Hello! I have been drawing for about 6 years, never got that into it due to being very impatient until a few more recent years ago, and have tried a lot of things to improve my art style. Unfortunately, I still am, imo, REALLY bad at drawing. I have dysgraphia, ASD, and DCD. I also have so many creative designs and creatures I want to make but my art of drawing features is so off, like I could see a million references and still get things wrong. I wanted to ask if there are any tips that got anyone out of that beginner faze. Or any specific studies or suggestions. I want to have a slightly more realistic style anyways due to my want to draw made up creatures, if that makes sense. Thank you for reading!!
#Drawings tips that helped you get through a beginner phase
light kettle
celest scarab
take it slow, just draw some random things, maybe your monster ideas if you want to (afterall you could always just remake 'em in the future) and see what you struggle at or what you'd want it to look nicer.
Head turned out a bit wonky? Well train doing that! Search up studies about it and try it.
Hands are difficult as all hell? Can't really fix that since it's the artist curse that some hand pose will screw you over 
But you can do the same thing as above to make the process smoother
You don't even REALLY need to do those heavy studies, doing only head drawings or whatever. For example (I do this to hands so I'll use hands as the example), you could draw things that will force you to do really specific and annoying hand poses to train on doing that, once the hard part is over it, just doing simple, still hands will be a lot easier
(also I kinda forgot about the whole impatient thing so maybe you don't want to do the studies thing youtube tutorials still help tho, and just doodling is a nice way to train without it being boring)
light kettle
I really try to study things and go over things I struggle with, just it always ends up looking the same; ugly and like it’s my first drawing. It even looks like I traced sometimes just because my lineart and sense of where things are/how big things are(etc) seem to be so off.
I’ve watched videos and done lessons and everything but it always seems the same, like study study use references find a style etc. But for me my drawings always look wrong and the same. Like in my head the things I wanna draw are so beautiful and correct even though they’re original designs that I have no reference of, but on paper it’s just the most distorted and ugly-lined drawing.
It might just be me though, I’ve just always wanted to be an artist and stuff and am very creative (imo) but drawing never works out no matter how hard I try, and I just feel like I’m missing something
celest scarab
I really try to study things and go over things I struggle with, just it always ...
Oh no I feel that, especially as a beginner it's very common that people have high expectations in mind that cannot be realized due to skill level, although the idea is not to rush art to reach that expectation, it's to manage that expectation.
I still have that feeling sometimes, even as a more grown artist, but it's severely reduce, of course skill helps with that, since sometimes your mind and your skill collaborate, other times, they don't.
So I recommend to try to draw without judgement, just see what could be better and nothing less, don't be sad or disappointed at it, it's, and I really say TRY because it's quite the process and it can be long, because you can't really rush these things willy nilly without getting a burn out in turn.
naive juniper
Have an idea you want to project on a canvas? Draw it. But You don’t know how to draw it? Don’t care. Draw it. You hate the shading? Finish the piece. The anatomy looks so off? Doesn’t matter, finish the piece.
After finishing the piece, take a good look at it and take notes on what you can improve on the drawing
Learn the individual skills that you lacked in this drawing, the composition is one of the things I noticed I suck at ONLY after I looked at my drawing for several hours trying to figure out what makes my drawing not look appealing, and so after figuring that out I started focusing on composition (while I still suck at it I think I am a little better than I was 1 year ago)
After that try and draw a piece again, but this time try and apply the skills you learned, and if you can’t apply them; just try and avoid the mistakes you did in the first piece!
Now, just make sure that you are not pushing ur self to the point of a burnout, and don’t get too lazy, either!