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Mika Mika Fantasia #3: Dinner Date (+bonus chapter, and “Why you should follow your dreams right now”)

November 6, 2022 By JONRS Leave a Comment

Bonus comic!

It’s been a year and 1/2 since I released the last comic… πŸ‘€

I still wanna make comics, I just hate actually drawing comics lol!

I spent 5 years drawing anime tiddiez so I could become a better artist, so that I could draw comics better in the future (when I decided to finally draw comics lol).

Well boys and girls, let me tell you: whatever you want to do (in art, and also life), just start doing right away.

Don’t put it off and say “I’m not ready yet…”

Cuz you’re never gonna be fucking ready lol.

I regret not forcing myself to just make comics 6 years ago instead of drawing pin-ups to “become a better artist”.

You will learn what you need to know along your path anyways.

It’s better to just start doing the thing you want immediately, rather than waiting for when “you’re ready”.

 

So anyways, now that I’m forcing myself to draw comics, sometimes it’s agonizing and I don’t wanna do it, but I do it anyways (even if just for 15-30 min).

That’s actually how it was for me in the beginning even when drawing big tiddy anime girls.

It was agonizing and I hated it, becuz I sucked at drawing.

But eventually after about a year and 1/2, something clicked in my brain and I got obsessed with the art process of drawing female bodies and such.

So here I am doing the same thing again with comics.

I know in another 6 months to 1 year I will get that same desire with comics.

And then I’ll finally be on my way to becoming a comic artist.

After 6 years of drawing, I’m finally starting to do the thing I wanted to do in the first place!

So, like I said, if there’s something you want to do in Art or in life (asking out that girl, starting a Youtube channel, starting a twitch channel, etc.)…

You better go fucking do it. 😁

Otherwise you’re gonna be another me, wondering:

“Why didn’t I get started on that thing 5 years ago???”

Cya in 5 years! πŸ˜‰

 

-John

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How To Find Your Art Style – VIDEO

December 8, 2020 By JONRS Leave a Comment

I made a video how to find your art style, if you’ve been drawing for a few years it might help ya πŸ™‚

And remember to never take art advice from an artist who’s only been drawing for 4 years XD

Filed Under: Art, Tutorials

How To Learn How to Draw If You Have A Short Attention Span (advice from a 3rd year artist)

December 8, 2019 By JONRS Leave a Comment

Yay, my 3rd year Art advice to my past self (you)!

One last thing I forgot to say in the video: One of my biggest hurdles for the first 2 years of learning was lamenting over how long it was going to take to become a good artist. I would compare my work to better artists and despair over how long it was going to take me to catch up to them.

You need to lose your ego. Stop comparing yourself to people who have been drawing for years.

Most great artists have been drawing for 10+ years, it takes many many years to become a good artist. You need to accept the fact that getting good at ANY complex skill takes MANY years. Stop looking at the top of the mountain and just focus on 1 step at a time, you will get there someday.

(And also remember, you will gain more confidence in your skills as you learn more and time goes on.)

1:34 – #1 Only draw what you like to draw (pay attention to your energy when drawing)
5:47 – #2 Develop the habit of drawing everyday
7:17 – #3 Read the “The Art Spirit” by Robert Henri (maybe wait to read it after you’ve been drawing for a few years)
10:13 – #4 Don’t study if you don’t want to. ONLY study the things you NEED.
12:50 – #5 Learn head proportions until it’s muscle memory (more important than anatomy)
14:10 – #6 Do not do gesture drawing, do thumbnails instead
15:28 – #6a Trace and Copy artists you love for a month or two
19:26 – #7 Great $100 starter course for art, + cheaper alternatives
23:30 – #8 Figure things out as much as you can on your own (don’t watch too many videos, read too many books, etc)
26:54 – #9 Learn how to paint simple forms and painting will be easier for you
28:26 – #10 Look at artists that you love (learn from their work)
29:27 – #11 Cling to your personal likes/interests in Art like your life depends on it

Links:

“The Art Spirit” by Robert Henri

30-day Figure Drawing Challenge from Pencilkings.com

“Figure Drawing: Design and Invention” by Michael Hampton

Art tutorials by Sycra Yasin

Light and Shadow video course from Ctrl+paint.com

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The Art Journey: 2 Years Later (+updated advice for beginner artists)

October 8, 2018 By JONRS Leave a Comment

*****

Hey, I’ve updated my advice article guide thing. This is old information but I still believe most of these things. You can check out my most recent guide here.

