people always say practice but never provide what to practice
go do some figure drawings and read some books, try nicolades - the natural way to draw
Yes you must practice but do you know what's better than practice? Discipline. This let's you draw even when you don't want to without motivation or inspiration. IT LETS YOU BUILD YOUR SKILLS DAILY/WEEKLY TOO
practice is important but you have to learn things from other people or sources if you want to improve, otherwise your stuck in a rut like me who can't improve because I don't know what I'm doing wrong, until I activley seek to improve myself and go look for some good sources(thanks kumquat).
you don't /have to/ look at sources for perspective and life drawing but if you can get down basic skills to a science it'll make the rest of your work shine and then you can expand into stuff like colour theory and what not.
Experience is the best teacher but you need to know how to do things to experience them right, otherwise most of the time you develop a bad habit to doing a certain drawing.
If anyone has anything contrary to this go ahead, its great to hear art related thoughts and discussion and this thread could use more.
