Advice for beginners?

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This feels a bit awkward but people keep asking so I wrote some.

- Don't cover one eye of your character. I know eye-patches and winking and fringes look cute, but making all your drawings like that might indicate that the face looks a bit derpy and you're just avoiding the problem. Force yourself to spend more time on that and get it right. PS. Drawing smaller eyes helps a bit.

- Draw the hands, don't cover them. We all see what you did there.
Don't reference hands from anime drawings because many people draw them wrong and you will only make it look worse. As I said above, force yourself to draw it right even if it takes multiple attempts to achieve the result.

-Generally focus on drawing well rather than coloring well. If your drawing/lineart looks good, the outcome will look good even with simple colours. You can please some audience with shiny drawings, but bright colours and sparkles cannot hide the mistakes from a trained eye.

I think the last one is the most important one ^^

If you have any advice for beginner artists just leave a comment below.

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-just keep drawing, and don't abuse references and rely on them, but at the same time don't just cut them out because they do help~ 

-when you use references don't try to make it look exactly alike, draw in your own style 

-just keep drawing and don't stop, and at the least draw 1 thing a day.even if its just a small sketch Llama Emoji 34 (Sexy Smile) [V2] 

-lastly, step out of your comfort zone, if you keep drawing the same things over and over again you will not really gain improvement