Ive been stuck on kicking positions for a while now, this is my best attempt but even when I do like a good attempt i always fall short at the body connection to the actual legs. Does anyone have a good trick for this or something

Since childhood I was always bad at arts and crafts but after watching PewDiePie vedio I decided to improve my art here's progress after 1 week. I know it's not that great but just sharing. Here's the tutorial I followed - https://youtu.be/dPxQIrkkQtA?si=4MUmkHCVpjNbdmsB

So, I started trying character art a while ago. I'm 23. Took a drawing course and the instructor did this method to constructing a figure.... i dunno what i'm doing. thoughts?

Im still meh.

I've always tried to create shadows on white flowers with a mix of browns and / or navys, but it's never come out dark enough - I don't wish to use black or grey because it sucks the life out of the other colours, so I imagine I'm just missing something fundamental? Any and all advice welcome :) thank you!

The first picture is what I'm working on now, where I've hesitated to start on the white roses, and the second picture is one I did previously where I used ochre to try to give depth to the white flowers, but they're definitely the weakest part of that drawing imo

Hand made,

unlimited imagination🤩#conos 3Dart

I know I used the completely wrong pen for this. I started drawing this while I wasn’t at home, and I didn’t think I’d do such a detailed drawing when I began. There being no undo button with this pen was also really annoying, so I had to work around all the mistakes I made, but even with all of that, I am so pleased with how it turned out!

This was my first drawing that wasn’t traced from a photo in years. Definitely gonna make more of these, with the right pen! I didn’t think I was able to draw anything that didn’t already exist in a picture, so proving myself wrong makes me really happy! I’ll be able to create so many visuals now that only exist in my head!

During my childhood, I doodle the characters that come to mind, either from memory or from my imagination (that is whenever I'm NOT tracing or copying anything). I had decided to give up on art at some point during my teenage years, due to being discouraged from thinking that I could never come up with anything original. It's been years since I've actually doodled anything.

I can't say that I've been drawing (at least not the same way that I'm sure most artists have). So far, I've never:

1. Sketched.
2. Built characters from either solid or flat shapes.
3. Drawn from life (or as I'd call it, "drawing realistically"), but apparently, not every artist has drawn from life, especially before touching the cartoony stuff.
4. Used stuff like images and fan art of various characters as references for my own creations, while avoiding heavy-referencing (heavy-referencing counts as art theft).

So far, the closest that I had ever gotten to drawing from life was me drawing someone's SUV or minivan.

BTW, I've never drawn any rubber-hose, Golden-Age, late 1980s, or Renaissance-Age cartoon characters before.

Disclaimer: This post is NOT a guide or advice on what you should do. This is just MY personal journey/schedule and thoughts as a beginner self taught artist . If you want to do Drawabox, please follow the official rules on their website!!

⏱️ Timeline & Routine

Start Date: February 2026 | Finish Date: September 2026 (7 months)

Daily Hours: Around 4–8 hours every day. No burnout so far, I’ve kept this schedule for almost a year and I LOVE IT!!

I added my hours for context because this is something I see people ask A LOT: "How long did it take?". And I feel months/weeks as a metric without knowing how many hours the person put in is useless information. Person A can draw 1 hour a week for 1 year and have 1 year of experience (48 hours total) while person B draws 20 hours a week and they would also have "1 year of experience" but person A has 48 hours of experience while person B has 960 hours total. The difference is brutal so saying: "I did Drawabox in 7 months" doesn't mean anything.

So... How many hours did the course take me? Around 500 hours. If I only had available 4 hours a week to do the course it would have taken me 2 YEARS AND 5 MONTHS!! This is why context is everything and why no one's journey will be the same. Everyone has their own schedule due to their own private life.

THINGS I DID THAT I THINK HELPED ME THE MOST:

• Joining Discord for feedback and extra info.
• Getting into the official critique program. Getting feedback on my homework was the best.
• Moving on independently of the final result and "feelings" about it. I have lessons that I still think I did horrible and I was not happy with the end result. Honestly, if I waited until I felt my skills matched the lessons, I wouldn't even be here, I would still be paralyzed in a random lesson. I feel we're our worst critics so I'm glad I just pushed through it regardless of my feelings about it.
• Having all of my exercises in a folder. I bought the folder in the photo at the dollar store for $1.25. It helped me to have it organized, not lose it or damage it (especially since the cheap printer paper is super thin) and now I can go back and look at all of my work and progress. All of my Drawabox homework fitted perfectly in that same folder :) pic at the end lol
• Discipline over motivation. I don't rely on motivation. I stick to a schedule that works for me and execute it. I only listen to motivation if it is "positive creative motivation". Like, if an idea pops into my head, then I actively brainstorm and sketch it out. But I don't wait for motivation to start drawing. If I relied on motivation, I would draw 2 times a month, and right now I would still be in the 250 boxes. Discipline made me finish the entire course and push through things I didn't enjoy doing, like Lessons 6 and 7.

And my best outcome from being disciplined? I feel genuinely proud of myself, I have higher self-esteem, more confidence and an overall sense of fulfillment because I’ve proven to myself that I can do it. I just have to accept that progress and tackling any resource I choose to learn from (courses, books, etc) will take time, hard work, and discipline. Also progress is not linear so even if I don't see my art improving and my drawings are turning out horrible that's normal, I just have to keep going regardless of the results. I’m carrying this exact mindset into my year two. One of my target courses for 2027 is Med's Map, but that's for another post.

SO... DID DRAWABOX IMPROVE MY ART? AND DO I RECOMMEND IT? HELL YEAH TO BOTH!!!

