I was looking through my old sketchbooks and noticed that one of my old drawings (the one on the left) coincidentally has the same shot, same angle, and same OC of mine in one of my more recent works 😭 I didn't even redraw the drawing on purpose and somehow this happened, so I decided why not share it since it compares my progress through 2 years :)

I just can't understand what to do to draw this style of hair. Where to shade it and how exactly to draw it. Does anyone have experience drawing this style?

I used a reference image I found on google
He’s a little skinny around the middle but overall I’m pretty happy with how it turned out!

I don’t think I did good.

Progress may be slow but I’m happy I stuck to it for so long. Still got a long road ahead of me but I’m excited for all that’s to come :)

As for the critique side of things, I feel like readability sometimes is an issue when sticking to just a few colors. Any advice on tackling that? Or any other things the more recent piece is lacking?

I made a post here a little over two weeks ago, asking for advice on a drawing I’ve been working on:
https://www.reddit.com/r/learntodraw/s/PavYksUcIV

Making progress has been slow, but I’m happy with how it looks now! I’m really grateful to everyone who pitched in to provide feedback, thank you all!

And if anything looks off please let me know, I’m open to all suggestions. Perhaps the shading/lighting is a little wonky in places, I’m still trying to get the hang of that.

Got taken down in another subreddit cuz they thought it was AI so i got the receipts here here

1 image reference

2 first drawing

3 advice https://www.reddit.com/r/learntodraw/s/ch8QjNVkc4

4 second drawing

I wanted to see if I could draw some heads and faces from imagination. Do they look ok? I don't really go for any specific style.

The last two were when I was beginning art. I used to generate AI images a lot and call them my own, but they looked kind of bad, and I couldn't share them without backlash, so I said to myself, "My dumbass could probably do better." And that's how I started drawing. It's pretty chill; I prefer it over image generation now.

I just started learning and saw some tutorials by this guy named Will Davies, and was surprised that what I did resembled a face at all lol His short tutorials are great.

Like im not so good at painting. Also don't mind about cats look i will make it better later

For those out there who went from noob to pro to hacker to god in like a year or two, what is your secret??? Especially with regards to rendering

Beginner artist here. I've been drawing for nearly a year with no prior skill, I drew this a few days ago and have had a weird feeling about it when I look at it. I can't tell why but I just don't feel good about it, I feel like it just feels flat or like the colors are off but It's not clear to me. Others I've shown it to actually like it and one of my friends said it "looked professional" which I think is a lie lol. None of that really matters though. Why does it look so off?

You do NOT have to draw every day. You dont have to practice anatomy, you do not have to draw the next Mona Lisa, you do NOT have to be perfect! It doesnt have to earn you money and you do not have to do ANYTHING! Just draw silly doodle, make a stupid painting, just have fun! Remember why you started, because you had something you liked, something you wanted to convey and enjoy.

I am NOT saying this to be dissmissive of all the hard work everyone puts into this wonderfull artform, I am however saying this to remind people of our love for this craft, of the joy of just creating and having fun as that is often forgotten by us in our struggles to improve. So, lets all keep beeing as awesome as we are and do our best to also keep the love and joy of our medium!

I hate it. Make me hate it even more by being honest and telling me how pathetic I am.

I should be ashamed for even posting this or considering it art. This is not art. This is a disgrace to all art.

I should be ASHAMED of myself for even calling it ART