We ALL learn to draw (better)! - Drawing Tutorials and Exercises

I think I would feel silly starting a thread just for myself and probably never getting back to it within a week.

I've been drawing all my life and have tried to seriously train my skill several times over the past 10 years or so, but usually stuck to it only for a few weeks or just days. It's quite decent now I think. But I am terribly impatient and always looking for shortcuts that can get me ahead faster than just drawing badly over and over. I still have to make lots of somewhat bad drawings, but I always feel that one improves much faster when one knows what one is actually trying to do and why other artists draw things as they do. I can draw front and profile as much as I want, that will never help me figuring out how to get every possible angle right.
And that's where tutorials come in.

Wanting to set a good example, I start with a link to a tutorial that explains the wireframe technique to create natural poses and proportions when drawing people. When I googled for a good one, I happened to stumble on the one that I actually started with 8 years ago. :smallbiggrin: I liked it back then and I can still recommend it to anyone who isn't familiar with the technique.
Figure Drawing: Basic Pose and Construction

And now to my own personal request for tutorial links that other people may know:
The one thing with which I always have by far the hardest time is faces. I can draw a perfectly great body with clothing and hair and everything, and then the whole thing is ruines by a trainwreck of eraser marks where the head is supposed to be. I really like lineart styles and working without textures and just a limited amount of shading, and since less lines means less chance to screw up, manga style faces are an obvious point to start. :smallbiggrin:
Does anyone know good tutorials that explain how the individual parts of the face are constructed? I found a number that goes like "draw this, and now this, and now this, and now this", but I don't feel like those help me to find out how I want my faces to look by trying out different techniques. There are also a bunch of catalogs of exe shapes and hair styles, but without explaination how they are constructed I don't feel like they enable me to create my own styles. Anyone any links to something that might help with that?

Well, from that link you're still a good bit better than me. But I'll try that tutorial now.

Great tutorial, one of the best I've encountered so far ;)

Gotta say, after three years of not drawing I actually picked up my pencil again after reading that article.

Thanks, Yora!:smallsmile: