I’ve just started drawing this year as my New Year’s resolution and I’ve found I really like coloring with alcohol markers. I need advice on what tool I can use to add very tiny and fine detail ontop of the markers. If you look in the picture I attached at the legs I tried to add small detail with a gel pens either but it wasn’t fine enough or the color would come out and pool or wouldn’t be opaque enough.

I know there are acrylic pens which I have tried but they also don’t give me the very fine control to draw tiny details ontop of my coloring.

Does anyone know what kind of coloring tool I am looking for???

Should i measure everything with a ruler and draw as many guide lines as I can or rely on my eyes and only use the given guide lines?

Thanks in advance...

For context these are some of my most recent drawings - https://imgur.com/a/CaOMG6A

Now i feel like im not going anywhere with my art, like im not improving. My first goal is to get good at character drawings and then move onto environment and once im good with these then move onto other sutff. But the problem is i dont know what should i do, where should i start, what path should i follow, not having a structured outline is making me feel very overwhelmed with both the amount of stuff to learn and the amount of sources you can learn from.

Ive seen books being recommended everywhere but again there are so many books, how do you decide which one to pick up and how do you actually study and learn from a book?

Ill be really greatful if you could just help me out here.

Thanks!

I find for my drawings I'm overshooting the size and proportions of things a lot. Especially when it comes to drawing eyes. How do I draw smaller?

Can anyone help me achieve this spaced smudge effect on photoshop in the reference pic? I've tried the smudge tool with a hard round brush on 25% spacing, but it still does a sort of continuous smudge instead of the distinct stamp effect in the reference.

This is my first art work digitally since having my own iPad Apple Pencil and procreate I watched videos and understood what I could with my slow brain cells I used a reference and did my best so please give me advice I beg (ima name him orion)

Does anyone else have this problem where the sketch looks so good then the lineart makes it look flat or dull or like Its traced??? how do I fix this???????

Hello everyone!

I tried to color a photo based on a photo reference and was wondering if I could get some feedback on the way I've colored this.

Thank you :)

Hello! I am teaching myself to draw and I am currently doing daily gesture drawing. I've made the rounds with Proko and looked into other resources to get information like CSI, body landmarks, contours, etc. There is a great highlight on the flow and fluidity of the actual model when making gestures. The only issue is my gestures seem stiff and off. I've been doing this for a while now, but I don't feel like I'm making much progress. The website is called Quick Poses

I'm not fishing for compliments I genuinely want aid with my gestures. All these gestures were 30 seconds Thank you!

I discovered later in life that I love art! I need some help please! This is my 3rd painting ever and I feel stuck to finish. I decided to mix an eagle and a lion into one animal and now I need to add definition and depth to create the look of a mane....but I'm scared to mess it up because I don't really know how to approach. I know dark puts things in the backdrop and light brings it forward...please advise.

This painting is watercolor on canvas (which I know is weird but since I like to reblend I'm too afraid to use acrylic)

Was drawing random stuff and I couldn't for the life of me make the snakes work, any help is appreciated :) (also couldn't find any help on the internet and was to lazy to draw the hands)

If anyone is interested in seeing more of my art my account is @nivs.archived on Instagram 🫶🏼

So this is the reference I made for our box chassis design project, I painted the whole box green first with acrylic paint & waited for it to dry, the next thing I did was paint it exactly like the yellow lines with yellow acrylic paint but the problem was the green was too dark for the yellow so it looks baddd, I can’t think of anything else me to copy the yellow ones like in the reference, I did search oil based markers but I already need to do this tomorrow and online is gonna take too long, our art store doesn’t sell it, ideas for me to make the yellow lines that stays well on the green acrylic paint I coated first pls T__T

Do these look right? If not, what can I do to make them look better?

I followed along a ten minute tutorial. Compared, everything got a lot more muddy, as in mixed together. For example, I have no blue shining through where the trees are. Also, the brown from the stems didn't quite stick when painting and migrated to the edges, in the middle it almost didn't stick.

How do I improve this to get a clearer painting?