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First and foremost I think you should start seeing a therapist, if you haven't already. Reddit and internet strangers are nice, but they are no substitute for a trained mental health professional.
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If you're anything like me, you're feeling totally overwhelmed and anxious about the idea of trying to 'get your life in order'. Its a totally normal feeling, as far as I'm concerned. Its a journey, and a battle, and it takes time. It wont happen over night. You have to chip at it consistently. Dont burn yourself out, but work at it as consistently as possible. But its worth it!!!
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Heres some resources that I think you would like and could be helpful:
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Gracias por la mención. Creo que OP la puede salvar. Sí está salvable su asunto si es constante. Con retornos de VT o VTI yo creo que la arma, sin necesidad de correr riesgos exagerados. Finalmente ya le está ganando al promedio, pues el promedio piensa "Ahí dios proveerá". De que va a tener que ahorrar una buena parte del cheque, sí, sin duda. Pero puede hacer partícipe a los niños también. Hay un buen libro titulado "How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street" que más o menos narra cómo un padre de 50 años le enseña a su hijo de 8 a tener un portafolio diversificado y por qué es más fácil y con mejor retorno a largo plazo https://www.amazon.com.mx/dp/0470919035
Igual y por ahí podría empezar con los niños, al mismo tiempo. Crearles cuentas o algo así en las que ellos mismos metan "sus domingos" y que vean que es mejor invertir $100 que te pueden dar $10 cada año por el resto de tu vida; a gastarlos una sola vez y no tener nada al final del año.
Ahora que lo pienso, igual y también le hace bien leer a Mr. Money Mustache www.mrmoneymustache.com porque habla de cómo la vida moderna americana es un desperdicio de dinero y tiempo, y que por medio de ahorrar un porcentaje mayor al 50% de tu ingreso por medio de no comer fuera, no teniendo auto, usando transporte público y bicicleta, así como otros tips anticonsumo, puedes llegar a retirarte antes de los 65 años clásicos, pero siendo honestos, el salario en México es una mamada. Es como decirle aprende a nadar a la gente del Titanic. Me cagan los sindicatos charros, porque son parte del problema. Con sindicatos como los alemanes el salario no llevaría deprimido 30+ años. En fin. Leer blogs es grátis y podría aprender OP algo de ahí. Seguramente no de retiro anticipado pero sí de ahorro e inversión.
For me perspective did not come naturally, and it took several classes for me to really begin to understand it. In my opinion, it's a really simple concept, but the process of learning it is really hard. In the end, I basically learned it by making a lot of drawings with bad perspective. I would also recommend this book, as I found it to be a very simple to understand, yet comprehensive introduction to perspective. Choosing a perspective is a completely different topic, and requires the study of composition. This book is a great guide on composition, but you can also learn by studying films you find inspiring.
I'd like to recommend a book you might find helpful if you continue on this path - which I hope you do. We need good artists.
Bridgeman's Constructive Anatomy Constructive Anatomy (Dover Anatomy for Artists): George B. Bridgman: 8601300292441: Amazon.com: Books
A century old; many comic illustrators' secret weapon. Pretty accurate anatomy. He reduces the human form to blocks and masses that are articulated. He also has a book of 100 hands. The Book of a Hundred Hands (Dover Anatomy for Artists): George B. Bridgman: 9780486227092: Amazon.com: Books
De aici o sa invat probabil vreun an intreg, de aici, si dupa ce termin cartea o sa ma apuc de Fun With a Pencil de Loomis in paralel cu diverse resurse ce tin de perspectiva, si apoi de cursurile lui Brent Eviston. Am o groaza de resurse, si sub forma de carti si pe PC.
Momentan invat de pe drawabox, keys to drawing, si copiat desene aleatorii de la artistii mei favoriti.
She sort of taught herself. I'm an artist, too, and sort of showed her a few things. But I think she mostly uses YouTube (I think just searches for "how to draw..." and puts in what she wants to draw) and also tries to imitate other styles she sees from games or anime. Then she incorporates that into her own style.
