Post #1954086

2026-05-02 17:20 UTC

@eri @AmyZenunim this is a good skill to learn for art, but imo i wouldn't tell an absolute beginner to art to learn this. there are art skills that i think are more fundamental than perspective & observational drawing (how do you freehand draw straight lines? how do you draw a circle? how do you make color palettes that don't look like shit? if you're doing digital art, how do you get familiar with the UI?) and you can learn those skills by drawing basically anything, so it might as well be things you like

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@EeveeEuphoria@social.translunar.academy 2026-05-02 17:25

@leafeon @eri @AmyZenunim really i got by with many years of "just winging it". could my art skills have improved faster if i learned the "proper" methods? sure, maybe. but then i wouldn't be an artist, i would've given up long ago if i forced myself to learn the basics ...it does also help i use a vector program instead of traditional raster, meaning i don't have to learn how to draw a straight line, or a circle, i can just smudge my art until it gives me what i want. or i just draw a line and a circle in 1 second using the tools given to me lol

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@QuanZillan@thicc.horse 2026-05-02 17:38

@leafeon @eri @AmyZenunim The interaction present is would be like telling someone that wants to get into still live drawing with zero experience "don't do still lifes, first do Draw a Box". Some people may benefit from a rigid structured learn plan with explicit skill checkpoints. However, shooting someone who may learn better through free-form hands on expeirences and naturally discovering why ABC is important to XYZ is how you kill someone's intrisic interest in something.

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