>>5755060>>5755111People talk about symbol drawing like it's just an easy thing you stop doing once you know about it but it's way harder than that, it's an ongoing bias towards drawing things the way your brain things they ought to be that's with you forever and always has to be counteracted by measuring, proportion, gesture, etc. Symbol eyes are the ones people start with but then you get symbol legs (legs are just two opposing curved lines right?) and then you get into bias towards straight, longer, lines (eg drawing arms from the side even when they're coming towards you). Drawing what you see accurately is very hard especially when its a photo and not another drawing, it's not something where you just "stop drawing symbols" and suddenly your portraits are photorealistic.
That's not actually a bad attempt at all and I think you did a lot less symbol drawing than anon is accusing (though it is pretty bad in the right eye and the cheek), at least so long as you're improving and this isn't your 1000th attempt.
Here's some construction lines to hopefully help you see mistakes you made. Flipping your canvas (both vertically, as anon mentioned, but also horizontally) as you draw can help with overcoming observation bias. Keep on keeping at it.
>>5755120I don't agree with that at all. It's true that every creator is overly aware of the flaws in their own work, but there's a minimum threshold for enjoyment of your own finished products that you have to clear in any creative skill. You're always your own critic but there's a difference between the relationship you have with your music when you're proficient than when you just picked up a guitar for the first time and started mashing strings.
Or maybe a better way to word it is that perhaps you do always hate your own works, but under a certain skill level, the act of *working* itself is frustrating. That eventually goes away.
