ya know, i considder myself unable to draw at all apart from the stuff i do of norb and dag.
when i first started them, i was pretty terrible. it was only my insanity and HUGE obsession with norbert that drove me to draw him over and over and over agene which lead eventually to me being really good at drawing him.
ive never been much good at drawing all my life until norbert came along.
its real annoying, id love to draw the footrot flats dog more, but i cant do more then his head, i simply cannot draw a dogs body

i have a training technique (which im about to try out on the dog as well) which involves tracing an official pic such as a screenshot in order to gett he feel of what its like to draw him properly.
and using that drawing, change slight things such as facial expressions a but, just tinker around. then tracing some more, and more tinkering. after that try going freehand and seeing where you get. BTW: when you try freehand, do it on the same page as the traced, it helps to have good reference close by.

for me it all comes down to one thing:
if you cant see it, you will never be able to draw it.

anything i can see im my head COMPLETLY, i can draw it. i can close my eyes and see every single aspect of norbert there is, i totally see him in all his forms and whatever, its like hes real, as diluted as that sounds
if you look at something and study it, obsess about it, think about it, go crazy about it as much as i do norb, youll be able to do draw it however you like any time in any way.

you see it, you draw it. simple.

PS: dont get as involved with a cartoon character as i have with norb, its not healthy and it leads to being single.

'tis late, must go to bed, work tomorrow. be well