A good artist takes all critisism- constructive or brutal- not as an attack, but as the most valuable advice they can receive.
Demarthl: The road to improvement is not to say \"I should never have bothered\", but instead to think \"I should bother even more, untill there is little left someone can dislike\".
I used to try to draw anime people, you know. My art looked *very* similar to your pieces here. After a while, I decided I just couldn\'t draw art- it wasn\'t in me.
But you can adapt the style to fit what you
can do. Look at your works- see how they could be made to look more realistic, whilst staying just as \"cutesy\" as you want them to be. I see the same mistakes with the stylised eyes in your pictures that I always used to do myself... massive spaces with seemingly no shape, and so far apart they could almost pass for ears.
Take a very long look at a photo of someone. Look, and understand how the shape of the eye is formed. They\'re just round balls with a split in the skin that bends around it. Think of this as you draw your eye; don\'t just copycat a picture of a cute anime girl you found on the \'net, because you\'ll focus on how you think the shape should be, rather than how the shape actually IS. It is easier to keep the \"anime\" style looking authentic and pretty when you actually understand what you\'re drawing, and how the structure of the face impacts the shape of the eyes.
You can do all this, and the simplest trick to making these \"realistic\" eyes look cute is to make them look wide open, and big. Keep the eye-shines small and round, but put 2 or 3 in there close to eachother.
I\'ve focused solely on the face, and not said a word about the rest of the body. I apologise- because, infact, your proportions and details seem very good (I would say the head and boobs are the only unproportionate things on them). Since they\'re pretty much lineart, understandably you can\'t include too much detail such as shadows, muscle structure, bones (elbows, collarbones, anything that sticks out really), etc. However, if you ever do make a more detailed character portrait, keep these things in mind. And for clothes, add some tension creases- for example, some lines starting from just off-center on her bust, moving horizontally outwards, sloping up or down gently, to give the appearance that the clothing is being slightly pulled taught around this area.
For more, I\'m sure there\'s lots of Internet resources out there. These are just things I think of out the top of my head. Hope it helps improve your skill in future artistic endeavors.
