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u/[deleted] · 3 pointsr/learnart

For now, forgo digital painting if you are "horrific" at drawing. The pencil will always be inherently easier at the beginning as your feedback is immediately within your visual site (whereas most tablets, except the $1000-$2000 ones, have you looking at a screen away from you drawing tablet). The first thing you will want to do is learn how to break down things into basic shapes. This includes being able to proportion (google or search on deivantART "tutorials on proportions" or stuff like that).

After you can break down stuff into basic shapes and proportion, go draw from a reference photograph. If you have comics or something that are decently detailed, maybe try going off those. You could also try copying other artists' work. Sure, it sucks to have to copy at the beginning, but eventually, after a nice bit of time, you will get to there. You can always find books off of Amazon also, as always. There is a book on general perspective that can be pretty technical but is approachable to a point: "Creative Perspectives for Artist and Illustrators": Find it Here. If you decide to look into anatomy, which I would always recommend, I will suggest "Dynamic Figure Drawing". You can find it here. As for software once you get to digital painting, I have heard that Corel Painter is best for a "natural" look found at this place.
Obviously, because of the expensive price, you will really want to wait on this until you have a fair amount of technique under your belt. You can probably find a cheaper version that has less functionality as well (much like Photoshop Essentials). I hope all this will help you on your way.

As a final note, always remember that the improvements you make will be incremental and unnoticeable until you go look at drawings a couple months old from your current point. If you don't remember this, you can easily become easily discourage because it doesn't seem like you are getting better, when in reality, it will almost always be small leaps with a few big ones.

u/mesosorry · 3 pointsr/Illustration

I wish it were my work!

Here are a couple books that you might find handy.
Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation

Creative Perspective for Artists and Illustrators

u/kirkisartist · 2 pointsr/painting

Oh cool, you'll have fun with color theory then. I recommend you check out James Gurney's book Color & Light. You should also study up on perspective. This is the only book I can recommend that won't make your life hell.