I agree. Humans can be difficult to draw, especially with the faces. Of course, that's easily fixed by simply drawing more of them in a sketchbook and using a drawing the head and figure sort of book to help you (there are plenty in bookstores and, I imagine, in libraries). Understanding how a human face is proportioned and how its expressions work also helps with drawing animal and furry heads since they are similar in structure to a human head only stretched and squashed in different proportions. It also helps you to understand what to look for when using pictures of animals as reference.

However, with me, it's hands and, to a lesser extent, feet that I need more practice on. I understand the structure and arrangement of both sorts of appendages, but cramming all those toes onto a foot or getting those fingers arranged properly can be a pain at times.

Of course, it's not like I draw many humans. It's not because I find them hard to draw. I just like drawing non-human animals and furries more.


By the way, I never did go to homecoming when I went to school or go to any of the dances or prom. But you already knew I was weird.

I could try surrealism. I saw an artist on FA (I wish I could remember his/her name, but I'm honestly kind of glad I can't) who drew some of the most hauntingly, disgustingly distorted faces on My Little Ponies. I guess that requires some knowledge of individual parts of the human face, but not so much that you have to put them together properly if you choose not to.

Also, practical art tip: If your drawing is ever going completely and totally wrong and you can't erase it enough to fix it without starting over, just draw it crosseyed/walleyed and upload it with the title "A HERP A DERP." This has made me much happier with many a sketch when showing others my sketchbook.

And ehh, I'm only going to prom if Mik can come with. I only went to homecoming because my friends forced me. Not normally my thing, but I don't regret it. We had a 30-person conga line in the dance hall around everyone else who danced appropriately to the rap music. And there was free food, including meat cones and tiny cartons of iced tea.

Surrealism would work. Sometimes our most inventive moments come when things just won't cooperate.

One year in high school, my art class made gingerbread houses. Unsurprisingly, my gingerbread walls ended up coming out of the oven looking as if they had been ordered up by a shady contractor. There went any attempt to have a normal-looking gingerbread house much less something more ambitious like a light house (not enough sugar cubes available for that one). So I ended up stacking the sugar cubes up as one wall of the gingerbread shack, patched the walls together the best I could, then slathered icing all over the thing to hide the evidence of the contractor's cheapness. Stick on some strategically placed candies that had been lying around for a while and I could call it something based on a southwestern-style church. I'm pretty sure I got a passing grade on it, but I don't know for sure since I was dang glad to be done with that project.

The reason I didn't go to any of the dances, homecomings, and proms of my middle school and high school years was that they were basically parties. I don't like parties because they're too boring.