i know i'm afraid to draw the other eye.

awful picture, terrible perspective.

ok, I'll say something. Don't worry, I'm not as trigger happy as other anonymouses are.

right, intentions are good. Detail is rough, but there. Dirty (literally), so lay off the shading for a bit.

What needs the most work is the proportions are iiiiincredibly off and that leads to askewd genders. If you're going for a man, shorten the width of the shoulders just a tad and flatten the chest, omitting nips (they're never that quite defined). Broaden the hips, but keep the squarish shape.

If you're going for girls, reeeally tone down those shoulders, squeeze in the whole midriff and pad in those hips and ass cheeks.

Faces are 'meh'. Don't worry too much about not being animu. The most important thing is no matter what style you chose, they have to be believable and exist spatially, maybe draw different expression and stretch them out a bit so they aren't defaulted to blank stares.

Last but not least, get a scanner or wacom tablet. A good, cheap flatbed is the canoscan lide. The cheapest I've seen is 60$, and it isn't so ungodly huge like other scanners.

Don't get anything but wacom if you're going for tablets. My friend got a no-name brand and she had to use batteries for the pen that kept spontaneously exploding on her.

hope that helps. I'm sure others will jump your bones more than I have. Take them with lots of salt and keep drawing. It might take years. The best thing to do is draw all over your notes in highschool and college.

I would say to step away for the moment from worrying about realism and non-animu stuff, and just sketch in a free way. It "looking right" is more important than it looking like it's supposed to, and getting a good flow with lines of beauty and stuff will really help with that. Try thinking more about communicating an emotion using the body/face.

'Dem body proportions... The general rule of thumb is that men have narrower hips then their sholders and women's hips and shoulders roughly have the same width. In >>1896 they seem to have the same bodies from the neck down.
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>omitting nips (they're never that quite defined)

Wat. Men have nips and you can see them but leaving them out altogether is a good rule to follow if you're drawing a yaoi or something, lol.

Also, if you want to get the anime out of your drawings watch out on how you draw those facial features. When people pick on you for drawing anime all they seem to notice or care about is the face (unless they're wearing a sailor fuku or something etc.) If you were to go for realism the eyes are too big and usually your noses and mouths are really low on the chin. Another tell-tale thing about anime-influenced art is having a really flat-looking head, hair, and face. Eyes, noses, and mouths have a mass and shape to them beyond the usual dashes... heads and hair look good just keep studying irl examples of real people. Also look and pictures of peoples profiles, the proportions are a bit off in the first picture.

Search for some reference images / stock photos on deviantart and draw from those. Find weaknesses in your own drawings and then go online and find images to help you make your picture stronger. Bring a sketchbook with you more often and do more life drawing. If you doodle in class you could try drawing some classmates or something. Just get more practice. You may hear/read this a lot but it's very important.

Also, LOOMIS! Take them with a grain of salt but there are some good guides in there to help you with drawing.
http://fineart.sk/index.php?cat=1

bumping with improvement, this is shit for a art project.

thank you everyone for the crits given, i know i'm still improveing but your really helping me to do so.

First off, resize your images. They're fuckhuge and it's hard to look at them as a whole when they're so big.

Anyway, I'm seeing some improvement, but you're still having problems with nipple placement on the males. Also, you seem to be having trouble with shoulder/neck areas. Your men and women have equally broad shoulders, which is not true in real life. It's true that some women have broader shoulders than others, and some men less so, but since you're still new learning muscle and bone structure stick with the ideal for now. Look up references of skeletons and muscle charts. Learn them. It's a lot of work yes, but when you can familiarize yourself with basic anatomical structures it makes learning much easier. This is one of the reasons I prefer drawing males, since they tend to have much more prominent musculature under their skin. Don't be afraid to draw from photographs and life.
What bothers me the most is the faces, though. It's pretty obvious you don't really know facial proportions, so the eyes are still much larger than they should be, and the noses and mouths are too far down on the face. Your figures don't really have chins. Also, their features are very flat and look like they're drawn on a flat surface. I understand a lot of this comes from trying to move away from anime, but it's imperative you realize it and try to fix it. Be sure to pay attention to the structural differences between male and female faces.
Also, stop covering up the heads with hair. This is another very anime-esque thing to do. Especially on your women, it looks like you draw part of the face, but don't want to mess it up you cover half of it up with hair. Don't draw hair until you've completed the basic skull shape and facial features.
Actually, since you're learning to draw heads in the first place, fuck the hair. When practicing, focus on getting the head and face shape right. Then move on to how hair actually looks on a human head, as opposed to anime where it just covers everything and takes up a lot of space.

You've got a great attitude though. Keep up the good work, I can see a lot of genuine effort and a willingness to learn. This puts you ahead of most people right off the bat. I have more references to post, if you'd like.