@KillerB thanks for the comment!
Mostly I draw from my imagination. When I'm on the train the only thing to copy from real life is other people, and I'd rather not draw people without their consent. But when I visit towns as a tourist I draw shops and town centres though, so when there's something nice to draw from real life then I'll draw it.
Have a sketch dump from my sketchbook!
I've sorted it into rough categories.
Most of it is pretty rough work since I can only draw at one level of quality (I can't erase pen sketches to draw a better sketch for example), so mostly I draw at draft level to practice the broadest guidelines and proportions.
Lots of scrolling!! You have been warned!!
Really old stuff (2020 and previous, some back to 2016!)
Generic Stuff, nothing of interest really
Full page illustrations and complete artworks
And my two favourites that I did a couple of days ago:
All in all, you can definitely see some improvement between my older and newer works, although often I am practising things that I can't draw well, so it doesn't always seem like much of an improvement. But a definite jump has been having a theme for each page, be it hands, faces etc. I dont always stick to the theme for the whole page, but it gives me a direction when I start drawing.
I've adapted my regimes-regime, which was just digital, and made a smaller version which I can work on with my traditional work. Basically when I'm stuck for things to draw, I can check the list and see what's next to draw. The list is about 15 different things and is a mixture of regimes (hands/ figures etc), and some illustrations of different levels as well. I don't need to worry about running short of inspiration as I can check the list on my phone and see what's next to draw and work on that. So my traditional work is also starting to get a bit more organized.
I've been working on my digital regimes as well, but not making too much headway lately as I've been doing actual commission work. (Somehow felt the need to add "actual" XD)
But I'm getting a new sense of higher level quality control without spending tons of time on the early sketches. And also my initial sketches where I just ballpark the lines are getting pretty decent as well. Nowhere near the endgame but almost approaching the point where I could probably take a serious crack at a proper manga of my own. But gotta learn to write a bit better first, so probably still need to do some throwaway stories for practice, dunno whether to do manga script style stories or more of a novel style, manga script is good because that's what I'll actually be using for my manga, but it tends to be a bit bullet pointy and not formatted too well, so novel style is good for building other writing skills that would be pretty useful as well. Maybe I'll jump between the two, or write in both formats, we'll see.
Onwards and upwards.