the improvement you've made in such a small time is awe inspiring 0.0
this is why you really shouldn't learn to draw subjects from other people's stylised interpretations of them!nami from one piece with an arm condition. this is me sketching the same picture from prem's avatar. one thing i learned about this is that manga women have incredibly exaggerated features! i kept drawing this 'wrong' and redrawing it before realizing i was drawing it 'right'.
I guess I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. I made this thread to document my journey in illustration, which is mainly practicing the fundamentals. That's why there are so many more drawings of "boring" people than there are of stylized people. I was sketching Nami on a friend's request and because I wanted to sketch Nami, not because I thought Nami would make a good study of the female body or whatever. I put what I said about her anatomy as an observation I had while sketching her. Hope that clears things up!this is why you really shouldn't learn to draw subjects from other people's stylised interpretations of them!
there's nothing inherently wrong with drawing in this style, but as you noticed, trying to do so from the ground up doesn't teach you anything about proportions and body shapes etc, which you really need to hammer down from drawing real life, boring, normal breasted and hair-coloured people
sorry!!
oh i think what az was saying was that like by learning to draw the human body it'd be easier to draw nami because nami is merely a caricature of the human body with blown up proportions (BIG BREASTS); therefore, by understanding the anatomy of regular people it'd be easier to understand how to draw nami well while simultaneously learning how to draw regular people too hahaI guess I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. I made this thread to document my journey in illustration, which is mainly practicing the fundamentals. That's why there are so many more drawings of "boring" people than there are of stylized people. I was sketching Nami on a friend's request and because I wanted to sketch Nami, not because I thought Nami would make a good study of the female body or whatever. I put what I said about her anatomy as an observation I had while sketching her. Hope that clears things up!