Has Drawception improved your drawing skills?

Yes, i had never really understood how to shade effectively. Even a tiny amount is hugely effective. Similarly, i had a basic understanding of using a point as a source of light but never really been too good at it before. My scaling used to be god awful. I couldn't draw in 3 dimentions too well, as many of my first panels show. Speed too, it used to take me hours to get anything down. Now 10 minutes is enough.

For example...panel 12 in this game http://drawception.com/viewgame/9y4mgWQjQ3/the-fibonacci-sequence-in-nature/

Vs

Panel 6 in this one http://drawception.com/viewgame/ANkeGLW8hj/lindsay-lohan-vs-amanda-bynes/

I've also had the opportunity to try totally different styles like very cartoony ones which turned out really well. Drawception works a charm for improving your drawing ability. Panel 2 http://drawception.com/viewgame/XfRPj3gqLn/my-little-chatulu/ Panel 10 http://drawception.com/viewgame/ZbOZcHy5f5/you-smell-likeburning/

I don't think it has. I've only drawn 87 panels, but I can do far better in real life. Mainly because it's more direct - I don't use a drawing tablet - and the mouse isn't quite as easy to use as a pen(cil). I think I've improved in Drawception itself, but not IRL. I think it can only help if you you have a drawing tablet.

The awkward moment when i don't own a drawing tablet :/

This was exactly what I needed.

I too used to spend hours upon hours polishing and perfecting my pieces to death. Trying to draw perfect, and getting really stuck and frustrated on the way. I hardly ever drew cartoony any more, and my drawings ended static, boring and safe.

I'm still having a LOT of difficulties (It's my 6th day), but I can really feel an improvement. I'm way better at coping with the time limit, and I really like it. It doesn't always come through in my drawings, but I have.. sort of learned to simplify it.

Trying to learn it at least.

Simple and not too messy. Stepping down the shading, not trying to incorporate an entire freaking detailed inner city background, when having a ship and a character in the front. blah. Accepting that you have to focus on getting the point across, and work efficiently to finish everything.

Also I love the opportunity to make a twist on the captions without changing them. Trying to be just a little bit funny/original within the time limit is great too. I've learned to better master movement, and quick expressions. Oh, and copying existing characters.

I love how you just have to draw super random things that make no sense. It makes for a broad range of experience, and having so much fun drawing!

I already love a lot of these 10-minute sketches more than my 10-h+ paintings. :D

Tablet owner here. It sure helped me.

I've gone into this with an art style founded on pencil sketches, so Drawceeption didn't hugely add to that. I've always been used to hammering something out in the space of five, ten or fifteen minutes and my time efficiency hasn't greatly improved.

What Drawception did give me was more experience with my tablet, which I hadn't used regularily before, and more experience in coloring although I'm still not too good at that. There's savants with color around here while I still kind of see it as a way to fill in the lines. Also, more experience with the Drawception toolkit, that's kind of self explanatory.

Improvement comes from challenging yourself, perhaps I need more of that. I'm still faaar more comfortable with pencil, rubber and black foil marker.

I can't really tell.

I have to agree, there's 2 factors here that helped me improve, 1 the simplistic software and 2 been the time limit.

it forces me to think ahead and layer upwards putting the majority of shapes down first before i work on refining things and the time limit forces me to work quickly and not spend time on details.

Oh absolutely. I'm a hobbyist comic artist, and even while I still sometimes cram too much detail into my drawings, I absolutely love playing around with the limited palette. And the time limit is PERFECT.

What I noticed most, though, was not improvement in colouring, or shading, but surprisingly, lineart. :D I think it may have something to do with the fact that I used to be really anal about getting the lines right, and that left my characters looking a bit weird because I used to zoom in too much. The crude mechanism in this makes drawing neat lines in PS feel like a walk in the park XD

Also, I have discovered background patterning, which I find amusing and fun. Gives the drawing some sort of feeling of completeness if it's just not the topic on a mono-coloured background. Even one contrasting colour does wonders :D

I don't really draw the same way in this game that I do on real paper. This is more like painting for me.

It definitely got me to think much more geometrically in terms of putting things down initially to flesh out before adding details.

Playing Drawception really coincided well with the lessons from my life drawing classes I've been taking since January this year. The idea is you just draw the general shape that something looks at before making the shape have a higher fidelity.

Stickpool, can you show us some IRL drawing comparisons? Because that's what I was referring to.

I guess we are talking about within Drawception itself.

I think it can be either. Drawception has definitely pushed me out of my drawing comfort zone, and my skill from Drawception has also improved my overall drawing ability.

I can't say that Drawception has improved my drawing skills overall. However, I can say it has improved my skills drawing with a mouse on the computer.

What about the way you approach a drawing?

Well, since this game lacks the use of layers, I have indeed approached my drawings differently than what I was used to. First, I have to focus on the background before starting on the subject of my drawing. IRL drawing, I usually end up doing the background last, and I can't do that in here since of the lack of a fill tool.

I also have to work quickly to finish my drawings because of that 10 minute limit. :)

I'm primarily a 3d artist and some of my effort at Drawception has improved my 3d ability as well, strangely

DC has forced me to organise how I approach a painting and allowed me to make simple, but sexy, works such as the ones I post on my Tumblr account.

http://redheadsoldier.tumblr.com/

If by improve, you mean slowly give me the capability to be draw with just a trackpad.

It's getting there...I think.

Definitely learning different things here.

One plus I agree with is that more drawing generally equals improvement, or at the very least the learning of new techniques. Some translate to other media, some don't.

It definitely does push one to develop a quick style, not something that benefits this kind of thing ( http://flic.kr/p/d88aLG ), but I'm hoping it does improve my cartooning style. ( See: http://flic.kr/p/7Wzt4H or http://flic.kr/p/6F3CD8 )