Need help with the drawing

[Loveart]

Hey guys,

I did here 2 drawings, the both are from my low imagination lol.

The first one with the human something, I don't know how I can improve him more.. I mean about the shading and the second one, I asked my sis to tell me a "story" so I will be able to imagine more.

The thing is that the guy up there to the right need to be a soldier who writes something and on the left the soldiers down there are wanting to kill him, so besides the soldier on the left I am kinda stuck.. so any advice will be welcome :)

[Cup of Joe]

Hey Loveart! I'm still a little new to actually helping other people, but I'll try and help all I can.

First of all, I suggest that if you want to learn to draw figures better, you study proportions more. If you don't have them yet, you can find most of Andrew Loomis' books online (like HERE (http://basangpanaginip.blogspot.com/2006/01/downloads.html), among many other places). Figure Drawing For All It's Worth is a must-read.
Proportionally, the first drawing has very wide shoulders campared to the head. A normal body is 8 heads tall, 2 wide at the shoulders. The legs are also too short- an easy rule to remember is that the distance from the top of the legs to the ground = 1/2 the full body's height. The first one also looks like it's very small in real life, or the pencil you're using is very blunt. Either way, when designing a character try and use the whole page, and always keep either a pencil sharpener, knife, or some sandpaper handy (or just use a mechanical pencil).
On the second one, the main figure's head is very large for his body, and it's in an odd position to his body. Compositionally, the soldier is in a bad position, leading our eyes off the page. He's also breaking the "Fourth Wall", or addressing the audience when he shouldn't be able to see us.
If the man is supposed to be getting attacked, try filling the extra space with soldiers in menacing postitons.
As for shading, I found it really helped to only work in line until I became really comfortable with it, not worrying about shading until later.

Rambling over. I know that was really long, but it's basically all the stuff I wish people had told me when I was first starting out. Hope that helped!:)

[Andrew_ak-47]

anatomy, its all about anatomy