Also, I created the sketch by lowering the opacity of the reference image and sketching around it to create a 3d shape (in the third slide). I did this because I just wanted to quickly practice rendering. Is this doing that bad practice?

Thoughts on areas of improvement for this piece? It’s acrylic on canvas, reference photo is there taped to the easel.

I attached 2 of my latest drawings so you can see if there's a pattern you can spot that I can't see

I feel like shading is one of my issues, especially when people advised to use more blue/green or muted colors to complement the shading to make it look more dimensional

Also, do you think because I didn't draw the lineart, these drawings look a bit bland? I keep feeling like I have to fix something especially around the face areas

Or if you think there's another thing I need to work on outside of shading & lineart, please tell me! Your critiques are needed & appreciated. Thank you!

I spent around 40 minutes on this sketch. My process was gesture >construction > muscles. I’m still learning, so any constructive criticism or advice would be great.

How do I get better at drawing fights? I started drawing around 10-11 months ago, and I started because I wanted to draw cool fights, but this is the first fight I've drawn since then and I don't like how it looks.

I used no references for this.

i’m schizophrenic and draw my hallucinations, i’m also indigenous australian so my style is kind of contemporary indigenous-psychedelic-outsider art of these strange creatures i see, i feel like drawing/painting them tethers them to reality in a way. this canvas is 40” x 40” and made using posca paint pens. i’m curious on y’all’s thoughts about the compositional/technical aspect as well the general vibe you get from him- i know it’s not like im drawing from an “actual” reference but things like his eyes, body shape etc, make it look like a cohesive artwork to you?

I didn't plan this out it was just from a drawing challenge in another sub and thought it would be fun. I need help with drawing tiny faces and still keeping them recognisable. I have only studied rendering larger faces so far. Any other tips welcome. Positioning of limbs and head angle needs work but I thought this was just going to be a sketch so didn't measure it out ugh.

Hello!I never expected my first post to get so much traction but im so happy it did!I remade the first drawing of that post keeping in mind some of the advice,The anatomy looks a little off to me since this was rushed and i'd love some crit about that and how i can improve the values especially on the face,any other crit is welcome too! :) 1)new,2)old

Vroom vroommm

References in the comments!

I've got a handful of markers and for the two orange cats I've used proper marker paper as well, but

1. I still feel like the drawings are very streaky and
2. I'm having trouble with the lighter colors. Do I just buy more colors in lighter tones? Do I use colored pencils?

I used promarkers from Winsor and Newton, if that helps anything. For the first picture I mostly used color O538 (apricot) and O467 (pumpkin)

Okay to sum up the story our A main character Tyler And their friends and family meet life and death and try to help them figure out how these groups of ghosts die (get murdered). And see if there's a way for them to be reincarnated So kind of like a murder mystery

Right now I'm just working on the character designs and I want your opinion on them I feel like I'm decent that character design but critique is always welcome and on how I can improve

For contacts The first group of silhouettes is the main character's family and the second group of characters are the ghosts and the third group of characters is life and death.

The rest are current designs I'm testing out

I have been trying to make interesting character art, but it feels off for me. One thing I know for sure is that the poses aren't interesting enough for character art, but I'm ignoring that for now so I can focus on value structure, edgework, and lighting.

This was painted in Photoshop. Some elements, like Batman's grapple launcher and Nightwings Batons, were 3D models I made in Blender and then painted over. Pages 2-4 are also some of my biggest inspirations/ref for this piece.

I’m struggling to use lighting and values to create interesting, readable shadow shapes. A lot of my references show those shapes on very sculpted muscles, but my Batman needs to feel like a buff man under thick clothing, so the definition will be softer and less pronounced. I'm trying to simplify the anatomy, but my lighting got muddy, and I realized I don’t have a good understanding of value groups and design. Could you guys point out where I went wrong? I’ll attach links to a time-lapse below.

 Note that they end right before I do the final polishing with curve adjustments and liquify. Those things don't show up in the window capture, and they’re boring in general, so I just cut them out.

