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The best advice anyone can ever give anyone, in relation to wanting to improve their art, is to keep drawing. The only way to get better, is to draw. With every drawing, regardless of what it feels like, you are learning and improving. Just like the first three stories one writes won’t be amazing, neither will the first hundred sketches one makes.

Practice = Progress

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If you want some more specific advice though, it rather looks like you’re trying to draw with lines instead of shapes. (I think this is something most people do earlier on. I’m sure I did.) Lines are of course important, but finding those exact lines usually comes after using shapes to construct the forms of what you’re drawing.

I suggest using references (of real people, if you can. Looking at someone else’s art is better then not looking at anything at all, but if you learn like that, you’ll pick up on all the original artist’s mistakes, along with the things they’re doing right. So to avoid teaching yourself any bad habits, it’s better to look at a photograph, or even better, at a live model. (like yourself, or a sibling.) )

Try to teach yourself to find all the shapes that make up people, and anything else you want to draw. This will be really hard at first, but it gets easier.

Some examples just to give you an idea of what I’m talking about.

Please keep in mind, I literally traced these. Real sketches are gonna be messier then this. 🙂

Ehem, also, since the human form (and, most things in real life) is so complicated, different artists will simplify and break things down with different shapes. The exact shapes I see when I look at something, may not be the exact shapes that you, or anyone else sees when looking at the same object. 🙂

Any questions?

I’ll tag some a few other artsy people for you.

@lin @ori-art @slisby @sarahinkdragon