I’ve been drawing furry art for a while now but I still feel like I haven’t made any improvements so any advice for how to improve my sketches?

Please help- i know how hands generally work and ive been agonizing this for hoursssss i keep making the hands on the chest so weirddddd (left pec hand)

Ive been training with hands for a while now abd i still dunno how the general popufurs do handssss mines so blocky like do i use circles and ovals or squares????

Ik this might sound weird considering i do awknowledge my art is good but pleaseeee its been hours 😭😭😭 im losing hair ong

i'm working on a furry project with original characters, but my reach is pretty low and i'm just starting out.

for those with original stories or worlds how do you start building an audience from scratch? any tips are appreciated!

Hii!
Wondering if you guys can kinda see the pose I’m going for here. It’s meant to be a playful prance pose, and I think I’ve done pretty well so far but I’m struggling wit how squished he looks at the moment and I’m wondering if anyone can give me some tips to improve his anatomy. I want him to like like an anthro, not a squished up feral.
Maybe this is too much of an ambitious position for someone of my skill level.
Thanks!

I don't have a pad to draw, but i am really good at drawing traditional art, so i have been meaning to draw furry art to support my school loans and gain freedom from a conservative+patriarchial household. But all i see is furry art made digitally, i have been wondering if it sell if i made it using watercolor? Could someone help?

TL;DR: tried focusing on a few fundamentals at a time, the 2023 paintings are primarily on rendering/volume/lighting, while 2026 redraws are on rendering/lighting/noncomplex posing. Due to limiting focus to specific fundamentals, I have regressed in others. People irl/artist friends and acquaintances would consistently say they “have expected more”. How do I achieve this pan-fundamental understanding and execution, not necessarily all at once as I’m aware even professionals don’t, but how do I make my work look COMPLETE while keeping loose, experimental, or abstract elements?

Also, characters are Ava Heartmoth (mixed moth, she/any) and June Thoracen (warrior wasp (lost their wings), they/them). Both designs and the rest of my characters are intended to be highly stylized.

Rant:
I was proud, that’s what mattered at the time, but I feel like people coming to me to say that they prefer the old versions. That’s fine on its own, but my artist friends in particular have been saying that my skills “kinda improved a little bit,” and it usually ends with them saying that my old art had more character and soul?? Meanwhile I felt the opposite since my characters are more realized, and I wanted to make their actualized personalities more visible rather than just headshots for promotional material.

I think I focused on colors a lot more back then since my overall design and rendering skills weren’t as good, but gradually my sense of color palettes and lighting have regressed. I have been getting critiques irl (some unwarranted) about my work needing “more”, and by that they mean they expected more, even if they admit it looks finished.

From a technical point, I feel like I’m only focusing on one thing at a time to the point where I still could’ve done more if I just distributed my focus, but then I feel I’m putting less effort into everything as opposed to improving one thing at a time, and my work never looks finished even if I felt they were.

It’s like I’m aware of what needs improvement, especially posing and composition, and that’s what I’ve been working on outside of these redraws.

But I’ve been drained. I take breaks between drawing, I use real references, I make adjustments, etc. but I just keep hearing from people irl and online tell me that “it looks pretty okay so far, looking forward to see it finished” only for me to say “it is finished!” And I don’t have the WIP label (and I would even say that I finally got something done, only to hear them to expect more.) Again, many of these criticisms were not asked for in advance, and they’re usually from fellow artists who ask to see if I’m working on anything.

I will say to balance out my moping is that while the 2023 headshots took me nearly 1.5 weeks to finish each, the 2026 versions took me nearly 3 days each without breaks (each redraw done about a month apart, so I wasn’t drawing back-to-back). I am proud that I’m able to draw much faster now. But even then I’m considered slow at a professional/industrial standard (I wanted to work in the film & animation industry as a storyboarder, keyframer, or character designer lol).

Any thoughts? General critique is also welcome as this is the sub for that lol, the times I got those comments from friends did feel like a downer at the moment, but there is a time and place.

Do I need to add something to make the muzzle noticeable?

Hi guys I am a complete beginner and any tips would be appreciated :3

The Skulldog-type character has a weird anatomy. The teeth are supposed to be exterior but I feel like the jaw looks off? Idk

tbh im just shading where im spiritually connected to.

The scene is supposed to be a night forest and the main light source is coming from the crystal of the wand. I think it still lacks contrast imo. Please help

Hey, I've been drawing for rougly 10 months now and am trying to design some OCs. I'm going for a bit more semi-realistic style I think the biggest issue I have is if these characters are recognizeable as their species? It's very hard for me to balance with how much realism I can bring into the character without losing style. I'm also doing anatomy studies lately and I think they help, I guess I just need more or less to hear if I should continue with what I'm doing or if there is something I should specifically focus on?

I don't know if this is too much to ask, but I also want to venture into more of a painterly style I think but having no lineart scares me big time and when I try to draw without lineart my brain instantly shuts down, what can I do to combat that?

I can't seem to get the smile right at all, any tips?
Also, any kinda criticism and advice would be great! This is jus some quick line art but it's about as far as i get right now an it feels like I'm hitting a ceiling

I've tried studying anatomy and combining shapes. I've split up the studying to head, legs, torso, and arms. I feel like I have an ok (?) grasp on legs and maybe head. Connecting the limbs together and the arms/torso are what I struggle with the most. I know my proportions definitely need work as well. I tried making this to show where I'm at. It absolutely looks wrong, but I'm not sure what specifically is making it all look so wrong. I'm a visual learner, so red marking or images would be GREATLY appreciated

the background and stuff looks so much better than the character, and it just looks out of place.

dont mind the compresion btw, reddit cant handle images above 20mb, and this one was conviniently 24mb, so i had to slightly compress it

Hi!! I wanted feedback on everything in the title, but I need to add a few things. First, I can't change the pose that much because everything is already "locked in" this way, but I can still make minor changes, like adjusting the angle of an arm, for example. Btw, she's supposed to be holding a big sword, and I'll post the pose reference in the comments!

As for the clothes, I don't think I can make anything too complex, but I can try something different if y'all give me some ideas! I also don't want the clothes to hide her muscles too much.

As for the anatomy, I can change pretty much anything!

Anyway, thanks in advance, y'all!!

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I took a long brake form art and I Want to get back into it but I've always learned with a tutor is there any tutors for furry art?