I think I remember seeing you before on Side7, you sure have lots of artwork. :)
I notice that (while some of your pictures differ from this) the majority of your drawings have people in the exact same poses, leaning towards the right, with their hands behind their back.
While you're sketching the figure, you might like to align a ruler with the side of the paper and use it as a vertical guide-line for their spine, since their leaning doesn't look like it's intentional.
Everyone having their hands behind their back makes me suspect that you're uncomfortable with drawing hands. That's okay, a lot of people don't like drawing hands, but the only way to improve is to do new things and practice them. Whenever you have some spare time, preferably a couple times a day, do exercises of holding up your off-hand and drawing pictures of it as you see it. A few weeks of that practice will make noticeable improvements, and you'll feel more confident. :)
I have an account on Devart, I don't know what Side7 is. >.> I've been drawing for a long time, all the stuff I've been posting is pretty old because I've been too lazy or busy to scan my newest stuff. Yes my poses are very similar, its how I practice bodies, and they are slanted because I draw at an angle. Like I write, you know when your a kid your taught to write at an angle? Well I write and draw at an angle, thus my people come out slanted or crooked. I am uncomftorable drawing hands, but I have been working on that, and trying to sketch my own hand like you suggested, or I'll raise my hand to try to figure out how I should draw the ones in my pictures. My hands suck, I actually started teaching myself hands by drawing paws. In my most recent art I do have more hands in the drawings, and I'll get to scanning them sometime. Learning all this stuff is a slow process for me, it took me years to get a figure looking decent. I know I'm not a very good artist, I draw for the fun of it, I was told many times I'd never get anywhere with my art because it just isn't good enough. I thought of taking art classes many times, maybe eventually I will, but mostly I just don't have the patience for it. My art is my writing, thats what I'm good at, I just don't post much because I threw a lot of stuff out, and not many people like to read. I'm blabbing. >.> Well thanks for the comment and the advice, I do appreciate it! I'll keep all your suggestions in mind. ^.^
Thanks for telling me so much about your background, that's really friendly to hear. :)
Side7 is http://www.side7.com ...it's another gallery website like SheezyArt and DeviantArt. It's really nice, and there are a lot of anime artists there. I could've sworn that's where I saw your drawings first, but I guess it must have been your DeviantArt gallery.
I've never heard of italic drawings before, but I guess I see how that happens. You really should take a drawing class if you can find one, they're lots of fun!
Italic drawings? I don't mean italic drawings, I mean I draw at an angle, it's just how I do things. And, I've tried drawing classes, I really don't have the patience for them.
Italic is the type of writing they taught you in school. In this case I'm using it to mean other things with a rightward slant. That slant should not be applying to your drawings as well as your writing. I've never seen that happen to anyone else's drawings, and we've all been taught to write with a slight rightward slant.
"I've tried drawing classes, I really don't have the patience for them."
*sighs* Well, I guess there's nothing I can say to that! I'd better leave you alone, then. No point in trying to help someone who doesn't want to learn.
I never said I don't want to learn. Look.. I'm under a lot of stress right now so I'm a little snippy. I'm just telling you how it is. I just do things a certain way, I have tried drawing 'the right way?' or with the paper straight in front of me, and I actually end up drawing things more slanted than normal, so it works for me to draw the way I do. I just draw because it gives my hands something to do, I don't have the time, or the money to take art classes, I'm despearatly trying to get into a college so I can take a writing major. I don't draw as much as I use to, I have less time on my hands, and a lot of college work to do. I have a 10-12 page paper due tommorow, and I've only got 6 pages done! Semesters winding down, I'm not doing so great in my soc class. I'm stressed! And, the drawing classes thing.. When I was about nine or ten my parents enrolled me in local art classes, I went for a few weeks, got really upset with it, I know art classes never teach you what you want to learn but in this case I just didn't have the patience for it. I was critisized to the point where I hated the class and was ready to give up on art. I stopped going and just drew for me. I tried later on, and I am horrible at drawing realistically so that class was very difficult for me to get through. Then there was that illustration class I tried, thinking, hell, maybe this will be better. But no, he decided we were going to paint, despite the fact I had no idea how to paint, he wouldn't even teach me, my mom had to. I've had bad experiences with art classes. My brother is an artist, he went to an art college, and he gives me pointers all the time, and is my inspiration for drawing. He's the one who is good at it, thats why he went to college for it. I'm not, I just do it because it relaxes me and I'm halfway decent at it. Last year I decided to share my art work, not because it is good but because I use to only share my art with my friends, and some friends of mine urged me to post stuff of mine online. This way I can share the crap with online friends. I've never heard of italic writing, all I know is they taught us how to write at an angle, but whatever works for you, whatever you want to call it, fine. And.. how is it right to say things should not be done a certain way? Everyone does things differently, and I take offense to you saying I should do things a certain way. Why should I have to conform to the rulles of society and how artists 'should?' draw?
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