Interesting to see the process other people use to learn how to draw. I’ve never attended classes so I’ve never came across such techniques that teach you one step at a time.
The downside is that I want to start some Medium posts or video classes to teach others but I have no idea where to start. This is what happens when your learning process is nonlinear. I’d say that I jumped from shadows to learn how to see (the first being a joy to do when you buy your first set of pencils from HB to 8B and a smudge tool, the second being the most important skill to draw), then chiaroscuro, ignored contour and composition completely to learn them along the way and the last thing was dexterity because deep inside I knew that like athletes, our bodies never stop learning movements and our muscle can learn and relearn stuff so if you want to master some crazy hand control BEFORE you start to learn the other items you’ll get insanely frustrated because that’s a never ending process. You’ll never think you’re good enough to learn other steps.
This is where that very common comment from people who don’t know how to draw come from. “…And I can’t even draw a circle/straight line”. They think that dexterity is the most important skill to draw, when it’s not, and that you must have some otherworldly hand control before you start. Guess what? I can’t draw a straight line or circle either. I suck at dexterity.
Also, the way I learned was completely different because I forced myself to learn in a way I could use with different materials. So far, graphite pencils and ballpoint pens are “ok”, currently learning with colored pencils and will go to pastels and oils at some point. Not only I wanted to learn how to draw, I also wanted to learn how to relearn so I can use different stuff.
And please tell us what did you use to make these cool animations!
