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♦ So for my new years resolution I vowed to improve my drawing and not let my lack of self esteem and self worth get in the way of it, which is what I say every year. This time I'm trying to draw for an hour in the morning with a sketchbook and an hour at night with my cheap tablet.

The issue is that while I can draw eyes traditionally fine, it's not translating well digitally. That and I'm using Paint Tool Sai so it's confusing looking at a lot of the tutorials and not realizing how to work it. I'm not going to get discouraged by it like I would in the past. I'm just going to keep trying until I do get it. Or just move on to doing headshots with different eyes, maybe then it'll go better.

Anyone have any tips or anything like that?

I also don't know where to put this?

I am an artist. My advice is to tell you to tell yourself those same words.
secondly work on fundamentals. if you want to really improve take time to learn line structure learn lighting and shading. study from around you first. to still life sketches to build a solid artistic understanding of composition. learn proper scene placement and perspective. but that's all basic stuff. that will make you good at the skill of interpreting objects around you into line theories. I always tell people I honestly believe anyone can draw. That does not make everyone an artist. So the harder part after getting the basics is then tearing it all down. Play with perspective. look at how to reinterpret what you see into what it could be or might be. after establishing the fundamentals play with the concepts like a mad scientist!

Just keep drawing and play around with the digital programs. Over time you'll develop your own sense of style and ways of doing things (which may not always match up with how others use a particular program). 3nodding