05-25-2013, 06:40 PM
Hey, great start here, man. You're working on all the things you should be working on, and no matter how much you feel like you're not progressing, everytime you put your pencil to the page you are. It's funny you've mentioned your tastes being above your skill level. There's a good video of Ira Glass talking about this exact same thing on Youtube. I recommend watching it, as it's fairly motivational. Also, I'll suggest getting Scott Robertson's Basic Perspective Drawing DVD. It's a huge resource of perspective drawing techniques and theory and almost single-handedly taught me perspective. Yep, it's that good. Anyway, don't give up! You have plenty of people here willing to help and guide you and all it'll take for you to get better is to sit down and put the pencil to paper everyday.