Some old drawings and videos I did

[Fawfulthegreat64]

http://www.marioboards.com/index.php?topic=24466.0

^It can all be found there. I would put them directly here but I'd rather keep the stuff in the context of the old post that contained it (if that makes any sense)

You can also check out my deviantart gallery by clicking the deviantart button on my profile. Beware though, some of the older stuff sucks...hard. LOL

[E-Man]

How about doing a fresh, new drawing for us? That way, we can see how much you have improved as an artist.

[Fawfulthegreat64]

I can try that, yes. But it will take me a few minutes.

Edit: Here's three of my favorite Mario characters:

[E-Man]

Very interesting. Have you ever considered using construction shapes to draw anything?It'll help you get the proportions of characters just right.

[Fawfulthegreat64]

I'm lost here. You mean tracing shapes onto the paper? I suppose I could try that, but the last time I traced a character using shapes it looked really...stupid.

[E-Man]

I mean something like this.



Even if the first few attempts look really stupid, just keep practicing. It takes a while to get a hang of drawing the base shapes over a character, recreating those shapes in another pose, and drawing the outline over it.

[Sketchasaurus]

A passion for drawing is an important first step towards improving, while I could go at great lengths to give a critique, I'm going to suggest learning--and I mean really learning--how to draw from life and the basic methods. While it's tempting (and very common) to try drawing based off of other 2D images, there's usually a physical basis why professionals draw things behaving in a certain way, even if they're cartoons.

It's best to start as early as possible, when learning how to draw, to learn how to draw what you see in reality aside from what you think you know; I remember my old art teacher saying "draw what you see, not what you know" which is something even I wish that I took to heart better when he said it.

You can do it, and I will say that I see a small spark of potential if you continue to allow it to grow and seek out ways to learn how to improve. I hope that this is encouraging and more helpful than if I were to go through and break every drawing down based on tons of artistic criteria that would be overwhelming.

BUT YEAH, don't worry about everything sucking at first, being kinda bad at something is the first step to being sorta good at something.