/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>finish a drawing and be somewhat satisfied with it
>look at it a couple of days later
>only see all the shit your horribly mangled

How do you defeat this, just draw a lot?

>>5092548
>>5092625
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>>5093958
>>5093997
I'll try these, thanks.

>>5092747
My imagination is really limited visually, when I read books my mind only jumps to actors and the most generic locations possible, rendered in a very vague cloudy non-descript way that I struggle to capture. I have dozens of favorite artists and copying other artists' work is half of all my drawing and I'm still at a loss.

>>5092787
>>5094203
I try to capture gesture and forms quickly and without being too stiff about it, and the drawings end up messy because I like to use 2B graphite for everything since they only need to be illustrative to me as something to learn from.

Doing finished work without a comfortable grasp on these fundamentals feels like a waste of time to me, because whenever I review something I finish, my biggest complaints are always the very idea itself, the gesture, composition etc, i.e. the reason I made this thread. Compared to those, finishing art feels rote and mechanical to me since I largely understand the theory and have improved in the past in it, and am confident I'll be able to improve more in the future, I'd just prefer to get the building blocks down first, but I'll try your suggestions.

>>5092836
I'm not really dead set on a medium but pencils are a cheap and comfortable way for me to grind basics.

>>5092845
Well my work example imagination drawing being a young woman in a sexual pose and anime style shows how devoid of appeal ideas I am, I want to draw all kinds of subject matter of all emotions but reference hunting is a pain, searching online usually produces really generic and sterile stock photos from boring angles, and an alternative is hunting for individual frames in movies and shows.

>>5094020
>>5094131
This is good advice for finishing work but my main issue is starting, and the fundamentals core to starting, both learned and innate, I'll post an example below.

>>5095022
Very likely actually, but not a simple fix.