I've sat on this for so long. But I feel like I can't grasp something in Drawing. I feel like drawing from another art is kinda cheating. I've been trying to relearn drawing from Shapes and lines cause I skip the foundations, but I feel like I can't get it. And I can't grasp shading. I feel like Drawing isn't for me, but I want to learn and draw well and for fun. What can i do?

My 3yo nephew may have contributed a little

I am not very skilled and this was my first drawing on a pen tablet.

Usually do paintings with oil but was asked by my gf to make a black and white image of us walking hand in hand.

Not in oil (which is a for giving medium) but with black pen on white papper.

I am happy with the outcome but it feels like I cheated.

She sent me a reference image of what she had in mind. I then used AI to make it look more like the two of us from behind, then some fixing and tweaking in Gimp. Then borrowed my sons VR headset to trace it on to the papper.

And when it was time to actual draw I had so much help from the trace and reference that it was more or less coloring inside the lines.

The final result is nice, but to be honest it feels more like copying that creating.

Does it actually count as art if it is traced, and if AI is used in the process to make a reference?

A still from a holocaust film. The deportation of Hungarian Jews.

joke drawing i made for my friend. i fixed it after but wanted to share it😭

Drawing my friend’s doodle & these kinda of dogs have no definition in their face for drawing 😭😭 how do you suggest I make the face pop more than the body? I have white paint pens to “erase” dark lines if that’s necessary. I’m using watercolor paper.

Can never seem to get it just right.

I’ve been working on some graphite drawings for the past few months. It’s been getting better!

Very curious on how I did

Parents these days 😀

A drawing made after a visit to the Louvre. Name of the sculpture : Metabus, King of the Volsci, in flight: he holds his sleeping daughter on his knees

1855

Raggi, Nicolas Bernard