"Artistic Talent" Isn't talent at all. 

Before you get into a huff, let me explain.
Artistic Masters like Vincent Van Gogh, Salvador Dali, Leonardo da Vinci, none of them were born able to draw as they could when their lives ended. Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott FitzGerald, Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde et al didn't start out being masters of Writing. All of these people and anyone who enters a creative/artistic field, be it music, literature, visual arts, they all started out as beginners. The difference between them and everyone else is that they spent their lives honing their craft. Training in their field. I constantly see people comparing their art to that of people generally older and more experienced than them and coming away self-loathing because they aren't as good as their idol. The Idols have largely put in more time and study.

Excelling at visual art involves putting time into your art. More than just time dreaming, drawing, and coloring is the time spent studying. Da Vinci cut open cadavers as part of his quest to to learn anatomy. For every great painting he did studies of all the subjects, be they animals, adults or children in paper before his brush ever touched canvas. If you want to be a great artist you have to be open to learning and to spending hours upon hours with your nose in books, gathering references, and then finally drawing. There are so many elements to drawing and painting and all must eventually be acknowledged. Lighting, perspective, shading, color theory, anatomy, composition, the list goes on. The more one puts into each of these fields, the better their results become.

I have been drawing almost every day for 11 years now and I still have a lot to learn. I am still nowhere near as good as many of the artists I idolize, but I don't let it stop me. I let it inspire me to keep working. Keep clawing my way up the artistic ladder.

. I started drawing at 14. Why did I start so late, you ask? Because my hands shake horrendously and back then I couldn't control how much pressure I put on a pencil. My fine motor skills are damaged. I couldn't tie my shoes until I was 7 because of the shakes.  This is what my art looked like in 2006, a little over a year after I started drawing. It was awful. I was trying to illustrate a story a former friend and I were RPing. People told me it was crap, and I cried, a lot. No one cared about my doodles because they weren't good..

Helpful Journals- 
Tutorials master listCian’s giant Tutorial and reference journal – sticking stuff I use here and hoping it helps
Thank you to everyone who has made this amazing resources, I am awed and grateful for your work
Human anatomy-
https://www.posespace.com/posetool/default.aspx
http://www.artmodeltips.com/poses/
https://mamoonart.deviantart.com/gallery/59815096/simplified-anatomy
https://fralea.deviantart.com/gallery/55117941/G-studies
Extra – Genders and Body types

Extra – Facial Features
Eye Tutorial by GlassLotuses Tutorial - Semi realistic eye by Velsinte :thum An organized list of tutorials
Illegitimi non CarborundumIn English, "Don't let the bastards get you down.
Criticism is something all artists, regardless of medium have to deal with eventually. While it can be a helpful tool for growth, it can also be demoralizing, especially when the criticism isn't constructive. It's hard to take and sometimes, hard to not want to give up art all together. What you need to remember is that if you give up, they win. You have to learn to take the constructive criticism from good critics and to not let the nasty people stop you from taking help.
How do I know this?
Honestly, I have been fighting criticism since I began, but the worst came from someone who I thought of as family....
My Godmother is a locally "famous" painter, and has been for most of her 70 year life. http://holde-stubenrauch.de/werke/
I wanted to learn how to paint traditionally so my mom had me do a few lessons with  her. The first lesson was spent telling me everything I was doing wrong with no effort to help correct it, yelling fA journal about criticism and being compassionate
For your considerationRequests. They are the bane of a professional artist's existence. Someone you don't know comes to your gallery, or stream and decides to ask if you'll draw something for them for free. You try to be polite and explain that you need to make money from your art. They, in turn, get angry, calling you 8 different kinds of selfish when you point out that you need money to live. It's frustrating because they don't understand what they're asking.
What's the problem with asking for requests, some of you will query. It doesn't cost anything to make the art. It doesn't seem unreasonable. What is often forgotten is art takes time. And as the saying goes, Time is Money. Many of us who get requests have been working for years on our art.
 We study all of the things that the people who make the requests are too busy, too lazy, or too overwhelmed to do themselves. If our art wasn't some how superior in technique, be it color, composition, anatomy, or any other aspect, you wouldn't be asking - About requests and why one shouldn't ask unless prompted
 Sharing Some of my photos and amassed Reference for use


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