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Synchronicity:
Hi, I'm 17 and I would like to become an artist someday. (Cheesiest introduction ever, I apologise.) Anyway, I would love some advice on my art and here are a couple of drawings:







So, what can I do to improve? I love getting suggestions. :)

Justin:
that's is quite excellent work in that first drawing. nice job!

if you want to draw people, draw people, and draw them as much as you can. take figure drawing classes, as a highschool student you can find them at most any community college. even in comics a foundation in realism is important. Keep drawing!

torg:
Oh, i especially like the second one because of its art nouveau (spelling?) style.
Besides that, theres not much to add to Justins suggestions...

lexxie_lizzie:
loving the alphonse mucha-style (big fan of it myself). i'm actually sorta younger than you, but keep going! all you gotta do is keep practicing

twentyfour:
Everything Justin said is right. Life Drawing will take your current drawing ability, multiply it by 4, add 11, then take the result and hug it. I wish I kept some of my old drawings around to show what a change it can make over 2 years(two 4 hour sessions a week).

My advice is to expose yourself to many MANY other mediums. Not only will this help you find mediums you will possibly enjoy more than pencils but it will give you some ideas for multiple medium pieces. Right now it looks like you've used pencil, coloured pencil and pen. Try some water colours and brush pens sometime ... or try dropping buckets of paint onto a canvas from 20 feet above it I hear that's pretty fun too.

Good luck with art!

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