How to learn to draw

[NapLovingImmortal]

Hello everyone. For the past few months, I have had these characters and storylines flowing through my mind, and I want to mesh them into a story and create a tale. But the problem is that I do not feel like a novel is the right medium for it. For some reason, my hands are itching to draw the scenes I have in mind myself. So I want to learn how to draw so I can create this story as a webtoon.


I know it is going to be a long journey. I do not expect to starting to draw in a few weeks(maybe years) or anything like that. For now, I plan to write it down and publish it as a novel (kind of like a draft, but more clean and coherent) to get some input from the outside while I am learning.


But the sheer amount of tutorials is overwhelming. I do not even know where to start. For now, I only have paper, but I bought a tablet for digital drawing (I got it for a solid price).


The story is a revenge and martial arts wuxia story, so it involves a lot of different poses, anatomy, and so on.


Does anyone have good tutorials for the webtoon style? Thank you.

 

[tiaf]

start with the basics, and I mean basics like the rectangle, triangle, and circle
ideally you learn real human anatomy, then start to stylize it
learn gesture drawing to avoid stiff characters, you'll need it for martial arts stuff

From then on you can pick a style you like and study it. With study I mean break down how it differs from realistic anatomy and copy it.

https://www.youtube.com/@StripPanelNaked (analyses comics and occasionally manga)
https://www.youtube.com/@wingedcanvas (artschool with a discord community so you can actually meet with the instructors)

 

[J_Win]

Start simple, vro

Like what that one dude said. But still, if you really are just a beginner, start drawing stiff poses first before learning how to draw dynamic ones. Preferably use reference so your brain gets trained on how specific parts are drawn (it’ll also help if you draw in different angles even if they're just stationary poses)

Pick an artstyle, study it, and stick with it. Sketch every day, stay consistent (draw even if you think it’s bad)

It’ll take months, even years to even get the hang on drawing stationary poses. But you’ll reach a point, eventually, where you feel like you can branch out to more advance poses. In which case you still have to use references when trying them, and just gradually phase it out

And most importantly, take a break in-betweens. Look at other popular people’s art and study those too