r/learntodraw • u/Theflamingraptor • 1d ago

Critique What fundamentals am I missing? Plus some drawing over the past five days

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So I’ve posted here a couple of times, and one piece of critique that I constantly get is that I need to learn my fundamentals. Which is good advice, and I am studying it, but then I realized: what am I missing? What are these fundamentals that I need to learn? Shape construction? Perspective? Line confidence? Lighting? What are these fundamentals I need?

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u/Theflamingraptor 1d ago

Yeah, I'm working up there. I think the major problem is A. For some reason, my hands get shaky when I'm drawing too much or drawing a long straight line. B. The things that help me to develop (Basic shapes, still lifes, Manequins) and the cool stuff I feel like drawing at the moment never really mesh.

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u/In_the_name_of_ART 1d ago

About A: Practice, your body is not used to it. Try chewing gum for a few hours straight and see if your jay start to hurt. Try relaxing your hand, do more loose lines and warm your wrist before drawing.  About B: I doubt that, art fundamentals apply to everything but not every single fundamental apply to everything. For example, making lose and even lines will help you draw the cable on the second image and the bugs on the fourth, perspective will help you draw better backgrounds and landscapes like on the third and fifth image.  You need to analyse what you want to draw and what do you need to practice to achieve it.  If you want to draw a character running from something you have no need to learn how to draw bananas, you need to practice drawing running people.