NobleJanobii's Circus of Art

[Neo Emolga]

I'm definitely seeing improvement. Especially in those various Mimikyus!

I would say target body proportions. These are hard, and yes, trust me, they've been my nemesis for a while. I still struggle with them sometimes. The big thing that helped me was to look at reference pictures while sketching. Such as when you draw Umbreon, look at an official Umbreon picture that has a pose at least close to what you're aiming for. I also do two sketches before doing final linework. The first is very rough and is mainly to get body proportions right with basic shapes. The second is a refined sketch to really get an idea of how you want the final details to look like. It may seem like overkill, but it helps immensely. And yes, despite the number of times I've drawn Pikachu and Emolga, I still refer to reference pictures of those two. That will usually nip proportion issues.

Give it a try and let us know how it works out. :3 But overall, if you keep working hard at this stuff, you'll be rocking out great pictures all the time.

[Noblejanobii]

I'm definitely seeing improvement. Especially in those various Mimikyus!

I would say target body proportions. These are hard, and yes, trust me, they've been my nemesis for a while. I still struggle with them sometimes. The big thing that helped me was to look at reference pictures while sketching. Such as when you draw Umbreon, look at an official Umbreon picture that has a pose at least close to what you're aiming for. I also do two sketches before doing final linework. The first is very rough and is mainly to get body proportions right with basic shapes. The second is a refined sketch to really get an idea of how you want the final details to look like. It may seem like overkill, but it helps immensely. And yes, despite the number of times I've drawn Pikachu and Emolga, I still refer to reference pictures of those two. That will usually nip proportion issues.

Give it a try and let us know how it works out. :3 But overall, if you keep working hard at this stuff, you'll be rocking out great pictures all the time.

Hooray!

Thanks for the advice. No joke, Umbreon's proportions will be the death of me. This is one pokemon I've been drawing for YEARS and still can't get the proportions right. Quilava is another. I've only just recently started to improve on facial structure for Umbreon. I have been using reference photos but it's just really hard. Though I've never thought about sketching more than once, mostly because my stuff never comes out the same so I'm worried it'll look worse.