Emily and Victoria

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whether or not his drawings conform to formal styles of aesthetics, they convey to me a sense of the period of time in the early 1900's.
i can not describe what drawing mechanism he uses that achieves this result.

if the drawings were drawn from the mind of a child even, they none the less seem to have been actually drawn in the early 1900's by someone. the costumes and the facial expressions and the sentiment they convey accurately correlate with my idea of a drawing made at that time.

there is no hint of modernity in them and there in lies the talent.

but i am not an artistic person so my comment may be wrong. however i do not care whether i am sufficiently educated to assess them. i see them as drawings made by someone who was really living in that time.

There is nothing wrong with your trying to draw to express your ideas and feelings and stories. Some artists are quite capable of doing this very well with highly distorted figures and depictions of scenes. It depends upon what you want to do. One of the prime activities underlying the skills of acceptable artists is to observe closely how things look and why they look the way they do. It helps to bring a sense of realty into their work. Your drawings do put across the general concept of your ideas but they appear terribly childish to the average eye. I have spent many years in art schools and in efforts to draw well. It takes time and lots of work but if you keep at it you will learn. Look at photographs, paintings, cartoons and all other graphic techniques. Study them. copy them, learn how others have worked and familiarize yourself with the tools of pencil, pen, brush, and other techniques. Keep at it and you will get there. Don't give up.

One further comment. You have a very good sense of composition, placement of textures and a nice feel for color placement. The stiffness of the figures carries a message of the rigidity of the social life of the times you portray. Hold on to those qualities.