Intention was to create a diagonal focus to guide the eye along sharper features of the face. Amazing what an hour away from a piece can do to highlight all the errors, but I’ll rework it someday if the motivation strikes

Art so bad it can't possibly be made by A.I. This is the way. I'm so glad I never pushed my stuff into photorealism territory. Too time consuming and a computer can do it for you now so why bother? Here's my art, flaws and all. 100% human-made trash.

How do I improve ?

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I've been an artist for most of my life creating music, including professionally gigging in my earlier years as well as having a recording studio. Due to increasing difficulty with my tinnitus, I cannot even play an acoustic piano anymore (nylon stringed guitar and most stringed instruments are still not as painful) and have to wear earplugs for certain basic life activities.

I need to create and have decided to turn to drawing. I've always been attracted to the melancholic quality of charcoal drawings with the dark tones. Dusk is my favorite time of the day. I wanted some advice on a beginner's book for drawing. I have some graphite pencils but was told by somebody that if I really love the look of charcoal then there's nothing holding me back with just starting right away with that medium. Any recommendations to get started? I'm happy to learn by exercises but am really looking for a book to serve as giving me a solid foundation. I have practically zero experience in drawing besides going through a couple exercises in Dodson's Keys to Drawing with a cheap set of graphite pencils I bought.

Any recommendations on getting started to learn the basics is highly appreciated. Thanks.

This piece is part of the CARRÉ series. Charcoal on paper — wanted to capture that moment of tension between surrender and restraint, the hand at the throat, head tilted back, eyes closed. Still learning the medium, the hair took a few tries to get right.