guidance on how to practice

[strange summit]

Tracing over references and breaking them down into simpler shapes. Anyone have any advice or just wanna roast my slightly better stick figures?? (Day 2 of drawing btw)

[wheat dune]

Maybe you could try simplifying the figures with other shapes instead of only circles and ovals!! The human body its not all round
Youre doing really good for starters, keep going!!

Also if u want to practice objects and other shapes, the DrawABox tutorials are pretty good too

https://drawabox.com

[jovial lily]

(Going to respond indepth in a bit)

[ionic glen]

Youre doing great so far. Id suggest using drawn references instead of irl references. Specifically the ones where it shows the shapes of the body like the drawings shown by acidxtouch. Similarly, I think its a good idea to use different shapes such as squares, triangles etc., the drawn references would help in figuring out which shape to use and which part of the body suits it better

Tho every artist uses different shapes, so its also best to pick shapes that are more comfortable for you to draw

[strange summit]

This actually helps alot, getting the proportions is pretty difficult with spherical shapes while doing freehand. Ill defo hsve a look tysm 🙂

[strange summit]

Thank you so much! Just to clarify when you say drawn references do you mean other artists complete drawings or pictures of anatomy drawings done by others?

[ionic glen]

Anatomy drawings!!

This is only for u to get the hang of using shapes. Anatomy drawings by artists are usually not 100% accurate so once uve gotten better at that, u could start w irl refs

[strange summit]

I see, ill get to it then, thank you!

[wheat dune]

No prob! Keep practicing and good luck, ur doing great