Hey guys. I and probably a lot of people here are trying to really get into art but we have a lot of rough spots we struggle in (sketching, shading, photography, painting, etc.) and after seeing all of your work I wanted to make this thread.

If you pro artists out there have any tips or if any newer artists need some help then let's all post it here and help each other out!

https://www.youtube.com/user/ProkoTV
This guy does some great tutorials. I highly recommend.

Anyone ever seen Mark Crilley? He's an American manga-ish artist, he has all sorts of tutorials but mostly a bunch of anime ones for anyone interested in the anime/manga art styles and even has a couple books for learning to draw and seeing what can come out of the lessons he gives.

The question really is what type of art do you like the most? I mean, if you like to draw anime, or if you like to draw realistic or rough sketch or traditional vs digital media, it all has to been taken into account and there are a quite a few differences between them. However, practicing the basics will make you better in every single one of them. Colour theory, composition, scale (texture size, object size, colour), lighting, perspectives. If you practice all of those, you should be fine in anything really.

There are specific studies that you can do for each. E.g you could try just use black and white to practice lighting, you could try pick colours from a certain painting just using your eye alone and trying to recreate that.

You aren't going to become professional overnight, but using references is key in basically all of art I think. Once you copy from references enough, you will eventually be able to draw from mental images and draw them.

I would recommend youtube channel sycra to learn art. Start with the video `what advice I would give if I start from scratch` I think was the name and `intricate drawing` I think these names are wrong but just look up that channel its really usefull. Oh by the way I think mark crilley won't help you that much on learning how to draw since what he teaches `is how to create this specific image` this sounds kinda awefull but he won't teach you to get your skills better.

My own advice would be draw a lot and research a lot. Don't treasure your drawings that much, if you draw a good image once then keep drawing untill that good becomes a normall skill. If you get satisfied with just one good drawing per day then you wont improve as much.

But most importantly have fun