Okay then. By the way, do you rp? ....NO NOT THAT KIND XD I mean just have your characters talk to one another and then random humor happens and it's all on an instant messenger.

For that, I'd need the Instant Messenger part, which means I'd need the time part.

Which, regrettably, you've been lacking lately. :/

What you need is an artistic Manhattan Project to bust out on your enemies when they refuse to surrender. *Nods*

I can critisize something right here, right now.

Why are you not back in your cage, chained to the drawing board?

Ah didn't mean no bad'ns, massuh!

Dude! It's not like your going for photoreal. Your art style is, well, stylized so it doesn't really matter if it's "perfect" but consistant. And if that's where your style is headed, why not embrace it and see where it takes you.

Well, that's the thing. It was consistent, but is becoming inconsistent.

Call my messed up, but I don't see a problem with it.

Just do what other artists do when they draw something out of proportion or get something wrong..

Pretend you did it all on purpose and fiercely defend your rights as an artist!

hmm vacations generally work at getting artistic energy back. Go to a convention or something ^_^

Well, no, that's not my problem. I leap right into DOING it, but I'm doing it wrong.

hmm not sure then.

Generally I draw the 'skeleton' of a drawing first and then keep adding features. Maybe you could try that?

I'll keep my eyes peeled out and ignore some of the more tantalizing parts of your art to look at it as a whole

Also sometimes I also wonder if I am getting better or worse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5kuYfTCGLg

Aha, a working phase. I understand. I'll try to eyeball your stuff and point out things for you. =)

Girl, do you know what time it is? It's time to get yo' groove back!

*High Five!*

Sorry, silliness....

Yeah, that happens ... your art'll decay unless you make a conscious effort to study and/or improve. I have to break out the anatomy books every few months to stave it off.

I think half the problem is that as soon as I go to improve one aspect, all the other ones start to decay. It's like a spinning plate act.

Think your earlier work is better?

1: Go back to your earlier work
2: Plagarize it like it was another 'flavor of the month' artist
3: ?????
4: Profit!

I do suggest doing sketches of just random people. or look at porn and sketch from that. either works XP

Yyyyeah, I've been degenerating in everything, especially people. <.< Used to be able to draw characatures of people.

I just need to draw more, it seems like.

Drawing more is definitely a good thing. *hugs*

Dude, there's only so much real estate you can pack on a chest and keep the belly visible. The boobs just don't balance out. So, if your characters are too tall, there's but only one humane solution: chop their legs off.

Why do I create journals? The replies are going to be from furries. I know the risks, but I still come out and take the hammer to the face anyway. I must be mad.

Oh, sorry. Yep, guaranteed only solution. xD

Sounds like a challenge for you. Best of luck on beating the torso issue down!

Hello, dear. As I am with many, I tend to remain silent. However, here are a few tips, if I may be so bold as to give them.

1) Begin looking at photographs and drawing from those. Every day. Whenever you have the change. Draw from life and get to learn how it ALL goes together.

2) draw the body first, then add in the boobs after the body's NORMAL proportions without exaggeration is correct.

3) Practice hands and feet on scrap paper or in OC or whatever your preferred method is. Do it over and over and over until you think you'll puke if you see another foot or hand. Then do ten more.

4) While this worked for me, my above are MUCH more helpful. Nonetheless, one of my other answers would be look at cartoons/anime/artists you LOVE the look to and try to draw their characters. Accurately. Copy poses to learn, figure out how it works.

5) In a single word, practice. Over and over and over again. (This is where I failed and have 8 years dry time now...)

Admittedly, these are the only things I can hand you for improvement advice, and I know they are very generic. All distortions and the like should be made once you get down how to draw the figure without distortion. If you are attempting to copy a "style", like the general look of Sonic or a specific anime, look and learn how the original official characters are drawn, and work from there.

Consistency (so says my room-mate Wyldsyde) comes from repeated practice in drawing any single character over and over. It follows that consistency in anatomy and proportion must logically follow from the same.

I wish you good luck, Nori dear.

Yours,
Mika Kyubi
Kitsune-at-Large

Don't look at me, I am an eraser-eating freehander.
Are you single yet?

Just playing, I'll help the best I can. But your best bet is to look up tutorials and implement them again. They're all over the internet from how to draw a line to the most realistic nipple texture you have ever seen.

"...but drawing big boobs shouldn't have an effect on your ability to render toes."
If your toes start to look like boobs, then you've been drawing too many boobs. ^_~

You could always try doing the oval thing, where you skecth out the figure and such using ovals and circles and such. Since you'd do the "body/torso" part before you add boobs, that might help to keep from stretching it out.

Most of the time, I haven't noticed this problem. There's only been a couple pics where I have, but my first thought was not "Her torso is too long" but "Her waist is too skinny". Maybe that's just something else you might want to think about. Instead of making them shorter, make them thicker. *shrugs* Worth a shot, if you run out of other ideas.

Other than that, hmm... *ponders* I don't know what else to say. My "skills of an artist" are about on par with Homsar's.

Your attitude is inspiring. You're the only person with a Sonic fan character that I've ever seen who actually wants to become a better artist!