the improvement comparing from day 1 is immense! the other comments have already dropped the bits of advice you mainly need, so i might just be sharing something about passion. u may know this but passion is something in you that keeps you from going and finding sentimentality in what you're doing-- i suggest being inspired from the media you consume-- pictures, videos, and art channels you enjoy watching! personally, it's animated series for me-- if there are frames that i liked in the series (for ex, shots of frieren relaxing or is in a fight scene) i would save them and analyze what specific thing i liked about the scene (i.e. perspective, lighting, mood done by color palette, costume design, character interaction, etc) and learn from it by applying it to some quick sketches other artists are also good inspiration! personally i love drawing while other people is drawing. or sometimes, when i have a burnout and i want to draw, but then im too tired to do so, i hype myself up with art channels. talking to some healthy (as in not toxic) art friends also helps in your journey! keep enjoying in your drawing ventures! would love to see more!
Heavily referencing is very good for improving. Like master studies, studying how modern masters do things by going through the step by step process of making something that looks close to their work. Another trick is to draw something complex, and the part that you had to redo a bunch or struggled with, focusing in on that and drawing that part multiple times, studying it more thorougly, using reference. Another trick for improving is to draw from reference and then draw the same thing from memory. Doing it from memory is like a test to see how much of the thing you just drew goes into long term. And also repetition makes things stick better, so there is that bonus. I usually do the third trick when I learn new guidelines or tricks. Like do the thing in a tutorial, draw along, and then try from memory to see if I get all the details of the guidelines 1 to 1. If there are mistakes I repeat till I can perfectly copy the lessons from memory.
Your perspective got a lil better ,to improve you should draw one page of boxes and cylinders in perspective as an excersice before you start drawing youll be training your brain too see 3d in your drawing it takes lil time but something in your head will click and you start seeing the piece paper as a window when your start drawing .youre coloring skills are improving ,theres color theory that you can learn but dont overwelm yourself theres allot of info to learn its best to start with fundamentals first then build upon that with other lesson ,keep it up man
the improvement comparing from day 1 is immense! the other comments have already dropped the bits of advice you mainly need, so i might just be sharing something about passion. u may know this but passion is something in you that keeps you from going and finding sentimentality in what you're doing-- i suggest being inspired from the media you consume-- pictures, videos, and art channels you enjoy watching!
personally, it's animated series for me-- if there are frames that i liked in the series (for ex, shots of frieren relaxing or is in a fight scene) i would save them and analyze what specific thing i liked about the scene (i.e. perspective, lighting, mood done by color palette, costume design, character interaction, etc) and learn from it by applying it to some quick sketches
other artists are also good inspiration! personally i love drawing while other people is drawing. or sometimes, when i have a burnout and i want to draw, but then im too tired to do so, i hype myself up with art channels.
talking to some healthy (as in not toxic) art friends also helps in your journey!
keep enjoying in your drawing ventures! would love to see more!
Heavily referencing is very good for improving. Like master studies, studying how modern masters do things by going through the step by step process of making something that looks close to their work.
Another trick is to draw something complex, and the part that you had to redo a bunch or struggled with, focusing in on that and drawing that part multiple times, studying it more thorougly, using reference.
Another trick for improving is to draw from reference and then draw the same thing from memory. Doing it from memory is like a test to see how much of the thing you just drew goes into long term. And also repetition makes things stick better, so there is that bonus.
I usually do the third trick when I learn new guidelines or tricks. Like do the thing in a tutorial, draw along, and then try from memory to see if I get all the details of the guidelines 1 to 1. If there are mistakes I repeat till I can perfectly copy the lessons from memory.
Your perspective got a lil better ,to improve you should draw one page of boxes and cylinders in perspective as an excersice before you start drawing youll be training your brain too see 3d in your drawing it takes lil time but something in your head will click and you start seeing the piece paper as a window when your start drawing .youre coloring skills are improving ,theres color theory that you can learn but dont overwelm yourself theres allot of info to learn its best to start with fundamentals first then build upon that with other lesson ,keep it up man
Thanks for the tips. Before sketching, I do a preliminary rough sketch when I have time to do it to get my hand practiced