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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MythandLore" data-source="post: 162440" data-attributes="member: 180">I tolally understand your fustration it's very diffecult to draw things on paper as cool as they look in your mind.Drawing will always be a slow process, you get quick at it, but the process is still time consuming, your never going to be able to draw and amzing character out of you head in 10 seconds, make the time to take the time to do the drawing right.(btw diterlizzi is one of my favorite illustrators. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )You can start by taking a drawing class if you never have before, (life drawing is the basics that lets you draw every thing else) find a teacher that you think can draw well and learn from them, watch how they do what they do, if there are no "good" teachers (they don't draw demos for the class that impress you) try and find a class where there are students that draw well and try and learn from them by observing.Learning to draw is not some kind of quick thing you can just one day wake up and do, it's not that simple, it takes a long long time to learn to draw well.Though a book is never a subsitute for a good teacher, you should get Glen Vilppu's drawing manual (my old mentor).His manual is now being used in schools all over the world, he is one of the best drawing teachers alive today.Here's his website:<a href="http://www.vilppustudio.com/" target="_blank">http://www.vilppustudio.com/</a>As far as 'Storm Eagle' your drawing isn't bad for just starting, but I think gnolls are more like hyenas, your looks a little more like a lion.Hyenas look kinda like mix of a dog and a cat with a long neck and spots, I did a real quick skecth to kinda give you some idea to play with so you can work on your drawing further. (I hope you like it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )</blockquote>

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