Oh, I have nothing, especially in English, but I wish you find them and good luck :3

Thank you :)

https://drawabox.com/ I can very much recommend going through the lessons in this one!

Also, I'd recommend against using Procreate, honestly. It's rather... limited. I'd check out Artstudio pro or Clip studio paint
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/artst.....t/id1244142051

Thank you! I think I may have come across this or something similar before and gave perspective a go. I really, really struggle to draw ellipses, though. I guess that just means I need to practice!

I'll have a look at Artstudio pro and Clip Studio Paint. I was recommended ProCreate by BearHybrid. I like it so far because it's easy for me to learn and use, but I agree that it's limited. One issue I find with the iPad is constantly balancing the number of layers with the canvas resolution... I see people like Leilryu drawing enormous 12k x 8k images with like 40 layers, meanwhile, the iPad is kind of memory limited so I'm stuck at a 4K or below resolution.

But for ease of use, I'm loving the iPad all the same :)

With ellipses and circles, the important bit is to not draw with your wrist, but to use your whole arm or your elbow. You have a very wide range of motion in your whole arm that is a lot more stable than sketchy lines with the wrist. I'm sure you can do it!

ProCreate to me seems like the "hipster" art program. It's good if you have a simpler or very painterly style(although unfortunately the brush engine currently doesn't do blending well), but otherwise it's a bit of a pain. With resolution, yeaaah. Honestly, I recommend shooting for anything within 4k and 8k, it's enough detail(I do my ipad sketches at 4k and it works just fine). Just make sure to not zoom in too much while drawing! Artstudio pro is the one-time payment option for a more PC-like art experience, and CSP is pretty much the same as the PC version, but it's a subscription, so that's a thing to consider (although the cheapest one is like 2.99/mo to be fair)

The ipad is definitely great, has helped me a lot with drawing while traveling or lazing in bed! Especially if you get the keyboard with it as well, it can be used just like a regular drawing tablet.

I guess I just need to practise more. I have a tremor, so that makes things a bit more difficult, but line smoothing saves it for me :)

Thanks for the advice, I really appreciate it

I never read an art book in my life; what I would recommend is doing some intense referencing of other people's art. Art is either inspired by nature or other art. By practicing drawing what others do, you'll understand all of its parts as well.

A book could definitely help you I imagine! But the bulk of learning art is drawing, understanding what you are drawing and the parts that make it up.

Thank you so much for the advice, I'll definitely do more referencing! The stuff I drew over the summer was based on some art tutorials by BearHybrid, and another was using a reference photo. I'm trying to compile a database of reference pictures, though, so hopefully, this will help ^.=.^