My drawing record

Just learning how to draw

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I started drawing on March 5, 2026.

This blog is a record of my drawings and my progress while I learn. I use it to post finished pieces and anything that feels important enough to save here.

I’m still a beginner, so this is not a perfect art blog — it’s more like a place where I save drawings I liked and keep track of how far I’ve come.

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I know I made this blog to track my drawings, but...

DELTARUNE TOMORROW

and there is NO WAY I'm missing this 😁

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Glad to see that a drawing made in less than an hour turned out pretty decent.

This drawing was inspired by Friday Night Funkin' mod "Friday Night Dustin". It's DustShift Chara, kinda.

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Drawing from a reference.

I believe I captured the body proportions pretty well, except I deviated slightly from the mannequin and drew one leg out of position. The hand is in the wrong perspective too.

Wasn't perfectly accurate with the face, made it too long and I'm not sure if the mood matches the reference, but still not bad.

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Sketch I started my new sketchbook with. Congratulations to me!

Yeah, it's awful, but it's still a memorable occasion.

I should have probably looked up cat anatomy, but I'm not planning to draw animals, so let it be like this.

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Okay, I'm leaving this one like this.

Drawing from imagination is still kicking my ass. I have to keep track of too many things at once, and I end up forgetting half of them.

Turns out I've barely drawn any references with normal everyday clothes, so my visual library for that is basically nonexistent.

Back to references, I guess.

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Trying to make an OC. I wonder how people do this, but I need a character that I can use as a guinea pig for learning.

Couldn't make a full body drawing in, like, 20 attempts? So I decided to draw only the head for now.

Doesn't look too bad.

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Hadn't drawn in a week. Here's drawing with reference since I can't draw shit by myself.

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Sooooo… I finally had some free time, and I tried my best with this one.

First, I tried ibisPaint. It’s the first time I actually managed to sketch on PC, because for some reason I just can’t do it in Krita.

Second, I had no idea what I was doing with colors. I’m probably better at rendering in Krita.

I had much bigger ambitions for this piece, but I don’t really have another 5 hours to spend on it, so I decided to keep the background simple and leave it like this. And it looks like my V1 doesn't have wings (-_-').

That’s all. Looks like I have to go back to studying again 🥲

ibisPaint has a pretty cool feature that saves the drawing process, so I’m posting it here too. Now everyone can watch me build this mess step by step 🫠

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I could probably write an essay about how much I learned from this drawing.

My actual editing time on this drawing was 15 hours, and now I’m wondering how much time I spent just thinking about how to make everything work.

The most important thing is that I drew something more than just a character, and I learned a lot about drawing hair and eyes while working on this piece.

I even went outside just to find some stupid flowers and observe how they grow in the wild. At least it gave me an idea of how to draw them.

For my level, I think this piece turned out amazing. I could keep correcting things here forever, but I’m actually tired of this one, so let it be.

And I hope I’m not going to draw anything except characters in simple poses for a while, because this one was a hell of a challenge.

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I’m not calling this drawing finished.

I honestly wasn’t expecting anything from this attempt. But I just can’t get over the feeling that two months ago I wouldn’t have been able to draw anything even close to this.

I was so pessimistic about it that I didn’t even put my all into the mannequin. I thought it would be just a “useful try,” but even this much gives me chills.

This is my favorite drawing right now.

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For some reason, after my last drawing, I can't finish anything. Usually I would spend hours on a single drawing, but right now I just can't, I think.

It's not really a work I'm proud of, but at least you can understand what I drew here. The shoulder pad was too hard to draw from this perspective, and when I finally thought about drawing the box first, the paper had already started falling apart.

Well, this isn't awful, but I wish I could have spent more time on it. I'll redraw it one day.

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My first finished drawing without using a reference.

I probably should hate this. I mean, I spent around 10 hours on this... Don’t like drawing on PC, but it’s much easier to correct things.

Maybe I should have changed the position of the left hand, but it was without a reference, so I have no idea how to make it right.

I need to draw more :)

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My drawing without a reference has definitely seen some life.

I mean, I didn’t intend for them to look like this...

When does the point come where I can draw without a reference? I’m just getting tired of searching for something to draw, something my little hands can actually handle :(

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Tried drawing Leon from Resident Evil 2.

This reference was definitely harder than I could handle, especially the face. I started on paper, but I ruined the page with too much erasing and had to continue on PC because I still wanted to finish it.

I think the body turned out pretty well. The face really didn’t, so I stopped trying to force realism and just drew a what I could.

I don’t like the result, but I liked the process and still learned something from it.

At least I tried (-_-')

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Decided to cross JOJO and Ultrakill :)

This was my first time using one reference for the pose and another one for the character. Not like I was going to draw Killer Queen itself, muscles are too hard to draw (-_-).

I messed up the pose slightly and the head didn’t fit in the pose, but it still turned out good enough for me. The page was already starting to fall apart, so I couldn’t really keep fixing things.

These were my references.

Here are the steps before the final drawing.

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Technically, this is my best drawing so far.

This was the first time I used a more human-like mannequin instead of just boxes. I used cylinders for the limbs, and that helped me understand the body and perspective much better, even though my mannequin still ended up a bit different from the reference. The only thing I changed in the final drawing was the position of the right leg.

It was also the first time I realized that maybe I should draw the clothes over my mannequin instead of redrawing the mannequin to chase the reference. That felt like a really important step.

I was also checking anatomy guides for the torso, and because of that I started noticing a lot of my mistakes with neck placement.

And by this point I finally had more than one pencil, which also felt like progress :)

Here is how the starting and finished mannequins look like before the final drawing.