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[DarkDaifuku]

I am not trying to act senpai here, but I do have a few years in my bag of drawing history. Here is my advices from my personal experience, it will save you years of progress.

1. Learn the basic first, facial, anatomical structures, pov. This is the most important one before you want to go anywhere.

2. Go wild on sketch first, don't go right into detail and finalized line at the beginning, this apply to each and every drawing, this is the period you want to make sure the anatomical structures and scale, and pov are similar to your imagination/planning.

3. Don't stubborn over one tiny spot or line and try to make it prefect, each line and spot are "interacting" with others in the drawing. Just because you drew a perfect line, it doesn't mean it is perfect for the drawing.

4. Grab yourself a pen tablet if you are into digital drawing, you don't have to go full piggy-bank-breaking model, many tablet without monitors are cheap and you can do great art with them. Don't bother with mouse unless you are going super heavy with OCD for perspective background field, mouse is just inferior for character drawing.

5. Get some artists/art styles you like and try to duplicate their traits, you can mixed multiple of them and pick parts you like the most out of different artists. It is impossible to 100% duplicate someone's style, and don't bother on that. If you like what you did but it is different from your "reference", keep yours. You will eventually develop your own unique style the further you go.

6. Don't burn yourself out, if you can't draw something at that moment, leave it, put it aside. Go find some poor primals to slay.

7. You style will change, only becomes less frequently until you slowly settle with one, but will never stop changing. (mine still shifting here and there after years) So don't worry if it is changing for the good.

8. Get used to one drawing software, all of them can do 99% of the same things. Try SAI, Clipstudio, they are more friendly to drawing.

These are the advices I wish someone has told me at the beginning of my journal. You have a long road ahead, a lot shorter if you take these advices. Don't worry if you can't get half as good as the artists you like, you will eventually surpass one after another. (I did). You will be bombarded by mean words by someone who never drawn anything pass a stick figure, or ignored by your favorite artists, you will see artworks seem to have less effort got way more attraction. Keep going, remember, you are DRAWING, not attention seeking.