How well do you draw?

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I've always loved to draw, it's talent and love that I've had for as long as I can remember. But I am a cartoonist, so I won't be painting detailed portraits of real people that become the next Mona Lisa anytime soon.

According to what I recently read on wiki, if I thought the company of other teens was a huge screaming deal like most NT ones do, my talent and creativity might not have developed any further. That's a scary thought, although I was able to draw better than the average tween. Even so my mother and some other adults used to think I was too obsessed with drawing cartoons and wanted me to take on "real" artwork like painting landscapes or whatever. A "psychologist" even said my wanting to stick with cartooning was like a baby at the crawling stage who decides they don't want to learn to walk. I thought that was really stupid. I mean, do people ever tell someone who is really good at playing the piano they should suddenly start playing the guitar? I guess they thought I would be a failure at becoming a cartoonist.

I'm okay as well and I draw because it's very therapeutic for me and helps me enough. My parents and my teachers also found it weird how I was always so fixated on drawing human figures, and I guess they could be considered cartoonish. I honestly didn't see why it was a big deal since I wasn't hurting anyone.

I'm not great at it, which used to frustrate me to no end because I can create beautiful images in my mind - I just can't translate them to paper. Then I found digital photography and image manipulation.

I'm awful at drawing.

it is for me too, and a lot of people. with paint, you're not holding a fine point like a pencil that you can move very finely with your hands where you have complete control, and instead a mouse, a plastic blob where the path from hand movement to line is much more indirect. trackpads are even worse.



that's one of the inherent difficulties of drawing from imagination. you have a finished product in your mind, and you don't know how to begin the process of translating it to paper. the exact details can be widely variable - a thought is always going to be much more amorphous than an image or real life because you can't see it.

i find it helps to imagine your image as a collection of very simple geometric shapes and lines first, and very gradually add shapes and detail to that initial "skeleton".

as for me, i'm a hell of a lot better at drawing with pencil than i was even one year ago, but i feel like my watercolor painting has gotten a bit rusty. probably because i've put that aside after i enthralled myself at just how much i've improved in pencil.

i can look at drawings from 2013 and they seem completely foreign to me.

Always been a decent drawer, never thought it was ever much about manual dexterity but more on whether one can see how light is meant to fall on a 3D object. Still consider myself learning, but people often ask whether I sell my artwork and seem indignant when I tell them no.

I can draw blood ....that's about it!

My sketch work is decent enough but my linework is horrible. I always end up making mistakes.