Of course! I hope it helps.

Writing it all out is a reminder to myself, as well. I get that feeling about colours and painting, as a mainly pencil and ink artist. I’m not sure it ever really goes away, there’s always some people further along in their art journey. I try to look at it as inspiration, something to work towards. Still somewhat jealous though haha

Find something you want to draw, then try and draw it. Remember the coordination from eye to hand is something learned, so nothing will look the same at first.

If you post this drawing, and the original belongs to someone else (photo, comic, movie, other artwork), make sure you credit and say it’s a study of the original.

When you post, it can help to take constructive criticism. Learn how to recognize when it’s actually constructive vs someone being rude. Sometimes they will sound like each other, but what you’re looking for is the stuff that will actually help you grow.

Check out artists on YouTube (some I can think of right now SamDoesArt, pikat, Proko, Scott Christian Sava) many will have good tips. Scott, I, especially, appreciate as he will show how he’s bad with some mediums, or that he messes things up and had to fix things, or just plain never finishes a work.

If it’s people or animals, you want to draw, try gesture drawing, where you draw the form of a figure without the details. I’ve always liked Line of Action’s timed tools.

If you want to draw stylized, find what you like about a work, and try it. Still learn realism to understand form and how to stylize it, but have fun, too.

Understand that everyone learns art differently, what works for someone might not for you. Like drawing daily can be great, but just drawing at all, even better. Maybe tossing down some colour then finding shapes helps, maybe following exact tutorials helps wou learn how to get a specific brush stroke you’re looking for.

Finally, it sucks, but it’s literally. Just. Practice. Practice. Practice. Even when you look at something you’ve done, and it stinks, remember it was a learning opportunity, and no one has to see it. If you can figure out what is wrong, go practice drawing a bunch of different versions of those parts, see how they work, the shapes that make them up.

Sorry if this is long, I, personally, don’t give myself enough time to art anymore, and am not an amazing artist, but I love seeing people get started. Hope everything makes sense

I’m probably starting to sound like a broken record with these two series, but Mushishi is a slow series about a guy who travels around and solves peoples’ supernatural problems, usually with strange brings called mushi.

Natsume Yuujinchou is a series about an orphan boy, who moves to a small town, and discovers more about his mother, makes friends, and other slice of life things. Oh, and his mother made a deal with a bunch of yokai, and he is left to help these yokai, with the help of one, who takes the form of a cat.

I wish there are more mystery series out there, for some reason, all I can think of is Hyouka and Paranoia Agent.

Speaking of Paranoia Agent, I see you have Paprika, and Perfect Blue, may I recommend Millennium Actress, and Tokyo Godfathers, also by Satoshi Kon.

Oh, those sound pretty neat! I’d want em, if I didn’t have a bunch of similar items. The II’s on the other hand! Thanks for responding!

This is so cute, the bun, the little bee! Love the texture you got out of those neocolors, especially the smoothness of the bunny vs the soft texture of the rest.

Have you used neocolors before? I’ve never tried them, so I might look into them. Are they like oil pastels?

Lastly, love that little spiral in the sun, I’m just a fan of spirals, mostly.

Mushishi. But Furuba, Dandadan, and Natsume Yuujinchou are all other series I might say.

I haven’t seen it all but like the feel of the Boogiepop Phantom I have seen.

Ah the beer one I was most curious of, love that even you don’t know one.

I must know, what are the pizza flavours?

Edit: wait is that a giraffe leg tree? So many little details!

Oh, that is nice! Love the hair in this one, and the gel pen pops still.

That sounds like it should look nice, especially on the toned paper. Hopefully, I’ll catch it, when you do!

I really like the flow of your white hatching on your pieces. The expressions are always great, too!

As someone already mentioned Mushishi; Natsume Yuujinchou is just so soft! I don’t know how else to explain it.

I am old, so 2000s Fruits Basket, as well, mostly, as I actually finished it. I’m really attached to Ritsuko Okazaki’s score. I haven’t finished the recent series, but the 7 or so eps I’ve seen, made me super happy, as I wanted a series that adapted the full manga, and it nailed a lot of what I remembered.

OK, one more, as rereading your post reminded me of another romance series: Wotakoi! Sadly a short anime, but the manga has good feels, too.