/art/ - Art & Creative

It looks like you want to draw anime but you feel like you should be drawing realistic, so the result is this uncomfortable looking mixture of both.

I suggest drawing more of the same, that page is filled with all kinds of random shit from all kinds of subjects. Try to focus on one thing at a time (eyes, noses, torsos, hands, etc) and learn to get it right, experiment with it a lot and try to get a feel for it. Then repeat with other things and try to put it all together (again, try it a lot until you get it).

It also kinda looks like you're copying some "cool things" that you saw someone do, even though it's very specific and you don't have any experience with it (weird faces on left, goofy anime face in middle, abstract thingy on bottom left...). I remember doing this many times in the past myself, and it never works out right unless I spend more time practicing it. Chances are the person you saw it from has quite a bit of experience in that kind of things or something similar.

It takes patience and dedication, shit will inevitably look awkward when you're not really sure what you're doing.

>>4061

I suppose you want practice in human anatomy?

Draw from life. Learn how to use anchor points (like the usual length between thumb and pencil-thing) and other techniques to make life-drawing feel much easier. Point with drawing from life is that you do not think about what you see as objects or symbols, but as forms, lines, light, shadows and colors. Dont think "I'm drawing a human hand", think "I see the shapes and lines on that hand and now I'm going to copy them on paper".

If you cant draw from life, google has plenty of pictures. One less time-consuming (and IMO more fun) way of doing it is doing croquis-sketches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquis

Theres sites that also provide croquis-training, where you can determine the time with each pose yourself and if you prefer nude or models with clothes. Remember, the point of Croquis is that you manage to draw the whole figure before the time is up. 2-3 minutes is good time to start, but do try out 30 seconds as well because that can be quite fun to do.

http://artists.pixelovely.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/

Thats just one helpful practice. Then more technical practice is to draw bones, skeletons, human muscles, faces, emotions and all of these from different set of angels. Point with them is that you can understand how a human body works inside so its easier to draw from imagination. Kinda like when you learn what goes inside a car, you understand why its shaped the way it is, what makes it move and so on. Then you combine that knowledge with the training youve been doing with drawing from life and you get some really good practice.