I'm mostly a new artist and I've been drawing for a couple of years. I could really use some constructive critism. http://www.artgrounds.com/35318/

The best constructive help I can give you is to keep studying and practicing. Even if you want to stay in drawing anime, studying and drawing anatomy is almost an artist's essential asset. Draw life too, lot's of things that might look too normal but it might amaze you how well they help. Painting wise, it just needs depth. Study other manga's and anime's (especially anime, they are much more dynamic and dimensional) and try to learn what they use and do to create a sense of depth.

Hezzart's got it down. Just keep studying your anatomy/painting tecniques. If you look around here in the tutorials of AG, or on devianart, or conceptart.org, you should find lots of helpful tuts. Keep it up chica <4

Well the tutorials that I've seen all call for a tablet and I don't have that nor can I afford it in the near future. I just have a very uncooperative mouse and I do flat coloring. I've only been drawing for about less than two years. Thanks for the feedback.

Tablet's are a bit overrated for arts in general. They won't make anyone a better artist, if anything in the beginning they will slow them down. It's most important that you'll be good at traditional methods of drawing, like simple pencils, paints or charcoal. Digital colouring is something that is quite advanced. While it's good to start early and get to learn the methods, it's more important to begin with a solid understanding of the basics. You're already well on you're way, but an artist is never done learning.

There are places that offer very cheap, but decent tablets (40-120 USD range), if wacoms are out of your price range.

Something to consider, maybe after I get some money after I may for college courses.

Meh, I got my tablet for 100 USD and it's still going strong after 4-5 years now. But I drew for about a year and a half with a tablet, and I know there are some good tutorials with mouse-users in mind if you look. I know Witchy has a lineart tutorial for mouse users here on AG, and if you'd like, I know of an artist that uses a mouse and does a kick ass job of it. She has some tuts, but I haven't looked at her art in a long time so it may take me a bit to find it. In the mean time, just keep practicing with natural medias. If you learn the basics of that and then some, making the transition to digital will be a little more smooth X3

I will give you whatever you watn.... Someone had to say it.

Whatever you do, always go for a Wacom product. I cannot emphasize how much better Wacom's above the competition.