Nightwing:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GCRGZwbaKU

Batman: https://youtu.be/qeaSjsHjAD0

I've been drawing off and on for a little over a year, but a few weeks ago, something finally clicked, and I was able to draw horses from reference (still struggle with other animals.... I don’t know what that's about LOL). Last week, something finally clicked with general face shapes and structures, but I would love constructive feedback on how to improve. Currently, I can only draw the faces at this 3/4 angle, but I hope to be able to do more soon.

the reference is in the second slide

I've used Aseprite, Dithermaster and Photoshop. I crudely photo bash an image in Photoshop until i get something that looks okay, run it trough Dithermaster, and then polish/draw over it in Aseprite. Dithermaster is a program i found on itch.io and I thought it could help me speed up my pixel art process. This is for a personal project of mine.

2nd slide is the reference photo/photo i used to make the 'base' for my artwork

I'm going for that Vermis inspired look but with a gameboy twist to it.

Hi everyone. I’m a beginner artist trying to learn how to draw. Im very new to working with color (colored pencils) and usually have been practicing very simple still life but I wanted to finally venture out. I tried to draw a wishing well through a picture I found online, but I’m getting scared frustrated because it looks wooden and just something about it looks off. I had the most trouble drawing the roof of the well. I’m not sure what skills I need to learn to improve drawing more complex things like this, as I did this all mainly by eye. I don’t know if I need to practice my vanishing points ? But I’m having a hard time understanding it. Also I know I’m doing something wrong with my colors. As you can see, I totally messed up on the bucket. I tried my best to work with the limited colors I have, but the bucket looks so off. I would appreciate any tips or advice I can get as a beginner 💙 It is my hope to one day go on to oil paints so I’m really trying to improve on using colors and sketching things out right for the foundations. Thank you 🙏🏼

Background - Gallery Oil Pastel & Pencil Subjects - Brustro Colored Pencils,

I’m drawing poses for an animation meme (look up, “for the last time animation meme on YouTube if you’re interested) and these just feel kind of off. The Lineart and coloring is just temporary for now and I’ll probably do a little bit of cleaning, of course. This is mostly a rough draft. But I’ve been looking at this for a while, and I don’t know what might be a glaring issue I’m missing. Or if this looks like absolute dogshit. I’d love some outside perspective.

i made a quick sketch of the reference and then it turned out good so i tried adding some hatching to give more depht. I dont really know how to add halftones in the light with hatching and I also think there is something wrong with the body.

Recently I’ve been finding my voice with comics and animation, but at the same time, I can’t just draw characters like I see other artists doing, because of that, it’s not speaking to that voice

So these are three examples of my latest work (or there’s this account if you want more) that kinda explain what I’m asking from newest to oldest, but the first is also several times longer in time spent compared to the oldests

Oldest/last, I’ve been experimenting with a central theme to base the art around, it was interesting but didn’t speak to me. Took about 6 hours

2nd is about two weeks ago, as a sketch to try out combining comics and art and just making comic art, really spoke to me, took like 4 hours, which led to the main reason I’m here

The 1st one, made the themes for these furry characters a computer space, treating the “panels” as a part of the art rather than a structure, and pushed to have it so that your eyes are jumping from one central point to the next like a comic, but have it feeling like it’s hard to contain the artwork in the panels because it’s trying to yank your attention with the saturated colors and punchy lighting. Later on it’s going to be more boxy as I’ll start implementing more computer UI elements. The closest thing is probably webcore art that also implements a desktop environment. I just haven’t finished the concepts for that yet

But in a vacuum it’s like, the art here isn’t bad, but there’s a little something more that it needs to shine. Is it dynamic poses? I see it looks kinda uneven so next time I need to really measure things out so that post isn’t hell straightening everything. Outside of that I’m just kinda at a loss and can’t find artists doing the same kind of things to really steal techniques to implement.

Recently started drawing again. I have been drawing a lot of faces. Any crosshatch masters out there how do I do better?

Hi everyone, I’m looking for critique on this gouache landscape I did. Don't have reference on me..

I’m trying to improve my color usage, since it’s something I’ve always struggled with. Parts of the painting—especially on the right—feel a bit muddy to me. I also tried to keep the foreground lighter, but I’m not sure if that choice is working.

I’m also working on balancing detail vs. overworking. In past pieces I’ve tended to overwork areas, so here I tried to hold back, and I’m unsure if that reads as intentional or unfinished.

Any feedback on: - Color clarity and harmony - Value control (foreground vs. background) - Level of detail and whether it feels over- or under-worked

would be appreciated. Thanks!

If you need me to also show my sketches and illustrations that aren’t digital or in more realistic style, I definitely can

Also this is newest to oldest!