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G1itch
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Hey, I'm new in town 
I like drawing but I'm not really very good and putting things onto paper from my imagination so most of what I draw is rl stuff or over photos.
Anyway, any tips you can give me would be nice, especially about what a good way to get better at drawing my thoughts
This is just a self portrait done in paint over a pic
Just a paint doodle of my friend sitting next to me at a lan event
Really old picture of a friend
I kinda like the Tim burton style (ish) of this one, again, done from a picture
I gave up on making this one look good in the end, god I hate that colour
Ok, thats all the ones I have atm (sorry about the sketchs not being scanned but I smashed mine up)
I like drawing but I'm not really very good and putting things onto paper from my imagination so most of what I draw is rl stuff or over photos.
Anyway, any tips you can give me would be nice, especially about what a good way to get better at drawing my thoughts
This is just a self portrait done in paint over a pic
Just a paint doodle of my friend sitting next to me at a lan event
Really old picture of a friend
I kinda like the Tim burton style (ish) of this one, again, done from a picture
I gave up on making this one look good in the end, god I hate that colour
Ok, thats all the ones I have atm (sorry about the sketchs not being scanned but I smashed mine up)
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Study some anatomy, and just drawing from reference in general.
I mainly just trace to practice the shading on the face, and choosing the colours right (that's why I did that one with the weird filter)
Are there any good books you can recommend for studying anatomy in an art sense?
Do some exercises out of that on a regular basis and you'll steadily improve as you go.
As far as tracing, as sublimus said, it isn't going to do jack for you. If you want to use a picture as reference, great, make a study of it and only look at your picture while you're reproducing it on another canvas. You will get exponentially more out of practicing like that.
Also, if you're going to do studies, drop your cartoony style. You aren't at a point in your development where you can get away with it and you should be focusing on rock solid realistic observation fundamentals for the moment, that is, if you're serious about improving at all.
Also,
That's something that every artist strives to achieve, eternally. There are no tips here, just a long, exhausing, bloody struggle to improve.
If you're not good at something, keep at it ti'll you get better.