[Taruby]

Originally Posted by BMan25

I have just started about a few days ago learning how to draw anime and I have bought books on how to draw anime girls. But I have some problems on the head like the different angles of the head and the mouths and just all around making the girl look like an anime. I know it will take me a wail to get good at it, so here is a question:
How long have some of you guys been drawing for and how long did it take you to get good at it?

Thanks!

I have an idea which books you purchased and I would highly recommend reading Andrew Loomis' presentation on drawing techniques, I never found too much time to read all of it yet but some of the information on how to easily do angle shots of caricaturized characters probably will help when you try to do anime-style since anime is like a step-up from the typical super-deformed characters.

Andrew Loomis

Anyway, two things I notice from artists that I respect.

#1: Always be critical of yourself and your faults.
If you can't take criticism, there is no way you can improve. If you can't look at your own faults and instead use rationalisation and delusion by trying to demonise the haters, then there isn't much hope.

#2: Keep on drawing the same object.
I have characters I drew for a long time and the evolution toward the process of how I can make them look becomes much more refined the more I draw them. The characters originally used bean-bag dolls for models. Also, if you look at any person's work, the earliest versions are usually different from the later ones because of refinement (Inconsistency doesn't count). n_n;

I'm not an artist so I probably don't know anything (This is what someone told me because I didn't understand some nonsense jargon). Anyway, check out Andrew Loomis, I thought some of the things in them were interesting to me at least.