Mari’e

10 hours 18 minutes of drawing

(I forgot these inbox submissions exist I’m sorry)

Tracing is actually fine because from tracing, it trains you to recognise shapes and forms just from pattern recognition. Sorta like muscle memory. If you’ve been tracing merely for the sake of tracing, you wont get better. When I first started drawing, I traced manga panels until I understood how a body should look like. You’ll have your downs, it ebbs and flows so don’t feel discouraged.

You can also practice/learn a form a day. By that I mean today you study how to do eyes (how it looks from different angles, eye shapes), tomorrow you study face shapes (depending on the style you like). I would suggest to focus more on realism and semi realism when you do study it though, because it helps you translate it to multiple styles better.

~3 hours of drawing.

7 hours 01 min of drawing

3 hrs 52 m

4hrs 52m of drawing.