{"id":518,"date":"2014-05-03T07:04:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T07:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/in-which-i-attempt-to-ask-the-most-overused\/"},"modified":"2014-05-03T07:04:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T07:04:51","slug":"in-which-i-attempt-to-ask-the-most-overused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/in-which-i-attempt-to-ask-the-most-overused\/","title":{"rendered":"in which i attempt to ask the most overused question of all time: how did you learn to draw? and then there&#8217;s a follow-up: where can i learn to do that?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/incidentalcomics.tumblr.com\/post\/84548023723\/in-which-i-attempt-to-ask-the-most-overused\">incidentalcomics<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Great question! Unfortunately, I haven\u2019t taken any art classes, aside from a couple in high school and middle school. I got angry when my 7th grade art teacher told me my drawings of hands relied too heavily on outline, but I think she was probably right.<\/p>\n<p>I learned to draw comics by studying the work of cartoonists I admired. I\u2019ve been most influenced by the loose, expressive drawings of Roz Chast and the precise, minimally designed panels of Tom Gauld. I think that drawing style and ability is fluid &#8211; it changes drastically over the course of a career, and sometimes over the course of a single comic strip. I try to constantly search for new visual influences to inspire my drawings, and I still get frustrated at my artistic limitations.<\/p>\n<p><span>My best advice is to become a connoisseur of color, composition, and line quality.\u00a0Hopefully by trying to draw like a few different people at once, you\u2019ll end up drawing like yourself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/1feeb6bd2658a6c04dd6095bca0082d6\/tumblr_inline_n4yrwmwhSC1qktq7v.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><p>Wise advise on how to learn! #ds106<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>incidentalcomics: Great question! Unfortunately, I haven\u2019t taken any art classes, aside from a couple in high school and middle school. I got angry when my 7th grade art teacher told me my drawings of hands relied too heavily on outline, but I think she was probably right. I learned to draw comics by studying the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}