curious

[sinsfire]

this question is mostly for hawk but i welcome other opinions as well. i was wondering how much of drawing is something you can learn and how much of it is just born talent. i would love to learn how to draw, i'm not trying to do anything this massive but i would love to be able to do simple portraits and things. i know i need to take a lot of time and just keep practicing, but i am wondering if anything can be learned/taught or if it is just natural talent. anyone please feel free to weigh in, thanks.

matt

[Jenx]

Oh..well that, I`d say, is kind of a personal view. From what I`ve seen, a person who doesn`t have natural talent for drawing, can still learn how to draw fairly good, but he needed to work really really harder then everyone else. So my guess is that talent COULD be compensated with tons of flippin` practice and hard work (wasn`t there some such concept in Naruto??). But of course, that`s my point of view. I wonna hear what Hawk thinks about it too.

[contro]

I would say that it's both.  Some are born to draw, and others just pick it up from learning.  The way I learned was tryin' to draw a cartoon character and do it exactly like the original design...that helped me with observational skills...I think Hawk would agree that you just need to be observant when you draw, the details and whatnot.

[Gabriel006]

People always ask me how to draw well and the only answer is with a ton of practice.
My dad's side of the family is extremely artistic and i get a ton of natural talent from them, but the only way to become your own artist with your own styles is to draw all the time: my school notebook is covered with little doodles and stuff.
Natural talent is always a plus, but anybody who works hard can make awesome drawings.
Like my best friend, he's prolly gonna hate me for saying this, but he has little to no natural artistic talent but he's been drawing for as long as i have and he has some awesome pictures.

Either way, practice is all that you need to get good.

[Rook]

howdy! this is my fist post so i hope i dont sound too pretentious...

...but i don't think drawing comes naturally at all. I think the ability to learn an art form (or the dedication that goes with learning one) is what comes naturally to some people, and is what becomes "the talent". But not the ability to be naturally good at a specific art form (such as drawing, or playing guitar).

Here's some reading material which i found very inspirational also: Creating passionate users: How to be an expert!



Cheers,

Rookie.