Congrats on taking the step to posting art! The drawings arent bad. With some clean up, and some practice inking, I have faith that your quality will become crisper and more confident.

Thank-you for the kind words, Geolord!

Funnily enough, I never even intended to do any actual art..! I sketched these as concept pieces in order to make it easier to request a commission from a ‘proper’ artist to bring my idea to life...

... but I honestly never realised how fun/addictive drawing is... so I think I’ll keep at it! I’ll stick to just rough sketches for now though, just to build up my confidence/experience.

What do you mean by ‘practice inking’, by the way? You mean drawing with a pen? I’m just sketching with a pencil for now, because I’m finding it’s largely trial-and-error at this stage (!) - I find I’m constantly having to erase & redraw each section (don’t know if that’s what everyone else finds themselves doing..?)

Yep, finalizing the lines you want by going over them in ink.
I'm not a professional artist (and i've never posted my art here), but after I do my sketches and clean them a bit, i'll use a scanner to make a copy, then make my lines blue in photoshop. I would then print that now-blue sketch version, then trace the lines with a fine black ink pen to make my final lines. Then scan them again and remove any old blue lines in adobe illustrator.

If I make any mistakes, I never ruined my original sketch. There are variations on this process, but if you google 'art blue lines and inking' and stuff like that, you'll see a few different techniques for removing sketch lines from inked drawings.

Basically I found inking to help me commit to final pieces, and learn more about what works and doesnt in the final product, which in turn helped me to see the 'big picture' while sketching.

Oh wow, that’s really interesting..! Never knew that was a technique... I was too scared of using ink for fear of ruining my sketches - I didn’t know there was a way which kept the sketches safe (without constantly re-tracing the sketches for each ink attempt).

I’ll definitely have to try this, as I’d like to make some improvements to my sketches (to make the character actually look like Sniff!), and then to finalise them properly.

Thank-you for the information, this helps me greatly..!