Anime Drawing - Hatsune Miku - Vocaloid

well, I say it's an all around improvement to your usual pieces done in sharpie.

 

The first problem I noticed is her right leg, it's a little dispoportionate. Aside from that, it looks pretty good Sky.

 

Arm and hands need to be retouched -> pretty disproportionate..
As well as the leg, as Auburn said.

Tree roots could use textures, you should try shading once in a while, otherwise pretty decent

 

Because I suck at drawing there's not much I can say other than good job. What's the 01 on her left arm supposed to mean?

 

Her left boob is pushed too far to her side, at least it seems that way to me. It looks a little like she had a not-so-great plastic surgeon. Other than that though, this looks good.

 

considering the fact that your source was a terrible, improperly proportioned drawing, i cannot be too critical of the outcome.

edit- my recommendation to you, as i've said before, is to stop trying to draw anime.

learn to draw first. learn to draw the human figure.
then, reapply those skills back to your anime drawings.

if your source is not drawn proper, you're basically teaching yourself how to draw a bad drawing.

 

I mean the spot from her wrist to her elbow is disproportionate. The left side of that spot should be curved in more.

Then again, the stock image isn't very proportionate... tl;dr: use bettar stock images

Wups, forgot this

Edit: Not to hate on anime, but it's a pretty narrow "genre" of drawing... as titmar has mentioned, I personally think you should try other types for the sake of versatility

 

Honestly, if any part of her arm looks poorly proportioned it would be her should region where the arm connects to the torso, it looks too small. The same thing would apply to the back of her knee area, it just looks like its too small/thin.


And I suppose Erico and them make some good points as well with her wrist and such. It IS better than your sharpie stuff still.

 

for the sake of LEARNING.

copying something is not how you teach yourself to draw.

 

That is wrong, copying art IS how you learn how to draw, TRACING isn't.

 

learning to see is how you learn to draw.

directly copying is not.

not sure who you had for a teacher but... thats just silly.

additionally, copying art that is also drawn wrong isnt going to teach anyone anything.
perhaps you meant to say copying a photograph?
its possible to learn from that, but the lens of the camera will always flatten the image,
making it more difficult to capture the depth and volume of the subject.

sky, try practicing drawing things in real life. maybe some still lifes.

do you have any anime statues or models? that might help i guess, if you'll insist on anime

 

No, I literally meant copying art. Not still life drawing, not copying photos. None of that. When you copy proper art you have to emulate that particular artists techniques, and once you've actually gotten a few down pat, then you can try using a style of your own.

Tracing is basically the intro to this concept, and once you can do that fine you move on to what I just said. I've actually taken multiple courses on this, so I know what I'm talking about. Though I will agree that copying anime won't help at all, I mean real artwork when I say you need to copy things. (I suppose my point is more focused on him finding a style that is his own rather than him learning proper proportions, since not all art is properly proportioned and some of it looks fine, though you do need to learn how to discern what does and doesn't look good.)

Primarily because most anime isn't actually hand drawn, so it's going to be difficult to emulate that particular style on paper. I suppose some of the older stuff like Princess Mononoke would work since that along with most of Miyazaki's work is hand drawn, but you should honestly try copying some fanart on deviantart rather than anything else if you insist on anime as your learning experience.

I personally learned by drawing game characters and other stuff from memory, then grabbing a reference and fixing up the mistakes.

 

i hate it too, but it teaches you to see.

aschur i completely disagree with everything your saying,
it's the opposite of everything i was taught and i dont think it is going to help Sky at all.

sky, sometimes it can seem boring, the things i am suggesting,
but the skills will transfer over to your other work in time.
you will probably ignore me and listen to aschur though,
since his suggestion sounds more fun for you.

 

I'm with Titmar in that this is, practically speaking, stencil work. Theres no drawing involved when your just plotting out the lines and filling in the gaps. In my view a drawing must have both depth and contrast, and you got no depth. Nevertheless it's pretty tidy, and in the UK that's a huge complement. As a stencil you could make some pretty cool stuff with it.