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Awww, cheer up, Heny!
Your drawings have been improving steadily, and you'll notice this with time yourself; art skills always improve with practice, slowly but surely. What always helped me was, when I first started out, I used to study pictures of what I wanted to draw. I would sit there, glancing from my paper to the computer screen. My drawings would always turn out better with some sort of reference to work off of. It also helps to start small. With shading for example, begin with a simple shape like an egg, move on to something more complex with varying dimensions, like, perhaps, your pencil, and keep practicing from there. Don't move on until you have each shape mastered.
To begin a drawing from scratch, it helps to 'feel the shape' of your object first. Roughly sketch out the basic shapes, not worrying at first how messy it looks, because you're going to go over it again and again, erasing excessive lines along the way. You'll find multiple tutorials on the internet about this method.
For bird anatomy, I looked up many diagrams. Those always helped me along with the aspect of proper proportions. If you're having trouble with a particular body part on your piece, you could probably find close-up photos of that part to study it. It took me a long time to master bird feet, for example, because of the intricate details of the scaling; eg., how the scales are narrower and more numerous at the joints, while being wider on the parts of the leg or foot that don't bend, like the shanks.
Be a sport about it -- don't be sad that you're losing, be happy that you have another opportunity to practice and improve.
but the thing is, i always lose, i almost won lost, but because one of the people that entered was disabled i got into 2nd place
Awww, cheer up, Heny!
Your drawings have been improving steadily, and you'll notice this with time yourself; art skills always improve with practice, slowly but surely. What always helped me was, when I first started out, I used to study pictures of what I wanted to draw. I would sit there, glancing from my paper to the computer screen. My drawings would always turn out better with some sort of reference to work off of. It also helps to start small. With shading for example, begin with a simple shape like an egg, move on to something more complex with varying dimensions, like, perhaps, your pencil, and keep practicing from there. Don't move on until you have each shape mastered.
To begin a drawing from scratch, it helps to 'feel the shape' of your object first. Roughly sketch out the basic shapes, not worrying at first how messy it looks, because you're going to go over it again and again, erasing excessive lines along the way. You'll find multiple tutorials on the internet about this method.
For bird anatomy, I looked up many diagrams. Those always helped me along with the aspect of proper proportions. If you're having trouble with a particular body part on your piece, you could probably find close-up photos of that part to study it. It took me a long time to master bird feet, for example, because of the intricate details of the scaling; eg., how the scales are narrower and more numerous at the joints, while being wider on the parts of the leg or foot that don't bend, like the shanks.
Be a sport about it -- don't be sad that you're losing, be happy that you have another opportunity to practice and improve.
but the thing is, i always lose, i almost won lost, but because one of the people that entered was disabled i got into 2nd place
