/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3890627
For starters your mistake might be going for hyper-stylized drawings when you aren't that good yet. You should worry a bit, but I don't think it's that hard to get you into the right mindset. The books you've read aren't wasted time, knowledge is knowledge, but you're going the wrong way about applying it maybe.

Look, I googled "character sketches" and "anatomy sketches" and found MANY good drawings.
Compare it. It's THAT easy. Now you get a critical mind's eye. What is different in these sketches.. from your drawings? What's different indeed. Since you went for a heavily cartoon style on the right ones, there's not much to compare.

But if I remember correctly you tried to do a more realistic drawing on the left one *besides the face), though it seems you didn't correct the anatomy of that girl.
You shouldn't try a pose that hard at first and if you do, use a reference. I found plenty by searching for "girl squatting butt" buy maybe you know a better term. Anyway...

The sketches' arms have many more sections than yours. That's simple enough to see. There's a big cylinder for the upper arm, then a cylinder for the elbow, another one for the forearm.... And a tube! You for example stopped at the forearm and directly drew a hand on it, but the sketches have a tube connecting the forearm to the hand. Now that you know it, for example, you shouldn't forget it. Then there's some other characters showing their backs at the very bottom, pay attention to the sections and remember to separate your torsos in 3 sections (upper, middle, lower).

I dunno. If you have this much trouble after a year, I'd recommend copying a bit of good anatomy drawings and real people pictures from Quickposes or google, ideally naked or with very fitting clothes. It seems you don't exactly know HOW should real people look, so be my guest and copy some.