@@ragemachinist good summary! Thanks for writing this out c:

It's never too late! Plus, those 700 things can just be you finding out what you want to start with and apply hehe c:

You're welcome! I'm glad its useful! Good luck on your portrait drawing!

I'm glad they resonated! c:

I hear you, it can be scary to jump into it especially if you know you'll make some mistakes, and it's also scary to learn to embrace those mistakes, but! along the journey you'll get better and better, more comfy with error!

Thanks! Absolutely, honestly the most crucial thing I've learnt so far is to bend the rules even when making a study, it held me back a lot too - made things more unfun for me and then I avoided it.

Why do you think that?

You can use that definition of self taught, but it's your own. Autodidact is just the greek translation of self teaching, it does not mean "to use no outside resources to learn" it means to learn without the guidance of schoolmasters (i.e., teachers, professors, institutions).

@@NexyiaArt KZbin tutorials are online classes in a way😅

​​@@mykellederickpalad7883 While I can see what you're saying, and you’re right when you say that they're essentially online classes, you have to consider that a course is what we pay for when it comes to art school. And, as you already know, they're made up of more than several classes containing different methods and topics. That's a huge difference in comparison to sitting down at home, opening KZbin and choosing an erray of videos that might only give you very limited information that allows you to scratch just the surface of, let's say, anatomy. The legs? Arms? Eyes? Muscle placement and bone structure? As a beginner, it's overwhelming and difficult to know where to start and how to conduct the way you study as well as practice, not to mention- effectively. There's only you, the student, and that person's video you're watching that doesn't know who you are and can't exactly push you in the right direction like a teacher and mentor would. So, I mean, in the end, you are self-taught because the free resources you have would still mean nothing if you don't know how to understand any of it. You're teaching your own self how to do that and I think that should be validated (as a self-taught artist). :)

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Thanks for letting me know! I'll be more aware of it in future. If there's anything you'd like me to go over, let me know!

That doesn't mean you can't teach yourself, plenty of professional artists out there that are self taught

Absolutely! When I was at Art School we had weekly Crit sessions as well as just generally always bouncing around helping each other. But, this doesn't mean you can't find feedback from others while being self taught! There are also ways to give yourself critique. Active feedback definitely exists! In areas where you can judge objective accuracy - like perspective or proportion, you can always find creative ways to critique yourself.

That's a really good idea! I may try that myself, a good way of tracking time.

Thank you so much!

Awesome! It's crazy how the right practice can drastically improve your art, or any skill really. Keep at it! It's exciting to hear other artists improve c:

Thank you! I can only hope to reign for almost 1500 years just as the Romans did.

Nice! I'm happy it helped you!

Thank you! I'm glad you found it too, I hope you continue to make art AND do youtube! c:

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