First of all, I want to compliment your stylization, shape language and the personality! I could immediately tell by the expression that this girlie is mischievous, confident and fun. Your lines are also pretty good already, with smoothness and variation! Miscellaneous art exercises for improving line quality: the website Practice Drawing This has loads of exercises to improve shaky lines, I would suggest doing it with a pen on a piece of paper, not digitally. But if you work with a stylus, and you want to keep progressing in your work digitally, I would suggest doing it on your tablet for you to develop dexterity with your specific chosen tools. (I myself draw with a finger on my phone, so my tool journey is a bit out of wack) There is a mobile app called Magic Poser, and in the free version you can pose the model and I believe distort perspective. I can't give any advice about perspective because I didn't study it yet, but I usually mock-up my pose in Magic Poser and use it as a reference. Exercises I would suggestL 1. Tracing over your chosen reference image and using very simple 3D shapes to understand the position of all body parts. Keep in mind the shapes you want to break your character down into. In the red breakdown of the reference image in the corner, I tried to follow shapes you used, so thanks for leaving me that guideline! (Note: I distorted the perspective in Magic Poser to get that specific extreme angle that, I beileve, you were going for. Practice Drawing This also has loads of 3D models you can practice perspective and understanding volume on.) 2. Do a sketch of your preferred pose, on your own, without looking at the reference. THEN, overlay your traced 3D shapes on top of it. Use the face as the contact point. Then use your traced shapes as a reference to redraw your sketch! I followed these steps and this is the result I came up with. This is where I would encourage you to redraw the sketch according to the traced shapes! I will put the shapes as a standalone in a different paintover for easier comparison.

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Mary Lee Sauder · 2026-10-10T01:19:40.095Z

I’m trying to get better with line confidence and perspective.

Hello! I don't think your line confidence is lacking as much as you probably think. You have some nice variation in line weights; the interior lines are finer, while overlapping forms are stronger. It's all good stuff. Of course, we can all improve, but you’re definitely on the right track. As for the perspective, you’re also doing well here. My feedback is just meant to illustrate a trick I like to use when I lose track of my perspective in a drawing, which seems similar to what happened here. Everything is working well, but something just feels slightly off, right? So, how do we find our perspective again? Z-Axis (Center of Gravity): We need to identify the figure's center of gravity. I find the hip box is usually a good place to start. Find the center of the hip box and draw a vertical line straight down in perspective. In your case i was feeling a 3 point convergence for the vertical line. We want to see where this line falls in relation to the feet. In a standing, static pose, this line should usually fall between the feet. It will often be close to the center, but in a pose like yours—where the figure is leaning on one leg—it will fall closer to that supporting foot. If this line doesn’t fall between the feet, you’ll usually see where the problem is right away. X/Y Axes: (The Angle of the Foot) You can usually determine the perspective of the X and Y axes based on the angle of the foot in a pose like this. Draw a plane around the bottom of the foot and use it to project the X and Y axes of your perspective box. Once your perspective is established, it’s just a matter of making adjustments. In your drawing, all I had to move was the forward leg so that the knees were aligned along the grid. You may want to redraw that leg to fit your taste, but at least now you can see where it falls in space. Keep up the good work!

@wiremouse4 days ago

Thank you for your help! I appreciate the perspective advice about center of gravity and where the feet should go.

@stibniteart5 days ago

The shapes I'm providing are lacking, but IMO it's best for you to take it gradually, I saw on your other post you're just getting back to drawing. Drawing is very labor-intensive, it takes a lot of cognitive energy, so the fact that you decided to go back to it after a break is awesome, especially if you're often not pleased with your work (because you put work and time into something that may not give you the dopamine of liking the end result). When I myself went back to drawing after a long break, doing a ton of exercises with just purely shapes (cubes, cylinders, etc, I'll refer you to Practice Drawing This again) and line drawing exercises (ditto). It may feel silly doing it at first, and I didn't notice the benefits of drawing a bajilion cubes right away, but eventually it just hit me that I am using the same techniques and strategies when drawing actual people and objects as I did when I drew that cube. AN IMPORTANT NOTE, I would actually suggest you practice Stretched and Squeezed shapes specifically (Practice Drawing This has a special section for that) because from what I observed, you tend to break down your anatomy into these. On the website, it's 3D models --> Stretched And Squeezed Forms > Stretched / Squeezed box. You can rotate the box and use the dominos icon to make it change shape (from stretched to squeezed).

@wiremouse5 days ago

Thanks so much for all of your help! I’ll look into Practice Drawing This and Magic Poser, and I’ll keep working on my lines and shapes.

@stibniteart5 days ago

First of all, I want to compliment your stylization, shape language and the personality! I could immediately tell by the expression that this girlie is mischievous, confident and fun. Your lines are also pretty good already, with smoothness and variation! Miscellaneous art exercises for improving line quality: the website Practice Drawing This has loads of exercises to improve shaky lines, I would suggest doing it with a pen on a piece of paper, not digitally. But if you work with a stylus, and you want to keep progressing in your work digitally, I would suggest doing it on your tablet for you to develop dexterity with your specific chosen tools. (I myself draw with a finger on my phone, so my tool journey is a bit out of wack) There is a mobile app called Magic Poser, and in the free version you can pose the model and I believe distort perspective. I can't give any advice about perspective because I didn't study it yet, but I usually mock-up my pose in Magic Poser and use it as a reference. Exercises I would suggestL 1. Tracing over your chosen reference image and using very simple 3D shapes to understand the position of all body parts. Keep in mind the shapes you want to break your character down into. In the red breakdown of the reference image in the corner, I tried to follow shapes you used, so thanks for leaving me that guideline! (Note: I distorted the perspective in Magic Poser to get that specific extreme angle that, I beileve, you were going for. Practice Drawing This also has loads of 3D models you can practice perspective and understanding volume on.) 2. Do a sketch of your preferred pose, on your own, without looking at the reference. THEN, overlay your traced 3D shapes on top of it. Use the face as the contact point. Then use your traced shapes as a reference to redraw your sketch! I followed these steps and this is the result I came up with. This is where I would encourage you to redraw the sketch according to the traced shapes! I will put the shapes as a standalone in a different paintover for easier comparison.

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