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[Fedodika]

Dear Maggie,
I think the best thing you can do is assess what it is you want to be as an artist. Say you want to be a character concept artist; you'd really have to understand anatomy, gesture, and lighting, whereas perspective won't be as important. If you were to be an environmental artist then perspective/ and lighting would be crucial but gesture and anatomy wouldn't be at all. But most folks here want to be illustrators, and that involves a little or a lot of all those things.

You seem to like drawing portraits so illustration would be a good choice. Focus on learning the planes of the head, drawing from books and photos and understanding structure. Then move into gesture. a Great book I'd reccomend is "the Natural way to Draw" By Kimon Niccolaides. It will teach you tons of stuff about improving and the failure that must come your way. Also Micheal hamptons figure drawing design and invention is a perfect book for any artist wanting to improve.

None of us improve as quickly as we like, and other people will see it before you do. Dan warren was a great teacher to me and many people here about motivation and how the art industry works.

https://www.youtube.com/user/danwarren/videos

The older streams, near the bottom are incredible gold mines of information; and they could steer you in the right path.

Also check this sketchbook if you need inspiration
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthr...Sketchbook!

There are a lot of sketchbooks like this, but it really shows the work you gotta put in to get better fast :)