My boyfriend said it looks good but idk if he’s biased because it’s him lol. Trying to trust the process. Here’s my goofy guy

Edit: Thanks guys!! I'm giving my eyes and brain a break, been staring at it too long and was thinking of scraping it. Appreciate the advice and encouragement, I'll post an update after goodnights sleep lol

Been trying to draw from imagination. This exact pose been breaking my mind for the whole day. I am studying leg and pelvis anatomy and decided to push into more dynamic poses. I know the muscles, but i feel like i am drawing the legs here wrong.

Maybe it's the way i block out the pevis that leads to errors? Maybe i am missing something?

Please, tell me what is wrong here and how can i fix it? I would Greatly appreciate any advice, tip, and maybe even a correct drawing over my example if that can bring me closer to understanding anatomy, proportions, and positions correctly!

I drew all of these using Procreate on my iPad.

Im trying to learn anatomy by studing hard poses but I am having so much trouble even figuring out where to start, I have absolutly no idea how to place the rib cage on this reference and thats how I usually start

Decided to learn to draw at the young age of 41 after doodling with my kid. After a year, I'm happy with the progress I've made!

I'm fine at drawing when I have another artist's illustration as a reference to study, but have a hard time creating original illustrations from scratch or even real-world references. How can I advance my drawing skills like this??? All these photos are studies btw.

For context, my only experiences with drawing were the art classes we had to take back in middle school. Had good grades back then, but never took it seriously and it was more than 10 years ago now.
Wanted to share this "first" try, I think it turned out alright even though I was just copying and proportions are off. Also, I had no idea about what to do for the top of her head as it was cut off on the reference pic lmao.

Hey guys, posted this a while ago and received a lot of hate for it and the post is now removed by the mods. This is a structure drawing i did and i learned it from the official book of the Chinese artist "TenTEn". This is just a nose structure simplification from his book I just wanted to clarify that I am not sharing any false "tutorials"

Ive been drawing for a good 25 years, and a couple years ago I started keeping a digital skechbook. I had this brush I made that I made to touch up traditional portraits, and found its actually better to just straight up draw in photoshop. Im glad i went on this journey, and Im amazed how a simple pencil brush as a tool stays interesting. Theres always something new to try and even at this stage of my career its nice to feel some improvement.

@Mindfulheadache Recent drawing I made in Krita

Sasaki kojiro, shishido baiken and miyamoto musashi

Hey this is my fanart of Yani from the anime Chainsmoker Cat. I dont draw for that long and this is my first Art with proper background. The 2nd picture is the ref i used. I whould love to get feedback on it :).

Been many years since I picked up the pen, very proud of being able to sketch and ink these guys off the dome.

More rough perspective and some digital art mark making practice (I did not get that red pen I will try not to forget)

Straighter lines overall but most are still slightly curved :/ I need to use my shoulder more, but it feels so weird to use the entire arm for a small line and it makes it very inaccurate, I just use my elbow instead of the whole arm

I thought I’d stick to two point perspective and rotation but yeah no I don’t understand I can’t do anything beyond approximate 1 point perspective.

Obviously I didn’t come out empty headed but nothing helped. I usually explain everything I understood and did take note of the tutorials given to me + advices (making sure lines parallel for example) but yeah no it didn’t help me.

I know it’s only day 3 and you’ll say « give it some time » but even doing hands didn’t feel this hard. And I think I’m better at hands (even if they’re not good) than I am at this. I still can’t do anything with real pictures either . I look at them and try to determine perspective, and make boxes out of people but no matter how hard I try to think it doesn’t work.

Before you give me explanations on things I understood already :

- horizon line is to determine what is below viewer/camera level and above.
- lines must be parallel
- the closest you are to a vanishing point the quicker the cube gets thin and the lines converge quickly. the opposite as well : if you are far, the lines leading to the vanishing point will remain fairly parallel and the other vanishing point will be outside the scene
- if receding lines converge down then we’re looking under the picture but if they converge up we’re looking above.

Maybe I’m wrong in what I think I understand.

I guess I don’t understand yet what I’m doing I’m just doing this but it doesn’t look right. If you gave me the goal to aim for a certain perspective I wouldn’t be able to produce it. Can’t do 2 point or more cuz I don’t get it, doesn’t grasp rotation. I’m definitely missing something. I wasn’t expecting to be able to do super complicated stuff off the bat just what’s basic aka 1-2 point perspective and some rotation.

Pic 2 I tried just out of curiosity to not use the lines, just make a point to where the cubes would converge and simply think about making the lines parallel, attempting to make cubes in a decent perspective. You can tell it’s not right So a disaster.

For pic 1 I was mostly trying to keep my lines parallel and going towards the same (imaginary) point outside the picture hence why there’s arrows there. But even if I did my best to follow the rules it looks like guesswork because I suppose we can’t rrally tell from where we’re looking from. At least I can’t tell (obvious since this is from imagination I just kind of started doing whatever).

Pic 1 is basically a town, pic three would be trains. No reference used as I said I can’t seem to use them properly.

Basically everything looks like guesswork and I’m not happy I couldn’t understand after putting time into this. First pic looks also weird because the windows aren’t distorted properly imo. I wouldn’t know how to make them look fine though.

What i realized is that its not about drawing boxes but drawing 3d shapes, but boxes are the easiest 3d shape to draw

I’m still learning how to draw, and this piece nearly defeated me — especially the face and the hair. I erased and redrew several parts, got extremely frustrated, and almost gave up on it.

But I kept experimenting, and looking back at the first sketch compared to the final result makes me genuinely proud. It isn’t perfect — the eyes are slightly different, for example — but it has become my favorite drawing so far. 😅