YAPPING abt my art progression

idk why i wrote this all out, i just like wanted to yap abt it. i love yapping. i am public yapper #1

i have always been into drawing, and the thing i always practiced very early on is canine anatomy. which eventually branched to equine anatomy. and one of the biggest mistakes i made while learning to draw horses, was applying canine anatomy to them. i was very young when i did this, but it fucked up my understanding of the way i drew and how i viewed my art for sooooo long. i would see pictures of horses for reference and thought i understood it, but as soon as i started drawing i realized that nothing looked right. i was so insanely accustomed to canine features, to a 9 year olds understanding of it (really just the basic shapes and silhouettes), that i could not for the life of me draw any other animal. i got pretty good, for a young kid, at drawing different dogs n what not, but it took my yearsss to break the habit of approaching a drawing of any other animal the way i would a dog or other canine.

and although i mentioned i was 9, this started even before that, and ended a few years later. i got into drawing canines when i was probably younger than 6. i had a huuugggeee interest in dogs, like how some kids are into dinosaurs, i was into dogs. and not until i was like 11 did i really try to put real effort into learning to draw different animals. anyways, i would consistently doubt my art because it seemed like i was never really getting better. i still have a lot of drawings from when i was like 11-12 that im like "holy shit i drew that when i was 12 ??", but yk. i didnt really see massive progress until i was like 14. that's when i reallyy tried finding my art style and experimented with different styles. i taught myself to draw people, in a very cartoony style, by looking at different fanart of the fandom i was in at the time !!! i eventually found an artist that had a very easy style to understand while also looking great. i spent close to an entire year just redrawing their fanart, which is something i would never do now, but i at the time i didnt really realize how that could be seen as totally stealing their designs. i only did that to help myself understand basic human faces n what not. but that helped me so insanely much. it made it easier to understand where to place the basic features of the face and stuff like that.

after a while i dropped that style and started applying what i taught myself with their art to my own "style". i dont really think i have a distinct style. like when i see something i draw, i know i drew it cause im so used to seeing the way i draw things, but to someone else i feel like it just is a drawing that is there... if that makes sense ? i still have a MASSIVE way to go with human drawings, like i have only once drawn a full body and have been happy with the result. and even with that drawing, looking back at it there is sooooo many flaws that could be fixed. 

never doubt your art, just keep practicing, which is super annoying when people say "practice makes perfect", but its honestly very true especially with something like drawing :3