How to Improve Massively At Drawing Across 12 Months

Are you like an angel or something??? Seriously tho u are amazing you have no idea how much you helped me because going blindly for a thing is soooo frustratin and you lighted my way, Thank you! ( also I live in Brazil if that adds something idk but yeah... )

Great video. I do a morning marker study every morning. After 3 weeks of faces i switched to bugs and because i don’t know the structures of bugs i am struggling. Why did I assume I would be able to draw bugs as we as faces when I have almost no experience drawing bugs? I disrespected the complexity of bugs and the fact that each species is different. My next set of sketches will focus on just one type and then i will learn much faster.

My problem that always gets me down is not enough time in the day to practice. I tried 15 minutes for a few months straight and I did see improvement but like you said, I got to that point where it seems like I'm bad and gave up. 2021 we're getting back on that bike and riding it!

Its funny how simple this sounds, yet I've never thought about planning out my practice before! Thanks, I think this advice will really help me a lot :)

You think I can use / develop intuition, you're a mad man XD

Very useful

I cant do this

I will carry on no matter what. I am trying so hard, hopefully will see results soon. I will take my old work out and compare, this should give me encouragement. My main job comes in waves, so time is not regularly available.

I'm so glad to see this when I'm so broken. You help me out. Tysm!

such a cute dog

Something I learned recently is that distinction between learning skills and creating art means that you need to be allowing yourself to just create something just as often as you are practicing skills, and even try to combine them when possible. Learning to draw was always daunting and even boring because I was just doing exercises over and over rather than doing what actually made me want to learn art in the first place. Now that I'm primarily just creating the images I want to create whether they are good or not, but setting aside time for practice and exercises every now and again, it brings me joy like it used to when I was a kid.

Rn I'm just jumping around. Basically in an entire day I go between heads, poses, perspective, anatomy, hands. I personally find this works better since I spot something I'm bad at and then instead of waiting to finish a month of drawing something else I just fix that issue. Btw I'm about intermediate when it comes to my skills. Can someone please point out why this is a wrong method of doing this if it is?

yeah after 12 months sure, but will you stick to it consistently for that long. In my experience life ebs and flows and causes pockets of zero drawing and then drawing again.

i loved the explanation of the learning curve

This video is very inspirational, so from October 1 I’m ready to go!! wish me luck .🤞

I think one month for one topic is a bit boring for me, my personal weekly schedule is:

Thursday: Land & Prospective + Portraits
Friday: Portraits + Land & Prospective + Hands & Feets
Saturday: Hands & Feets + Portraits + Anatomy & Gesture
Sunday: Anatomy & Gesture + Hands & Feets + Coloring & Rendering
Monday: Coloring & Rendering + Anatomy & Gesture
Tuesday: Studying Art (My favorite artists) + Coloring & Rendering
Wednesday: Personal projects + Land & Prospective

At lest 3h a day.

Hey um what pencils should I get ive been drawing since I was young but I want to get better at people and animals especially

how about not a month per topic but a week for one topic?

You just need some DETERMINATION❤️

I'm going to take you up on this - 2022 is going to be the year I learn to draw

Thank you! I needed that

YOU LIAR!!! runs away slamming door 😆

I always lose hope but we gotta keep trying

I wonder if 4 hours daily is enough for a steady progress.

I've watched this video a year ago, and I still think about it very often! It helps me to push through when I'm really hopeless, because I always keep in mind I might be a step from this big breakthrough of the subject I'm studying and it often turns out to be true

I wanna learn architectural drawing, while not really having any experience drawing. So does it make sense to have my topics be architectural drawing skills straight from the start, or is it smart to also do other things?

I shall come back in a year and see how it goes I'm a complete beginner rn.

This really made me motivated, thanks!

Awesome video and very encouraging. I couldn't agree more with the better you get, the harder progress becomes. Shading and drawing realistically only feel slightly less impossible sometimes.

I guess watching anime for decades was a head start cuz my Eye has seen so much, I just need my hand eye coordination keep up

This video reminds me of 6feet from gold. A book about giving up just before you would see success. It’s focus is on business, but I think you can apply skills in that concept from what you showed in your video.

