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Drawing beginning help!

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#1 ·
WHAT DO I DO WRONG??
Im just starting, actually why does mine look so bad?? Help, what is off
 

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#2 · (Edited)
It's actually not so bad at all. I'm not sure what kind of animal it's supposed to be, but if you put a pair of cat's ears on it, it would be a pretty good cat.

One important thing though. Most of the animals I've ever seen have eyes that are the same size as each other, lol. 😄 But that's a pretty easy fix. Otherwise, you did a good job.

Oops! I just noticed that your drawing is not pencil, it's pen and ink., so changing the eye size might be a bigger deal than I thought. (Sorry, I haven't had my coffee yet!)

An important lesson here: it's a good idea to lightly sketch in the shape and placement of objects in your artwork BEFORE filling in any details. Saves a lot of work later trying to fix things. Trust me, I've been there. We all have.
 
#3 ·
To me it looks obvious that it's a cat, as Deb pointed out one eye is bigger than the other, and the opened mouth looks crooked. A good way to spot things that are off kilter and lopsided is to view the picture in a mirror. I draw on tracing paper in pencil and I turn the paper over now and then while I'm drawing to see if anything is crooked. Once I'm happy with the drawing I transfer it to whatever the finished art will be on and proceed to paint or ink it.
 
#4 ·
Drawing takes a lot of practice. The trick is to be consistent with it. One way I draw features proportionally in faces is to measure the face based on how certain features lengths fit on the face. For example, the average human head is five eyes wide with one eye length in between the two eyes. You can do this for animals too. Take a ruler or even just your fingers and measure how many eyes the head is across, how many eyes from the eyes to the nose, nose to the mouth, etc. Similarly an easy way to measure the proportions of the human body is by using the length of the head.