What do i draw if i don't have anything i wanna draw but i wanna get better at drawing? I can't "just draw", i don't know what to. No i can't quit i must learn how to draw. I spend all day thinking about drawing but most days end up not even drawing for 5 minutes. Is there something wrong with my brain? There must be a solution to this.

>>7612486 (OP)
>I spend all day thinking about drawing but most days end up not even drawing for 5 minutes.
If, when you start drawing, you find yourself unable to continue drawing for more than five minutes - I really do think you should give up. Most people wouldn't be able to stop drawing for at least 25 minutes. So to me, it says you're likely over romanticising art and the act of drawing, but don't actually care for doing it.
I mean, you think about drawing all day, but don't actually have anything you want to draw? Then what are you actually thinking about? Sitting at a desk? Why?
You're like a guy who wants to be a rock star, but doesn't really care for music, but really likes the idea of being on stage playing music for a cheering crowd.

But if you're actually committed, just pick an art book that looks interesting to you and go through it thoroughly - you'll learn, and have something set to draw.

>Is there something wrong with my brain?
It's also possible that by thinking about drawing all day, you've already rewarded yourself for the act, despite never doing it.
We're often told not to let anyone know about projects you're working on, because the attention you receive from that is enough to satisfy our dumb brains, and we no longer feel a need to continue working on said project, because we've already been 'rewarded'.
You're constant thinking about drawing could be doing the exact same thing - so stop thinking about it, and immediately start doing it whenever you have the thought.

>>7612500
>If, when you start drawing, you find yourself unable to continue drawing for more than five minutes - I really do think you should give up. Most people wouldn't be able to stop drawing for at least 25 minutes
sorry i meant that as in like i don't draw at all. if i can manage to start drawing something and enjoy it i can spend a few hours drawing. but that very rarely happens.

>>7612486 (OP)
draw a cat

>>7612486 (OP)
draw hands

What would you draw if you were one of the best artists on the planet? Would you make one off images? Or have a project like a comic or art for a game? You should just act like you are already that person.

Don't feed the nodraw. This is the same post that was on /beg for weeks.

>>7612527
i'm not that guy, this is the first thread i made on this board.
>>7612524
honestly there are a lot of things i would draw in that case but i just couldn't draw them right now, i can't even draw something that resembles a human from imagination. if i use references i can barely draw some stuff, i mean still horrible but they you can make out what they're supposed to be. but yeah can't draw anything at all from imagination. and anything that i could want to draw would have to be from imagination.

>>7612500
>It's also possible that by thinking about drawing all day, you've already rewarded yourself for the act, despite never doing it.
Never thought about that before. But what if it's switched up? For example, I think about playing (video game) all day, but when I get down to it, it's just as rewarding? Think you this could be an expectation vs. reality thing?
Not OP.

>>7612486 (OP)
anime sluts

>>7612524
good mindset

you can draw nothing, just enjoy being busy on a sheet of paper

>>7612486 (OP)
>thinking all day about drawing
>can't even decide on something to draw
I don't understand this. Even in my musings during the times I can't draw (mostly due to work) I at least come up with ideas to doodle with. My biggest fear was the "cringe/stupid" ideas and after I started drawing them I no longer care.

>>7612531
>but yeah can't draw anything at all from imagination.
You can, it will just look as good as it's meant to for someone with your experience level. The only way out is through. A 4 year old can draw a tree from imagination and be proud of his 2 brown lines and green scribble. You can too, you get to draw, that's rare, nobody is shooting at you, you are fed etc, you don't need to get up at 3am to milk the goat. You get to draw.

I mostly keep a sketchbook near me whenever I get this urge and it honestly just made me realize that my technical ability could never meet the expectations of my imagination but I still would be able to draw something rather than nothing at the cost of procrastinating whatever my task is at that time. But sometimes when it’s impossible to pick a pen and paper, thinking about drawing is rather counterproductive which I’d basically recommend the alternative and it’s to intently observe a subject matter around you and think about how you would go about drawing it. Or find a subject matter you’ve been struggling to draw and look for a real life reference. An example would be folds and drapery or candid perspective.

https://youtu.be/1OSWR7xiQLk?si=5oceqC0dD4cq0XY0

>>7612486 (OP)
You can start with scribbling random lines and circles stuff, see how your tools behave and how differently they can behave to start with, next just hop on to drawing random perspective grids and boxes in them, dont be hard on yourself if they look ugly when you start but keep going, this will make perspective and thinking in 3d your first nature, you can repeate stuff too. Whenever you dont feel like drawing just draw a random perspective grid and draw ANYTHING in it , mostly boxes and if you get tired of them, try carving and cutting them - like try beveling it, add edge loops and cut it, extrude it and make something out of it, drawing any primitive works, as long as you grow comfortable with drawing cubes and building things from it you will learn while "not drawing". I personally taught my left hand how to draw doing this

bump :3

https://youtu.be/WLqWX7onVmU?si=T3plFuZLhU_3k4ff
to summarize, first draw rocks, then (once you can comfortably draw them), draw old trees, then animal skulls, then old huts/ruined buildings

The main takeaway is to begin with things that allow you to make mistakes and still look good. Then you gradually up the difficulty.