kind of a follow up to a post i made 4 months ago, just wanted to share my progress with a few selected works. I had no prior drawing experience and started from scratch this march, drawing for 5-10 hours on a daily basis, not touching grass for half a year. I feel like I put too much time and focus on drawing characters and neglect learning more complex backgrounds. Criticism welcome!

I wanna be a comic artist so bad yet I’m nightmarishly shit at drawing and I can’t get better. I try and try hard to study the fundamentals but I have no idea what the hell I’m doing. I try to do those drawabox lessons because they apparently help me do that but I guess I’m too stupid to comprehend what the fuck I’m doing because even though I’ve done every lesson I haven’t learned a single fucking thing. I get that I have to do stuff like draw from life and draw what I see but every time I do that it fucking sucks and I don’t get what I’m doing, I know that I have to “draw from fun” but everything I draw fucking sucks and it’s not FUN because I can’t DRAW anything that I want to.

I feel like I’m that rare kind of person that is completely incapable of learning anything no matter how hard I try so I should just give up on my dreams ig. I get that beginner art is supposed to be bad and you have to practice art for 8594713931571324 hours before you actually are able to be good at drawing but it’s so fucking demoralizing seeing people who have been drawing for like 3 months and are already really good while I’ve been trying for almost a year and I’ve seen fuckall improvement. I‘m probably just being a stupid whiny bitch though so feel free to tell my why I’m wrong in the comments.

So please, for the love of GOD tell Me

Pics in backwards chronological order, started from nothing and am 10 months in now. I wanted to share to also give hope to those who might feel like they wont progress. Just keep going and youll get better, even if you are not super talented like me! Just drew faces i found interesting. Also if you have any tips let me know! (Because i feel i am plateauing a little bit😬)

This is my first 5 point perspective drawing of my living room, I was wondering specifically about how to orient objects in the space. The rocking chair on the left is one I had problems with the most. Pls help me

Legs? Or is his head too big?

Note: This method is inspired from artist "Angel Ganev"'s techniques of portrait drawing.

1. Select a good reference
   
2. Paste your reference in the canvas twice, reduce opacity of one in the middle.
   
3. Choose your preferred method of face construction, i use a mix of Loomis and Reily methos
   
4. Draw the structure over the lowered opacity reference. Do not focus on details, break down simple shapes, and try to ignore any details like small crevices in chin, curvature of ears etc. Main goal is to capture the structure and get overall proportions right.
   
5. Now redraw the same structure on the right. Try to match the proportions of the initial drawing.
   
6. Compare the traced sketch and the untraced sketch. Make note of any areas of improvement, try to correct the sketch without tracing the image again.

Redo this process with multiple references. If you're just starting out, expect to use at least 30-50 references before seeing some improvement. Focus on getting the perspective, proportions, angles and line weight right.

Again, this is just how I learnt to sketch. Once you get this information stored well enough in your mental library, you'll start to sketch faces a lot easier without all the guidelines. This will also prove to be a base for understanding facial planes, which will improve your shading/coloring skills as well.

Share your tries in comments. Feel free to ask any questions and I can try to help you guys as well.

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Would love to know what you think!

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.

To me:

I am 34 and started to draw like 1 1/2 months ago. I try do draw every day (sometimes there is just no time or i am just really tired) to improve my skill and want to see how far i come in 100 days, currently on day 38. So far i am very happy with what i have drawn, even this drawing right here.

Most of the time i draw Pokemon. But i catch myself always copying every line so this was my first time just drawing what i see and try to maybe put it in a different perspective, add shadows and lighting on my own etc.

I know there is a lot to improve, but i am working on it and i love it so far! Drawing is super fun and i always finish every drawing because most of the time i am really happy with the result.

I was feeling a little down while drawing as things just didn't seem to work out. This does seem to put things in perspective XD

Still lot to learn, like Hair and ears XD, but the confidence is more there now.

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 ?

i also draw on phone with fingers, how can i get good lineart

Heads and faces are my favourite things to draw, but it feels like I’m never quite happy with the outcome. I always draw from reference and try to start with rough Loomis method guidelines. The sketch I did the other day (pictured) is fine to me, but it feels flat, like the face isn’t a curved object. I know the paper mask method helps to try imagine features wrapping around a surface. But is this ‘flatness’ more to do with learning planes? Is it a proportions thing? If you have any videos/books/tips that helped your portraits step up a level i’m dying to know!!

1st ever attempt at animal. Tips please!!

first picture is anko uguisu from call of the night, the rest are my own.
I have now been drawing pen to paper for 20 days straight and have learned a lot, i will take a break and move to computer drawings without daily posts, my goal is to make a comic and hope to fullfill that dream.
I do have far to go, and that includes creating my own style and building my own skills which means i will be moving my focus.
Thanks for all the support the past 20 days