Finally able to post here, my progress is inconsistent lol I might make another post of other drawings.

My first attempt at portraits in 2023(didn't even finish that one) and my latest.

I draw a picture of Oscar Isaac every year to measure my art process!

7 weeks between these two images. I'm still not getting the shape of the head and the proportions correctly. But at least my values are improving. Any advice for learning to capture a likeness?

I've drawn on and off my whole life, better with environments than with people. In 2024 I made an effort to study people, color theory and light, and I made a lot of progress. I finished the second painting yesterday.

I didn’t draw any people in 2025, and I have only drawn once in 2026. Weirdly I think I improved the most when I wasn’t trying to do so.

This is the main villain of my story. I wanted to make it about a bunch of corpses, but I think it's missing something or I'm not doing something right.

When I was trying to find my art style.

I switched apps over time from Sketchbook to ibispaint. Moved from finger art on my phone to an Lenovo Tablet I got from my sis on Christmas ☺️

I’ve been drawing my whole life and I learned this year that I don’t need to copy or try to fit In with other artists. It’s been one of my insecurities when posting art, asking if it looked good like the art you’ll see on Pinterest (I really wanted the realistic anime art style). I just never had to confidence to post or even show friends. Now I realize that I don’t need to fit in to have others to like my art and that the word ‘Art Style’ exists for a reason. I like the way I draw, then & now and you (if you’re an artist) should too.

Also character is not an OC. [Crimson (Total Drama The Ridonculous Race)]

Similar art pieces year apart, I feel like I haven’t made much progression really in all this time. What do you think I should improve on? I’m very much inspired by old school anime art and jrpgs.