/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

The only thing I like about this piece is that the guys face perfectly encapsulates my face when I was drawing this.
Holy shit this is so fucking awful. I dont even know why I tried to add values, I havent even studied ANY rendering/lighting. I only have studied the 4 primary fundies because even though I understand them I still suck at them and im too scared to move on. Maybe I thought if I added shadow it would look better, but does that even matter if the lines are garbage?
I hate symbol drawing so much. I dont care if im drawing cartoons or whatever, but when I try to draw even just a semi realistic person it hurts. I still cant get hands right even with a reference. I cant even tell if I did the perspective and construction right.
Looking back yeah I could fix his hairline to be actual in the right place, or his hands, or maybe make the shadows actually neat and not blobs, but whats the point? Its overall shit. Time to back to the cycle of studying, drawing something, and having it be shit, but maybe slightly less shit.
It hurts. I dont want to give up but it really fucking hurts.
I just wanna draw something pretty