Trying to improve my drawing skills

I decided to do a 100 day challenge of doing a drawing a day. I'm on like day 42. I looked at my drawing from first day and had a laugh at the difference. It's not much but it's something.

I started this challenge because I couldn't find someone actually starting out bad (wanted inspiration that you don't need to be naturally good at it to be artist), their early drawings were still decent since they naturally had knack for it.
So I thought to myself my drawing skills are actually bad & I would love to improve so let's see how much a crappy drawer can improve.

My skills are that I can draw stick figures, plain flower, hearts, stars and general shapes, think of like first grader skill & that's what my drawings are like 😁

I tried to start with shapes but it's so boring so I switched to drawing a face. And compared to first day there's definitely improvement.

I probably should have tried something more simple to draw for 100 days but I naturally gravitated to drawing faces since that's what I desperately wish I could do well.

I sure hope by day 100 there's major difference to what I'm able to draw right now at about the half way mark.

newstu · M

I taught Art in Secondary school. Over the years I finally arrived at this when trying to teach people to actually understand what they're looking at. It comes down to two design elements. Size and direction. What direction is the line going, and how far does it travel. They are probably the most important things when you're trying to actually draw what's there.