A great starter book that I found useful when I got back into drawing was You Can Draw in 30 Days. I meant to go through it together with my daughter but she sort of just took the first lesson and went off in her own path, so idk. I hope that's useful!
Allan Roth actually wrote a book whose title may be applicable to your situation: "How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street: Golden Rules Any Investor Can Learn" (link)
Joking aside, it's a pretty simple recommendation:
- 60% VTI (or comparable Total US Market fund)
- 30% VXUS (or comparable Total ex-US / International Market fund)
- 10% BND (or comparable Total US Bond fund)
I really like the 60/30/10 style portfolio for its simplicity. You break up your equity holdings 2:1 US to ex-US, and include 10% to bonds. I'm not a fan of equity-only portfolios, as I believe that having a portfolio consisting of imperfectly-correlated asset classes is important, and increases the diversity of the portfolio as a whole. The 10% bonds is not going to really drag down returns, and has actually had higher rolling returns than a 100% equities portfolio during certain 10+ year periods.
If I were to make an adjustment to the aforementioned portfolio, instead of BND (or equivalent), I would instead go with an intermediate duration treasury fund (e.g., VGIT or GOVT), for four reasons:
- I'm a believer that you take the risk on the "equity" side of your portfolio, and the "bond / fixed income" side should be the safety side. Treasuries are not subject to default risk that is found with some of the other holdings in BND (e.g., corporate bonds).
- Treasuries make up the majority of BND holdings.
- Treasuries are less correlated to equities than corporate bonds, making them a better diversification.
- Treasuries are exempt from state taxes.
> I am, as the title declares, a programmer.
Drop this mindset. You're boxing yourself in. You can learn whatever you set your mind to. Art and drawing are learned skills like any other.
You Can Draw In 30 Days is an excellent book that breaks down drawing into a sequence of steps. From there you can branch out into figure drawing, background drawing, color theory, etc...
No, these models are only useful when you need a quick pose but can't find the image
If you want to learn anatomy, pick up one of these
A game changer for me was a mirror.
I put a mirror on the wall behind my drawing table so that I could rest my hand and draw the reflection. Let's you see foreshortening in the other direction.
Drawing from the mirror has been helpful a number of times on still life, as well
If you want a book
"Drawing Dynamic Hands" is a classic
Advice: Bring it back to geometric shapes. I try to think of a foot or shoe as an askew pyramid inside of a rectangle. Practice rectangular perspective. Draw a shoe box 50 times from different and you’ll have a good start.
This is the book for hands that breaks down geometric shapes and anatomy beautifully.
Hogarth - Drawing Dynamic Hands https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Dynamic-Hands-Burne-Hogarth/dp/0823013685
Hands are rectangles with cylinders. For quick gesture sketches try blocking middle, ring, and pinky fingers together and let the index finger separate a bit.
Grab a copy of Perspective Made Easy, ready it cover to cover, then go back through and use the examples as drawing exercises until you understand the concepts.
See videos on 12 pencils on YT, the only set that you shouldn't buy the 12 of that I've found is the Cretacolor Karmina's, difficult to get rich mixes and you cannot mix a good green from the blue/yellow.
Get Alyona Nickleson's book.
The best resource I’ve found is Alphonso Dunn. I bought his books and watch his videos on YouTube. He’s the reason I got into pen and ink to begin with
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0997046538/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_api_i_PH5Z0VTP0485ZNCJ9Z3Q
My favorite artist to study from is probably Bridgman. I think he has a really simple approach to breaking down the figure. His book Constructive Anatomy is great and very inexpensive.
Your linework is really good and your shading is solid, but you know that already. If you'd like feedback on something that will give your work more comic-style "pop," itvs the perspective. I'd love to see someone with your natural talent use some of that Kirby-style dynamic perspective.
When I worked at an LCBS, we had a lot of established comic artists come in and I'd ask them a million questions. One of the foundational texts that they mentioned, other than How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way was Dynamic Figure Drawing by Byrne Hogarth. There's a lot of great stuff in there that will help you find the angles that work best for your style. The other trick they all said was to steal as much from Jack Kirby as possible.
