I didnt trace it tough
Well
A little
I only trace the beginning to get the size n stuff right (and some curves depending on the drawing but I dont do that allot)
In this case the "inside" side of the index fingers. You know the 2 long lines near the eye thing. I suck at explaining shutup. And the thumbs tho because forget these.
Other than that I just have the image on my screen as a reference.
Well the general message behind what i said was to try to use tracing sparingly if just not all.
Also I would make OC if I was creative in the first place :/
Then get creative, seriously just draw whatever you wanna see in your mind, for your OC just think of things that you think would make a cool OC, but just try to make something that you can really call your own, and quit bringing yourself down like that, every single human being is creative in some way, you just have to find your way of expressing it, and if you're not creative in art then there's certainly something else you're creative in, which in turn you could then end up drawing.
If you really want to become a good artist or anything for that matter, rely on discipline for example draw for like 1 or 2 hours a day, and then just draw anything, motivation helps but it's gone before you know it, i've had multiple instances of drawings that came out of motivation which i worked on for one day and then never worked on again e.g my entry for remurr's summer challenge.
Oh well i'm trailing off again, the general message is: use tracing sparingly but try to work toward never using it, and don't bring yourself down, if you convince yourself you're not creative, then you won't be creative, make the switch in your brain and get to drawing.