*****

This first picture is my progress from October of last year to September of this year. The picture on the left is a digital picture I did last October and the one on the right is a picture I did this past September. Pretty marked difference, I hate to admit.

A year ago (on the pic to the left), I didn’t understand how to render light and shadow at all. I still don’t understand completely, but my skill has come much much farther. I still don’t like the widowmaker picture on the right, but I think I did a good job (for my current skills πŸ˜› ) on her torso. I still have A LOT of work to do on my rendering skills, but I can say at least a year later I actually HAVE a little bit of rendering skill now, whereas a year ago I didn’t even know what rendering was.

So yeah, as much as I hate to admit (because I’m still not satisfied with my skills so far) I have come a god damn long way from 2017.

This second picture is my progress from almost 2 years ago to where I’m at today. The picture on the left is the first colored digital picture I ever did. And oh man lol, it looks fucking HORRENDOUS! I remember at the time I thought it looked okay, hah. I pretty much copied a reference of some blonde chick and drew widowmaker’s features over it.

The picture on the right is a profile I did recently of some demon girl. In comparison I did it completely from imagination, and I actually like the way it came out. I still gotta work on my faces more as the perspective still looks off to me, but it’s a hell of a lot better than 2 years ago.


Anyways, that’s enough about my progress. Let’s talk about you.

You want to know how to learn how to draw?

When I first started my art journey I thought I would be able to write articles about how to help people pursue the dream of art. Like a god damn fool, I thought I would be able to quantify what art is and reduce it to a formula that anyone could learn. And in a lot of ways you can learn art this way, in a cookie cutter formula that anyone could pick up. The time investment alone would kill off most people though, and if you learned art in a structured way like this, your art would be soulless. Your art would be made up of the combined knowledge of tons of artists and not your own personal knowledge.

There’s still so much I haven’t seen and now I hesitate to give any kind of advice.

If you’re me from two years ago and want to learn how to draw…

First figure out what kind of person you are.

Are you a hobby artist? If so, take your time man. Enjoy the journey, don’t worry about learning the “correct” way to learn art. Go where your whim takes you.

Do you want to work in the Art industry like concept art, game design, etc?

Uh, well I don’t know if you’ve been keeping up with job trends but the whole “working a job” situation in the world is dying out very fast. You prolly have another 10 years (20 if you’re lucky) of working a job in any industry left. Solo artists who start their own business are making way more money than industry artists ever will (just look up Sakimichan and all the other top patreon creators). But hey if your dream is to work in the Art industry, by all means go for it.

Just know that in the future no artist will be employees for large companies in the future. All artists working in the Art industry will be contractors, solo business owners, or working in small game/media companies.

Do you want to learn art so you can be rich and famous?

Oh man, go learn about business or go be a life-style vlogger. There are WAY better ways to become rich and famous than art. The time investment is too damn high.

It would prolly take you about 4 years to get really good at art to where you could be making decent money, and by decent I mean a modest living, definitely not yacht money. In comparison in 4 years you could start several online businesses and could be making 6 figures a year in about 2-4 years pretty easily.

And if you want fame you could easily become a little famous in about 2 years if you make several videos on youtube every week. Money and fame are not hard to come by these days. Our technology has made these things pretty easy to get. Look elsewhere in some other field.

Don’t get the wrong idea, I’m not trying to discourage you, I’m trying to save you.

That should get rid of most people.

That just leaves you and me. We’re a little fuckin crazy eh? We want to make art because we don’t have any other choice. We feel compelled to create art, and if we didn’t create art we feel like we would die. The ideas just come to us, they compel us to make them real. We don’t really have a choice in the matter.

So how the hell do you study art in the first place?

Here’s the holy grail of learning art right here, 2 years of knowledge I give you in two little paragraphs.

