If you enjoy drawing from your imagination , you should continue to do that . Draw from referencelife when you need to learn how to draw something realistically but apply that to your regular drawings . Try to identify what ' s wrong about your drawings and practice that if the proportions look bad , practice drawing in proportion if the shading looks bad , practice shading . You might try looking at Sycra ' s Iterative Drawing method on YouTube . Practicing shading spheres and other classic howtolearntodraw exercises only help when you can apply the technical skills to drawing other things , things you want to draw , imo . Just draw in general as much as you can , basically . <| sep |> What , seminude , hemidivine women don ' t do it for you ?