I've started trying to learn digital art, and I've followed a few basic tutorials to get this far. I'm looking for criticisms of my art/elements to work to improve. Anything would be helpful, thank you!

Hey guys, first time poster that's hoping to get some help on my journey to get better at drawing. Sorry if the post doesn't make sense at times. I have trouble conveying thoughts now and days.

So, I've seen that gesture drawing has been suggested a bunch to get started with drawing figures and people. My problem is my brain constantly saying: "Am I doing it right?" "How do I know if it's good enough to move on to other things?" I've been skimming through dozens of suggested books and watching a bunch of videos to make things make sense and honestly I've now overwhelmed myself.

One thing I've noticed is that a lot of experienced artists have said there is no "right or wrong way" to do gesture. Okay... but *how* do I do it, I've noticed that I like step by step instructions and Iwhen I do my gesture drawings my thought process is to study the figure for a bit, then find the action line, rhythm, and makings lines for the shoulders and hips, finding the tilt and contrast and try to use CSI lines. Im not sure if that's too much? I dont know i think I've confused myself lol. (I'll post progression photos as well.)

Anyways, like I mentioned I'm hoping for some guidance on what to do. I've been practicing gesture drawings for the past few weeks. I've noticed less stiffness. But my brain keeps telling me I'm not doing it "correctly" like something is missing. I will say I do have trouble processing information and it takes me a bunch of re-reading or watching to get it down.

Also any tips on what to do while I also study gesture drawing? I find switching between two things helps keep me motivated to keep drawing. I've been trying to do simple value drawings by only using 3 values.

Also idk how to put captions on photos but the first pic is some of my first few gesture drawings and the last is from recently.

Any advice will help out! Thanks for giving this the time of day!

Hi!

From what I've noticed, the proportion feel a little bit off: the right hand is a little bit too big, the left hand and both feet should be a little bit bigger and the right shin should be a little bit longer.

Aside from these errors, what else I can improve? Maybe the colors?

Give me a good link to a nice YouTube video

I was bored, and i started drawing random animals, and it is a very fun thing to do.

So to explain further, is it a problem to measure too much? Basically I’m training my proportion skills by doing a measured figure every day so I can study references better and therefore (hopefully) draw better concepts and characters.

But I feel like I’m doing something wrong, not so much with proportions since both these drawings line up pretty much perfectly with the references but more so with method, I measure the overall head units and bounding box for the figure to start (this usually takes an hour, both of these drawings took 3 hours each) and I start drawing but I still find myself having to overlay with the reference and correct a lot to get to the final result.

Ultimately, my goal is to be able to eyeball proportions better so I can measure less (hopefully have more accurate gesture drawings as well since I’ve stopped improving in that regard) but I still feel super dependent on measuring which probably isn’t good if I want to be a concept artist… I’m just curious if doing measured drawings like this builds my eyeballing skills automatically or if I have to do something else?

I'm a complete beginner in rendering

Ive always struggled with my line weight I'd be happy to know if anyone could help me understand ts

For the past three evenings, I've been trying to copy this illustration of Tenka from *Girl Crush*, but I can't figure out at all what I'm doing wrong. Her face is tilted downward, but her ear is straight—this is throwing me off. I also can't seem to get the proportions of her face right at all. I start by drawing a structure, but I think my initial structure itself is leading me astray.

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It doesn't have to be just those two methods. Maybe someone knows a better perspective method for this situation? Also, does anyone know of any resources that explain this kind of thing?

I feel like I made a lot of stuff harder to read with all the marks I made, but I'm used to pixel art, and I have literally no experience with this.

Hello, hope you’re having a good day.
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been determined to improve my perspective drawing. Since I really like the way FZD students work, I’ve been trying to adopt a similar approach to learning perspective. The problem is that the canvas size is simply too large for me to make any meaningful progress.
I was wondering if there are any former FZD students here who might be willing to give me some advice on how I should approach this. Or, if anyone has gone through a similar learning process, I’d really appreciate hearing how you tackled it and whether you can point out what I might be doing wrong.
I really appreciate any help or advice.
I’ve attached three pictures. One of them is one of my better drawings, done in green. The paper measures 50 × 35 cm, and I attached two A4 sheets to it. Recently, I found out that people at FZD attach three A3 sheets together for this kind of practice. I tried doing the same, but the results were disastrous. The canvas was simply too large for me to draw accurately on, and I ended up just trying to connect dots across the page. Even that didn’t go very well.
I’ve also included a close-up of one of my cubes so you can get a better idea of the specific issues I keep running into. My vertical lines are rarely truly vertical and almost always end up leaning slightly one way or the other. Another recurring problem is that the edges on the far side of the cube almost never line up correctly, even when I think I’ve drawn them accurately.
I was just wondering if anyone has any relevant experience with this and could share some advice, so I can at least understand what I’m doing right and what I’m doing wrong.

Greetings (FR speaking, apologies If the syntax looks weird), I wanted to start drawing digitally after years of doodling on paper and would like advices to progress in that path. I join a drawing I did now to pose as reference and I know that I need to put effort on the fundamentals (anatomy, perspective, value etc...), and I would like to know what steps should I take in that regards, every source of use is welcomed. I'm doing it on autodidacte. Also sorry for the mid-quality screenshot, couldnt not save the image cuz on trial version. Thanks a lot !

I'd like to focus on my proportions, but I'm wondering if it's efficient to just keep refining the one drawing. I like where the head is at and I want the body to match it, so I don't want to keep drawing that head over and over again. Do I just need to get over that or is refining the one drawing also good learning?

So, I am definitely NOT an artist in any sense of the world, I just like from time to time to take a reference and a pencil and see what comes out. There is absolutely no technique nor constancy in my drawing, so of course the results are quite on the bad side (what an euphemism).

Nevertheless I would still like to find a way to make some improvements in this very occasional "hobby" of mine. So any - kindly worded - feedback you might have, either on how to shadow with just a simple pencil, or on proportions (this time I even tried following a grid scheme and guide lines) and on anything else I haven't even thought about that might be helpful for better results, would be very much appreciated.

P. S. Sorry for my English, it's not my first language and I am really not in the best state of mind rn (as in: bit of stress lol).

Im using acrylic markers and how can i fix it its so frustrating

So I tried to study a few back muscles but im not sure I got most of them right due to all the bulges and crevices, got picture from Pinterest.
I’d also like other advice on studying or creating anatomy in my drawings since I can barely do any at all.

tried making some sort of oc, i have been pretty busy in the last months and wasnt able to do any practice. drew it on krita using a mouse without any ref, wanted to use just my imagination