because you're doing it wrong

First you have to train "an artist eye" which means you must learn to see and accurately replicate feature lines, curves, angles and proportions

Give all of your possible time to draw and perfect it

a very good way of doing that is to pring some picture, hang it upside down and draw from reference

Thats what I'm doing XD

that way your eyes will not have a lot of familiar forms to recognize

I draw from reference for every single drawing I do.

thus you will not try to draw simplified models and just focus on the lines

Listen to el jefe's wisdom

because in the last sketch you sent the proportions and the relative position is all over the place

it shoulds take more than 1-2 weeks to fix most of it

also dont do shading on portraits

instead draw spheres, boxes and other primitives on a plane with a light source, thats how every art school does it

our brain is bretty good at estimating how primitives are shaded so it will be easy for you to teach your hands

you can make a quick replica in blender for reference at first

Well shit, I thought I had finally curbed symbol drawing....

I cant draw fow shit anymore because I didnt do it for 6+ years

and even back then I was a starter

but yeah, shading is an extremely broad and complicated topic

start with primitives

then move on to draiwng fruits or some shit

and keep us updated

avoid smudging as much as possible, it always looks like shit

even if you do it with another peice of paper

Pretty much where I am shading wise on the wacom.

you like them thicc huh

The reference was thicc.

you chose that reference

Yeah, she had a ton of dedicated reference images for artists.

do this

and this

then this

trust me, it will improve your skills significantly

Alrighty. I'll take a go at it for tomorrows drawing stream.

yay for reason

I need to get better at paper shading as it is 😄

doesnt matter what you do it on

your brain doesnt have shaders installed yet