/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>When did you start?
If we're being technical, I've been drawing since elementary. I remember making shitty paintings and portraits, it was fun and sometimes I was better than my peers so I gained some confidence. Started drawing nothing but cartoons and doing little animations because Flipnote Hatena and Pivot videos become super popular in my middle school years, was basically drawing only stick figures and mushrooms before upgrading to Adventure Time and Scott Pilgrim style people since that ended up the next popular thing. Wasn't 'til 10th/11th grade where I got influenced by stuff like Skullgirls, Fire Emblem, and Kill La Kill and I started drawing more anime thus more realistic figures. Was all still shit tier, wasn't til early-mid 2016 after I graduated highschool that my art started looking decent enough to post in /alt/.
But let me emphasis, I didn't quite know what I was doing. Looking at those old sketches again, all of them were chicken scratch and guesswork. My work was very hit or miss and I didn't know how to make it hit. Early 2017 took a Drawing 1 class at my community college, thought it wasn't for me, found /ic/ in the summer, and began practicing fundies for the rest of the year.

>How did you actually learn to draw?
>What did you do?
Like I said, I found /ic/ a year ago and learned about fundamentals. Revisited them all and learned about these concepts and components about art that for years I didn't know about. Began to study anatomy, proportions, perspective, watched Proko, read Loomis, practiced Drawabox, all the essential basics for a couple months.

>What were your milestones?
Deciding to focus on anime since that's what I want to draw, started doing photo studies more, studying my favorite artists more thoroughly, learning how to construct and design anime heads and figures, began drawing daily, finding pens I loved drawing with, focusing on digital.
Here's a warm up sketch I did today.