Ok. First things first drawing as a skill is something that has a crazy learn to practise ratio. A quick 10 min lecture comes with 100 hours practise. It is notoriously slow to learn and improve on. Put it this way, I've been practising drawing straight lines daily for about 2.5 years and I'm still not perfect at it and expect to spend a few more years on it. I have also learnt the guitar, which was way easier and required a lot less time, drawing is not like that at all. So you'll have to be patient with yourself.
I started with this book "You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way To Learn To Draw In One Month Or Less https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0738212415/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_GMM28SH4RBW38HVZZ7E1" and found it really good for the absolute beginner. It starts with basic shapes and basic rules of drawing. If you can't get it for reasons, start with learning how to draw basic shapes.
Once you get the basics down, or even while you're learning it's also a good idea to expose yourself to all sorts of art so you get an idea of where you want to go and what sort of art excites you. Try drawing from life when you can, again stick to basic shapes, eg books, speakers, boxes, any cube type thing. When you get that try moving onto more complicated shapes like ellipses and circles.
Finally, I leave you with this. You are going to make brilliant art one day, you're also going to make very bad art. Do not worry about this. We all make some awful stuff, especially when learning. Just keep learning and practising and you will get there. If you can hold a pencil, you can draw because drawing is a skill, not a talent.
Nice! Reminds me of the Addams Family. :)
All this dude’s books are great, but if you want to go all in on hands check out https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Dynamic-Hands-Burne-Hogarth/dp/0823013685/ref=nodl_
Proko has some good videos if I remember correctly. Also I really love the book Constructive Anatomy by Bridgman and the book Strength Training Anatomy is a really nice resource.
I really like Keys to Drawing. It trains you how to look at things and get them down on paper.
https://www.amazon.ca/Keys-Drawing-Bert-Dodson/dp/0891343377
There’s probably lots of material online but this book is especially good: Perspective Made Easy (Dover Art Instruction) https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0486404730/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_59P4J5T7MTWCD5BJJBTN
For complete beginners, these 2 books are fun, easy, quick courses that actually teach you all the basic concepts of 3-dimensional representational drawing.
IMHO - there is no need to jump into anatomy before you understand how to draw and shade a cylinder in perspective, for example. These 2 books will get you there....quickly, easily, and cheaply:
Do not be put off by the simple looking nature. These are books for all ages:
You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less
How to Draw Cool Stuff: A Drawing Guide for Teachers and Students
I started at 45 from stick figures. I'll be 48 this year and did over 100 commissions in the last 6 months. This was the book that got me started and I still recommend it.
Some people use solvents to blend the wax of the colors together or scratch off part of the surface with a blade to relayer.
This book also helps a lot
Colored Pencil Painting Bible: Techniques for Achieving Luminous Color and Ultrarealistic Effects https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0823099202/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_YYBoFbYGHCBK8
Le livre Keys to Drawing m'a donné de bonnes bases pour le dessin. Il est axé sur le dessin d'observation et touche un peu à tout (lumière, perspective, texture, design, etc.). Certes, les dessins de l'auteur ne plairont pas à tous, mais le but n'est pas de copier son style.
J'abonde dans le même sens que les autres quant à l'importance de dessiner ce qui t'entoure (que ce soit ton pied, ton bureau, ton chat, etc.) Pour que tu ne fasses pas la même erreur que moi, je te conseillerais de ne pas négliger l'importance des proportions. Je me suis lancé beaucoup trop vite dans l'ombrage et tout ça alors que les traits de mes figures humaines ne correspondaient pas du tout à la réalité.
Pour le dessin de la figure humaine, je conseille la chaîne Youtube de Proko.
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I think it's both. As Bill Perkins says (NMA instructor) "don't overrender in the hope of looking good". I've a tendency to do that, probably my inexperience. Thanks for your honesty, it means a lot, I started to draw from the ground-up 2 years and half ago seriously.
I'm currently focusing on texture, volume and line quality with the book "Pen and Ink drawing : A Simple Guide" from Alphonso Dunn : https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/0997046538/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I'm trying to apply to my favorite medium all the light theory I learned about too.
Maybe studies, time and practice will get me at my dream job and being concept artist !