What? I like already made directions on how to make a Peanut butter and Honey sandwich!! What more do you want?!
Pfff. Fine.
Here's how to be a good artist.
1. First off, lose that attitude of "I have to be already good at drawing/ writing/ dancing/ acting or whatever." People who say that as an excuse make me want to slap you and push you off a cliff. You can be good at something your naturally horrible at if you want to be good at it and... do the rest of these steps.
2. Ok, now that you've lost that attitude, you have to work. Hard. Looking at hard at a blank piece of paper or just wishing never got anyone jack. You want to be good you have to work and work, cry a little bit, work some more, cry lots more and even bleed for whatever your working for.
You want to know what work actually means? It means practice! So now reread step two and substitute the word work for practice.
3. Study. Study as much as you practice. Maybe even more. If you want to be really good at something, study people who are already good at it. It doesn't have to be a master, it just needs to be someone better than you at that time. Then if you get better than the person your studying, then repeat the process. That's how you become a Master at whatever your working to get better at. And don't stop. Masters don't go, "Hmmm... I'm good at this, I don't need to work anymore." They keep on practicing and studying.
4. Experiment. Try new things! It helps with your art. If you keep doing the same thing and want different results, well you have to do something different! Think about it, lets say a person who draws really good unrealistically like fantasy stuff, whats to get better at drawing fantasy. One of the best ways to get better at something is to do something else. So lets say this person now studies realism for a little bit. That person can take things he/ she learned from one subject to another subject. Plus You can throw out what doesn't work, well actually you can't. Keep it, just don't show it off. Things that don't work can give ideas on how to make it work or give you entirely new idea.
5. I almost forgot one of the most important steps. You have to WANT what you are working for. You got to REALLY WANT it.
2r+ w(x^2)= Good writer
isn't just for writing its for any thing really that you want to be good at.
Reading is just Practice and Study, Writing is just whatever you want to be great at, and well experiment is just experiment. And the end result is just Good (Insert what you want to be good at.)
So there that's how to be a good artist/ whatever.