Here you go past self, now you don’t have to struggle like I did. (But I know you will. πŸ˜› )

Draw what you want to draw and that’s about it. As long as you’re having fun or losing yourself in your art, then keep drawing those things. Pay attention to what grips you, draw those things.

Don’t watch tutorials too much. Figure things out on your own as much as you can. Only watch tutorials when you absolutely don’t know how to do something in art.

Draw what you like to draw and be careful what you let people “teach” you about art. In 4-6 years you should be a pretty damn good artist.

Just keep going and don’t look back. And whatever you do, don’t stop drawing. Draw until you drop dead. Draw until your personal art dreams come true. If you can make even a few of your art dreams come true, that’s a good life, you could die happy. πŸ™‚


If you’re someone who needs explicit instructions then here’s a step by step guide:

1. Draw the things you like to draw, basically for the rest of your life (you will augment this first step with the following ones). Get a sketchbook and draw the things you like to draw in it everyday (or draw digitally with a tablet, it doesn’t matter. Just draw the things you like everyday!). Try and draw things from imagination as much as you can, but don’t be afraid to use reference if you don’t know how to draw something.

One last disclaimer: if the rest of these steps are boring to you or you dislike doing them, DO NOT DO THEM. The most important thing you can do when learning art is to draw the things you like to draw. That’s pretty much the golden rule of art: draw what you like. If studying is boring for you, then don’t study. Simple as that. Inevitably, you will want to study when you don’t know how to draw a specific thing and you will search for a way to draw that thing you don’t know how to draw. In this way your studying is self-directed. You will only study the things you need and/or want to study.

2. Find a few artists you really like and start tracing their pictures for 1-3 months. (Tracing means you trace over the lines of a picture you like. So get a piece of paper and put it over the drawing and trace the lines with a pencil. Or do this digitally by lowering the opacity of the original picture and tracing over it on a new layer above.) Try and do at least 1 tracing every day, ideally do about 3+ a day. However many you can do without burning out or going crazy, don’t force yourself. The reason you start tracing in the beginning is to cement in your mind what a proper drawing looks like. You’re trying to get correct proportions, anatomy, etc into your muscle memory so that way you will intuitively know what a correct drawing looks like. Eventually you will know how a head, body, eyes, etc should look when you draw them. (Remember to keep doing step 1 always!)

3. Start copying pictures from the artists you like for 6-12 months. (Copying means you put a piece of paper side by side to the picture you want to draw and draw it on the blank page without tracing. If you need a guide for how to copy check out Doxy’s tutorial on Copying or read the first few chapters of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.) Again, try and do at least 1 copy every day, ideally about 3+ a day. Same as #2, don’t burn yourself out. I would also recommend continuing to do 1 trace every day, so that makes 1 trace and 1 or more copies every day (by this point you should be able to knock out a tracing pretty quickly). The reason you are copying is the same as #2, you are trying to embed the knowledge of how a human body, head, tree, etc is supposed to look, into your subconscious/muscle memory. That’s all a master artist is, they’ve drawn things so much that their brain subconsciously simulates how a certain object is supposed to look.Β (Also, remember to keep doing step 1. Draw the things you like every day! Do at least 1 sketch a day of something you like to draw.)

I am of the opinion that tracing and copying pictures of artists you like for a year or two will get you more knowledge about art fundamentals than directed study. You will learn more by tracing and copying your first year or two than you ever would by taking an art class.

I can say at least for myself, from my personal experience of the last 2 years, I would have learned more by tracing and copying artists than all the classes I took these past 2 years. Maybe things would be different for you if you took classes, I can’t say. I’m just trying to save you some time, but ultimately it’s up to you to figure out your path in art. (Alongside drawing personal sketches of course, don’t forget this!)

4. Beyond this, the rest is up to you. You have to figure out your own learning style that works best for you. Some people can go to art school and learn very well, others do better with just a mentor, and still some can learn very well on their own just watching videos or reading books. Figure out what style of learning is best for you. Do not let people sway you from your interests in art, ESPECIALLY if they’re your teachers! Don’t watch too many videos, read too many books, or take too much advice because you will get information overload = analysis paralysis, then you have too much info and don’t know which advice is the best for you. (Regardless of which path you choose, remember to keep drawing the things you like everyday!)


