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| From the primordial ooze, there are posts of knowledge to clasp onto. So he starts his unending learning. |
This is going to be my own riff from Marshall Vandruffs list (nudity in the list). They are plenty of growing resources of tutorials and references will add, to help with adding to the ideal with a creative, professional work ethic.
Do the reading. The water that feeds the garden of knowledge that will lead into the body of work.
Drawing made easy by E.G. Lutz
Recommended by James Gurney. Yep, it helps establish basic concepts such as composition and perspective. How to approach a drawing from observation, and to commence it.
Drawing on the right side of the brain By Betty Edwards.
You don't have to follow the brain stuff of this, even all the exercises. Yet, the blind contour exercise free you from making an industrialized, hackneyed product. It's pure drawing, observation that's free from idealization.
Should you draw free from this? That's another question entirely, yet it's important to know and drop this inner narrative.
There's a podcast episode by Marshall by this, so we come away with our own views.
From there, other books follow. Yet those two books are for the total beginners.