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So I saw your art of Air Raid and Fireflight, and they looked so adorable, so then I looked to see what other art you had of the Aerialbots, and your art style is so cute! I loved the expressions especially. :D Do you happen to have any advice for making a drawing style or for drawing funny characters? I'm what you'd call a beginner artist, I just started drawing Transformers this school year, and I'm barely a teenager, so I don't have much experience. :)

First of all THANK YOU I am deeply flattered that you like my jet children. Second of all wow I am seriously sorry that it has taken me this long to reply to your question. But I wanted to really sit down and give some sold (if maybe armature) advice and references. 

So I’m gonna start with expressions and funny characters: 

I get my inspiration for mostly from cartoons 

The Amazing World of Gumball

Steven Universe

Game Grumps animated

Gumball especially because they make some hilarious faces in a this clean and simple style that is so much fun to try recreate. Steven Universe again clean and simple but with so much diversity and shaping. And watching game grumps animated (not only is ridiculously funny) but there are a lot of animated art styles that use all extremes of expressing emotions e.g egorapter’s million chin look of rage. 

As for style, it’s not really something I considered myself having, it’s something that has developed from years of drawing what I wanted to see. My standpoint is how can i make this thing more appealing to me? What do I Iike? Well, that’s dramatic lighting and shine, all the shine and pastels. And Robots. 

I watch a lot of youtube when I want to improve something: 

For accuracy and realism I go Prokopenko, he teaches classes on bone structures, muscles, expression, lighting, everything, and the vast majority of that is free: https://www.youtube.com/user/ProkoTV

Then I watch one of my favorites, Minnie Small for style and creativity. She makes beautiful and delicately detailed drawing an gives brilliant advise: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLcxo0ysMP27XTiRKqrdASg

But a good artists that works between the too ends of realism and style is Sinix Design. And the video I’m going to link is his approach to drawing faces, he knocks the method of using a circle when drawing heads in different perspectives and vouches for rectangles, and honestly my art has been better for it ever since: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBv5z0Y2odE&index=15&list=PL3BE843C2DE5DC6AC

But as you say your a beginner so you might at the minute might want to just be able to put your ideas out there and enjoy it before getting too serious (which isn’t a bad thing I only recently started taking it seriously only because before It was only escapism but I digress!!!) So here is a new dude i found, Xabio Arts, massive memer, funny, and has some nice little cheats it’s great if you’re like I dot want to study the anatomy of hands i want to be a god and draw them immediately!!!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7uTTvYKpjsDGRO_bcaMf7A

And finally, Robots. My style for robots is a mishmash of all of the above plus three main influences: 

J-Decker Brave Police (and Transformers (Prime/Animated/ mtmte comics but mostly bp). Brave police is a anime from ‘94 about these police…robots…: Its adorable and i love the way they are drawn okay???: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfS8VQ7SmkM&list=PLD42AF03E7468DE0B

Also I am yet to cave and buy this book even though it has really good reviews but i did read an extract when it first came out (that makes me sound so fancy i google how u draw robits or something of that effect and got this): Sketch workshop: Robots & Spaceship, which of what I read suggested that when you draw robots try sticking to a sort of 1/3 rule where you have large sections of plain armor then small areas of great detail with gears, wires, etc, and immediate after I produced my favourate spread of robot doodles. 

Studying planes and mechanics is my academic goal as a full time aviation student so cheating???maybe???

Listen my word is not law, and I only recently started really making time to draw, i take anything from 5 minutes to 3 hours to practice, or do whatever. sO What I’m trying to say is that style, in my opinion,  is your opinion of good art coagulated and smooshed on a page. ALso Quantity over Quality. Bye.