5 tips for young artists 

As a young artist, you might tend to get overwhelmed by the big words and concepts like perspective, anatomy, or even scarier color theory. And might get unmotivated, not finding the right tools to learn these concepts, but look no more. Today I gathered 5 tips for young artists that will help you improve your art. 

Usually, young artists tend to ignore the rules, which is totally fine if you are just drawing for fun, but if you are looking for improvement, ignoring these concepts may bite you in the a- later on. 

Tip 1– you may have heard this before but it’s so true, start from the roots, with shapes, and start building your structure or bodies with shapes, basic shapes. Like this 

Using this will help you understand the structure, and practice until it comes naturally to you, shapes are everywhere we look, we have to break it down into pieces and shapes to understand the fundamentals. 

You can basically break down any picture you take or find on the internet, 

Tip 2 – Study from real life, this is super important, studying from real life will save you from incorrect anatomy and incorrect perspectives, of course, it’s harder than studying other art but it’s what you should start with before developing your own art style. After you gather information from real-life pictures, objects, and places, it will be so much easier to study other artists and stylization when it comes to developing an art style. 

Tip 3 – Do not repeat DO NOT force an art style, this is something that will come naturally with time, you need patience and consistency, draw what you love and you will start to notice patterns and an art style forming with time. 

Forcing an art style will cause burnout unwanted stress and maybe even disappointment in the progress. 

Your art style will always change and shift because you will always continue to learn and get better and better even if you don’t notice at first. 

Tip 4 – Don’t throw away your sketchbooks, keep them and store them. You will love to see the improvement and memories from how far you have made it later on, it’s a motivational hack that almost every artist uses, this helps you keep track on how much progress you’ve made. 

Tip 5 – Use reference. Using references is not stealing, copying is bad but using it as reference is the most important thing, you won’t learn anything if you don’t study and use references, to learn how some thighs behave, how muscles and bones are structured in the human body and also when drawing landscapes or structures. 

These 5 tips are the most important thing in my opinion before getting into more technical terms and more complex topics in the art world. And of course, always have fun, and enjoy every moment, you were given the passion or skill to draw what you love, create, and express yourself.