Once again DW your drawing abilities amaze me, what you call a sloppy rough and slight incorrect drawing I call phenomenal. I wish I had a tenth of your drawing ability. I do wonder what is supposed to be happening in this scene though, spike seems to have a slightly concerned look but Chomper's expression is very difficult to interpret.
Wow, thank you Raga! It means so much to me to hear that, though it's difficult to accept such lofty praises
As for the scene, I'll admit I didn't have a detailed grasp of the situation
The general idea is that spike is apprehensive about something, and Chomper is attempting to persuade/reassure him, while being rather unsure about the situation himself.
Dang i wish i had drawing skills like that 
Yet again, great work! 
Thanks a bunch, Babidi
Great job! (smile)
I take it you are a natural, but may I know if you too had your practicing time before getting to the amazing artistic level with regard to LBT characters that you have reached?
Ah, I fear that you're all going to give me a huge ego before long
My most sincere thanks Malte, but if I am a natural at anything, it is only inflexible determination
I have spent many hours learning as much about drawing as possible, and many more applying that knowledge in practice. My ability to draw LBT characters stems from my(still incomplete) understanding of the long established principles underlying figure drawing, my own educated guesses in that area, and an understanding of the way in which characters are designed for animation. In regards to the latter, it's all to do with simple underlying shapes. If you can find the shapes and apply them correctly(that's the tricky part), your drawings of the character will be very accurate, or as an animator would say, "on model." Something that a lot of people take for granted is that learning to draw cartoons solely from observing other cartoons does more harm than good. Life drawing is, in my opinion, the most powerful tool in any artist's arsenal.
All that practice is the fun part, though. The biggest challenge that I had to overcome was low confidence, and the completely inaccurate inhibition that each drawing had to look 'good' or 'polished' or 'clean' before it was done.
Everyone makes bad drawings, it's unavoidable. It helps if you have fun with the bad ones, though, and see them as 'experiments' rather than 'failures,' because experiments are exactly what they are. There is a wealth of knowledge waiting in each one.
Also, no one should ever say 'I can't draw that.' You may not know how to draw it, but that hardly means that you can't!
Lastly, I have had the amazing privilege of meeting and learning from a good few fantastic teachers, whom I'll never forget. One of them announced something pretty simple that made all of the difference in the world to me:
"Once you stop trying to force your art to be what you think it should be, and just let it be what it is, things get a whole lot better."
And I've never looked back since
