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[maggie]

hi all!

Recently I've been doing mostly photo/master studies. And even though I think I've learned stuff, it is annoying because I feel like I'm always copying someone else instead of creating my own art.
Anyways, I suck at fundamentals and I really need to improve there. I'm very very confused on where to start and what to do so if you have any advice or idea, I'd love to read it.

Here are some recent drawings

with photo reference (no color picking/tracing)






Frank Frazetta values study (again no cheats)


and here's a self-portrait for which I used another painting as a ref for the pose of the character + lighting