Hello everyone! I am interested in drawing mc art, but have absolutely no experience as an artist. I would love some advice from you all about where to start, i.e. and tips for beginners, a good how-to-draw book or other guide, etc.. I'm looking to do this just for my own enjoyment, not really looking to go professional or anything. I've written a few mc stories (again, just for yuks, I haven't posted them anywhere) and kind of want to make visuals for them. Thanks, and hope to hear from you soon!

Well, I started off by doing fanart of videogame characters. It wasn't very good, but perseverance paid off eventually. How to Draw books will be your friend. I have several by Go Office and a couple from Katy Coope, but also some actual anatomy books as well. Really, a lot of people give Katy Coope grief, but she does a masterful job of laying the groundwork. The tips for starting a drawing, gesture lines and basic shapes where the parts of the body will lie, can be adapted to almost any style.

Krackodude was thinking about giving up with his hand drawn artwork, yet after we encouraged him to continue, look what he's up to now!
hypnohub.net/post?tags=krackodude+

Anyway, just try working around the basics toward anatomy drawing, still life drawing, etc, and if you can, post your WIP stuff for some feedback from artists and non artists here. Some of us are happy to help out, and wish ya the best!
hypnohub.net/forum/show/39320

Like the old saying goes. It takes a village to make hypno-lewds...or something. Having people to look at your art and give advice helps a LOT. People on the IRC or Discord chats might be able to help.

My advice iiiiis... look at the styles you like, learn from them, imitate them.
Look at anatomy books, try drawing realistic poses and styles before going for cartoon or anime.
Do not expect to be good from the beginning because learning to draw requires LOTS of patience and sweat and tears. ... and most of all perseverance.

For all the rest I will link this piece of tough advice.
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I think everybody has already voiced the best pieces of advice.

For one thing, don't be discouraged by the perception of other people begin better than yourself. If you're working hard at your art you'll get better. These days I cringe at the first things I uploaded onto the Hub, and a few years from now I'll probably cringe my current newest ones too.

One of the pitfalls is drawing too much of the body of the character you want to draw. Drawing anatomical correct full body requires a lot of experience and needs a lot of effort, while the desired result is not often what you want.

Look at comics look at tv series, look at movies. Do you notice that the bodies of the characters are not fully shown during the whole length? You'll see mostly close-ups or half body scenes.

Does the character has a hard part to draw and depicting it doesn't matter? Just abstract it away by taking a perspective which works for you or let the character wear or hold something that covers that body part.