/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2551971
programmer who has realized default windows forms may have cut it in 2002 but now everything needs a visual element to be taken seriously. i've decided to devote my free time from now on to learning "to art"
i've mostly just read books up until now this is the first time i've put it into practice

#1 my method was to pick a point (eg belly button) and then use my pencil to measure to the next landmark but i kept ending up way out of proportion
#2 was trying to break it down into shapes spaced by pencil measuring again but it just looked weird to me.
#3 i did like #2 but instead of measuring out i just looked at the reference as i drew. i did the torso first and then had a lot of trouble placing the head on it and i started running out of focus at that point anyway

>tl;dr
actually did some drawing for the first time after having read books, learned that "blind drawing" isn't a book meme