Daniel: When We Found Peggy, It Was Like An Angelic Choir Singing Down From Heaven.

Daniel: When we found Peggy, it was like an angelic choir singing down from heaven.

Daniel: We found Jack wandering outside a Walmart at two am.

My brother and I had a game called “run around in circles time”

Exactly what it sounds like, we would run in a circle in the middle of the living room making it tighter and tighter until one or both of us slip and fall, at which point we would lay on the carpet and spin ourselves in circles with our legs until we give ourselves rugburn.

in complete hysterics over this

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Jack: But what about Peggy?

Daniel: Don’t worry about her.

Daniel: I once watched her fall down 5 flights of stairs, stand up, and keep eating her hotdog like nothing happened.

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Thank you so much!

I’m in the mood for some constructive criticism. I’m sorry if you can’t critique it cuz it’s on paper, but I don’t really do digital art.

This is a sketch from a while ago of my girls Sunny and Skylar (original names, I know) and I’d love to know how I could do it better. I’m still working on finding my style when it comes to drawing characters, so give your honest opinion.

Hi! I can definitely talk about pencil sketches. I'm actually originally a traditional/analog artist and drew/painted traditionally for years before i started digital.

Your characters are adorable! I can see that you're already thinking about the volume and shape with the blending.

I don't think you should focus on finding your style. I think a lot of artists get to hung up on "finding a style" when you really should just draw whatever and let the style find you. Furthermore, focusing on style takes focus away from learning the fundamentals which is far more important not just for making art but also for finding your style. Styles aren't just like choices made out of thin air, it's how an artist chooses to translate shapes and lines onto paper, so in order to make informed choices you need to understand anatomy, shape, volume, etc. first.

I would say the way I draw noses is pretty stylized but it's actually based on foundational knowledge of how noses are shaped. If you take a peak at Percy's nose here you can see that the way it's drawn is in my style but the reason it looks that way is because of the way I perceive and translate the prism shape of noses.

I'm not discouraging you from drawing stylized at all and I don't think anyone should exclusively draw realism because that shit can be boring as hell, but I think this is important information to know.

I'm gonna take a quick guess though that you're not going for a simple, graphic, or flat style so based on that I would say that the first thing I would work on is the perspective of your ground and feet. Based on the view of the characters the feet should look a little more like this (side note: this is just bc i longboard, if they're not pushing they should be standing more sideways, front foot forward is usually when you push)

here's a great tutorial by gabriel picolo on drawing shoes that shows you how to break down the shapes of feet (drawing feet fucking sucks tbh)

i think overall you're heading in the right general direction. this is one of those situations where it's hard to say what you need to work on because i don't know what you're already working on and i can't say if its a "you need to start working on xyz" or "you need to continue working on xyz"

like i said you're already thinking about volume and anatomy and such and i can see that from the blending and the way you draw clothes conforming to the body i think you just need to keep working on it, keep practicing anatomy, and keep practicing breaking down shapes. i would recommend drawing models and studying things like line of action and other basic anatomy tools (here's a site where you can draw models, nudity warning tho). You can do 30 second poses if you wanna practice just gestures and poses, and longer ones if you wanna practice actual anatomy.

Also never not recommending artprof.org which is run by a teacher i had in pre-college. Completely free resource for learning a lot of fundamentals, especially if you're more of an analogy artist.