/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3297904
Look at "how to draw anime" tutorials on deviantart or something. I'm not even fucking kidding. Don't just settle for any tutorial but if you're struggling this hard with the basics of construction, you need the legitimate basics of tutorials (use your eyes to see which ones are gonna be the least shit of course). Don't copy THEM, but look at them and see how they put faces together, understand the shapes they use and where they put the lines in the face, and then use that understanding to draw the kind of pictures you want to be able to replicate with a similar thought process. If you can't immediately transfer existing images to a bunch of circles and lines (which you probably won't be able to, even with your reference stuff, and that's okay!) then trace your guidelines over the pictures you want to draw. Don't trace the picture itself, but use the tutorials you have as reference and try to work out how these pictures come together and trace said pictures with the construction shapes. Over and over again until you understand the shapes that make them up. Then start replicating your guidelines you drew over the pictures instead of the pictures themselves. It's not hard at all to draw guidelines for a stylised face when you have some kind of reference, in fact it's definitely much easier than doing it for realistic things. You won't get it perfect the first time. You won't get it perfect the second time. Do it over and over and eventually you will get it to a level you're happy with. Then do it a hundred more times and do a hundred more pictures and you'll be able to do it quickly and effectively, and one day you will have your own style and won't need to replicate random anime pictures anymore.
(picture attached looks like shit obviously, but I'm on mobile and i wanted something to quickly demonstrate what i mean. Do it properly, of course, but seriously, this kind of exercise will help you to understand it so much.)