1. Art takes time. Depending on how many years of practice you have will affect your art. What looks good and what looks bad, what you like about your drawings, what you think should change, such as length of an arm or where to shade and where to add lighting. Don't worry about perfecting this all at once. Also, don't let what people say about you affect you negatively. If they say you can't draw, don't listen to them. Anyone can draw, we're all just on different levels of the art scale(levels based on experience mind you.)

2. Drawing people has to be one of the hardest things ever. The proportions are crazy, their hands are insane, plus of that clothing and such you draw, its.... difficult. But fun. Learning to draw people takes time. I divide the humans up and focus on working on one portion of the body. I suggest starting with the face. Work on drawing eyes, noses, ears, lips. (FYI, most people like me suck at drawing eyes, ears, and hands. If you can draw any of them, you're a literal , god in my books) Once you feel confident enough I would start to combine them together till you can draw the entire face. Then work on the body. Hands, arms, elbows, shoulders, etc...

3. Animals. Honestly, animals are probably just as hard. They have weird faces, legs, bodies. Every single human has the same stuff, their facial structure is generally the same(more or less) and their anatomy is similar. Animals throw that logic out the window. For example, say you want to draw a giraffe. Nothing is proportional on the giraffe. Their heads are tiny and necks are long, body is short in length, connected to large legs, and their tails are thin tooth picks. Or the flamingo. Their knees are literally backwards! But that's what makes drawing animals fun. If you own a pet you can work on drawing them in different poses that you see them in, expressions they might have, etc...

4. Nature. Look outside, draw some trees. Plants are all around us. The grass, the bushes, the flowers. Rocks, rivers, oceans, fields, etc... Clouds are fun to doodle as well. I don't have a lot of experience drawing nature or still life so I can't provide much advice other than you don't have to look to hard to find them.

5. If you want to draw realistically look at references online. Practice drawing the front view of something, then try the side view. Draw them with a rotation(left, right, top bottom, slight angles, etc...) For most of the animals I draw I look at references or watch videos of them in motion, studying how they move, what poses would be possibly. Also, images are great for coloration ideas.

6. Use shapes as guidelines. Circles and lines will become your best friends. Circles for heads and chest, smaller circles for the palm of a hand or the balls of your feet, lines for legs, arms, fingers, etc... Triangles and such for noses, eyes, anything really.

7. Don't give up or be discouraged because you cant draw the arms right, or cause you can't get the smile correctly. Never give up. This is just a hurdle all artist face. Sometimes you just can't art effectively that day. Or perhaps you're a little stressed. Take a break if something becomes too difficult and frustrating. Art is suppose to be fun to create, not suppose to turn you homicidal lol.

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Okay so like I may as well respond to this (I'm not the best artist but like I've been improving with these so yeah m). I've learned that a few things tend to help me out.

1. Never give up. I mean, it's okay every now and then. But even when something looks like it's going to be shitty, you should still at least try to finish the drawing. You can use the experience to know what you should and shouldn't do to make the drawing look better. And sometimes, the drawing ends up good in the end. Just like how I wasn't liking my Ferris wheel model until it was halfway done. I almost gave up then continued and it ended up awesome- and is still getting better.

2. Always try new things, experiment. Most of my improvement comes from when I suddenly have an idea of what I can do to make my art better. Changes in style, the way I sketch, etc. really helped me out. Even if it's something that might not do much to help you, it still does something.

3. Ask for critique. I've found that asking for critique on a work-in-progress drawing really can help. Sometimes, you won't notice something that other people will notice and point out for you. And you can remember what you've been told by the people who have given you critique on your art as you draw more and try to implement their tips or whatever you want to call them to make your art even better.

4. I dunno how to put this one... don't be upset with yourself? Be patient? I'll just say that I definitely got better when I stopped getting frustrated with myself and just... drew. Just think happy and positive thoughts, listen to some good music, take breaks, do whatever you need. Take your time.

That's all I really can think of for now. I kind of explained too much in my opinion but I'm gonna leave all that there. Hope this may have helped!

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just randomly threw together some things i noticed that have been helping me improve so yeah

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Try and start with cartoony humans at first, then evolve it to the style you like!

Always use references, (I break this rule alot though, lol)

And use your own hands as a reference, hands are whack.

(These aren't very good tips I'm sorry)

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I know that someone has said to start with drawing cartoons, but IMO, starting with realism would help a whole lot if you wanna draw cartoons! Knowing the proportions of a person gives you the power and ability to exaggerate their features to suit your personal style!

A great place to start is to watch some proko, he explains how to draw a head using the loomis method and it's helped me a lot through my art journey! After I got used to drawing with the loomis method as a base, I transitioned to using no guidelines which required a year of daily practice.

I've recently started trying to draw the human figure, and it's going pretty okay. You'll really need references for these as your people may come out uncanny looking if they don't follow normal proportions. When using references, try to simplify the figures into gesture lines as opposed to just blindly copying. The more expressive/exaggerated the gesture lines are, the more appealing the drawing would be to the audience.

After having the gesture done, you can start to apply details. This is where anatomical knowledge would benefit you a lot. I dedicated the last 2 months to learning the bones and muscles of a person, and it's helped with shading and understanding where the forms of the body are placed. But this isn't too important if you've got reference, it's just something that helps a lot when constructing a human body from your imagination.

Happy drawing!

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Make sure you look at references, and a good tip that has helped me learn is to break things down into their most basic shapes. Like here -



Another thing is to try and sketch everyday. You don’t need to draw a complete picture with color, background, the whole nine yards. Just doodle, loosen your hand up, get it used to drawing those shapes until it’s just muscle memory. But have fun with it, not everything needs to be perfect, or professional, play around with things and just keep an open mind about your own art. Who knows where you’ll find motivation, or where that motivation might lead you

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oh this is humans now

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