Bittersweet Candy Bowl

Hello, all! There’s a lot of beautiful fanart on here, and I’m wondering if all you artists have any advice on how to get started drawing line figures. As background, I’m taking Highschool Art, and took classes all through middle school. I like to to think I’m fairly good at it! However, recently I’ve wanted to start a comic, and I tried my hand at drawing characters for it. It’s so much harder than it looks!
From other people, I’ve only really had one thing of advice: Practice! I’ve taken to doodling faces during downtime at school, but they’re pretty embarrassing. What less generic advice do you all have, particularly for drawing expressive (but not necessarily realistic) faces? That’s definitely what I’ve struggled with the most.

Do you use guidelines? Those are pretty useful.
And also, referencing from other comic/cartoons/manga/anime/stuff is good as well. And don’t be afraid to copy or trace for the sake of practice.
Oh, and no one but the most talented can draw a perfectly angled straight line, so using a ruler is not shameful.
And as for expressive faces, once again referencing. Even from real life/photos, since that’s where you’ll find the most genuine expressions. I’ve looked at myself in the mirror a couple times for referencing expressions, and that’s turned out pretty well.
And also I use ‘and’ and ‘also’ too much.

Do you mind posting some images of your drawings? Just curious, I guess.

EDIT: And sorry if this isn’t helpful, I’m still an artist-in-training myself. ^^;

OMG DUDE YOU AND ME ARE IN THE SAME PACE .I WANT TO MAKE A COMIC MYSELF
i been making my test comics i still have a lot to learn thou.
if you wanna draw face expresion my tip take reference from other comics that how i learning so far
So as i m i wanna see you Art style if you can

Make your own style. Everything is easier when you do it in your own style.

fff is right.

With your own style, you live up to your own expectations, not others!
And since personal styles are self-developed, they really shape around your strengths and weaknesses.

FFF and 5ony are correct

For comics: PLAN, PLAN, PLAN. If it is for a story-based comic, plan out a basic storyline for it. Of course, it can change a bit to fit new ideas you want to incorporate, but try to stick to the plan. If it’s for a humor-based comic, think up a few throw-back jokes so that way you have something to fall back on when you don’t have as good an idea and you still want to update frequently.

Character design is important. Some people have to work harder at it than others and some characters will be easier to design than others. For example, for BCB, Taeshi has had most of those characters since childhood, there won’t be much change to their design or personality. However, newer characters, such as Abbey, she had to put more work into. Same with me. I’m currently working on character designs for an original comic. Designs for three of them came so easily for me since they were based off of old characters a bit. However, the rest of the cast is more difficult.

As for pacing your comic, making thumbnails really help. These are smaller versions of the comic page which will help you visualize how the story pace will go. I use them all the time and they work great.

P.S. i new to the whole artist comic thing my self so not much tip i can give ya i sorry

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Here’s some of my sketches:
Hey look! It’s evil goatee guy!
I really like my abbey sketch! Wile E Coyote, not so much
some… early attempts.

And finally, a test panel for my comic!


Thanks for all the help!

i like the test panel a lot