why are the good people dying?

𝕴 𝖇𝖊𝖑𝖎𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖉 𝕴 𝖈𝖔𝖚𝖑𝖉 𝖈𝖚𝖗𝖊 𝖎𝖙 𝖆𝖑𝖑, 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖞𝖔𝖚, 𝖉𝖊𝖆𝖗

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will graham dreams of sea turtles

thank you! that is a high compliment!

I'm self taught, everything I've learned is by studying other artists and trying absolutely everything

for anatomy, there's many things I think are helpful. 1. studying and drawing people in public. i like to watch people's hands as they type, torsos as they twist around, different strides of walking, etc, while I'm out and about. just knowing how things move is just as important as knowing where everything is in the body. i keep a small sketchbook and a pencil and pen with me all the time. most people don't mind being drawn. 2. figure drawing as a warm up. i think figure drawing is going to be the most helpful thing to you, and good news, you can get a LOT done in 30 minutes. start with 1 minute posts, and work your way up to 5 minute poses, or make 30 poses in 30 minutes. i recommend getting a subscription to Croquis Cafe for this, and browsing flickr. Flickr is great for non-posed photography, great for natural poses and normal bodies. 3. studying actual factual anatomy. there's really no way to get around knowing where muscles are and where bony points are, etc. it's interesting! you'll be able to squash and stretch anatomy however you want once you know how to break the rules. i recommend Anatomy For Artists: Drawing Form and Pose by Tom Fox.

once you have a good handle on human anatomy, you can even apply the same logic to animal anatomy, and even then you can apply your knowledge of form to anything. once you learn one thing, you can apply it to anything

just getting comfortable sketching and not getting too attached to any one drawing will make studying much easier. treating studying as slowly piecing together a whole object in your mind, until you can bullshit a way to make it feel accurate/plausible, is the goal. don't worry about making it perfect. when you study, you are there to learn, not make something perfect. being open to trying everything you can to learn, and learning everything you can about anything you can, will help you more than worrying over one drawing.

don't be afraid to ask other people what can be fixed! this is where art school would come in handy I suppose. ask your friends if something is off. don't be afraid to fix things and always improve!

if I am so honest, I'm not familiar with art movements. I need to study them more, learn how to categorize them. Honestly, I like art from all over the place. art depicting The Black Death, medieval engravings, russian fairytale illustrations from the 1800s, ancient babylonian carvings, doll craftsmanship from the 1910s, gorgeous nature scenes in watercolor...there's endless things to explore from the past

if I had to choose a classic painter though, it would be Evelyn De Morgan

her paintings depict death and the apocalypse, and yet her figures are serene and eerily peaceful. her colors are insanely vibrant despite the subject matter. hopeful and nightmarish.

she painted her trauma of living through war torn Britain during WW1.

really depends on what it is but 90% of the time I use Flickr. you can search before a certain date and it helps avoid AI. I like Flickr a lot for references of places and people because most users aren't professional photographers and it's very natural

I haven't really had a huge problem with AI on Pinterest honestly. it's there but it's been easy to avoid