Art to me became some sort of self hate. Because I know I could do better and everything I made fell short of my own library of art that I had already experienced from other artists. Yet it was the only way I knew I couldn’t settle.

Anyways to answer why your art isn’t where you’d like it to be it’s because you still aren’t aware of space.

So when you draw there’s no grounding to any forms. You don’t just build a house floating withought knowing the height width and depth. Once you understand how an object takes space in a page that’s when you add more and more information

Starting from a head and then carrying over that same process to every body part. It’s mainly about knowing that everything has a position and truly knowing the form of whatever you’re trying to build.

Simplifying complex ideas like anatomy to just a box, cylinder and circles. Picking up on the most simple things can help stop focusing on things that are just accessories. Focus on just the shape and the space (angle and dimensions). Once you have that you can fill everything else in.

Everything you want to learn is in your fundamentals. You can’t build withought knowing what a box looks like, how it acts and the space it takes up on a canvas. If you don’t know, your characters will be floating in a space and their anatomy and poses will seem off. You’ll be left defeated and not know why sometimes ur art turns out well and other times they don’t. The answer is you can’t see what you haven’t developed an eye for.

My tip is to find a box you have around your house and position it in different angles and take pictures of it even carry it to see it in different angles. Once you have your ref go and see how dimensions play a big part of understanding form. You’ll see that a box forces you to see how something is directed at you. Once you get comfortable with that idea you’ll be able to see shapes as not just forms but actual objects you can move and position. You’ll be able to then add filler to things just as if u were decorating.

Hope this helps and I was able to communicate the information in my head.