. In order to finish, I simply write and draw what matters to me. I look at both my fan and professional works as serious. Sometimes that means I make mistakes, but I continuously edit my drafts until they look good. I also share my pictures and take both positive and negative feedback. I once was very defensive over my works, but now I am less defensive than I used to be.

Like anyone should be, I still filter the advice I get and ultimately go off what I value. This ultimately leads me to a lot of finished products and from there I build and continue to get better and better. Sometimes, the best teacher is experience. Get as much of it as possible if you truly want to be proficient. Realize you won't always win and use that to become a stronger writer.

Worst come to worst you get some negative reviews but all that means is you need to learn from those mistakes in the next product. Some people overthink about what they should do and never get anything done.

[Lensing]

I agree and life drawing classes are a really good part of training. I´m going to one in january.
I talked to Dean Yeagle because I really like his figure drawing, he said that part of it is that
he regularly trains and goes to life drawing classes to keep his skill level

[Lensing]

Good point with the overthinking, I think it´s a balance between learning, training and executing.
Without execution it´s pointless

[Insanebaker92]

I’ve been training a lot in digital coloring as I’m mediocre in doing lighting and shading. I look back at my old drawings and boy, I’m a bit disgust with it. On my free time, I watched youtube and learn from others on how to do the lighting and shading and have been practicing my digital coloring in a round circle with color. It’s gonna take a very long time to get use to it but, I prefer to invest my time to sharpen my skill.

Sometimes, I study hand anatomy and been practicing in medibang too. I always look at the posture of my hand before drawing it.

[Lensing]

Not everyone is interested in training. I know a lot of people who never train and are ok
or happy with their art. There is room for a lot of different kind of art and sometimes simple
is better

[TheLemmaLlama]

I don't do dedicated training; I only have so long to live, so I want my activities to serve multiple purposes whenever possible (e.g. I can't do something just to improve my skills, it has to be for improvement AND fun, or improvement AND making progress on a project I care about and think is important)

It's like how they say when writing a story, your scenes should have multiple purposes, except it's the story of my life

[Lensing]

That´s very understandable, I used to think like that