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My first month of learning art

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Here it is, my practice sheets from my first month compiled into one nice "little" jpg. Sadly after it I started working on a piece that I never finished (early march sometime) and after I dropped that fully I didn't touch my pen until well.. Now, 3 months later, my skill has detoriated slightly but I can still do this :la:

This is practically all I have done up to this point from day 1 to around day 32 I think. You can click the download button for a higher resolution version if you want to see this in a proper resolution.

If you have any thoughts, please share :)

Update: It's been a bit over 4 years now since I did this. I remember it quite well, I wanted to become a game developer, I just wanted to start with something easy like a visual novel, but I couldn't get an artist for my little pet project so I decided "Hey, there are thousands of people out there that can draw, why not me? I learn things fast!" but drawing seemed exceptionally difficult and complex of a concept to me, I mean, I'm a guy who up till that point persistently thought 'I can't draw' in a very literal sense, it was just that day I realized 'I haven't really tried to draw for a long time have I?'

Anyhow, I decided to draw for a month, just draw a bunch every day for a month to see how far I can go, and then decide at the end of it if I have any chances of getting good enough to become professional one day. And draw I did, but how I got the impression that I had any sort of chances at becoming a good artist after this is completely beyond me... I hardly improved at all from day 1 to the last day, I wonder how I saw it any other way than that... I was way off my mark! Lying to myself that I was better than I really was.

Now here I am 4 years later, still practicing how to draw fucking boxes, and still not good enough at it to have any chance at success :stare: I've given up all ideas of becoming a game developer, even if my odds there are good, I'm obscenely talented as a programmer, and I have no talent as an artist, yet here I am, by my own will, tearing out my hair, wondering what I was thinking and why I can't seem to just give up and still living under the illusion that I have some kind of shot.
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ยฉ 2014 - 2024 Cestarian
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JoeyAktosh's avatar
Amazing how much you improved in just a month. Was this a personal project you created? Anyway, I recommend on focussing on one thing at a time for at least a week or so, maybe 12 hours straight drawing of the sane things like lines, boxes, gestures, ect. Not drawing for a few days can be good for the mind but it might not deteriorate skill. Your eyes might have just improved beyond your hands. Any way love to see how you'll improve next! And if this is a challenge is love to do it as well!!