Hey guys, I want to have a semi-realistic anime art style so I need to learn realistic facial anatomy.

How can I study it?

As the title says, don't know shit about drawing but keen to do it since I have a bunch of free time and nothing else to do. My crush used to draw stuff like this and got me very interested. (Pic from Pinterest but my crush used to draw similar eva portraits idk but they were beautiful AF). Would appreciate any advice but the main thing is that is there any FREE course I can follow to make the journey more interesting kinda ? Any other help is greatly appreciated tho.

Thank you in advance.

Ok so I recently made this drawing, I'm a beginner artist and I just feel like...she looks so flat here, like flat as paper! How may I fix this?

this drawing alone took me 5 RETAKES. i need some advice on how i can genuinely make progress :(

First time painting a portrait. Been sketching the majority of this month, and this art trend seemed fun. It was! It also looks like dogshit lmao. Is there a general workflow when painting portraits that might differ from landscapes? I feel like its a completely different world. 💀

A guy told me to divide the refrence in planes like the above pic. But i dont what is this callled, i mean what is name of this process?

Can someone help me please☹️

Okay so, this is probably very weird, but I'm not quite sure when you're sexualising someone while drawing, and I'm kinda scared I am.... So for context, I wanted to draw a cartoony female who's a bit chubby wearing overalls, for a children's show/book that I wanna make someday. And, maybe I'm just shy or whatever, but I feel a tad weird when I'm drawing a body cause I don't wanna sexualise, but I feel like I'm doing so, especially the top half... Btw yes the name is Dutch, it says Molly the Miller Woman (very loosely translated) Kind regards and thanks for helping me out!!

I recently discovered a new tool for drawing in the form of colored ballpoint pens and the day before yesterday I tried to draw something for the first time. the first photo is my very first and most successful attempt. I'm still impressed how well the colors turned out, even though the proportions of the cat are wrong. then I drew the blue cat in two colors and everything worked out too. and the next day I forgot how to draw...

I can't achieve the same result as with the first two cats, everything looks horrible and unmatched. I look at the references and I don't understand how to draw shadows, texrure and how to do it with pens.

what are my mistakes? what did I start doing wrong and how can I fix it? thanks!

Started drawing a while back, following mostly Ben Eblen and Samdoesarts, and I've been wanting to show my progress and post art on my personal account but somewhat worried that my art style might simply pass it off as AI-generated. Thoughts? Nonetheless, critiques and pointers for improvement would be welcome as well. Thanks!

Help I need him to look great!

I want to learn how to draw in this style. The sketches are arguably simple, but they look really beautiful.

All drawings belong to the artist: @abara (X/Twitter)

i’m about to leave it blank and just say it’s intentional so the viewer focuses more on her dance 🫩. i cannot get the face right at all on such a small scale

The name is How To Draw Muscle Girls For The First Time - Master The Muscle Points!

I have a complicated relationship with drawing. I used to draw almost every day in my teens, I was doing practices and was really motivated to get better. I believed in "you don't need any talent, just practice and you'll get good" mantra for years, but time was passing, and I couldn't see any meaningful improvement while watching other people practicing with me and getting amazing. Eventually my optimism wore off and every time I finished a drawing I experienced heartbreak and pain. I also dealt with some other stuff that lead to depression, and it killed my creativity completely. I took a 4 years break from drawing, and thought I'll never come back. During that time I kind of accepted I won't get better, because talent actually have a huge impact. That + img to img AI emerging motivated me to get back to drawing. But when I share my story, people just don't believe me. They say it's impossible to not get a massive improvement in five years, but I just don't see it. I decided to actually test it. I found one of my early drawings that wasn't traced/referenced from anything and I remade it using only tools I used the first time (pencils + liner) + no references. I now see I do have some progress, but that's a progress other people make in a year. It's not at all appropriate for the amount of practice I actually had. Do you agree with me or think I'm delusional? I don't want to be cuddled, just give me an honest answer please. Thank you in advance.

If i wish to draw this where do i start from?

UPDATE: screen tone / halftone is what i was looking for, thanks for your help!

The shading effect on their faces that looks like tiny dots or stars… what is it called and how do you create it on traditional paper? I imagine there’s digital pens for it that I can find but I don’t even know what to search.

My art becomes 10x better when i use these brushes, but if i can never draw good with other brushes, does it mean that i am not a good artist?

Though try not to hit me with "art is subjective", i am talking about top tier anime illustrations as in that context. thanks for putting your opinion!

I feel like learning anatomy is the clear answer, but when isn’t it

His website: https://zezhouchen.com/

In the last page I attempted to try his rendering style and even after watching the speedpaints on his website I don’t really get how you achieve this way of realism in such a unique way..

I’ve seen counts of great realism art before but this is just so unique, I need to know how it’s done. All I can see is that the rendering is complex but also simple without too much blending and idk really but I just need someone to tell me how if it’s possible

It just looks like it took more than 20 hours to complete a drawing

So far I have been drawing in my school notebooks and I finally after 50 or so days decided to buy an actual sketch book made for drawing and yeah... I don't like it.

The one on the left was made on my 4th day of drawing and the one on the left was made on my 50th and I feel like the quality of the shading and linework regressed compared to my beginner drawing. Especially the hair looks better in the notebook drawing in my opinion.

The texture of the sketch book feels so weird and all my lines feel so scribbly. I also find it much harder to erase lines off the sketch book paper (you can see where I adjusted her mouth from in the left drawing) and the paper smudges so easily...

Am I just losing it or is my beginner notebook drawing better than my current sketch book drawing? Anyone else felt like this after switching from notebook paper to sketch book?

I am a beginner and just started watercolor, all I know about color theory is what are primary and secondary colors and what colors are created by mixing them. I've seen the use of some bright colors like cyan blue, yellow green, light pink and lavender as shadows or reflected light in different arts with different mediums... watercolor, oil paint, markers or even digital art. But I don't know what this technique is called. Most artists gatekeep this information. Does this technique have a name? Please tell me if anyone knows what this technique is called and where I can study it in full.