LF Art Critics!

Posted 2 years, 3 months ago by SilverRipple

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I’m looking for constructive criticism of my art! (Yes, even the base fills XD)

https://toyhou.se/14347231.art-examples/gallery 

If i find your advice helpful, you might get a small doodle in return <3

Waket

It's very cute! Your chibi dragons are absolutely adorable, and I can see the kind of direction you're taking. So far you feel like an intermediate artist: you know what you wanna draw, you know how to make some designs, but feel a bit too repetitive. Dragons, as mythical creatures, can potentially have infinite shapes possibilities, but rn you feel stuck in one or two. Just in How to train your dragon you van see there's a lot of variety, as long as different dragons from any show (mondter hunter too is a nice example)

I feel like your next step is about researching: trying to understand what style you want to prioritize (cartoony? DeviantArt furries? Disney anthros/ferals? Anime?) and learn how those styles uses shapes and how do they turn real animals into theyr version.

Studying other animals will also help a lot with dragons! Lizard and dinosaurs can be the first tought, but also mammals (like the wolf-like dragon from the ghibli movie), can help, expecially the less used ones, imagine a dragon with a simil rhino shape.

The most important thing right now is to try to not focus only on your safe zone, but to vary a bit, to explore other styles, other shapes, even only a different way to make likearts, or forcing yourself to use a palette you found on Pinterest or somewhere else. There's a lot of potential here!

SilverRipple

Waket thank you so much for the criticism! You’re right, I’m so used to drawing WoF dragons that i can’t think of dragons in any other way now xD

I’ve sent you lil headshot of Sunset! I attempted to try a different style but it didn’t work out so well lol... at least the eyes are noticeable I think?

Waket

Oh she came out so adorable!! I might ise her in a post of my rpg! Thanks a lot, glad I've helped!

Lightlaurein

Agreed with the previous commenter about finding out what you want to do stylistically, but I’d like to add that in the case of dogs, cats, etc. It may be worth it to study variations within species. For example, a greyhound looks very different from a beagle. Training your eye to looks for differences and learning the reductions you want to make to fit your style will help you no matter what your style ends up being!