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Teaching yourself to draw [Part 1: Stylizing]Practice, they say. So you go and draw more, right? Sounds easy! A few months later, and look - you're better at drawing. Cats. Or dragons. Or whatever your poison of choice happens to be.
But now you want to draw something else.
So you start alllll over again. Great.
The problem with all those guides floating around (you know the kind; the title is 'Magic tip to become an awesome artist," and there's a clickthrough, and it says something along the lines of 'draw more.') is that they're missing something very essential that people who got a great art education to start with never had a problem with. Most of the young/new artists out there who are having problems learning to draw (I'm still a new artist myself; but I think I've got the learning part down now - otherwise I wouldn't bother writing this...) are approaching things from a strange direction; they're learning from observing Manga or MLP or other people's art, but they want to draw other stuff too. Unfortunately, a lot of them

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Art Tutorial: Critiqueby =Xadrea

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Sorry about the text walls on this ;__; but that was the only way to present the topic clearly! Anywho, if you have any questions, feel free to ask!

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*Nuei May 11, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I fully agree with this, thank you for uploading such an informative and objective tutorial! Critiques always seem very easy and straight forward to me, but many many people have no idea what they even mean and end up doing it completly wrong and useless.

~CyclopBunny Apr 18, 2013 Student General Artist

Oh wow! Please critique something from my gallery! You're so good at it!

*BigShinyRobot Jan 7, 2013 Student Traditional Artist

I usually do something like this, but your explanations and the example really showed me how to write better ones that don't sound as wishy-washy. I use a lot of "perhaps you could try" or if someone is asking outright for advice, I say "I recommend" (I read a different critique tutorial that says "I" and other personal pronouns should be left out of critiques).

=Xadrea Jan 8, 2013 Student Traditional Artist

I think critique is one of those things you gotta keep doing to get better and better at it

One thing I found out while I was getting my undergrad was that writers and photographers seemed to find it easier to critique visual art than us visual artists

I think it has a lot to do with simply being objective, and that's sooo hard to do if you had your hands on the work, or if you understand certain processes well