Want to become an animator? study the motion of things moving and get a sense for timing things right. Practice blocking out the proportions first, then detail later.

Want to become a character artists? Study anatomy. You can have all the drawing/sculpting/modeling ‘skills’(technique) in the world but if you don’t understand the structure of things inanimate or animate, you will never be able to draw or sculpt or model those things correctly. Here’s the thing, when someone says that you should study/practice drawing what they are really trying to imply is that you need to study the real world and objects(including people) in it. If you don’t enjoy the act of drawing then of course you won’t practice it so you might not be efficient at it. This goes for the whole lot of you here who claim you can’t. If you can draw a line then you can draw. I want to be able to do mainly characters, and environnement.

So my question is: Is it really impossible to make original artwork (environment, characters) in 3D without a minimum of drawing skills? If not, do you have examples of 3D artists who can’t draw?įor the background, I’m not planning to do 3D as a job. Indeed, without the ability to do sketches, I can’t do concept art… And I undestand that. However, without drawing skills, I have often been told and explained that I will never be able to have a correct level in 3D.

In that sense, doing 3D doesn’t bother me the way drawing would, and I feel that when I’m modeling. I’ve always been a very logical, very technical person. In fact, after a while, I just realized that I liked the results that drawing gives, but not all the work that leads to the result. But even when I produced things that I thought were good for my level, it didn’t amuse me. It bores me for a reason that I can’t describe… At first, I thought it was simply because I was bad. So, I’ve always been interested in art, especially graphical forms of art. First, sorry if my english is not perfect !

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