Pics 1-8 are now-ish.
Pics 9-14 are some chronological sketches i used to do on empty receipts while at work, starting about a year ago.

Starting to get a lot more happy with my drawings and I think its just funny how it started.

As you may notice I certainly am a fan of the scifi concept art vibe.

Also if anything sticks out, please tell me what to improve on/study more! My drawings almost always look shit to me but its hard to tell why sometimes.

Reverse Chronological order - Still working on the Butch drawing BTW

Started this piece almost a full year ago after a month of starting art. All went well until I got to the eyebrows. The reference already had such fine hairs on the brows and the blurry quality made it even harder to know what to draw.

It gave me so much stress that I just took a break...which got longer and longer...mostly because of a new demanding job and so on.

But today I'm ready to continue, though I'll have some warm ups to do first. Would appreciate some help on how to approach drawing the eyebrows more easily. The hair is gonna be a whole seperate battle too.

Btw things like the lips and shading isn't fully finished, I draw kinda in a weird order.

Do you guys prefer portraits like these or portraits where people blend the graphite

Realism is like how well you can copy things and it's basically all about technique and how well you can observe I think? I'm okay at realism only (maybe because I just eyeball it. Lowk need to start drawing guidelines. I just realized her head is not that tilted in the reference and her shoulder area is too exaggerated. AUGH.)

But stylization on the other hand is how well you are able to convey that person, while still being able to tell it's THAT person. (How faithful it is.) Although I can draw ethnic features *realistically* just fine, how the hell do you stylize them?? Like, my stylized versions don't even look like Anok Yai.🫩 I've been trying to practice by drawing different ethnicities, face shapes, eyes, body types, bla bla bla. But they all have that generic anime feel to them and I HATE IT. I WISH MY ART STYLE CAN BE MORE DIVERSE.

Also not to mention, my skill level is soo wishy washy when it comes to stylized stuff. It either looks awful, or really good. Even though I practice everyday and keep trying to draw out of my comfort zone. It's like the quality of my artwork is genuinely random.

PLEASE HELP ME. PLEASE SAVE ME.

I found these to be really difficult. Most of them were done with references from Complete Anatomy 3D software. However I tried to do some constructions of the mandible from memory with some measuring corrections afterwards. I am planning to gradually learn to draw and construct the whole skull. Feedback most welcome.

These 2 wereIt drawn without using references

Credits to the post of u/MadameHayat from r/DrawMeNsfw !

I’m back with a 2nd anatomy study— and oh boy. This was more difficult.. What are the difficult parts? The brush. The dang brush. In this art study, I tested out the Gouache brush from Procreate! And the pen pressure is insane. I was so “tired” from using so many strokes to make a solid form. It’s very good for sketching though, and when you angle the pen, the brush adapts while taking a differed form. So it’s not all bad. The 2nd hard part? Perspectives. I REALLY thought I got this in the bag like the last post— turns out I really don’t. I guess it’s not only the sitting pose, but the angles of the arms. 

You can tell I struggled in the right, bottom, corner…

And yes, I “cheated” on drawing the feet and hands, again. (Aka, laziness) I don’t usually do this— but now I am 😓

Anyway, feel free to critique or help me on improving on the perspectives, the rendering/colors, and/or certain anatomy aspects!

Blue pencil

I've tried fixing it but she looks kinda uncanny, I'm not sure why though, I think the neck might be too thin? Or is it porportions problems 😭

Imo, I think it turned out pretty good overall, but I wanna look for things I can improve on

I drew this today after a longer break, I hope I will now return to more consistent drawing. What do you think should be my next steps? What should I improve or try to do? I'll appreciate your advice.

Just some stuff that I quickly Drew up and I'm just trying to practice various things to get better at drawing in general critiques are welcome and I know it's not the greatest 1

It looks off to me. I feel like I'm missing something.

Hiii!!

I always have a bit of a problem with the back arm in 3/4s view. I always fail to understand where to place the arm: the shoulder is either too high and stiff or too low and dislocated. I really fail to understand what is wrong, and that's the thing that dreads me the most.

Can you help me? Thank youuu

This is just a sketch, took me roughly 45 min + at least 15 minutes on his face. I still hate it, so please ignore that 🫠

These are two OC's of mine. :)

Some of the proportions aren't perfect, I don't mind critique.

1st is in July and 2nd is today. For context, I started in December this year

The change in style is really drastic. I’m really proud of my improvement so far. I think the biggest improvement was that I’m using a more systematic approach rather than placing down lines wherever I think. That really helped with eyes because now I’m using more of a trapezoid shape that is way easier to replicate. Also just better observation skills

It's a style I'd like to learn, but naturally it's very difficult.

I still can't figure out how to move my hand to make the brushstrokes take on a 3D shape like that. I'm not sure if the problem is the color; I think it's a matter of knowing how to use the light settings.

I wanted to know if anyone knows the secrets of this type of art If you know where to look or something like that ....

Heyyyyyy all!!! Looking for a little advice/critique. Definitely have some work to do on darkening values and tweaking proportions but was hoping to get a fresh set of eyes on this for help!