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*Maly's drawing-tastic art survey*
What is your favorite subject to draw?	foreign or historical cultures; horses and other animals; kids
What is your most common choice in 2-d media?	watercolor
Anything you refuse to draw?	mh... pornographic scenes I guess, though it never came up.
Real anatomy or cartoon physics?	realistic, but stylized
Which is more important - solid inking skills or solid color theory?	Not sure. Does one need to understand color theory in order to apply it right?
Photoshop or PSP? Illustrator or Painter?	PSP. Photoshop is twice as good but twenty times as expensive.
Markers - Prismacolor or Tria?	Copic and Trias
Paints - oils, acrylics, or watercolors?	watercolors and acrylics, pastel chalks
Have you ever done a stippling project outside of art class?	outside? big no.
Ever imitate a popular style of art? (anime, disney, comic book...)	I try not to, though there's a certain graphic novel influence in my style.
How would you define your "style?"	illustrative?
What is one area of drawing that you need to improve in?	improvisation
When did you start drawing as a hobby? (we all drew when we were little)	don't remember. kindergarten, probably.
What kind of sketchbook do you have? Brand? Size? How old is it?	I find sketchbooks stifling. I use loose sheets of paper on a clipboard.
How many sketchbooks have you had previous to this?	two or three, but I never completed any of them.
How many sketchbooks do you go through in a year?	--
#2 yellow pencil or a clicky pencil?	sharpable clicky ones.
What kind of eraser do you use?	a very soft formable gum eraser, and a normal soft one
Who are your artistic influences?	Derib (Belgian comic artist). And I think Nita Engle's book on watercolor technique is awesome (see below)
What books would you reccomend to aspiring artists?	'How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself' by Nita Engle; The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook'; 'Figure Drawing Without A Model'
Do you have any favorite online tutorial sites?	nope
What is the most money you've ever made on one drawing / illustration / painting?	skipping this one.
What do you hope to accomplish with your art? Do you want to go anywhere with it in life?	I want to improve. Other than that, I don't want to overthink the whole thing.
Finally, why do you draw?	I think I started drawing because I was a daydreamer as a kid, and I wanted to be able to see the little scenes that played out in my head. Okay, the money is kind of a factor, too...
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I actually have 'Figure Drawing Without a Model'... maybe I should just admit I've no patience with learning by anything but trial and error when it comes to drawing. Or am lazy.

All my sketchbooks end up in bits because I tear the page out after I've drawn something I'm pleased with. I've never kept them with an intent to preserve it as a unit.

I wondered why it didn't mention pastels at all.

I really don't get what it's going on about with the pencils. Clicky? What?

I really don't get what it's going on about with the pencils. Clicky? What?

http://www.architekturbedarf.de/Shop/Zeichnen/Zeichenbedarf/TK/tk.html :o)
Of course, I have to guess as far as some of the English words for art supplies are concerned, but I think that's what it means.

I think I'm behind the times. I didn't know about those or soft erasers as being sold specifically for art or professional usage. I remember clicky pencils at school, that weren't much use, as an 80s fad. I always broke all the lead in like 2 minutes. I've been buying the same materials over and over for about 8 years whenever mine ran out.

I once read in some art book about what artists talk about: not the esoterics of their artistic vision, no... usually it's about supplies. (If not that, than it's legalities.) There's so much stuff on the market, it's impossible to keep track, let alone try it all out. So it really helps to ask around for tips.

I actually have 'Figure Drawing Without a Model'... maybe I should just admit I've no patience with learning by anything but trial and error when it comes to drawing. Or am lazy.

Nah, the trial and error method is still unbeatable. Basically you learn to draw by drawing. But some books can provide shortcuts. Like, one I forgot to mention is Jenó Barcsay's 'Anatomy for the Artist' (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316907642/qid=1092433258/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_8_1/202-1231425-1581433). Years ago I spent two weeks during the semester holidays doing nothing but copying (not tracing) drawings of muscle groups from that book, than learning the latin names. I'd try to reconstruct muscles from memory, then copy some more. Once I'd learned the whole system (Barcsay concentrates only on those muscles that show on the surface and are thus most interesting for the artist), I'd cut out pictures of scantily clad, well-built models from magazines and draw the muscles in the photos. First using the drawings from the book, later from memory. Then I'd start drawing figures from the imagination. That method saved so much time. And it was fun, but maybe I'm weird that way.

My sister has that one, I think. But it sounds like you have waaaaay more patience than I do. :)

I don't know if I could ever set my mind to something like that, because my attention is split by writing. So I start working on improving my drawing but then end up back scribbling stories before I've gotten very far. That's happened a few times.