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Well, if you want to get better keep drawing from life.
Over and over and over and over until you are awesome.
Kids are the hardest to draw, just so you know. Don't get discouraged when they don't come out well. You just have to keep at it.

In your figures, always be aware of the center of gravity. One of my teachers always talked about planting your feet so the figure doesn't look like its tipping over. You just have to look at the leg that the weight is on and move it back. Make sure its under the body to support it.

Tablets are hard as hell to get used to. I've been using one since maybe... 2000? And only in the last two years have I gotten good at doing anything with it beyond coloring.

Just sketch with it a lot; it helps.

Yeah, you should totally focus all your energies on them critical fundamentals....draw a ******** and draw from life...

then when you got it down...then play it how you fancy

I have two wacoms, one at work and one at home (I found the one at work unused and stole it for my desk)
I also have different screen set ups with a wide screen at home and 2 normal screens at work and the feel of the wacom is COMPLETELY different on each.

At work the brush moves side to side faster because the two screens, but if I turn one off the one at home feels like this instead because it is now wider...

Basically, practising tablet sketching = really hard. I'm still totally in the colouring only stage.