What do you do to get better at art?

Well this is not hard to answer. All it takes is practice, but I'm wondering like what do you do. If your a painter do you paint a master piece to practice with prefect lines or is it ruff with lots uneven. I been doing more fan art drawings and I've been doing them faster with more loss lines. Where I try to spend less then a half-hour or under 15 mins to draw them. Since I want to get better and faster at drawing. So what is your method for getting better at your art work? I'm not asking for advice, Just wondering what everyone else does?

To get better ( as an illustrator) I constantly doodle. You'd think that it wouldn't help, but it really does. As you tend to draw the same things, you catch on faster and try to change up things and develop. And it also helps me create new ideas (i really dislike drawing fan art, so i wanna force myself to create my own things. ) Maybe, you change art styles, maybe you realize that it's okay to "twerk" with anatomy, but when you go to actually create something, you will realize how more though is placed into it. Another tip is to rotate what you are working on as you are working on it. it really helps you keep proportions in order. A final thing to get better is to draw in an un-erasable media. People need to understand how they draw and the only way of getting better, by messing up a lot. They get scared to draw without their pencil even for doodles because when they mess up, they want to change it. But in order to work in art (as well as in life) you gotta work with the problems or at least work around them. Sometime you make masterpieces when you fuck up a bit. You might spill a bottle of juice on your drawing and make a cool background for it *Note that all error don't result in a masterpiece, but you gotta be willing to burn a few cookies in order to make a good batch.

-.-; Constantly doodling helps drawings get better. i was just posting good things that help get drawings get better. I wasn't giving you advice, i was just posting because anyone can stroll by and only read and not comment. they actually are good things to think about if is reading but not really sure how to go about it. but what ever, leave a half assed "practice make perfect (which really doesn't)". instead... cuz that's really informative and gives insite..

I've been experimenting a lot more. Trying to do pics in different ways than I've done in the past. Mixing mediums, combining a lot of traditional & digital. But mostly I just make whatever makes me happy. If I'm getting any better is totally subjective.

welp as a professional i can say, try to draw a fullbody character in 20 seconds. that's it. 20 seconds, no more no less. repeat this process several times until it feels more fluid in your arms and wrist movement. This technique is called gesture drawing and it really helps build your eye-brain-hand coordination, sense of form and greatly increases your drawing speed.

The best advice about getting better that I ever got was just to make lots of art. Like tons and tons of art, not even good art, actually especially not good art. When you're trying your hardest to make good art, you're limiting what you'll try because you want to be in that comfort zone. Don't worry about what it looks like. In time it will all start to come together. I struggled a lot with style when I was in high school. I wanted to find what made my art different very early on even though I knew that would be hard. So I would just drew and painted and tried everything until I felt a little more comfortable. It's like practice except I advise not really caring about the outcome. You have to worry about the process, what am I doing? how am I doing it? does this method work for me? For things like anatomy and architecture, try working realistically. Start doing continuous contour line drawings (this is where you draw objects from observation, keeping you pen on the paper and following the lines of the object only with your eyes). Focus on shapes and angles. Move on to gesture drawings, which are fast and ugly, used to get kind of the feel of an objects shape or a model's pose. Try using as few lines as possible, try drawing as fast as possible, go back to minute sketches and refine them. A lot of times, learning to draw from life will only improve any stylistic choices. I suggest using cheap supplies, using expensive supplies often restricts young artists who become afraid of making mistakes on expensive paper or wasting expensive paints. Also, my advice if you do a lot of digital art, learn about color theory. Learn about shading with colors to create mood and exaggerating shadows. Forget about smudging brushes, they're overused and look dirty, blend with color instead. AND MAKE LOTS OF ART

The best advices I got were given by an artist I met in Paris on vacaition, he said I should draw things directly from my vision and not from pictures to get a sense for how things are and how to interpret them on paper. sencond tip I got was to redraw things if I am not happy with them until I am. third, just draw a lot of everything you like.

Alright most people have basically told you some of the most conventional ways upon improving your skills. However the easiest and simplest way to improve your skills is to have a rival. Oh yes, i said a rival how else do you think Marvel and DC got as big as they did. They were constantly in competition with each other trying to see who could out do each other in creativity and sales. Get yourself a rival and you and said person will force each other to consistently improve.