If you want to understand how I came to these crazy ideas: Read “Mastery” by Robert Greene, listen to Sycra’s podcast, and read “The Art Spirit” by Robert Henri. Those 2 books and Sycra’s podcast have been a huge influence on me and helped me figure out what the hell I’m supposed to do in art.

I’ll leave you with a rant so I can really hammer it in your head what you need to remember.

Draw what you like to draw every day!

Never stop drawing your personal likes. Cling to your personal likes and interests in Art like your life depends on it. Because in fact, your soul does depend on it. If you like drawing lolis, then draw lolis. Become the fucking LOLI MASTER. Don’t draw “x” just because society tells you you have to draw “x”. Tell society to fuck off.

Your interests in art are your fucking soul man, don’t you DARE give that up for anybody and especially not because society tells you you shouldn’t draw something. Most of society doesn’t even draw, don’t listen to those artless fucks. Don’t stop drawing what you love to draw until death. Tell them if they want you to stop drawing the things you love to draw so much, they’re gonna have to kill you.

That’s it, good luck on your journey fellow Art wanderer. I’ll see you in 6 months or so when I learn everything I wrote in this article is bullshit! πŸ˜›

-JONRS, October 7, 2018

 

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Art Progress 1 Year Later (+advice for beginner artists)

February 12, 2018 By JONRS Leave a Comment

2018 EDIT: If you’re looking for advice as a beginner artist, do not read this article! This article has outdated information that I no longer believe in. I’ve updated my advice to beginner artists and you can read all about it here.Β  (I’m keeping this article up because I believed this shit at the time I wrote it and I hate when people don’t accept and respect the “wrong” viewpoints of their past selves. It also serves as a milestone for my progress, or something. There’s the ego putting it’s two cents in. πŸ˜› )Β  -JONRS, 2018


I should have wrote this article months ago. I started studying art in October of 2016. I’m a couple months late :X. I started writing the outline for this article as a timeline of how I progressed with art over the past year. I instantly regretted trying to make an outline. Instead I’m just going to show you where I am.

Also let me make it clear that this article is intended for people who don’t have the means to go to art school or simply don’t want to. This article is for the strugglers that choose to teach themselves art.

If you’re going to art school or have a teacher, don’t read this. If you’re unsure, get a teacher or go to school. It’s a lot safer and you won’t go insane like self-taught people do. πŸ˜›

The self taught path is for those of us who have no choice or seek self-mastery.

Pencil Art Progress

So I started my art journey with Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. I did the first exercises in the book and first tried to draw a side profile of one of my Guild Wars 2 characters from memory. Not even close hahahah. The second picture is a self-portrait I did with a mirror. I look like god damn Jabba the Hutt, HAAHHAHAHA!

Β 
Then I started doing Fun With a Pencil and I started to draw my crappy little cartoons again just like when I was a kid!


Fast forward 1 year and here I am doing sketches of anatomically incorrect classy bitches!

So I hope I’ve illustrated how good you can get (if you’re extremely undisciplined like me). If you draw everyday you will be light years ahead of me in your first year. πŸ˜€

Digital Art Progress

I went from being frustrated with digital drawing and spending hours trying to get the damn lines right… (and just ended up tracing her head).

To this:

I sketched the pose from imagination, used a posing doll to make sure I got the perspective somewhat passable, and actually colored the picture. My light and shadow knowledge is still pretty much non-existent but I still tried.

(If you want to see more of the progress you could make, check out my gallery! I’m going to upload most of my sketches and practice drawings over time.)

Decent progress for an undisciplined lazy fucker. If you are even slightly more motivated then me, you will make huge strides within your first year. Here’s the part where I tell you how to do better than I did my first year in art.

