Hi! I've been working on learning to draw lately, following various books and youtubers. Its been close to a month now, and here are some of the results :)
(these are drawings done over the past week ) Hope you like them!

Art#01 http://varun992.deviantart.com/art/Untitled-379073329
Art#02 http://varun992.deviantart.com/art/Mystery-Girl-379072374
Art#03 http://varun992.deviantart.com/art/Death-Note-ish-379074034
Art#04 http://varun992.deviantart.com/art/Those-Eyes-379075698

======================1st UPDATE========================
*here i shall be adding new artwork keep this post , in order to keep this post as a journal to my learning*
Art#05 http://varun992.deviantart.com/art/Pencil-Charcoal-Art-388604555
Art #06 http://varun992.deviantart.com/art/Why-so-serious-son-D-390667546

please don't forget to comment and review ! :)

Good comments:

Art#1: The face and the hair looks great
Art#2: DAT VOUGE and LIPS (sexy :3)
Art#3: Perfect
Art#4: Das eyes


Mean comments:


Art#1: Quite a Long face, Your shoulder alingment with the strap was completely Disarranged... She is Dislocated...
Art#2: Left hair is quite too heavy
Art#3: More like in Samurai X or in Inuyasha :/
Art#4: Look a Morphed Human >:D



I'm having an eventful day of boringness ;n;

Baww that's a bit too mean lol :( i mean for the first one i've copied exactly what Mark Crilley told me, and as for the last one it was just a drawing eyes exercise. Anyway thanks for all the rest of it! :)

@Harvie

You really don't know what is proper critique, do you? Good comments? Mean comments? Are you for real?

@Varun992

Body anatomy mistakes aside, you don't seem to have a proper grasp of facial proportion. Forget the nonsense Mark Crilley spouts out of his mouth, you need to understand why the contours of a face exist as they do. Grab a skull, check out the cheek bones, the sockets, the brow line. Pictures will do too. Remember, Anime styles are just that. A style. It does not excuse for a lack of knowledge as to the original object you are trying to depict.

Ok, so right off the bat, as has been said before, you seem to have some issues with facial proportions.
It's not a ridiculously pressing issue, and can be fixed with practice, but
It MUST be fixed.
Otherwise, you'll get into the habit of drawing your faces incorrectly and that will be a bitch and a half to fix once it gets to that point.
Old habits die hard and all that.
Another thing,
From what I'm seeing here, you don't seem very confortable with detail,
All of these are a little too simplistic for me to honestly tell you that you did a good job on them.
They aren't BAD of course, they're just not great. And honestly, I'd go so far as to say that there needs to be a pretty significant amount of progress on originality, style, and overall presentation before it can even be called "alright" in good conscience.
Bottom line, you're doing a few things wrong, a few things that are needed aren't being done at all, and you're not doing what is done right very well, so just keep swimming my friend.
Practice makes perfect

Well WEll You discovered MarkCrilley
great i used to watch him either ! anyway the 4th one creeps me out ! like that eye was small and the other was HUGE ! lol
anyway keep the good practicing :D

Hey thanks a lot all of you for your comments! that really helps. {seriously ;) } i've been following kimon nicolaide's "The natural way to draw" , just on the beginning stage with contour and gesture drawings now.However the results aren't good enough to be put out publicly - and the book tells me to be patient with doing that too - so i just put out my drawings from other sources.
Hopefully you'll be pleased with the coming posts! ;)

Really done a nice job there. The display you present for us is inspiring and very professional. Jumps real hard to get closer to it. Love it!!!

You and me have seen the same tutorials on youtube.

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Really done a nice job there. The display you present for us is inspiring and very professional. Jumps real hard to get closer to it. Love it!!!

hey thanks a lot, that's tons of encouragement.I'm still working on getting better :)

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You and me have seen the same tutorials on youtube.

well then hope you're better at this stuff than me,or getting there soon :)

As said before, go ahead and look at some stock/reference. Study the human anatomy very well. Google chrome web store has an app that allows you see a medically accurate 3d human body model. Use it. Spin it, flip it, turn it, STUDY IT. Especially, the skull. Leo Da Vinci, besides being creepy and all dark and hiding stuff I'd prefer not to tell you about, was a famed and good artist because, of his knowledge on human anatomy. He did ruin Christian art, however, but, don't get me started on that. Anyway, good luck, bro.!

just to add on to what matrix ninja said, studying doesnt mean simply looking and drawing a couple times, or finding a cool pose and drawing it. Think like you are studying in college, thats what it means. You have to keep studying for months and months to learn even basic anatomy, and until you do you should use references for everything you draw. There is nothing wrong with a reference, everyone that is good does it because we arent walking cameras, we dont have those images of the exact anatomy or how to draw someone at any angle just sitting in our heads, we need reference to do that.

Very nice, could use some work around the face on the 2nd pic,but other than that -props for you-.

All of you thanks for your good advices, i'll keep them in mind :)
And hey guys i've added another update to the thread,another artwork! try to guess the celebrity lol! (constructive criticism appreciated)

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MatrixNinja2000;1037309']As said before, go ahead and look at some stock/reference. Study the human anatomy very well. Google chrome web store has an app that allows you see a medically accurate 3d human body model. Use it. Spin it, flip it, turn it, STUDY IT....

Hey i did get that app u told about my laptop crashes everytime i start it..may be cos i don;t have a graphics card :/

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.. studying doesnt mean simply looking and drawing a couple times, or finding a cool pose and drawing it... and until you do you should use references for everything you draw..

Hey i do use as many references as possible :)