Hey, nothing wrong with putting nonfurry stuff on here. I do it all the time. And there's always the Scraps section on both here and dA to throw your practice stuff in.

I've found that a good way to practice faces is to just print off pictures from the internet and trace over them a few times, till you learn the strokes.

I'm guessing you're doing perspective at some point as well, since it's pretty straightforward to figure out, and that basic drawing classes tend to teach that first thing (at least, mine did).

Yeah, we're just doing perspective right now in drawing systems class, but that seems to be of the more technical kind but still applicable to pretty much everything else since it's all about one and two point perspectives. It's just gonna be a slow and arduous journey and I still have to fight the nagging feeling inside that makes me heavily criticize anything I do, which is probably my biggest obstacle in putting anything up.

Dude! Post your work! Your gallery is for you mainly! Don't worry about anyone else! : D

Yeah, but I have to fight my left-brain, it keeps telling me everything I'm doing is wrong so it makes me feel like I really shouldn't show anything to anyone cause I feel like my current level is like grade school level right now. And I have to get along with my left-brain cause I still enjoy being able to read and how the heck will I be able to read books or play RPGs without it. XD;

Screw what other people think!

I implore that you keep going with your artwork dude, practise really does make perfect. The best way would be to find books or tutorials on anatomy and proportion, if you can get that down pat, you're well on your way to being a hell of an artist. You can even try to find some sort of part time class for life drawing. That's how I did it, and it helped me tremendously.

And don't for one second think that anything you draw is meaningless, it doesn't have to be furry to be fun to do :3

Yeah, I ended up getting quite a few books at an art book sale in college a few weeks ago, as well as artbooks that I have from old game pre-orders. Also grabbed some books on creating characters, perspective, figures in motion, some life drawing books. Right now I'm working through a textbook that my drawing teacher recommended to me called "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" which seems to be helping me. I mean, at the beginning it told me to draw my self-portrait and my hand, and looking back at my hand drawing now after some exercises and comparing a more recent drawing of my hand, there seems to be some big improvement. My recent hand isn't the greatest, but compared to my first attempt it seems much much better.

But yeah, I just don't know how great it'd be to fill my scraps with drawings of my hand, chairs and the like. XD;

Well the scraps pages are there for that exact reason, no one is gonna badmouth progress, and if they do then they're only worth ignoring. And hands are one of the hardest things to master, hell, I still have trouble with 'em. What it comes down to is you have to start with the basics to really get a feel for it.

Also your teacher hit the mark with "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain", that's an excellent book. A couple that really helped me through college were "Anatomy Lessons of the Great Masters" and "Atlas of the Human Anatomy for the Artist". The latter is more a medical analyzation but goes in depth of every part of the body, inside and out.

What i'm saying is, don't feel discouraged by your current level of ability, you WILL get better if you practise. And by posting your work, you can let other artists help you through the process by way of contructive criticism and opinion. If it's art, it's worth posting, even in scraps :3