>>41093714It quite literally runs in the family for me (had some kinda-famous ancestors) - some of it is innate, like I never struggled to draw hands and for some reason dendritic forms (trees etc) were completely natural to me, but some other things took reps to refine. Some tasks I think are just difficult for basically anyone such as very angular vehicle at a weird perspective angle vs a simple profile of an organic form (face etc).
At least for me the ability to start to be able to draw something comes from really studying it with your eye and really thinking about and trying to map out what (thing) looks like, the general dimensions of key parts of it, the spacing of where features are or are not etc.
Whenever I see a random JP artist on twitter who somehow just does not understand anatomical proportions, or just fucking cannot draw hands, I wonder if it's someone who was inherently unskilled but he did reps so much that you can't easily tell until there's a giveaway for something that I would have assumed anyone who can draw should have 0 problems with, but that's a bias on my end thinking "come on you can't draw HANDS? HOW??" - maybe these other guys had no issues at all picking up something like clothing bending/fabric folds and shadows, which was a complex thing for me to get the hang of but maybe to him it's like "ha you couldn't draw fabric??" etc.
