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Old Feb 13th, 2005, 06:55 AM       
I wasn't talking about your artistic preferences. Wow this artist is awesome. I was more talking about WHAT makes something awesome or makes it sucky. Understanding structure, positioning, key elements, colour theory. If you slowly begin to understand that, and decode art in a such way, you will find your skills getting better also, because you'll be able to intergrate some of those tricks, to various degrees of sucess. Same for knowing how to pick errors out of a picture. Chojin doesn't draw photorealistically, for example, but what I used to do a lot, was show him my drawings, and he'd point out errors that I had completely overlooked. That's what I mean by good artist's eye. If you have that, you stand a chance to be good. if you do not, you'll never learn to represent reality in drawing.

As to things to draw. Start out with simple geometric objects, then people in simple scenes. Cars, buildings, telephones, animals. That's where you start, not with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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