/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6366483
You mostly just need to draw more stuff, experience will be your best teacher. It's better to spend 1-2 hours drawing a bunch of stuff (whatever you enjoy to keep it fun) than it is to draw one thing and waste time waiting for feedback.

That said what jumps out to me about this particular piece is your perspective. Things that are further away from us appear smaller. We're looking at the candle from above, the bottom of the candle is further away from us than the top, so the ellipse that makes up the bottom is smaller and the 'walls' of the candle diminish back in space, which means they won't look parallel like how you have them, they'll appear to converge like how railroad tracks appear to converge in the distance. Perspective can take a long time just to wrap your head around the rules of how it works, but just knowing the "Things appear to get smaller as they get further away" rule will be the most helpful to keep in mind as you start out.

Try not to bog yourself down with theory, advice, rules, and whatnot (it's easy to feel overwhelmed and hopelss in the face of it all), by far the best use of your time is to observe, practice, review, and repeat. Play around and have fun, experiment and see what happens. This isn't school where if you don't get the right answer you get punished, you're teaching yourself and every failure is a lesson to learn from. That perspective lesson was hiding there in your reference image, you just needed to look carefully to find it.