how many of you painters learned to draw before you tried putting real time into digipainting

i mean drawing as in serious drawing you get taught,
looking for contours and foreshortening and being able to translate what you see to a page not just cartoonish/stylized stuff

I digitalpainted some before I started drawing, and based on that, I think everyone should start of drawing first.

i personally started digital painting before i could draw and understand what it was i was drawing

big mistake.

I started drawing first. I've done my share of contour drawings and learning to draw using negative space. I'm still bad though.

digipainting for just fuxing around at first... its what truly got me into art and wanting art school now lol

I took a couple drawing classes in high school & I bought a tablet back like 4 years ago but I barely started using it just recently... like really recently.... and its a lot of fun, although I'm not very good right now I enjoy it I'm better at drawing than digi painting but there's a lot of things u can do on photoshop that u can't do with pencil

Never got into digipainting and my drawing skills suck. But i did a little drawing year or two back and it was fun.

good point TRM, lots of these guys are starting digipainting threads when they cant even draw a cube in space. Painting is an extension of drawing IMO



as for me, i drew long time and dabbled in digipainting last year and a bit this year, i consider my drawing skills at a far higher level than my digipainting skillls

i personally hate drawing but i understand it and realize how hard it is to draw the simplest shit while looking at it so its crazy to see people who start with just hobby digipainting

yea its not for everyone

but in my own probably biased opinion, figure drawing is the foundation of all objective art, they say if you can draw the figure, everything else becomes easy


Its really very humbling when you try sketching in a coffee shop or go to a quick pose figure drawing session and realize how much practice it takes. Its even more humbling when you look at old masters or comic book artists and try to pull a posed figure out of your mind as they did