u/Duemont8

I’m been reading a bunch of slice of life/character drama type manga lately so I want something different feeling. Like a thriller or action series. Something fast paced with a good hook and not super well known. I’ll take manhwa too

I'll often see people asking how to improve faster and they'll get a bunch of responses saying "it's a marathon not a sprint", or "why do you need to improve quick?, just enjoy the journey" "it's okay to take your time :)" "all you need is a lot of practice."

Nothing wrong with people who are hobbyists who just draw for fun, but I wish they wouldn't come to threads of people trying to learn and basically tell them there's no need for that. And there are types of practice that are significantly more efficient than others. Telling someone to just keep practicing when you don't know what they've been doing to practice is 9 times out of 10 gonna wind up hurting their progress.

Like for me I spent years just doing tons of direct copies but I felt discouraged of how little information stuck with me after the studies. I once asked a sub how to become less reliant on reference images and improve my visual library, and got a bunch of people saying it's okay to use refs, or you can't expect to get good overnight, just keep doing studies

Then later I started doing the "cover and memorize" method of learning, practiced rotating shapes in perspective and constructing figures from simple shapes, as well as using psuedo-orthographic projection to mentally rotate a reference without having to find a ref from a specific angle. And boom suddenly my ability to draw from imagination and be less tied down to references drastically improved.

It's annoying how quick people on art advice subs are to assume people just want an easy path without putting in work, instead of being newcomers who are directionless and willing to put in the work once they get set on the right path.

A lot of the art advice subreddits feel like the blind leading the blind. I don't mind less experienced artists giving other artists critiques as doing paintovers/corrections is a good way to practice. But I hate people giving broad advice when they don't really know what they're talking about. Like if you can hardly draw from imagination don't respond to someone asking how to draw from imagination. If you're slow at drawing then don't respond to someone asking how to improve their speed. If someone much more experienced than you is asking how to fix something about their art don't tell them there's nothing to fix

Or even if you don't have much experience you can still point people towards tutorials from experienced artists, that's way better than just giving them your best guess

Basically something broke on my keyboard's down key so one side keeps popping up and falling off. I decided to try remapping the key so that one of my control keys will be my new down key (as i don't really feel like ordering a replacement key).

But after remapping it I realized it doesn't scroll like my real down key does. With the original down key I could hold it down and the page would scroll down until I released it. With my new control "down" key I have to keep tapping the button to nudge the page down. I can't hold it for a continuous scroll. Is there a way to get the remapped key to function the same way as the actual down key?