Practice Stamp by Zombie-Faerie

Ach. Practice is important, but more than that is study. Practice without direction is not going to teach; unfortunately lots of people forget that part.
I could practice reaction mechanism diagrams all day, every day, for the next year. That doesn't mean I'll get better if I don't know what they mean. Same way, drawing is about learning and studying. Practice is a form of study, but it won't get you fat if you're trying to draw fantasy from fantasy. You need to study the real world to begin conjuring.
Even in most fantasy settings, there are rules to magic, and if artists can be called wizards, they need teaching to become great.

verry passive aggressive

Never be afraid of the pencil!!

I draw since i was 3 years old

I'm too lazy to learn to draw actually. I dunno how you all have patience to spend several hours SKETCHING shit.

So many butthurt comments... -_-

I guess it doesn't have too much about being a "cry baby" as much as it does with low self-confidence, low self-esteem and believing in myths like "talent" and "I wish I could've do it sooner instead of [insert anything here]".

I once also find this stamp to be offensive, but not because I thought you were trying to mock me or something: it's because I felt myself so "powerless", so "useless" and having nothing of value to offer to deviantART like the artists I watched, which had all that favorites, comments, pageviews and fantastic, eye candy art that I thought I'd never be able to be like them.

Recently, after reading many articles and self-help books, I suddenly decided to take courage and take my chances at drawing. The tutorial I'm practising with now is this one about manual skills - design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/…

"If there is a way to be perfect, it's to stop trying. You must understand that no matter how good you are at drawing, it will not make you a better, more valuable person than you are now. It's also true from the other side—no matter how bad you are at drawing, it doesn't make you less worthy.", is one of the quotes of the tutorial.

However, I read first about her article talking about dealing with criticism, which inspired me to create this journal dedicated to people who have dealt or have been dealing with attaching their self-esteem to their works - fav.me/db12029

Revisiting this stamp, I read like this: "I can't draw!" Stop demanding so much of yourself. Pick up a pencil and dare to prove yourself to yourself!

Bruh

I'm using this

Thank you. 

Holy crud, this totally relates to me because I recently gave some advice to someone about drawing (don't use bases, learn about anatomy, etc.) and they got pretty mad at me, saying that I was a troll and that I was DEMANDING they follow my advice, when I did not at all. I then noticed that they previously had stolen art before and gave the excuse of "I can't draw though! *cries*". I told them that they CAN, in fact, draw, considering the fact that the excuses she held for "not drawing" such as "I have a curfew" and "I get made fun of for my drawings", and they just hid my comments in the end. What's the point in saying that you suck at drawing if 90% of your entire gallery consists of colorings over bases and line art?

By the way, they're selling line art that someone else made as adoptables; they just colored in the line art... Is that illegal?

I don't understand: I can't use this stamp because i'm not a Core member??? This is a little bit extreme... i mean why would you forbid us to use it if a lot of others allow their stamps to be used by non-core member???

completely true

Using!

thank you!
*uses stamp*

lmao at all the butthurt people in the comments.

because art is such an immediate thing- as in you look at it and can process it in a few seconds- people assume that it's easy and quick to do when it actually takes years of work. you can't complain about being shit if you don't put in the effort in the first place.

THANK YOU

For fuck sake why do people say that but their in DA?

: )

I find this very offensive.

people tell me this all the time and it honestly pisses me the fuck off! just shut up and draw, stop comparing yourself to other people all the time!!! i had to practice to get where i am today, i sure as hell didn't magically become good overnight. hell, i still have a loooonngg ways to go in terms of improvement.

If you can put a dot on a paper, that's technically drawing //shot

Seems a little harsh, but I agree with this a lot.

I agree and I don't.

I've tried for over 15 years to draw humans well, and I just simply can't.
HOWEVER; I have gotten really good at drawing just about any animal in the world. And that was from many years of practicing.

The people who steal art because 'they like the artist's style and they could never do that. They steal because they want the artists' popularity' is a bitch-poor excuse.
Those are the people who need to see this stamp.