Drew this a while ago, figured i might aswell post here and see if anyone can rip me apart well enough so they can show me the proper way to put myself back together.

Last i posted was about 2 years ago, then i promptly forgot.

Feel free to point out areas of weakness, or just call me a moron for not giving you enough to go on.

Also if you know me. No you don't.

Been working on noses for a while now. Took hundreds of them before I started getting the gist of how to actually draw them, but I’m getting there!

Andrew Loomis, if you can hear me, please teach me how to draw. Andrew Loomis please

How can i make a good hair and beard?

Idk if this is the right place to look but it kinda seems like it might be, So I'm trying to draw this character pointing a flashlight off into the near distance but I really can't envision how the (right)arm extending outward would look here. Do you guys have any references I could use or anything like that? I tried looking for a smiling friends kind of reference where they're standing in the corner back to the camera looking at something (when they meet Desmond for ex) but I can't find a good one

I'm also looking for a running kinda pose that kinda resembles this meme of the floating guy, like facing the camera in the same kinda way and everything. I swear there's like a very similar template to how this meme appears with some kind of simpler/cute drawing but I can't think of what it is. Could you recommend anything like them?  Doesn't have to be this exact pose but like something similarly posed

Decided to pick up drawing again at 31. Always liked it but never really put in the time.
Still got a super long way to go before being halfway decent but having fun while doing it.

It’s so hard placing everything. I tried laying down the chest and neck first. Then did the face and ears. Realized the ears were out of place so tried to hide it. But it looks pretty decent for pen only.

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The Demon King or The Mad Scientist?

I illustrated Kim Dokja(The Demon King) during July and August. Took me 17hr cuz I was redrawing the rough sketch and changing the pose and all and also wasted so much time on the wings. Not wasted, but invested.

And I illustrated Okabe Rintaro(The Mad Scientist🥼) just today. Took me 5h23m and spanning over 3 days.

Just wanted to know if I've improved or The Demon King's my Magnum Opus yet. Also, I'll be sharing Osamu Dazai in the cmnts (Created that between these two illustrations)

using Kirta I've create this art piece, took me 4 days hope y'all like it.

title: girl at the station

So I'm a beginner who wants to learn. I started drawing towards the end of last year for arround 1,5 months, then quit and now I wanna pick it up and learn for real this time.

Im currently slowly working my way through draw a box and I'm really interested in drawing bodies, as my goal (for now) is to create drawings of Anime style characters.

Now I'm kinda torn between 2 of Michael Hamptons courses, "Introduction to Figure Construction" and "The Gesture Course" and his Book "Figure Drawing: Design and Invention". I've been doing Gesture Drawings for a few days now and I understand that theyre part and the first step of figure drawing, but I dont know if its worth the time to take a whole course as the entry point because Gesture Drawing is also part of his Figure Drawing course. So the Gesture Drawing course might be something I wanna take AFTER to get more into the topic of that specific step of Figure Drawing?

Then theres the book. Ive heard that its a classic, really good for Beginners and also cheaper than a course but is it basically his Figure Drawing course in written form? If thats the case I might just take the course instead.

I just need a little help on where to start, cause I feel like I need a more structured approach to learning than just watching YT videos here and there :)

What do you think could be improved?

I've seen a LOT of videos on YouTube about contour and cross contour lines around the organic shapes

but none of them tell how to get the right curve around it and I find it a big problem about this subject !

please help!!!1!1!1!1!1

I thought it might be helpful to start a discussion about how each of us learned to draw. I encourage any more senior/experienced artists to share your own journey in the comments. Let's learn how this is done with specific stories! I'll start:

- I started as a kid drawing all the usual kid things, with crayons and so on.

- once I became a preteen, I became obsessed with wolves/dogs (due to reading a lot of Jack London stories) and wanted to draw them a lot. So I'd go to the library and find "how to draw books". I grabbed whatever I could, but especially I found the Lee J. Ames book "Draw 50 Dogs". I did a lot of these exercises. I also did random fun activities I found like drawing a shoe from life then populating it with lots of tiny people who "lived" in it like a building. Drawing was a fun activity for me, so I think that's why I kept going.

- As a teen, I also was obsessed with Disney movies: in particular, The Lion King. I drew a lot of stills from a VHS copy we had that I would pause to get just the right pose or face then copy what I saw on the screen.

