New forum, new thread; new thread, new pictures.

Doodles (First time I've tried any sort of braids):


A face, done to see exactly where I stand on the way to my desired style (moe):


Answers to the stuff that people usually ask: (Beginning of the thread)
I'm 16.
Been drawing for 2 years.

(Current Page:)
Age: 16
Drawing for 3 years

Favorite artists: Yabuki Kentaro, Tony Taka

Influential anime/manga/games:
Art: Black Cat, Shining Tears, Higurashi, Elfen Lied
Story: Higurashi, Black Cat, Shuffle, Clannad, various American and British novels

I realy like the face, i think you should work on hands a bit though.

wow the eyes r just awesome!

Those eyes, those faces. They're beautiful.

HANDS!!!!!!

HANDS!!!!

XD

Work with hands, is something that is hard to do for everyone, but is necesary

DUDE!!! XD that stuff is awesome!!!
but er... i hate to be a silly goose, but your hands could use A LOT of work. or did you mean to do that.
well, i take that back. hands are like the hardest part of the body. so never mind.
now where was i.... oh yes. AWESOME!!

That hand I assume everyone's talking about was gonna be one of those foreshortening things where the character holds his/her hand out at the camera with that ridiculously big grin on his/her (her, usually--think Haruhi Suzumiya) face. That said, I'm aware of the epic scale of my fail.

So I did a new one:


And this one is an anatomy study in an old, rotting notebook (Warning: artistic nudity in which no parts usually censored are shown):


Hands are like homework: you hate working on it, but you're happy when it's done.

Yeah, just work with hands, is the thing you need to work more.

Hands are so boring to practice--but they're so important. I suppose I could contour draw my own hand from different angles, then after 30 minutes of that, reference it. I heard that works.

Yeha just keep cranking out hand drawings. I used to love drawing hands in high school. Then I hardly drew for years and now they are a pain point for me again.

Like most have said, work with hands but I definitely see an improvement.

I need to doodle more...

I should include hands as a major part of every drawing I do from now on. Or doodle hands every now and then.

I'm gonna do that too.

Two of my characters from a story I've never got around to finishing. Golden Summer. Not sure what you guys think, but I think they're closer to the moe style than I've done so far.

First thing I noticed was that the hands are a lot less sausage-like. Plus, I like the detail on the clothes on the second girl...Sierra Summer.