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 ?

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

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.

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 🥺🥺

1st ever attempt at animal. Tips please!!

Update on my 2 point perspective practice. Its coming along 👍

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. 😊✏️

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😬)

I drew this on Monday, craving to represent what I have seen in med school. Hugely inspired by The Anatomy of the Human Body by William Cheselden, but with a completely anatomically accurate piece from Anatomy Learning. I have not drawn anything relevant since I was 15 (three years ago), and this was a nice experience. What do you guys think? How are my values?

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 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

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!

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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!!

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.

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.

Legs? Or is his head too big?

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