Drawing Practice Sunday (Update + Results!)

So as you may all know.. I have been really working so hard in improving my art. As much as I'd like to get all advance with things digitally.. I started spending time with my hands on drawing.. which I've been seriously bad at. I believe I have created bits and pieces of full body figures recently.. I have to say I am able to do them easier now and a lot faster than before - time wise. At the very least it did't took me 2 hours to do one figure lol... unlike before, haha! 

As mentioned on my previous updates and journal - not every tutorial works for me and in one way or another.. I still do believe that but I guess from practicing it I kind of develop my own method here and there.. Today, what I did was to follow along a tutorial then re-create them by myself without reading and scanning through the steps.. though I try to track here and there if I am doing things correctly. 

As soon as I've noticed a bit of improvement.. I started wanting to work on different poses. I have been practicing myself but have not really found any solid result when it comes to poses.. so for today, I tried working on a real photo I just googled... I have noticed it the last two times I tried sketching a real live photo - I kind of felt they seem to be a lot of easier to draw rather than following tutorials. I was pretty clueless how I am going to be working through with it... but surprisingly pulled it off. At the very least I can see a form of pose on my drawing which doesn't look weird at all than most poses I usually draw.. 



I haven't finished it.. but little by little I do kind of see where things are going. Again, I still prefer looking through an image and drawing it from there rather than starting with random shapes.. though, I do believe they also help.. but probably not the most important factor for me at this point. I usually draw poses that are just walking or so.. this was the first time I tried this ballet kind of pose.. at first I wasn't sure.. but I just drew whatever (You should have seen the sketch version, it was a lot more horrendous, lol!) 

I actually find it very funny.. there are just times where in I try my best following through a tutorial but it would end up looking weird and an utter failure - but when I don't do a follow through on a tutorial and do it by myself.. somehow, it still looks terrible.. but I find it much do-able and better than what I created when I worked on a tutorial. I've always wondered why.. but I still have no idea up to now.. >.<



This is one sample of that - me following a drawing on a tutorial (digitally).  It totally looks off from how it should look like, lol.



This is me - trying on my own with no tutorial whatsoever. It still looks weird.. but I kind of somehow like the proportions here better than the other one I created.. haha!

Oh well. Just wanted to share this with everyone.
Right now, I am a bit thrilled on working through the ballet pose artwork.. hopefully, it will look good - then maybe I can create something out of it soon for another dose of collection on my portfolio.  



If you guys have time - please do check this one out - a ghost girl I recently created as an adoptable! The differences will be explained on the description posted and all the information you may need to know! I super loved it! I hope you'll get to like it too.