I shall say this. If you keep trying you'll get better, better BETTER! On another note, when I saw your drawing I thought of this from that 80s movie, The Labyrinth.
I couldn't get worse is what you're saying😄 I think a more forgiving medium may help, ink on lined paper is a beast for detailing, and there is a void of anything behind the face to the ears.
If I ever start a series of posts called Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain I hope that you will take up some of the artistic challenges E. If you look at these self portraits on the left you will find the first try from beginners and on the right this is their work after they did all the assignments, in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Big changes. Thankfully this was the book that was in my house when I was 6 and I looked at the pictures and would just draw them without reading. Then my dad went through the assignments with me a couple years later....
Years later I went to art college and this is the book they handed me and I was like.... THis is the shit I was doing when I was 6, what am I paying you people for? But yeah it's thee BEST thing you could do for yourself if you ever want to stop being a whiney little bitch about your drawings. No excuses - no whining - just doing. https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-44c95a6df4bd5fba6b8873b01fbde476-c
#justspeed would be good challenges for you too. It's just 20 minutes of your time practicing each week.
I think you should start doodling more in your books. Buy a couple small pads of blank paper and doodle things while you wait for things in this life. Habitually make 10 minutes of practice a new chunk in your life and you will over time see great improvements.
The path always starts with the first step but you will not reach a destination unless you keep going.
I couldn't get worse is what you're saying😄 I think a more forgiving medium may help, ink on lined paper is a beast for detailing, and there is a void of anything behind the face to the ears.
I think you started it and got disillusioned part way through cos you were thinking, fuck this shit, I'm a poet. Please though, keep drawing.
I got disillusioned because the eye and the nose and the mouth went to crap, and that's 99% of a babies face😂
If I ever start a series of posts called Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain I hope that you will take up some of the artistic challenges E. If you look at these self portraits on the left you will find the first try from beginners and on the right this is their work after they did all the assignments, in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Big changes. Thankfully this was the book that was in my house when I was 6 and I looked at the pictures and would just draw them without reading. Then my dad went through the assignments with me a couple years later....

Years later I went to art college and this is the book they handed me and I was like.... THis is the shit I was doing when I was 6, what am I paying you people for? But yeah it's thee BEST thing you could do for yourself if you ever want to stop being a whiney little bitch about your drawings. No excuses - no whining - just doing.
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-44c95a6df4bd5fba6b8873b01fbde476-c
#justspeed would be good challenges for you too. It's just 20 minutes of your time practicing each week.
I think you should start doodling more in your books. Buy a couple small pads of blank paper and doodle things while you wait for things in this life. Habitually make 10 minutes of practice a new chunk in your life and you will over time see great improvements.
The path always starts with the first step but you will not reach a destination unless you keep going.