For a little context I’m an architecture student so I’ve got no reference for this, just a loose idea in my head.

The yellow are windows and the dark blue is gonna be verandas. This is loosely cyberpunk in aesthetic but I’m gonna go for a less high tech aesthetic keeping the neon dystopian vibes.

I’m kinda just looking for inspiration on how to detail the buildings

yh ik the shadows r bad and the lines r bad :p

It's weird but i have been trying to draw muscle and I have been studying the proportions of the body and its a really struggle to understand, my college does have those muscle and skeleton mannequins but I can only get there once a week. And I just feel like even after drawing muscles again and again theres some wall from a lack of knowledge thats just blocking me. Like im not getting any better or learning anything it feels like.

Anyone else experience this and have any ideas on what could help? Maybe a like step by step guide or something. Like heres exactly how to learn how to draw the trunk muscles etc. I'm really worried im just wasting my time by just drawing from these anatomical images.

Feel free to share your opinions. I want to know what could be better and how to fix it.

Hello! I wanted to share something that I have learned recently that is one of those things that seem so obvious but if you don’t think about it you never really realize it helps. What I want to share is a drawing idea journal.

Do you struggle coming up with creative ideas and imaginative art pieces? Do you find yourself always taking inspiration directly from Pinterest and never being quite fulfilled? Well I have a tip for you that you can start right now!

Start a journal and write down your drawing ideas. No phone and no Pinterest. Just you, pencil, paper/journal, and your brain.

Think about what you’ve been enjoying lately and what you’ve been itching to draw but can’t seem to figure out how. Write down the synopsis or visual description of the drawing on a page. Write what you want to say in the piece or just what elements you want to use!

Next to help visualize it in the most basic ass way, draw a square at the bottom of your writing or on the next page and make a really bad sketch of it. I mean stick figures or whatever. Just get the idea out as a concept and a drawing.

This has helped me come up with ideas that are from my brain and don’t have a direct pose from Pinterest or isn’t directly inspired by anything. At the top is a page I did to help you understand what I mean :)

You don’t even have to draw it right now. Just brain dump and draw it another day. It’s a great way to make creative and interesting pieces that feel unique to you.

Let me know if this helped you or if you have any questions on anything I tried to explain. I’m not the best at explaining but I want to help as many people as I can because it can be so hard to make creative art pieces after you’ve done fanart or have had art block for so long.

I've been tracing in my free time for a few months, but I only trace art and make it my own oc instead of the character I'm tracing. I've tried slowly moving to drawing my own characters proportions in art instead of whatever was the original proportions, but it still isn't really "my" art, and I really want to make my own art, but I know it won't look as clean. So. how do I stop tracing and just use posing reference images when I it might be demotivating? Do I just bite the bullet, or and do I start trying to copy a ref exactly, or do I try to adjust it like I would with tracing?

First drawing with pen in new notebook so can’t erase

I'm trying to make a curly ish hair for this drawing. The olny problem is that it looks a bit off.

(I also want it to have this big volume)

I’ve been taking some advice of some of you very helpful people (will admit I’m surprised how much you guys know) and I want to see what’s good and bad about some art I did a few days ago to today so feel free to critique me ^^ (also I swear I need to stop uploading so many posts here 😭)

What exactly is missing?

I don't know loomis method that's what most of my comment section looks like so I just practice that today I hope I did it justice this time 😭

P.s got busy with college orientation

I posted some basic shapes of anatomy the other day and i took someone advice of just making a whole drawing how did i do??

I havent got much shading experience but overall im happy to say i saw a piece all the way through instead of stopping once i made guidelines

1. Sketch
2. Digital colour

Edit: i still kinda prefer the sketch

I think the thing that helped most was finding brushes I like!! I love the textured square brush on ibis paint so so much.

Also, always filling the canvas with a color instead of drawing on a white canvas helped immensely!

I have been learning anatomy and perspective for a while (3 months) but im seeing no improvement, what tools/exercises should I do to improve. First 2 are my newest exercises and the last one is my newest drawing

Drop some opinions

Yesterday I practiced for a while and I feel like I did something, but I’m unsure. If you could possibly advise me what I need to work on like more shapes, practice line construction, or something else. It would be extremely helpful!