I looked at multidraw, but it excludes original art, which isn't great for just practicing, also the prompts seem to kind of suck. I mean, the latest prompt is "Any and all book fandoms! Character portraits, canon scenes, whatever.", the ones before that "minor characters", and "television".
I'm starting to wonder though whether just general prompts are really that helpful. I mean, if it was just about that I could just take fanart100 table or any other prompt list out there and try to do a drawing a day. The problem is that I don't really want to do a drawing prompted by "brown" or "middle" or whatever. And it's not that I don't have ideas for art, I have a whole list of fanart ideas I want to do eventually, the real problem is that I'm not practiced enough to make drawing my ideas effortless fun, so any elaborate thing goes like this:
I have a cool idea, I do some thumbnail doodling, realize that I have no idea how to draw that movement or expression or perspective or whatever, I get stuck with the half-finished stick figure that pointed out to me that I fail at drawing a foreshortenend hand for example which I'd need to make that drawing work. I get frustrated and get back to reading some fanfic instead. Some time later I gather my resolve and browse through drawing books to get a clue how to fix my problem or do a bunch of google image searches and browsing through books in the hope of finding some reference I could use, try again, fail again, get discouraged, do something else, rinse and repeat. Which kind of explains why I only post fanart every couple of months.
I think what I really need to get back into drawing would something that works somewhat like a classroom setting with drawing exercises, though not necessarily as formal. Like, the last time I managed to practice regularly was when I met weekly with a group of others at my university who also liked to draw for fun without being art students, and we drew and practiced together. I'm guess I'm looking for the online equivalent. We'd meet, and posed for each other in different positions (with he clothes on though, heh *g*) or pick some chapter from a drawing book that explained something and practiced that, that kind of thing. There was no formal commitment or anything making drawing stressful homework because it wasn't an art class, and you theoretically you could just not draw or skip coming, but it still really worked as incentive.
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I'm starting to wonder though whether just general prompts are really that helpful. I mean, if it was just about that I could just take fanart100 table or any other prompt list out there and try to do a drawing a day. The problem is that I don't really want to do a drawing prompted by "brown" or "middle" or whatever. And it's not that I don't have ideas for art, I have a whole list of fanart ideas I want to do eventually, the real problem is that I'm not practiced enough to make drawing my ideas effortless fun, so any elaborate thing goes like this:
I have a cool idea, I do some thumbnail doodling, realize that I have no idea how to draw that movement or expression or perspective or whatever, I get stuck with the half-finished stick figure that pointed out to me that I fail at drawing a foreshortenend hand for example which I'd need to make that drawing work. I get frustrated and get back to reading some fanfic instead. Some time later I gather my resolve and browse through drawing books to get a clue how to fix my problem or do a bunch of google image searches and browsing through books in the hope of finding some reference I could use, try again, fail again, get discouraged, do something else, rinse and repeat. Which kind of explains why I only post fanart every couple of months.
I think what I really need to get back into drawing would something that works somewhat like a classroom setting with drawing exercises, though not necessarily as formal. Like, the last time I managed to practice regularly was when I met weekly with a group of others at my university who also liked to draw for fun without being art students, and we drew and practiced together. I'm guess I'm looking for the online equivalent. We'd meet, and posed for each other in different positions (with he clothes on though, heh *g*) or pick some chapter from a drawing book that explained something and practiced that, that kind of thing. There was no formal commitment or anything making drawing stressful homework because it wasn't an art class, and you theoretically you could just not draw or skip coming, but it still really worked as incentive.