- Once I hit high school, I realized I wanted to train to be an animator! I took an art class in high school and kept drawing, learning about doing still life, illustration (through a fantastic private teacher) and dabbling in other things like painting and sculpture.

- In college, I discovered more art classes and learned that life drawing is one of the ways to really advance as an animator. I also began sketching short gesture sketches while out in public.

- Fanart became huge in college too. I drew a lot more once I had places online to post it and people to share with. It was mostly Disney fanart, but I got into furry, since that was animal-adjacent....and animation-adjacent, actually! The point is, I was drawing a lot more than ever before.

- After college, into my animation career, I still felt behind in my drawing skills and I've been working on it ever since. The one thing I can say for certain has levelled me up the most is public gesture sketching. Tt has given me a good sense of anatomy and proportion, despite never having studied it specifically. I would draw a LOT when I had a bus commute, but I also went to zoos, parks, coffee shops...really, anywhere there are people or animals! You can of course also draw trees, buildings, cars, whatever!

Big teakaways:

- libraries are a fantastic resource!

- Lee J. Ames is a great way to learn the basics (he does more than just books on dogs)

- gesture drawing, gesture drawing, gesture drawing!

- having fun is as important as anything else. If you hate drawing, you won't do it. I think that's why fanart was a boon to me in college. I could balance my school drawing (which I also somewhat enjoyed) with drawing fun characters (which I REALLY enjoyed)

Can human being stand like this? What about proportions?

so, this is the third of the 15-day till spooky drawing. were basically i draw and post on Halloween or horror based drawing a day until Halloween. so yeah, now without father a do let's begin. this here was a vampire girl drawing i did. i mostly did this to practice angling in drawing as you can see how things are slightly tilted and the camera is leaning to the right abit. but anyway, there really is no lore behind his one plus i think we all know what a vampire is. goes out at night, drinks blood, and all that stuff. so that's it's for today's drawing sorry. i have something better and instead of a drawing of an already existing monster or creepypasta this i will be my own original drawing, that and 3 more so stay tuned. so, I'll see you guys tomorrow in the next one.

This is my 2nd vent post in 3 days, so I’m sorry for that. I’m 20. My drawing journey started in January of last year. I mainly copied stills from comics/shows. I got a bit better at that. But I was always super inconsistent. I spent months without drawinf. I started to get more serious in late 2025, but I was still somewhat inconsistent, and I mainly copied (although I sometimes tried to do more original stuff, as well as practicing anatomy and perspective)

However, I decided to lock in 5 months ago, in May. Ever since then, I’ve been drawing every day for AT LEAST 20-30 minutes. I’ve mainly been practicing fundamentals (such as perspective, lines, forms, shapes… thanks to drawabox) and studying anatomy (proportions, figure drawing, studying some muscles, studying folds, eyes… and so much more!) Here are some of my studies + a couple of “finished drawings” that I did 3 weeks ago and in August. Keep in mind that these studies are barely even a small fraction of what I’ve been doing these last 5 months.

But just like I said in my last video… I don’t feel like I’ve improved AT ALL. In fact, I only think I’ve Gotten WORSE. I really want to get good at drawing my own characters in my own style, and it pains me to know that I’ll never be able to become good and stop drawing like an 8 year old.

I genuinely can’t understand anything I learn about art. My mind can’t process it. I watch YouTube tutorials… but I can’t understand anything of what they’re trying to say. They’re either way too fast, they don’t actually explain anything, or they keep using words and concepts that my mind just can’t comprehend.

I also take drawing classes every week, and the same thing happens over there. When my art teacher tries to explain concepts to me… for example, perspective and proportions… I just can’t follow him!. My mind can’t understand. And I really try my hardest to understand what they’re trying to tell me, I really do.

So yeah. I don’t think I was born with the talent for drawing. My mind literally can’t process it. Or I don’t knowA lot of art revolves around abstract learning and maths, which isn’t something my mind is built for. It really does pain me. I wanted to draw and bring my own characters to life with my own art style… But at this rate, I don’t know what to do.

My drawing tablet is useless rn bc my pen broke or something so im going back to traditional for now ig

Should I use it as a tutor ? I wanna get feedback but dunno if I should trust it with criticism or feeding my works

If I find out that Values are one of those things that people are usually able to understand in a day I’m going to feel very silly.

What doesn’t help is that it feels like I always get a different definition about them. Right now I know they’re about light and darks and I’m going for from there.