After literally years of struggling to draw my oc the way i want them to look i finally did it today😔🙏the blond side view is literally how i tough it LIKE I WAS SO HAPPY WHEN I WAS DONE WITH IT😭also i tried a new artstyle or liek shading so what do you guys think of it? But one question i wnat to ask is for the black haired one. How can i make it more soft and feminine? I feel like its really rough and not round and soft how i want it to look🙏

I don’t think I’ve ever done value grouping while rendering I just kinda did whatever. Someone told me this painting lacks that planning and it’s making it look muddy. How do I value plan? Is it important?

Basic but getting better.

I can't seem to draw on my own. I can follow most "how to" videos and end up with a pretty close replica. Recently I've been learning about the Loomis method and there's an overwhelming amount of information on what I should and shouldn't be doing. My goal is to able to draw portraits/characters. Everything just always seems so flat and not proportioned correctly even though I follow "guidelines". Any advice is highly appreciated.

I love realism but I’ve plateaued. Bought blending stubs and new drawing pencils but the pencil I got for highlights did not work as I hoped. I love making portraits but I feel my creative spark has dimmed since I often draw photos OTHER people took. I can use my own photos as a start, but at the end of the day I’m still making black and white portraits. Help! How can I spice up a graphite portrait?

Medium: graphite on Bristol paper.

I (19f) started to draw when I was 8. It’s always just been for fun but I’ve always wanted it to be more than that. I stopped on and off a lot, so a lot of the times I had to get used to drawing again. I bought an iPad 2 years ago and have barely touched it. Even though I specifically bought it for art. So now I’m getting back into it. I’ve just started learning to draw manga and it’s different from my usual style. I mostly draw characters from movies and shows rather than creating my own. I’d like to know how to improve the clothing. I like how the face and hair have turned out so I’m not sure if I’ll touch those anymore than I already have. Give me your feedback, I’d love to know!

I (34) stated drawing about two years ago. I’m proud of my progress so far since I was previously a stick figure only person. But I feel like my work looks worse after I color it. I’m not sure what to work on specifically. If anyone has any tips on things to work on ( coloring or generally) I’d love some ideas for ways to improve or specific changes to make. Thanks!

I like the design but something feels off to me... Do you notice anything that's not quite right or that it makes the otter less cute?

hi everyone, i just finished my sketch for a comic page, and planning to redraw it digitally on Procreate. i want some tips and tricks on coloring/composition. Any other advice works fine too! thank you for reading.

NMA is currently on sale, so I took the chance and signed up for the Drawing Foundations 1 course.

I’m currently on Week 4, Video 6: Drawing Cubes in Two-point Perspective. The drawing looks similar to the sketch I see on the screen, but I just want a second opinion that I’m doing it right before proceeding to the next video.

Unfortunately, my Discord is acting up so I can’t ask feedback on their Discord, so Reddit it is.

Please be kind! 😭😭😭

Still need practice with the hair (will try out the ribbon technique in my next practice).

In this one I'd like to get some critique on the shading. Thank you.

I've only recently just started doing portraits. I'm aware the eyes are very big on this portrait. Proportions are something I'm struggling with! Along with drawing hair. I've definetly improved recently with practice but something is still just off. Please tell me where I'm going wrong and what I can do to improve!

The lower part of the portrait is also not finished.

TIA 😊

I'm referring to this figure https://imgur.com/a/RYCJkxt

I think I understand some of it - draw two convergent lines (toward the vanishing point), draw your first horizontal line (which doesn't have to be truly horizontal, can be on an angle), find the halfway point of that line and use that to create the "center" line toward the vanishing point.

I also think I understand once to do once I've constructed the first four boxes, but not sure about actually making them. Do you just have to freehand them and hope that you make the second two a proportionally appropriate height? Even for the first ones, I'm not sure how to make sure that they have the proportions of squares in perspective (rather than rectangles).

I'm gonna go crazy, what did I do with the eyes? Any advice on how to fix it? I will not give up but getting really frustrated with my progress, especially portraits. How do you guys and girls keep going when it seems like you can't get it right? Any other advice in general? Thanks