an actual art thread since
the other one is for other things
I'm not much of an artist but I draw casually a lot and want to get better... unfortunately I'm too lazy to put in a ton of time so I'm just floundering around trying to improve little by little
comments and specific advice are always welcome!! I know I need to use refs more and work on shading and all that but if anyone has tips for certain things I am all ears
throughout college I doodled on my papers a lot and then compiled what I drew, so here's several years' worth of messing around:
freshman year:



there's more but some are even uglier so I'll leave it at that, I just wanted some old ones so I might be able to see some progress...
junior year feat. the wrong scan settings:

junior year DRAGONS

"""studying"""

senior year:


I still have a bunch of scans that I haven't put together yet, I need to get on that :x
lately I've been sketching a lot but not finishing much, except the cats I've been posting on other threads... at one point I did a lot of
screenshot redraws (where the goal is to reproduce the original, not restyle it) as practice, and I kind of want to get back into that but I can never find the time. I think what I really need is expression practice because on so many of my sketches the face looks so bad it ruins the rest and I just end up scrapping the whole thing orz
also I cannot get pen pressure to work on this computer for the life of me, and I don't want to drag out my old computer just to draw, so I'm stuck sketching in pencil and then scanning to do everything else in photoshop. it's a lengthy process so I get less done, but I'm actually kind of liking the results?? I never got the hang of digital lining anyway tbh
here's some wip experiments that I forgot to resize:
look it's my favorite blonde half-naked goddess

look it's my other favorite blonde half-naked goddess

will add more when there is more to add~