If I were to go back in time 1 year and tell myself how to study art correctly, here’s what I would say:

  • Study 1 subject for 2 weeks straight – Choose a topic of study and study it for 2 hours a day for 2 weeks. (If you can’t do 2 hours, start small. Just do 15 minutes a day and ratchet it up to 30 the next week and keep adding more time over the weeks.) Topics of study would be like: gesture, anatomy, eyes, hands, perspective, color, light and shadow, hair, etc… (Videos: watch this video by Xia Taptara, he’s a concept artist and this guy knows what he’s talking about.)
  • Do gesture drawings in the beginning to get used to drawing the human form and learn the correct proportions of the body – learn the size of the head+torso relative to legs, size of arms, etc. I still suffer with this sometimes. (Video tutorials: Proko and also REIQ have great videos, check out their channels!)
  • When drawing the figure, always draw all the features. – I mostly avoided hands and feet when doing gesture/figure drawing and now my hands and feet are pretty shitty. Don’t be dumb like me.
  • Draw lots of profiles from reference – You do this to learn how the human face and features look from different angles (I did this but I didn’t do it NEARLY enough as I should have). You have to know how to draw the face and its features from any angle.
  • Learn Perspective – I avoided perspective for almost a whole year because it looked scary, it’s actually pretty easy. Again, don’t be me please. (Videos: there are tons of great perspective videos and books out there. ORIANART has the best class I’ve seen about perspective although you have to pay for it. It’s worth the price, he explained perspective to me in a simple way that no one else could. Everyone else over complicates perspective. -_-)
  • Learn Light and Shadow basics – You can’t color pictures without understanding how light and shadows work. (Videos: again check youtube as there are tons of videos explaining light and shadow. I personally use ctrlpaint.com, lots of great videos to learn from there.)

TLDR: For your first year focus almost exclusively on figure drawing, faces, and a little bit of hair study wouldn’t hurt either. Once you feel comfortable drawing the human figure then branch out and learn light and shadow then you can move on to color and learn perspective when you want to start making environments for your characters. Don’t even attempt to learn anatomy unless you are very confident in your figure drawing abilities. Learning anatomy at this stage is a waste of time. You will learn more about the human body simply by doing gesture drawings and life drawings.

**** P.S. I forgot to mention this list is for people who’s goal in art is to do amazing figure drawing. For my case, I wanna draw teh animay tiddiez and I wanna draw them asap! If your goal is to be an environmental artist then I would say learn perspective first! Then move onto light and shadow, then learn color when you understand light. Then you can go paint your trees or whatever…

I’m separating these next two as they are infinitely more important than the others…

  • Draw doodles and random ideas in a sketchbook EVERY DAY. Just draw everyday. Doesn’t matter what. Just draw something.This is the top tier advice I would give to all beginner artists. Just draw every day for like 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, whatever you can manage. This is NON-NEGOTIABLE.

    In fact, you could probably disregard this whole list and just do this one thing and you will still be ahead of me today.

    Allow me to give you the sciencey reason for this.

    By drawing everyday (even if it’s just doodles or shitty art) you are making a cluster of neuronsΒ (devoted to art) in your brain stronger. The only difference between you, the fledgling artist, and a professional is that the professional artist has the equivalent of a god damn AI construct in their brain who’s sole purpose is to create art. The only way to create this Art Construct in your brain is to feed it everyday. It’s like a demon that grows in your brain the more you do art, and everyday you spend on art makes it stronger. If all this sounds like voodoo bullshit to you, go read Mastery by Robert Greene (That book should be required reading for anyone trying to master a skill).
  • Draw what you want to draw, even if you don’t know how to draw it correctly.
    If you wanna draw anime tiddiez, then draw anime tiddiez. Yes, even if you have no idea how to. It will be horrible and painful, believe me. But realize you will never learn how to do anything in life unless you fail miserably at it at first. Just like when you learned how to ride a bike (do kids still do that these days?) you fell and scraped your knees. When you first start drawing a new subject in art you will fail horribly at it. No one started out as an anime titty master. NO ONE. You are human, and humans are imperfect and riddled with errors. You are not perfect, get rid of this mentality. It all comes down to losing your ego (I’m going to write an article about this).

Okay, welp I think that about does it partner. Hopefully I imparted some wisdom to another artist who’s unsure what path to take when teaching yourself art. And if worst comes to worse at least this article will serve as a milestone so in the future people can see my humble beginnings. πŸ™‚

Good luck fellow wanderer!

-JONRS

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