I cant draw people, is it hopeless?

[nekoendy]

I mean, the ability to draw people is something or you have or you dont, I think I'm more the bulding/forest guy who cant draw humans even if his life depended on it.
I cant even align eyes on a face, and I tried it for 10 years lol

Also drawing humans takes way too long...

[Kelheor]

The ability to do anything is something you learn, that's how nature works you just need to spend enough time doing it.

[nekoendy]

That's easy to talk when you're beggining to draw, when you draw for 10 years and realize that you still cant even align eyes on a face, it's near to impossibe to continue...

There are many great artists who cant draw people, they simply dont have that ability...
Of-course everyone can draw people, even stick-man or lame humans, but exciting people with unique style that makes you wow, that's like 1 in a million...

[Kelheor]

Maybe it's easy to talk when you're beginning to draw, I am not beginning though. How many times did you try though after you realized it? Did you drew the horizontal line to help yourself? Did you search for the tips and tutorials? Right now if you flip my canvas with a character looking forward their face will still be unsymmetrical, so what. People don't actually notice it, because the thing still done right. Also people are not symmetrical from the beginning, so unless you draw one eye on the chin, it will probably be alright and be even better after you draw a face 200 times.

[nekoendy]

Horizontal lines, tutorials, studies, nothing helped, I drew like 1 million faces and I didnt improve at all... I'm the forest guy, I better stick to leaves and branches

[Kelheor]

Well why do you even make a thread if you don't actually want to do it anyways stick to leaves and branches then

[nekoendy]

Yes, I'm gonna "leave" you to it

[liaroger]

You don't have to draw people - it sounds like something you simply don't enjoy, at least that's what I'm reading between the lines, and if you don't enjoy it it'll be hard to practise it enough and get into the zone when practising.
If you'd like to work on a comic, you could always team up with another artist and do the backgrounds while they draw the characters (a lot of comic artists would love that, backgrounds are hard!) Or just create standalone pieces that you enjoy if you don't care for a comic.

However, I would like to throw in that some of the things you mentioned are just notoriously difficult. I've been drawing faces for 16 years and still have to fix misaligned and crooked eyes a lot of the time. Struggling with something isn't the same as being bad at it - some things are just difficult.
Also, getting all the ugly drawings out until you can create art you're happy with can actually be very rewarding. Some day you look back on your old art and how you started fondly and it's just a really good feeling. (I know I get that feeling when I look at old art where I struggled A LOT more with poses than I do now ... And back then I very much thought I'm just bad at it and that's it.)
So if you do decide to improve your ability to draw people it'll be worth it. You just need to find a way to practise that you enjoy, maybe draw a character you really like a lot, sketch out scenes you thought of, that sort of thing. Something to get your mind off the "am i finally getting it right" part.
But again, you don't have to. This only applies if you WANT to improve your ability to draw people.

Btw, my faces are also asymmetrical af when I don't use the mirror tool (and when I do I add some asymmetry afterwards bc I find it actually looks better and more human that way) and frontal facing faces are just ... Really hard. Again, this is coming from someone who's been drawing faces for 16 years and spent 9 of those years doing almost exclusively realistic portraits. Faces are hard. If you struggle with the things almost every artist struggles with that doesn't mean you're bad or less capable, just that these things are hard.

[feuersichel]

How do you practice? You can draw thousands of faces and never get anywhere when you practice wrong. What is wrong and right might differ from person to person.

For me personally the Loomis methode helped a ton! Breaking down the anatomy into more simpler forms and understanding those 3D forms also is an important point. When you understand those simpler forms you can go into the details.
Proko over at YT has some very good videos regarding that. He has a realistic artstyle but that doesn't really matter.

[nekoendy]

Thanks for your kind words.
I've pondered all issues related to drawing: Back pain, eye issues, bad blood circulation, wrist tendinitis, and at the end, you win nothing with it.
I decided to end my artist journey today.

YES, I AM FREE, THANK YOU LORD!!! XD

[TroyVSTheWorld]

Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something.
-Jake The Dog

[Legendofgenii]

I’ve seen a few of your drawings here on the forum and I think you can draw people. Perhaps not in the same way as others, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t good.

I think we are too critical on ourselves sometimes. Learning to draw is a lifelong endeavour which we will probably never master, but if you are having fun - who cares right.

[Lensing]

I´m 47 now, I have been drawing comics since I was 8.
When I was 40 I still couldn´t draw people.
In the 7 years from 40 to now I finally learned how to draw
humans and I´m good at it now.

There are not people who the ability to draw humans and some who
don´t, that´s simply not true. When you can´t allign eyes on the face then
it means that you didn´t understand the basic funamentals and have to fist
understand it, learn it and then practice it.

It´s not magic

[liaroger]

I'm not sure if we're supposed to read this as an expression of your frustration with your art struggles (which is valid and if it's greater than it is for most artists then I'm sorry about that), an indirect request for us to reassure you that you can draw, encourage you to draw or validate your frustration, or you genuinely quitting art (or want to but need validation for that decision).
If you need some reassurance and encouragement, feel free to ask for it. There are things to praise and encourage about your art and people willing to do that. If you want advice and feedback, again, feel free to ask for it. There are plenty of people willing to give you feedback and help you improve your art.
If you're genuinely quitting because art is not for you, then that's valid and I'm glad you were able to find that out for yourself and I hope you find more joy in other hobbies.
I just don't know how to read your messages because you emphasise how you can't and don't want to do art things a little too often, it reads like you want us to convince you otherwise and that's not really something we can do, we don't know what's best for you and if pursuing art will be good or bad for you in the long run. Only you can decide that. (If I'm misreading your messages I apologise. I'm just saying that whatever you're looking for, you can ask for it more directly.)

EDIT: Alright, it was trolling all along. That does make the most sense I guess.

[TheLemmaLlama]

I forgot who you are because you have no avi, but I had a skim through your profile and I have to agree with Legendofgenii; your people look perfectly good to me and the eyes are aligned just fine :]

I feel like your real issue is perfectionism, which I admit I probably don't have very helpful advice for But wrt your people-drawing skills, no, it's far from hopeless.

If drawing humans in that style takes you way too long, you can work with a simpler style. It doesn't have to be stick-figure level, but styles with a simpler face (like anime) are easier to fudge because if you get things wrong or misalign an eye or whatever, it won't put your drawing in the Uncanny Valley. Of course, this depends on what you intend to do with human-drawing skills. If you want to do realistic portraits, clearly this advice wouldn't help you at all. But if you want to make comics, even simple styles can evoke very poignant emotions. I've literally cried because of a stick figure comic once.

[nekoendy]

I wonder what "people" you did see on my profile.

[TheLemmaLlama]

These:

[image]

Pisci [image] Sora [image]

They are your drawings, right?

(I also remember this comment having some pretty decent drawings, but they're gone now or I'm misremebering o_o)

[nekoendy]

I dont see any drawings... Can somebody close this topic, I'm done with it...

[powerplantanimations]

You can make a webcomic about nature and buildings... I made a comic about stick figures when I thought it was all hopeless.

Like maybe have talking buildings or beings with no faces.

[sushy00]

When I was younger I couldn't draw humans either. After lots of practice I can now draw them and I actually draw them more than other things now.