First time on /ic/, I post my stuff on DA and Tumblr, but even my real life friends don't pay attention to it, so I may as well post here. Nothing to lose.

I am aware of how shit I am. No knowledge or technique beyond 8th grade art class. I got a dinky little Bamboo tablet for christmas and have been drawing characters as best I can, but it's bad. I've been experimenting somewhat with photoshop, but mostly just vanilla drawing.

So how about some crit/ic/ism.

I need help guys! i dont know what to put with my soldier are you guys able to tell me what i have done wrong how i can fix it and what i can do with it backgrounds weaponry etc. thanks guys (:

Basically, the last time I took an art class was ages ago in middle school or something. And all I've been doing up to now is producing shitty animu pics, but I'm pretty sick of that now. I really have no foundation in art but I want to get better obviously. First thing I should probably do is study more anatomy. But besides that where do I start with color/shading and overall techniques?

Pic attached, please, rip it apart.

what drug will make you "feel" art more?

So, a shitstorm was brewed up in /d/ because of this picture, /ic/. What, specifically, is wrong with it?

Don't mind me, just posting more shitty anime drawings looking for critiquing...

So here's an advice thread that I've haven't seen around here recently, so I'm gonna quit lurking and just fucking ask.

I want to draw comics, and I want to know what specifically should I focus on in order to become a better comics artist. I know all about the "draw from life" bullshit so I am doing that, I mean more or less the specific techniques or what have you.

Hey /ic/ can I please get feedback on the potential of this character ?

Picture unrelated, but hopefully eyegrabbing.

Having picked up Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain again because I was too much of an idiot to actually keep working at it last time, I came to realize a problem I -consistently- have when drawing from reference - and even when drawing frm my head. I cannot, for the life of me, get scale right.

Particularly (I'd show an example but my scanner is buried at the moment) when dealing with the exercise to copy Picasso's picture in Drawing on the RIght Side of the Brain, both last year when I first started the book and just an hour or so ago, when I start everything's going fine... Until I completely run out of paper space and only have like 60% of the image actually on the paper.

It runs the other way sometimes when I'm drawing from my head, where I'll end up with something ludicrously small, but it seems to almost universally be a problem of magnification when I'm drawing from reference.

Any advice to try and fix this, or do I just have to try and work on larger paper to hopefully avoid running out of space?

Does /ic/ hate anime because they see it so much? Because young artists would rather learn to draw anime before the basics? or do you just hate it because it's over simplified and unrealistic?