I've spent 2 while years just doing gestures and nothing else, and it's now that I've realised how much I lack, moreover I wanna pass the entrance exam of a college I wanna get into and I have only one and a half year so I wanna improve really quickly.

I've heard this from several art instructors now. You say that there is a "eureka" moment or that something "just clicks," but I have never experienced this. I used to draw all the time but then quit because I was suddenly responsible for my own nutrition and didn't want to starve. I came close.

So now that I finally have a stable life I got back into drawing. While I have made clear improvements, I've never had an "aha!" moment, which is very disappointing. For two years now I have been slowly improving my drawing skills, picking up from where I left off in my high school years. But it's been a slow burn with a gradual line. Things have picked up in skill advancement after making a schedule for study, but I never feel like my skill fluctuates wildly, or at least not as wild as is portrayed by your explanation. About a year ago I was really counting on that "eureka" moment to give me more motivation after seeing a quick and dramatic improvement in my skill, but it has never happened. In time, I simply found other little victories to keep me motivated, usually fueled by my social groups. I guess what I'm saying is you shouldn't be waiting on or relying on seeing your improvement in bursts and using that as a motivator. Your skill may be a slow climb the whole way. The climb has gotten easier the more I practice.

I appreciate this video very much. Your description of this learning curve hit me with so much accuracy that I jumped up in shock a bit

Having done the fresh eyes challenge, I’m now working on gesture and going to make a concerted effort to have more directed practice once I feel slightly more confident with that portion. I try to draw at least 4-5 times a week for very short periods where schedule relents but even so I’m slowly seeing improvements

This is very correct. The progress of building your skill in 2+ years is outstanding. I set goals and take breaks at times to let the neurons connect over time (sounds silly right?) to develope what I’ve learned. just be patient, do lots of research, be consistent and do what interests you most!

Okay I just wasted a year grinding to Plat on Valorant. Perhaps if I spent as much time planning on my art I would've been better lol.

I think it's important to recognize that these tips don't work for everyone, because the way people learn is different between everyone. These tips work well if you're aiming at something like a job in the industry as opposed to art just being a hobby. This isn't the end-all-be-all of art tips.

Honestly I wish you left the tracking document below because this is golden. I started my focused practice this month. Every day I will draw at least 5 figures with the LSF method, paying keen attention to angles and proportions. By the end of the month, I should have over 90 drawings, as well as the ability to draw better bodies and proportions from my head.

I'm just tired of feeling like I'm not good enough. While I'll still have creative sessions where I just draw for fun, 50% of the other time will be studies and deliberate practice. Not sure what I'm going to do for September yet. Hm... Maybe back to anatomy (I love it) or values.

So encouraging - just what I needed as a beginner returning and trying to establish a regular practice. Thanks Kenso!

NOPE not for me ove been drawing 2 yeRs and I understand way more and my skills are on the bottom floor maybe in the basement even

12 Months (with proper work)are enough to take you from zero level, to really good level, that you, yourself won't even believe! I had a really big improvement, in half of that time!! Watch videos less, practice more!! Some videos can really help, because they're shoing tips and tricks that you might not know, however, it's practice that will make you better and that's where you should focus. Stick to pencils and don't jump to different mediums. Become really good first to one medium and then jump to another. Watercolors should be the last of them or at least not near your early years. Also, do not draw or sketch different subjects all the time. Stick to one and if you can keep drawing the same thing again and again. That way, you'll become better, and it will happen faster. Hope this helps.

I really needed this. I had begun trying to improve my art again around november of last year. I practiced anatomy and tried learning new things but sometimes i felt like my drawings came out worse than before. It was really disheartening and there were times i wanted to give up. Little did I know i notice that my art goes through like a little puberty so once i started practicing and sticking to it to the T I finally started seeing that improvement jump. Seeing this video makes me feel a lot better because this is roughly kind of how my art improvement went.

I’m still. Stuck on the Beginner set of videos….after 2 years. What’s going on?

but what if i stuck in this "skill" problem for 3 years? because that's my case

Your video is stolen and used to solicit for Russian drawing courses, I'm sure they did it without asking, so I'm notifying you

Let me know your one month topic ideas!