>>7714274
>How much time did you waste
Well, I wasted a lot of time with bullshit. I saw dave rapoza use the Chrome brush and I wanted to learn how it works- but he has a cintiq and I'm using an intuous and it's really hard to find the center on that brush without physically seeing it. Also as fun as it is drawing with it, I didn't want to render like that in the first place, I wanted to use it on one piece then I found out he didn't even make the thing I was referencing the same way.

I also have this tendency to want to draw women a lot but it's not what I really want to do as a whole so I get hours into drawing some ref for fun and then think "This isn't what I want to do with my art" then abandoning it. The bottom left and right is me not copying from refs so much and creating something more original. I'm getting into drawing more men, and making the characters I want now. I'm still not out of it though I have to fight not to fall into patterns trying to get myself to draw.

I'm too lazy to open every document and compile a progress pic so I just thrown this together. These should be all from this year.