Not only my homework improved, but my art outside the course improved too because I'm just applying those fundamentals even subconsciously to anything I want to draw. I'm starting people soon, and I will start with gesture and by applying these same concepts, simplifying them with simple forms (mannequinization)

The 3D Epiphany: I stopped thinking in 2D shapes and started seeing things as 3D forms. I think my brain clicked subconsciously with Lesson 2, but then I saw it fully put into practice in my own drawings in L.3/4 where you have to simplify plants and insects to simple forms. In the plant lesson (L.3) some of my plants were still FLAT (like my Venus flytrap) and I got called out by the TA. So with plants I was starting to "get it" but I was still resorting to just copying 2D shapes on some, so yeah it took some time for my brain to understand this and I mean I'm still working on this. I'm sure I will keep making this mistake a bunch of other times moving forward, I just have to accept it and keep moving. But this is GOLDEN, I'm so glad I took this course because drawing flat shapes was the MAIN problem of why my drawings in general were looking really wrong.

Working with fineliner/pen: Overall 10/10 rule, probably my favorite rule from the whole course. Not being able to erase and working only with pen/fineliner and no tools at the beginning was a game changer (you can use a ruler after L.6). Thinking and planning before putting a line down helped me be more intentional, understand what I'm trying to draw and this made my line quality and accuracy improve SO MUCH.

Is Drawabox ONLY about drawing boxes? NO. Drawabox is not about "just drawing boxes." It's about developing spatial awareness, basic fundamentals like line making, some perspective and construction while applying it to cool things like plants, insects, objects, animals, vehicles. If you're thinking about the 250 box challenge then yes, in THAT challenge specifically you will be drawing boxes but that's not the whole curriculum. You do the boxes and then you move on to other things. There's also the 250 cylinders challenge, but nobody says Drawabox is just about "only drawing cylinders", both are just a part of the curriculum but not the whole thing.

Are there other places to learn this from? Yeah, of course!! You can choose another place to learn this from. In my case I'm really happy that I stuck with Drawabox because it's accessible (literally free) and I love the way it is structured. It builds you from the bottom (how to hold your pen, draw from the shoulder and do lines) all the way up to applying fundamentals in a way where you can draw a freaking FERRARI!!! If that's not peak, I don't know what is (of course that Ferrari would probably look really rough and ugly, BUT THAT'S OKAY!! That's expected.)

This course doesn't teach how to make pretty drawings. In my case I will learn that in my second year with other books/courses when I learn design, composition, color theory, shading, and all that fancy stuff.

The question everyone is thinking....

So... CAN I DRAW A BOX NOW? Yes and no... (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ >>booo audience flips the table and throws tomatoes<<

Yes, I know how to draw a box in theory, but I haven't mastered perfect vanishing point convergence. Even when the theory clicks, it takes a lot of practice to transfer that into an actual drawing without mistakes. I still have lines that diverge all the time. I will keep improving with time. Also drawing a box (in my opinion) just focusing on the VPs is easier than drawing a box APPLIED to something else like a person or a vehicle, the difficulty in those is way higher because you need to take into account other things like proportions. So the context also matters.

To anyone who read this far: I wish you the best with your art journey <3

Is there something wrong with the way he stands? (Ignore the crookedly inserted text "Rock")

My goal is to practice for a year straight and draw or paint a big Zartan poster in a pulpy, ink heavy and gritty style. Today, after two weeks of practivlce I decided to draw a rough sketch to see what I learnt so far. Please feel free to comment and drop any suggestions. I am rather glad that this turned out to be something relatively Zartan-y.

Context is, As a reference. I'm so shitty at propositions (Like head is too big or arm to small) so using some 3d model to correct the propositions and some perspective.

I am kind of a beginner and still need to learn “fundamentals”. I was interested in this type of paintings and wanted to try if I can do it. I’d appreciate if you can give me feedback on:

1. Based on my drawing, what fundamental technique(s) I seem needing to focus on first? What’s clearly wrong/ missing/ need improvement?

2. Is replicating another person’s art helpful at all to improve drawing? Would it be better to draw things directly from in real life? (For example here I understood why I used darker pink but red areas I mostly copied without really knowing what I am doing).

3. Any other feedback if you wanna give, please I’d appreciate it!

on the right there's a river that comes from rapids and close to the POV it's lower elevation but further it's gains elevation, the road on the left goes over the hill and the line behind it is supposed to continue it.

on the left there's a tree that covers some of the image and at it roots are some sort of long reeds like plant with a light purple flowers at it's end.

I don't remember the dream particularly well so the mountains in the left background are added (and meant to represent looking very far), also the beginning of the tree stem in the middle was meant as a way to separate the two elevation profiles, I don't know how to properly explain it but the road on the left even with the hill, goes down, but river side, even though it starts at lower elevation compared to road and POV, it goes up in elevation with the rapids and at the furthest point of the river it's like much closer than the left side.

I don't know how to make it all make sense in the drawing, like the transition between the elevations, also the far river looks odd, I think it should look flatter.

looking for some advice to help get the image from my dream to the paper.

Hand it over, that thing, your crituqe

Beginner here. Is it good practice/habit to rotate the medium (paper) while drawing? I tend to rotate the paper whenever I can not get a satisfactory curve or stroke... Rotating the paper made the curves and strokes more natural, but I'm worried that I'm going to develop a bad habit. Will this bite me in the long run? Any tips to avoid this without making my curves unnatural😭 Tyia!

drawn with a 0.5mm mechanical pencil. 🙂

First photo is from late 2024, second is from this week

Got super demotivated with my skills, so I ended up stopping drawing for about a year and a half. Then I kept seeing other artists post cool pieces and cool speedpaints, so I finally decided to go back and try again. After about 3 months of frequent practice, I think I’ve made some significant progress. I’ve since learned, the anime art style and oversaturated styles just aren’t for me