Calling all people who can't draw

[KefkaCultist]

I can draw an anime/manga style but its pretty limited and I suck at hands and feet (getting better at the hands though) and I suck horribly at shading. I don't have any art on hand or any way to upload it or I would post something on here.

I just had to draw a scene from Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus for a class and drew Lavinia after she gets raped by Chiron and Demetrius. It looked pretty good except for the feet, but the hands were nothing to worry about obviously (people that know the play will get that comment).

 

[Betancore]

I have very limited abilities when it comes to drawing. I work it all out in my head and I always figure that my hands will be able to do it, but as soon as I put pencil to paper, it just comes out looking all wrong.

 

[Yokai]

<- Artist.

It takes practice, just following a guide isn't going to get you results instantly. Drawing isn't assembling a desk there's more to it. Keep playing with it, keep a loose grip on your pencil and just make lighter looser shapes and then detail it up and eventually something will come out of it.

It should be like assembling a desk.

But then everyone's drawings would look the same...don't follow step-by-step guides; don't trace; just really try and focus on what you want it to look like and don't be afraid to draw the same thing a few dozen times.

 

[SimuLord]

I can't even rip off XKCD---my stick figure skills are lacking.

When I was in fourth grade I had to take an art class---and the art teacher sent a letter home to my mother suggesting that she have me evaluated for mental retardation because when he looked at my art he thought I had the cognitive ability of an infant. (my mom flipped her shit and got the guy fired.)

 

[Cheery Lunatic]

I can't even draw a damn circle.

I drew a cat once, someone asked me if it was a tree.

 

[Glaive_21842]

I have no grasp of depth in drawing. Of course thats not my only problem, but its probably my biggest, most easilly defined one outside of not knowing what i'm doing.

 

[spartan1077]

I can't even rip off XKCD---my stick figure skills are lacking.

When I was in fourth grade I had to take an art class---and the art teacher sent a letter home to my mother suggesting that she have me evaluated for mental retardation because when he looked at my art he thought I had the cognitive ability of an infant. (my mom flipped her shit and got the guy fired.)

Damn it you made me lol in public

I can't even draw a damn circle.

I drew a cat once, someone asked me if it was a tree.

Ya those cat trees are convincing I can't draw a circle either. I always have some line that makes it look like the circle has a tumor

 

[Swifteye]

I can't draw at all. I can form grand detailed images in my mind, but my hands just can't translate it to paper. Also have horrible handwriting.

Hey I'm exactly the same. I can't tell you how clear things look inside my mind but I would need like some sort of divine powers or robot devil hands to ever make it real by my skill alone. I just write the stuff hoping to one day wrangle in an artist willing to do time with my work.

 

[Snotnarok]

<- Artist.

It takes practice, just following a guide isn't going to get you results instantly. Drawing isn't assembling a desk there's more to it. Keep playing with it, keep a loose grip on your pencil and just make lighter looser shapes and then detail it up and eventually something will come out of it.

It should be like assembling a desk.

D: That'd hardly be fun, there'd be a lot of "that's what she said jokes".

 

[Jazzyjazz2323]

I cannot draw to save my life,everything i do is awful and total shit but i can paint god i can paint like a ************ yet i cant draw and it pisses me off.

 

[ottenni]

I remember that as a kid i was not able to successfully draw a triangle. Good times.

Nowadays my triangle drawing skills are much improved, i still cant draw for shit though. In fact my year 11 chemistry teacher told me i was the second worst drawer he had ever seen because of how bad my diagrams where. Thats pretty bad, thats like having a doctor tell you your handwriting is bad.

 

[Dags90]

I used to draw pretty well when I was younger, I took art lessons and everything. Definitely above average. But my brother was much more artistically gifted than I was, so I gave up that hobby because he would always be better than me.

I remember when I was about 11 I made a really awesome drawing of a dude skiing towards the viewer. Sketch was lost at some point. Foreshortening is a *****.

 

[Nikki Fallingstar]

In relation to pencil and paper... I'm about one step up from stick figures... I don't know... In photoshop I can make grand things, but my physical drawing skill is more than lacking. But, my handwriting is terrible too, so it might just be my hands...

 

[Marik2]

I can't draw at all. I can form grand detailed images in my mind, but my hands just can't translate it to paper. Also have horrible handwriting.

Im in the same boat as you

I also have trouble communicating my story ideas into words...

 

[[Gavo]]

I can't draw at all. I can form grand detailed images in my mind, but my hands just can't translate it to paper. Also have horrible handwriting.

QFT. If I could draw well....one can dream, no?

 

[Eumersian]

I can only draw specific things, like band logos and the like. When it comes to creativity, I simply can't draw anything well. I can do lost of other creative things in other media. I was one of the best students in my tech drawing and computer-aided drafting classes in high school. But pencil/paper drawings freehand? God no.

 

[The Bum]

When I draw it looks like a potato except when i want to draw a potato it looks like a tomato.

But I'll take an how to draw class so I can be a game developer.

 

[The Bum]

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I can't draw at all. I can form grand detailed images in my mind, but my hands just can't translate it to paper. Also have horrible handwriting.

QFT. If I could draw well....one can dream, no?

As do I.

 

[natster43]

I am a mediocre drawer. My friends think my drawings are alright, I think most of them are crap though.

 

[Haydyn]

I can't draw. Period. I'm artistically dead. Can't even cut straight with scissors.