I have never really had my art critiqued before and I am interested in receiving some feedback. If any of you guys want to try your hand at it hit me with all you have! 😂

Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Keep it constructive tho, please.

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wow, you have a really cool style! the use of primarily soft brushes creates a really interesting and unique look that reminds me of rococo paintings. you clearly have a good handle on digital painting and color, so really the only thing for it is to keep drawing, keep using references, keep practicing—human anatomy in particular is, like, REALLY hard, in my opinion at least, but the more you do it the easier it becomes.

all in all: super pretty, unique looking stuff; gorgeous use of color; specifically i would say to keep working on anatomy, that's pretty much the biggest beast for just about any artist to tackle, and it's one of those things that you just get better at over time the more you do it so perhaps that's not a super helpful 'critique' but... keep up the good work! :)

Thank you for your feedback! And for all those faves! :)

(this is late but whatever. I haven't done art in a while so take all this with a grain of salt) Ok so I definitely agree with Frenchi on your nice use of color and unique style and that you should keep working on anatomy. Right now your figures are stiff, with the exception of some stuff from your sketch dump; they would be more interesting if they were more fluid and dynamic. Ex. tilting heads, distributing weight differently across legs, leaning back or forwards. You said in your Dispute caption that you don't use references - maybe try try that sometime! It would also help with anatomy and muscle structure. Anyway, fluidity comes with more anatomy practice (yay people watching and quick sketches), and you've made a lot of progress in the past few months.

You also use light well, and your bird pieces are great! They look really soft, quirky, and cute. I like the dynamic range of the backgrounds in some of your older pieces. Your shoulder-up digital paintings are also good but tend to look a little similar. However, you keep adding variety to your poses and headshots, so keep it up! You might be interested in some of Pascal Campion's stuff; although his people are less detailed, they're very dynamic, and he also uses light very well.

Not late and very welcomed. All feedback is priceless as I am trying to up my skill. And I myself am unable to figure out all the faults by myself. I must admit that I was always fairly lazy when it came to anatomy and always drew how I remembered a human to look like. Last night I did make a study. It is not much of an improvement but I can see how this can help make the drawings look less awkward. I will keep going at it.

Warning. Nude (has a butt!) - bop

Pascal Campion is amazing! His work looks very natural. Thank you for sharing him with me!

It's so great that you are looking for feedback. I actually replied because I remembered you talking about how dead the art forums were lately, and I get frustrated when I want a critique (on HAs, music, whatever) and no one responds. Tbh I pointed out the things I did because I have a lot of the same faults when drawing! Hmm overall your figures were solid. References just help with the details. I like your study and it does seem like an improvement, and it's a new and difficult pose to draw, which is great.

Ah did you know about him already? :) No problem, he's one of my favorites!

Feedback is quite rare these days. People are too afraid that they will insult you and never really do speak up their mind.

I did not know about him. I am glad you mentioned this artist.

True, and it's also rare to find people who enjoy critique. (The HA forums have a critique thread, but it's much less active than the usual Rate My Avatar threads.)

Oh cool, glad you're enjoying his work! Can't wait to see more of yours : )

Hey mate! Nice to see you pushing for those art gains.

One thing that will help you the most in trying to improve is finding exactly the kind of art that you want to make, so that you have a basis to compare your own work to. You seem to prefer lofty, dreamy anime styles in high-key, so if you have a favorite few artists that work in a style you're trying to emulate, take a minute to pull out what you think their best work is and making a list of the qualities that you admire in that work. Once you do that, you can make a real battle plan on how to learn and accomplish each point.

There is one thing that any piece attempting to be truly "good" art instead of just "art" needs to accomplish... And that is clarity. Can you tell what each object is supposed to be? If it is supposed to be a circle or a sphere, is it clearly circular or is it an ambiguous, oblong curvy shape? Can you tell where you're supposed to look as a viewer, or does your eye jump all over the page? The work of an artist is to design an image using consistent visual language (shading a certain way, or making shapes in a certain way so that the whole image is cohesive -- this is the factor people commonly refer to as "Style") and making everything absolutely clear. The viewer knows what he is looking at, and also knows where to look and in what order due to the intelligent intervention of the artist's mind. If you accomplish these points, it does not matter if you render like Algenpfleger or like Pendleton Ward.

You will always use these elements to differentiate and render various objects - sometimes it's helpful to simplify down what you're trying to accomplish to its very basics, for example... making a line, or a complete shape of color.

So, it becomes very important for you to decide what kind of art you're really interested in making - memorizing detailed muscular anatomy or realistic rendering does very little to help you if you're only interested in learning to draw basically correct cartoon anatomy for anime drawings.

My main advice would be to simplify the process for yourself by deciding what you want to learn, and then finding a straightforward way to learn each point. It's not so good to get caught up in the trap of doing general "study drawings" where you're only learning by contextual intuition. you will improve much faster with specific goals for your studies.

Crimson Daggers is an art improvement specific forum you might try out. It's kind of dried out in the recent years, but there are still several active artists at around and above your drawing level. It'd give you a good place to dump your studies which might otherwise go unseen, and talk about your goals with other people who have resources and similar goals. I have a thread there, though I'm fairly inactive due to technological limitations at the moment, you can check it here if you like: my thread (NSFW!! Nudity galore)

Anywho, if you come up with some artists you would like to emulate and some specific things that you like about their work, I could help you pick out some exercises and good resources to learn from - I have a decent stock of learning material logged away. c:

Good luck, Seny!

EDIT: Oh, Pascal Campion posts on Crimson Daggers too.

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So, I'm going to repeat what a lot of other users already said but oh well. |'D I really like the lineless, I know how hard that is to do! I also like the variety I see in your gallery. My only advice (especially with the lineless) is to watch proportions and angles. Some look a bit stiff or awkward in their posing. Practice makes for improvement however, and you're doing swimmingly. uvu Can't wait to see more in the future!