MT learns to draw!

[MT19]

Hello everyone here on conceptart !

So.. I joined this site a while ago but never found the courage to start my own thread until now.
The thing is, I really want to get better at drawing and I think this site is the best place to start out,
I'm Marie, female, from Germany. Hello!

Well, something about me: I first drew a lot of manga-style things but I stopped and then I discovered deviantart and all the amazing artists out there!
Inspired by that I started to draw digitally but well,.. came to the conclusion that I need to start with the basics.. but where to start theres so much to learn :/
Since I really want to be able to draw people I thought I could start with drawing poses, because I know nothing about anatomy and stuff..

So here I am, thankful for every critique or tip that I can get, hoping to make the time to practise a lot and lets see where this gets me


Here ist something I did today, some studies from a picture.
I hope to be able to update daily, thanks in advance!

[Daria_Arbuz]

Hello, Marie!
Looking forward to see more of your artworks and sketches.

[MT19]

Hi Daria!
Thanks for your reply, I was so happy when I saw it!


I did some 30 seconds drawing on posemaniacs today, it's really difficult :/
But practice makes perfect, right?
More tomorrow!



I hope you can see the second one. Next time I use a darker pencil.

[liquidjack]

definitely flip your images so they are showing the right way and if your using Photoshop you should tweak the "level" so the line work appears darker. Keep posting.

[MT19]

Thanks, liquidjack, for the tip!

Did more posemaniacs today, now the pictures are flipped.

[Daria_Arbuz]

They're quite good! Did you try to imagine poses yourself after this practice session?

[Hearthling]

Nice practices! n_n

[MT19]

Here I am again!
@Hearthling thank you so much for the comment I really appreciate it!
@Daria thanks for your comment, yes I tried some in my sketchbook, it's in the third picture


More poses!


Here I used some photos from deviantart and morguefiles.com for the faces


Last one: I tried to draw some poses and faces by my own later


I'll do some more poses and faces today, will post them today or tomorrow!

[MT19]

Not sure if my reply workoed..so sending this again!
First thanks for all your comments, I really appreciate it!
@Daria yes I tried some later in the day, they are in the third picture

So more poses:


Here I used some photos from the Internet for the faces


This is my sketchbook where I tried some poses and faces by myself



I tried to draw my tea mug and figure out how light and shadow works

[MT19]

Hello again!

Today was really stressful BUT I managed to do some poses again, so here they are:


my goal for tomorrow: more poses, and faces!
see you then

[Hearthling]

Yooo, getting better with making things from your head! Those studies are totally working, dude. Keep it up!

[MT19]

Hearthling, thank you for the comment and the encouragement!

I did more poses from posemaniacs and by myself and a little bit of face-study:

[MT19]

Wow, didn't post anything for a month!
Actually I felt very unmotivated when it came to actively practise drawing, because I got bored very quickly... but when I picked up a pencil and just drew, the result was so disappointing..

So I'm back again, because it doesn't work without studying things.
Maybe I can come up with a method to make practising more fun!

Until then here is a little bit of head and figure study, I used stock photos from dA
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[MT19]

Wow, didn't post anything for a month!
Actually I felt very unmotivated when it came to actively practise drawing, because I got bored very quickly... but when I picked up a pencil and just drew, the result was so disappointing..

So I'm back again, because it doesn't work without studying things.
Maybe I can come up with a method to make practising more fun!

Until then here is a little bit of head and figure study, I used stock photos from dA
Attachment 1674808Attachment 1674809

[MT19]

I'm glad conceptart is up again!

These sketches are poses from posemaniacs and facestudies from screenshots and other references.
I did the more cartoony looking faces without a reference.