Want some feedback. Do you think my art is improving in a good direction? I've been drawing for about 2 months now and I'm starting to think it's actually looking good but I'd like feedback from others as well. I think I've really started to get the hang of clothing and line weight while also getting a better understaning of how 3d shapes apply over a body (like with the boots for example).

Honestly any feedback at all is desired!

I wanna learn to draw in a manga-like style if yall care

Like just from imagination, a drawing that if you didn't know, you couldn't tell whether it was a photo or a drawing.

Did lesson one actually end up helping you like, at all? like do you feel it genuinely help you and an artist?

Like does spending that entire first lesson drawing all those boxes, did is actually help you like, at all?

I ask because when I started drawing these exercises were never part of my learning, we just broke down figures into their basic shapes and then applied that to the type of art we wanted to learn.

Like I see so many "I finished lesson one" posts and I'm just like...oookay? but what did that teach you?

If it did, in what ways has it helped?

I know, it says AI in the title, just don't kill me immediately. :)

I just wanted to ask if it makes sense or not. For the past few weeks I've been using AI (ChatGPT) as a sort of "drawing coach" that I chat with about drawing and send it my scribbles (especially when I feel they're awful). Sometimes just for a cheer-up, sometimes it actually points out good and bad things (and areas what I could do better). Sometimes it explains stuff.

So far I've been doing drawabox (and find the excercises/homeworks actually quite relaxing) and doing daily sketches at r/SketchDaily, I just wanted a little something to encourage me a little and give pointers. I know there are other courses or tutorials (I've been spammed with tons of ads for them), it is just hard to tell if they're any good. Especially since many market themselves as for beginners while a few glances later they definitely aren't.

Is anyone doing something similar? Or is it a bad thing to do? I know I might be feeding the wolf, but I don't consider anything I draw "art", so I doubt it would learn anything useful from my shitty scribbles. Apart from this particular AI use that's been nagging me from the corner of my mind, my only real worry is acquiring some bad habits.

Edit: Just to clarify, I am not using AI solely. I use real references and I do not use it to create references. I "merely" use it to discuss sketches I do and, yeah, sometimes for a pat on the back or a suggestion if I am realy unhappy about what I sketched.

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.

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. 😊✏️

Hey guys, i started drawing about two weeks ago, i first started by copying artworks of characters i enjoy to get myself into it, which after a few very very ugly ones ended up looking like the first 6 pictures up there ( i'll post the reference and then mine )

Then i started to use pictures of real people and try to draw them in simplified forms, which i'll post above too

I obviously have an awful lot to improve on but i don't really know how / what i should do for it

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

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

I started drawing pretty recently (1 month ago), people i know who are good at art just tell me to draw what i want, so i was wondering if i should work on anything in particular.

By the way, assume i know basically nothing!

I only started drawing like 1 month and a half ago and I tried doing a full after training myself on head and I want to know your opinion on it. I think my proportion might a bit off, she seems a bit long. But I think it look quite alright for a first time I guess

i don't see silhouette practice mentioned often so i was wondering if i should practice it because i struggle with human form overall

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)

Sorry for the shadow over the photo.
This is only the 2nd time Ive ever tried a portrait and I don't know where to start. Ive also tried an animal for first time and will post that separately.

I realised my head construction was quite wonky, after watching 'The head drawing roadmap I wish I had' by Art by Xiaowen I decided to try to improve my head drawing starting with 50 Loomis head studies.

My process: I watched various videos on how to draw the head using Loomis method, then I would draw 10 heads, then I would trace over the image with red, and compare the 2, seeing where I need to improve(see last slide). I would repeat this cycle 5 times, with 31-50 having simple facial features applied.

My plan after this is to study the skull, then facial features and hair, then attempt value studies of the head and eventually full color portraits.

I would like some critique on my heads as well as my study process and rough roadmap of learning head drawing. Thanks!!

1st ever attempt at animal. Tips please!!

Done in 2 hours.

I’m gonna colour her hair later but I’m just wondering what I’m I supposed to do for the hair behind her head near her neck? I just drew straight lines but it looks kinda odd. Also is copying from a reference like this actually beneficial or am I wasting my time? It took me like 5 hours lol.