Shin Johnpv
Member
A couple thoughts for you, don't used line paper. Get some plain white paper to draw on. Don't make so many choppy back and forth lines. Think about drawing softly and lightly when laying down your rough lines, and think about making longer lines, not sharp choppy ones. Make light soft lines and then use them as a guide as you draw you're dark final line.
Ed basically said similar though I say draw from life first. A LOT. Take what you think is A LOT and now multiple it by like 1,000 and do that many drawings from life. It doesn't even need to be say of real people, go to a museum and draw statues from all kinds of angles. The point is to get your eye and hand working together.
I'm personally of the belief that you should get drawing realistically down and understanding shape and form first, before delving into a style, and abstraction.
Get a couple of sketchpads, some half way decent pencils and fill those sketchpads.