I'm sketching with a copy of Bridgman on the table. Really helpful book, can recommend it to anyone!

It seems like a good third of the posts here are poor souls despairing that they're not making progress- meanwhile they've been just filling up pages with circles and boxes. Whoever told you to do this tricked you. You are wasting your time and energy.

Its honestly upsetting seeing all these beginner artists getting frustrated and confused. Its a fine warmup at best. It is not how you should be spending your time.

In short: don't practice scales so much that you never play any music.

30 days into learning to draw i think i have come far!

Ive just started to learn the basics of figure drawing. I used to use AI (i know, yucky), and decided I want to actually make something of my own. I used a workbook to get some of the basics down, then practiced some poses on my own using a more geometrical style, although I suspect that might not be very useful. Im just looking for some tips and resources, and to be pointed in a direction. So far what's worked best for me is being shown how someone does the process themselves and then doing it in a similar way so I have an example to work off of. Any resources like that would be much appreciated :)

All the problems please. i find that whenever i "finish" a drawing in one day i get up the next morning and realise how many horribly obvious mistakes ive missed. since i *dont* want that i think yall will help tremendously

Obviously im STRUGGLING with the arm.

I drew a lot in an anime art style for years, but switching my art style to something a bit more realistic has helped me improve my understanding of face proportions drastically. I still draw in an anime art style time to time though for fun, but I would definitely suggest switching art styles to experiment with your artistic skills and limits 🙃

First drawing is Gale from BG3, and second drawing is just an OC of mine.

Never seen the movie or I’ll might not see in theaters but I hope it comes on stream <3

they're all a little inaccurate but hey, improvement needs flaws to begin

special apology to the blonde girl though I nerfed her the worst lol

Continuing my journey

I messed up the teeth though 🥲

Sketch for my new drawing. She will have clothes in the final work, this is just the anatomy sketch.
Im really happy with how the anatomy and perspective worked out, im still open to critique (i know her right foot is still a bit weird)

Second is reference

Just did a quick study, and whilst it's definitely not bad, for my current ski level (?), it's definitely not perfect. And the first one is meant to not have arms, it's meant to be the body of one of my OCs.

I've noticed legs and feet are definitely a weak point, atm, in particular.