The 10 year progress charts many Japanese artists have lately taken to creating demonstrate perfectly the adage that “practice makes perfect” – and provide more than a little encouragement for aspiring artists to hang in there and keep practicing, as mastery may be as much a matter of perseverance as of talent:
Some of the artists featured clearly started their charts at a high level of skill, but even here modest improvements are evident, along with some quite interesting changes in style.
Others have risen from crude doodlers to popular artists in the same period, though elsewhere certain notable cautionary tales abound as well.
Love this one:
http://chan.sankakucomplex.com/post/show/915298
I didnt see them get better any where.
wrong. its not about practise at all. did you notice all of them has shitty drawings for the most time, than suddenly in the last two years they become really good like making a really big step forward. THAT is alone because of the theoretical knowledge they obtained, practise has nothing to do with it. without the knowledge they would draw another 10 years very bad
ofc you need some time to test your knowledge, but without it practise is even completly useless
And how they obtained that knowledge? Out of thin air? Surely not with practice, or you’d be talking bs!
doesnt matter when it was that they make a kind of big step forward, but fact is they become suddenly good for understanding something, not for practise
Knowledge without practice is worthless, and you gain knowledge through practice.
I gave it a shot. With Hatsune Miku box cover art as the model (pen+eraser only, watching at the screen). Took me a bit more than 4 hours (was changing everything all the time. Always unsatisfied (>_<).
http://ikelepte.deviantart.com/#/d48e463
I am pleased by the final result. But it stills only copying and I will need more anatomy knowledge to do a proper original word.
Anyway, I never draw in my life so I am happy that it came out well enough for me (even though, it's just plagiarism)
Practicing for 30 minutes a day for 3 years…
It seems like I’m on schedule XD