Hi,
I want to learn how to draw, and I don’t know and/or am overwhelmed about where to start. Do you have any favorite drawing websites / accounts / tutotrials / videos?
Thank you!
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Hi! For doodling designs, I like to go to Pinterest and search for boards (collections) named “zentangle”. What I really like is there are so many little step-by-step visual guides to creating various designs. So many people make these instructive illustrations that I haven’t seen a central place where they all live; therefore Pinterest has been the most useful source of this kind of instruction for me. Here is an example of a board of Zentangle designs, chosen at random.
I don’t have any specific sources for learning to draw, unfortunately, since I still don’t know what I’m doing, myself. 
I just heard folks talking about the book “Drawing with the Right Side of the Brain,” so that might be worth looking into.
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I love Stephanie Fizer Coleman for drawing/illustration tutorials. She’s got an email list that you can join or you can explore her offerings here.
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Can you get books from your library? Or ebooks from them? That would be another good free resource.
I’ve heard a lot of good things about this book. “You can Draw in 30 days” by Mark Kistler. He also has a youtube channel. He has a playlist with 13 days of learning to draw (I assume from the book?):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz1sx_OOFjAVtKswPPW8EFu_DP9iZh48Z
He has so many more videos on his youtube channel as well.
“Drawing on the Right side of the Brain” is a good book too. I’ve read a good portion of this one.
I think I would start with Mark’s book though as it is a lot more hands on and geared towards someone just starting to draw. Its been a number of years since I read the second book, and I know there are exercises, but there’s also a lot of reading and theory. Maybe try this one after the Mark Kistler book?
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The few things I can draw convincingly I learned to draw from Mark Kistler’s Imagination Station PBS show! 
(Otherwise I’m not sure I’m qualified to weigh in on this. Just thrilled to be reminded of MK today.)
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Thank you all! I will see where this leads me. Also the city library does seem to have both books! And I really appreciate the online resources while I figure out how the library works nowadays… 
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Most of the drawing tutorial youtube channels I watch are for drawing on Procreate. Do you want to draw digitally or on paper? I have tons of recommendations if you’re interested in digital.
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I’m interested in both! Do I need any specialized tools for drawing digitally? If not (or if reasonable) I would definitely be interested
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