Eh, its not like it ruins the picture.

Well if you want the picture to look like it's falling over, then no it doesn't. But if you want to draw regular poses or even just basic stances, you'll want your picture to be strait or else it just looks weird. I'm a lefty, so I used to do the slant thing to keep my hand from smudging the pencil. But my drawings came out all weird, so I just learned to draw and either smudge and erase, or raise my hand a bit off the paper.

From the drawings you've shown, the slant is noticeable though, so you might want to just try and use a raised binder like Celes said. In the end, sketches are sketches, but you should try to make them strait so that you don't get into the habit of slanting, especially when you try more complex drawings.

Celes: Thank you for the kind words. Of course I don't ever claim that the originals are mine, and like I said, I draw for fun and for me. Perhaps once I get some more time in my life I will draw some of my own stuff, but right now, I'm just having fun copying.

I'll try and remember to make a point not to slant my drawings.

I'm going to do a series of drawings with a certain mood, to make them atmospheric. Not all the same mood, obviously.
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/8818/walkwy6.png

Have you tried drawing with photo references? It's easy to find free stock art on the internet (try searching DeviantArt), and it will improve your overall sense of anatomy. It's difficult to draw something accurately when you can't see it anyways (impossible really, unless you've invested in tons and tons of hours of practice) :/

Edit: Oh no! There's two Celes...s now!

I don't want to draw things with photo references. I want to do my own stuff. Also, I do the majority of my drawings in school, where I don't have access to the internet whenever I want.

Pfft.

You don't lose originality by using a photo reference- remember, the greatest painters in history always had a model handy. And many of them were geniuses.

Anyways, here's my latest skerchings. I cannot believe how long it's been since I posted in this thread.

http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/2...dintpr8.th.jpg

http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/5...2inter5.th.jpg

I actually started these awhile ago but I've yet to finish them. I have newer sketches too, but my scanner is currently out of commission and I do not wish to subject people to blurry phone pics.

This skerch is actually complete:

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/3...sintwf9.th.jpg

What you could do for the sake of getting a better grasp of the human anatomy is to draw the people around you.

And pocheros, I love that last one, the background must've been very painstaking. The really distorted proportions on all of them really gives it an overall eerie feeling to it.

Yes, that wouldn't be creepy at all. :p

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...scan0001-3.jpg
Dumb doodles while trying to break away from my typical Anime-ish style. I really enjoyed drawing that Cake guy.

People do it all the time, and always have.