I can relate to this. Every time I "freestyle" it's just basically a garbage mess. If I'm lucky something might turn out interesting. I have been focused recently on my visualization skills. Instead of a total "freestyle" I picture what I want on the page first THEN I let go a bit and be loose with the pen. I have found that to be much more likely to produce anything legible with any consistency.

I have just got an XP-Pen Decon Fun L, their latest release, and I'm really impressed. Feels much better in every way than the Wacom tablet (Intuos Pen&Touch Medium) I was using before. Smoother, more accurate, pressure is much smoother too, and has tilt sensor - and it costs a mere $50. Probably the cheapest tablet out there with tilt support. My only issue was that while they claim to support Linux, their official Linux driver does not have tilt so I had to use a workaround, so now I have tilt but the second button on the pen doesn't work. On Windows or Mac however, it should work without such problems.

Hey, I've been using XP-PEN DECO 03 for a few years now - it's great and cheap! ;)

Hi Kalvin :) I used the HUION INSPIROY H950P for a while. It's only around 50 bucks and really does its job well. What convinced me to buy it originally was this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9IKIGCNcSM) by Jazza. Hope this helps!

I tossed most of my books in my last move and I only kept the following art books: "How to Render" Scott Robertson: https://www.amazon.com/How-Render-fundamentals-shadow-reflectivity/dp/1933492961 "Constructive Anatomy" George Bridgeman: As above "Colour and Light" James Gurney: https://www.amazon.com/Color-Light-Realist-Painter-Gurney/dp/0740797719 "Drawing the Head and Hands" Andrew Loomis: https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Head-Hands-Andrew-Loomis/dp/0857680978 "Designing Creatures and Characters" Marc Taro Holmes: https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Creatures-Characters-Portfolio-Animation/dp/1440344094

Amazing work! Realy love the second to last one. Very expressive and love the texture and composition!

Amazing! <3

Looks great! Keep it up!

Good overall I think. Just one note that you probably need to take care of (depending on what you want to express): You can't only care about vanishing points, you also need to be conscious about your optical centre. If this framing is not shifted (That is you essentially cropped the content off-centre instead of rotating the camera so that you get your stuff onto the optical centre), all corners in the frame should have equal "stretch". This is more prominent when you have a wide angle linear lens, the edge of the frame tend to stretch very heavily. Looking at your example image, it appears to be you wanna have a 3 point perspective with a vanishing point on top, that means your camera is actually tilted up and you have to only showing the bottom portion of that "tilted" view. (See attached image for a quick 3d demo) Some times this off-centre effect is used to deliver wide lens edge effect, establishing shots and so on, ideally also towards the edge of a page, normally not for main stuff because it stretches unevenly. That is not to say it's a bad drawing, just a loop hole that you might need to be aware of. That's why a lot of artist use curvy-linear perspective, much like a fish-eye, so the stuff towards the edge naturally wraps around, reduced this unnatural stretching effect.