How long do doodles like these take? :3

1-3 hours. Depends on how much experimenting I'm doing

Keep at it. :3 You are definitely improving. Advice from someone who has been around a while - Don't forget to practice with speed challenges too. It can be fun to sit and relax and just let it bubble out, but the stuff you can gain from pushing speed once in a while will stick with you even in those casual moments. :D

You have a solid base on anatomy and I dig the direction you're taking your style with the faces. Thumbs up from a random front-page person. ^_^

Thanks for the advice! Speed is something I could definitely improve on, but the biggest thing I think I would benefit from right now is simply dropping bad drawings when they're just not working. I fix mistakes as I go, messing up the flow of the drawing.

You're right about the speed thing though. Some of my favorite sketches were made in like 10 minutes because of time limits, self introduced or by other factors. They're super fun to just hammer out and move on to the next.

Happy to hear you like my stuff!

And I'm happy to get a comment in reply! :3

There's a lost art-form in "restricted creativity" that I think often gets overlooked these days. By placing rules and restrictions, and working within those constraints be it character/world design or guidelines for completing tasks, we can sometimes get more creative results than when told we can just do anything we want.

One exercise that an old friend of mine used to do, and I love recommending it to people, is to put on a song that resonates well with you, that you know decently. Draw something inspired by the song, but you have to stop when the song ends. Maybe let it play twice if you're having trouble, but she would often draw these really dynamic pieces where she was trying to set a scene within that time constraint. And at the end, it was on to the next, except when it hit just right, then she'd finish it lol.

As you say, sometimes you just have to 'leave it'. Picking too much, or getting stuck in a loop, switches your brain from a creation mode to something much more technical and counterproductive. >.< I may not draw, myself, but I do understand a lot of the mindset and hurdles. I respect artists for what they are able to do. :)

I could go on for days with this type of stuff but if you give someone too much to reply to, they get overwhelmed and just don't reply. ;P One of the downsides of internet communication versus real life.

She's adorable.

...Yep, didn't even have to read the description to know it was her own fur.

Relationships are built on trust, if two people in a relationship don't trust each other, things can get a little... difficult.

I absolutely love these scenarios you come up with!

I will suplex the bitch

That's just a beard hair

*stands there looking confused* Her? There is no "her", hon! (I know she's not going to believe me, but I can't think of anything else to say! XD)

Seriously though, I would not have the patience to stay with someone who does stuff like this all the time! XD

She looks fierce! I don't think stroking her head is a good idea, no matter how she bites off your hand. On the other hand, if it's her husband...

“Well, she’s a guy, so…”

I'd tell her to smell the piece of hair and that'd give the answer.