/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3207497
That's not true. One of my favorite things is when I start a drawing and just get lost in it, and end up doing way more than I planned to.
The immense satisfaction I get from completing a painting is unmatched by anything else I've ever done.

The excitement I feel when I realize I can draw something now that I couldn't before, the joy I feel when people like my artwork... those feelings can't be replicated by any other activity. I don't fantasize about being able to draw like I might, say, mastering martial arts, because I know that it's completely within my grasp to do.
I do really enjoy drawing, and I have no shortage of reasons to draw. It's the task of getting myself to start. It's the fact that I've been stuck with bad habits since long before I ever realized I wanted to take art seriously. I don't know how to break them.

(You may have seen this one around before, but it's seriously one of the last things I managed to actually work on. Most recently was a crocodile sketch a few days ago.)

>>3143787
I don't tend to like reposting things I've already posted before in other threads, but this is my most recent finished work, which was done after less than a month of consistent daily drawing and practice.

>>3139870
>>3139933
>>3140628
I tried again after doing several simple shapes with single light sources, then tried again.
Thanks for the advice, I think this is a major improvement - I did my best to try and preserve the contrast instead of blending all of the values together.
I'm surprised how much of a difference it actually made.