Violyre

keep working at it friend!! it's great to see people who post their art at the beginning and don't talk about how much they hate it (though often it's hard not to if one's prone to comparison)! keep drawing as much as you can and you can be really good soon, ahh your first drawings are already pretty great, i have to admit c:

Don't mind me, just casually posting art I'm proud of...but this is a new shading style, so criticism would be nice if anyone had any! And yes, I did make her not have wings intentionally, they looked weird so let's just say they're under her suit

I really love your art style, and your sketching style; you can do that thing where your sketches look pretty, which is something I've always envied--my sketches are always super messy and I still have to use the grid guidelines on the face and the general bean body shape or else the picture ends up looking wrong somehow. Also the way you draw eyes is amazing. I can't change your mind about your art, though. I feel the same way about a lot of my style but only after a lot of praise am I starting to warm up to the way I draw and get to put myself out there despite how much I might hate something.

Just don't worry about getting the lines all perfect in one go; usually what I do is make a bunch of lines for one curve (for example, if I'm making the neck, I'll do it in three different parts) and then erase the bits that poke out where the lines cross, and then smooth it a little more. I don't know how to explain this any better, so let me know if you need any pictures of this. Also, changing my pen brush settings in SAI a little bit seemed to help. I usually only keep my stabilizer at 5, and make the minimum brush size a lot bigger, like 60%, so the brush doesn't taper off a lot, and change the quality to 4 (smoothest). That helped me on the lineart for the picture I just finished, and I think I'll keep it that way for a while. If you could be a little more specific about what you want to change or fix about your lineart, I might be able to help more your lineart looks great to me already but I get that sometimes people just want it to look the way they see it in their heads, not just make what other people like