Reddit reviews Sketching People: Life Drawing Basics

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I used the book Sketching people: Life drawing basics to learn the fundamentals but what really helped me progress was watching painting analysis on the nerd writer YouTube channel. It helped me understand that it's about representation , drawing an object or series of objects that looks like the thing your drawing, not pain stakingly growing the image line by line in the hopes you make a replica. Once I got that it was all a matter of practice

"Sketching People: Life Drawing Basics" by Jeff Milern was an absolute godsend for me. It put into plain english what many other books could not.

Also, I highly recommend "The Vilppu Drawing Manual" if you can get your hands on it. It's a bit costly, but might be found in a few public libraries if you're lucky. The Loomis books are brilliant as well, but are even harder to find. Luckily, there is a site that gives out the PDFs for free since they've been out of print for years. I recommend starting with "figure drawing for all it's worth".

The most important part is to never give up, no matter how shit you think your drawings are. It's something everyone goes through, and a real test of character. Draw everyday and the results will speak for themselves. You get out of it what you put into it.

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm" -- Winston Churchill