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I'd like to state the fact that usually when i draw i look off an image and draw it as accurately as possible which is what i did with all the drawings if posted. I'm starting to try and sketch more so i can develop my own style for drawing and was wondering whats the best way to approach this so any tips would be greatly appreciated thank you :) Attached are some photos of sketching i have done today its all mainly practice and nothing real yet. check them and let me know what techniques i should use thank you all my friends.

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The circles aren't circular enough. When you draw circles, draw them moving your shoulder instead of your wrist. Lightly move your pencil around in circles, and try to make it as close to a perfect circle as possible. Practice this by drawing multiple circles of different sizes on a separate sheet of paper.

 

For finding the center of the face, you have to find the center of the head first. Lightly draw a 2d cross, with the horizontal line coming from where the neck touches the head, ending at the top of the head. The vertical cross should be touching the sides of the circle, and on an angle 90 degrees from the horizontal line. Drawing from your shoulder, draw a two ovals, with the narrow ends of them touching the ends of the cross. This should give you a 3d sphere with two rings wrapped around it.

 

If drawing the eyes in proportion to one another is too hard with the shoulder drawing technique, block them out first. Draw two rectangular planes where the eyes should be, and put the eyes in them. Using boxes and planes can make it easier to draw things with proper proportion, or foreshortening. 

 

You might also want to draw more loosely. I don't necessarily mean draw lighter (although that wouldn't hurt). I mean focus less on getting it perfect line for line, and more on making visually appealing C and S curves.

 

Also, I can't stress this enough, DRAW THROUGH! I know you shouldn't see through your character in your finished drawing, but this is your rough. Always draw through, to make adding volume easier. Only draw what you see when you're doing the cleanup.

 

Oh yeah, and always use references. I'm assuming you used references for this, but I'm still telling you just in case. Don't draw real things from memory, or people will wonder what you were on to think trees look like cotton candy.

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The circles aren't circular enough. When you draw circles, draw them moving your shoulder instead of your wrist. Lightly move your pencil around in circles, and try to make it as close to a perfect circle as possible. Practice this by drawing multiple circles of different sizes on a separate sheet of paper.

 

For finding the center of the face, you have to find the center of the head first. Lightly draw a 2d cross, with the horizontal line coming from where the neck touches the head, ending at the top of the head. The vertical cross should be touching the sides of the circle, and on an angle 90 degrees from the horizontal line. Drawing from your shoulder, draw a two ovals, with the narrow ends of them touching the ends of the cross. This should give you a 3d sphere with two rings wrapped around it.

 

If drawing the eyes in proportion to one another is too hard with the shoulder drawing technique, block them out first. Draw two rectangular planes where the eyes should be, and put the eyes in them. Using boxes and planes can make it easier to draw things with proper proportion, or foreshortening. 

 

You might also want to draw more loosely. I don't necessarily mean draw lighter (although that wouldn't hurt). I mean focus less on getting it perfect line for line, and more on making visually appealing C and S curves.

 

Also, I can't stress this enough, DRAW THROUGH! I know you shouldn't see through your character in your finished drawing, but this is your rough. Always draw through, to make adding volume easier. Only draw what you see when you're doing the cleanup.

 

Oh yeah, and always use references. I'm assuming you used references for this, but I'm still telling you just in case. Don't draw real things from memory, or people will wonder what you were on to think trees look like cotton candy.

Thank you for the tips space onion ill try to keep practicing with the methods you suggest and then maybe show you some more so you can tell me if i improved. Thank you all.

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