Another one xD

While I prefer ink and watercolour combination, charcoal surprisingly helped to overcome month worth block

I have the most fun drawing quicker sketches like this based on high contrast ref photos. If I sketch one I really like sometimes I redraw or develop it more neatly but I’m not focused on proportions or anything when I draw like this so it feels wrong. I just block in shadows and shapes but I sometimes don’t know what anatomy I am drawing.

I draw characters and one of them has tights as part of her outfit. The thing is, idk how to draw them beside making everything black. I took this image from Komi-san as a reference and noticed the subtile white in the middle. I dont really understand how it is made, does someone has any advice ?

Drawing practice

Hello,

For a long time now (months/up to a year) I've been wanting to learn how to draw (mostly) anime/manga art style. I have absolutely no experience in art whatsoever besides 7th grade when I had an art class, and even then I was bad at it still, I never made anything complex in that class just a simple drawing of a head (as in really simple no details nothing just a shape of the head, nose, eyes, mouth, etc.) I still have the picture if you want to see but that's not the point.

I really need your guys help for so long now I've been trying to find courses, since from what I think those are the best ways to learn how to draw. Months ago I created an AnimeArtAcademy account but I really didn't even bother to do the free trial courses because they aren't really linear at all, it was just random things on there in which I needed to have a subscription to have absolutely everything from the beginning to the end.

Please this is something I've been wanting to do for a long time now, my inspiration was seeing just how different the anime/manga art styles were compared to what I was used to growing up (Western cartoons), I also have been wanting to write a story but I know I have no artistic talent at all.

What do I do? if anyone has any suggestions please let me know, I want to do this, thnx!

(Also yes I checked the community guide on this subreddit but it wasn't too much of help for me it didn't have a specific style in mind)

Hi fellow artists

So I have been wanting draw all sorts of different art style but I have never started nor do I have a history in drawing, so basically I'm new to drawing.

This is what all i want to draw . Anime girls , manga panels , human/insect/ robot/ creature antonomy.

1) so where should I start? Like drawing basic circles and shapes or directly jump in. Ik basics r imp but they are also boring n I want to see real progress

2) I also want to try the webnovel style or the live 2D as shown in the pic .

3) how much time should I put in daily (coz i have college the whole day) and how much time will it take me to learn all of this (ik I'm asking a lot of things 😅😅)

4) Please people give any advice/ wisdom 🥺🥺

Just usual practice after a long break. I was just feeling lonely, but I feel like it's a void that's not permanent. We just crave the apricity from others because our mind tries to fill that unnecessary void. Anyways as usual all the suggestions are welcomed :)

I see people who after months get no where at all, and then others who after months and are nearly at a professional level. And I assumed it was motor skills. But no this isn't about ages.

I am someone who has drawn for a long time since childhood. I am considered 'talented', have been called that all my life even though I started drawing horrible like every one else, though I wouldn't call myself professional until I have got a career. I'm just curious why some people struggle to wrap there heads around art. To me it feels so simple to understand.

Like take traditional art for example. Just some simple light shading, to me its easy since I was a kid, hold the pencil further back and hold lightly. And then people will crush their pencils in half trying to shade lightly? Those same people will hop on a video game and be monsters on it, crazy dexterous on a controller or a mouse. To me art is no different then learning a video game it feels the same.

I also see it with studies. People draw tiny gesture drawings, 100 on the page, which will get you no where, and learn the Loomis method thinking it'll help them do art; yet they haven't even tried doing some art studies of some beginner artists. Professional artists don't use the Loomis method as a guide line, its like a diagnostic tool to figure out what's wrong if your head looks weird, atleast to me it is. Hell, I don't care what age you are, your better off searching up "dragon" or "Pikachu" art tutorial on Youtube for kids and find a decent one and you will improve ten times faster then trying to learn art theory. Not to discredit art theory its very important.

To this day, years of drawing, different styles, every single artwork I notice way more improvements in my art when I take it serious in just a few months compared to beginners on these subreddits with the whole world of art to discover. It just baffles me. My favorite comic artist started drawing at 18 and got a professional job in 8 months.

My theory is people care too much about learning to draw, they never actually draw. They think they have to know how to draw before they do it. If they searched up there favorite character and tried drawing them big on a page, using the whole page, they would get so much further in one artwork, then the hours they spend on gesture drawings. People are trying to consume 1-2-3 point perspectives before they can even draw a Pikachu from Youtube. And then they won't even try to draw a background to apply it? I feel like any beginner drawing can't even apply the theory of what they are trying to learn yet everyone shoves it down there throats like its the only way to learn even though so very few artists started out with theory, they learned to draw first and then learnt the theory to improve the art.

Done in 2 hours.

I’m practicing figure drawing and working on getting better at proportions, anatomy, and poses.

I’d love to hear your feedback! What should I focus on improving in my next sketch? Any tips for making the anatomy and pose look more natural are welcome. 😊✏️

Hi everyone. I'm (turning tomorrow!) 22 years old and I've always wanted to able to draw. But I wasn't very good at it as a child, never committed to it out of fear of failure, and now i'm an adult with no skills, and the only time I draw is by copying art I like with the grid method -- and even that isn't very good, as you can tell from the botched fingers and shoes lmao.

I WANT TO BE ABLE TO DRAW ON MY OWN!! Specifically people, I want to understand anatomy and poses, then move on to drawing faces + hair and eventually clothes. But I don't know where to start. I have two books (drawing on the left side of the brain + learning to draw in 30 days) but I'm not sure if that is the best place to start.

If you guys have any recommendations for in-depth drawing tutorial books/regimes i would greatly appreciate it. I know most comments say "start with boxes" or "gesture drawing" but just a general task makes me feel really anxious, i would love if there was a more structured book that kind of mirrors an actual drawing class?

Thank you for any advice you all can give!! :D

I’m so frustrated. I started drawing last year, but I got serious around May of this year. I’ve been learning and practicing fundamentals like crazy. Lines, shapes, perspective, forms, anatomy, folds… I’ve done so many exercises. Watched so many tutorials In these last 4 months, to the point I’ve only made like… what, 3-4 completed drawings?

I’m tired of practicing and learning fundamentals, especially if it gets me nowhere when I want to draw something fun. It’s like all those practices and studies were just a giant waste of time and effort. I’m not getting better at all. In fact, I am only getting WORSE, somehow.

It’s so frustrating. I really want to get better at drawing. I’ve been drawing everyday. I’m trying my hardest to remain consistent and learn as fast as I can. But I only keep getting worse. Art is really just for the talented, unfortunately.

Please tell me you guys see it too, im not triping.

(Also if I did anything wrong, feel free to tell me)

1st ever attempt at animal. Tips please!!