/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Day 1 of drawing Eris Greyrat. I'd like to do this for thirty days and see if I feel any improvement. I've been drawing on & off for nearly a year. I did all the exercises in Drawing with the Right Side of the Brain. all the exercises with Fun with a Pencil - and I feel like I didn't accomplish much, that I'm not getting better. Unless I take hours and hours to meticulously measure things, proportions are off, alignments are off, etc. There has to be a better way, and so instead of doing these random exercises with the intent to "get good" and then draw what I want - I decided fuck it. I will draw what I want and see if my impenetrably amounts of self loathing autism forces me to improve.

My inability to properly measure things in a timely matter is clearly seen in the picture. Shits wonky, clearly and it gives me a very obvious metric to focus on. It took me about forty five minutes to do the middle image, and then another hour and a half to line art / color it. Not happy with the results. Where did her ears go? How did I manage to fuck up the little horns on the side of her head so badly? How did her eyes get so fucking wonky despite the fact I was using guidelines and a compass to make the initial circle? Even her ahoge is way too thick in the finale art. I need to break out of the habit of drawing with pencil & paper on my lap, while my tablet is upright on my desk. Its making things more difficult than it needs to be. I will need to reference anime head construction again as well. But today is day 1. I will see you tomorrow for day 2. I do not know if I will attempt this image again or another head shot of Eris but we shall see.