You'll Have To Do...

I don't think I get people saying I trace stuff often, but I know I used to get people thinking that something I had done was printed or was orginally there (I tend to draw on a lot of scrap so it looks like it's just part of the design I guess), but I don't get that much any more. Probably because I draw constantly, so people can simply see that I'm not tracing.

Drawing from pictures and photos is a great way to start. The only advise I can think to give someone just starting out is to... not stop! just draw, and draw often. Doesn't matter if it's good or not, it's just practice. After a while you'll just get used to basic shapes and should start to be more confident at drawing from memory. Also, if you're havily referencing, try not to just use one image to draw from, use several with similar poses and try to blend them into the pose of whatever you want to draw. You will come across a lot of people who will say that you shouldn't use photos and basically imply that if you do you are stealing/tracing/coping etc. but this is not true, nearly all profesional artists use refrences regually in their art. The difference is that they rarely copy a reference to 100%.

lol I like to laugh at this page because it's so different from the others and the anatomy is so off in many of the panels. ^^ It's amazing at how much I've improved since then. (Of course I could be saying the same thing about my stuff now, a few months down the line!

Of Blade and Midna? probably not, they take a lot of time, and it's not that funny... I do the occaisonal Link one, if I have a good idea, but most just stay in my head where they belong. xDDD

Thanks ^^ I use to suck, that's why I do silly practices like this

I'm glad you like it, your one made he chuckle, so I had to something in return.