Trading Art for Feedback/Critique!

Hello! First of all I want to say that you can ignore any advice I give lol I’m not a professional or anything, just a student, and my critiques will be very influenced by what I like, I think what you like for your own art matters more :)

Character: You can draw anyone from here or here if you want :D

Advice:

- In the case of the lined art I think you can include some line weight, that is when you choose some parts of the lineart to be tinner and others to be thicker. There are different ways to include it, for example, if there are many objects in a drawing, the ones that are “closer to the viewer” can have thicker lines, and the ones far away can have thinner. Same if you do some foreshortening (that’s when you include perspective to the body of a character). If a hand is stretching in front of the body, you can add thicker lines. Another way to implement this could be to use thinner lines where there is more light and give it more width where there is shadow.

Specific examples from gallery?: 

-Here is one that has an object that its closer in front of the character. The scroll could have more width to its lines. Depending on if you want the focus of the viewer to be on the character of the object, you can add some blur effect to one of them. You can also add blur to some parts to show movement, like the tips of the wings of the dragon.

-Here in this one, as the fin of its tail is partially translusent and you can see the tiger's legs behind it, you can make the lineart of the legs tinner, to make clearer that its behind, the paw behind its body can be even thiner (but not to much).

-In this lineless portrait I think you can add a couple more highlights to her skin, depending on the lighting, dark skin tends to have some very shiny parts, maybe a little spot on her cheek, nose or forehead .

Any specific requests: You can use one of these if you need ideas, but feel free to draw any of my characters however you want. Gore is ok only for the characters that already have gore art in their galleries. For nsfw Im only ok with pin-up style for the adult characters :)

Best part of your week: I'm not sure what to say, it has being a pretty average week for me. I think getting a very cheap bar of chocolate in the flea market was my peak xd

If any of this advice works for you I can look at more of your art on another occasion and share more ideas!

CoitiCoiti

Oh, that is really good advice! Thank you for going so in-depth with it :) 

I'm going to draw Zael and Lobo --

For this prompt: "Zael with his semi-precious stone collection.", is this like crystals? and if so, are there any specific ones you can see him having? c: 

I have some fun ideas for perspective/line weight for these two! c: 

For Zael, he collects crystals, stones and minerals, I have a couple of examples, the one in his profile picture (that one is luminescent) and this one, he could also have some red ones as it is the most common color in his planet ground :)

Im glad you like the advice! and good luck with the art

Character: You can draw him if you like

Advice: May have been said before but one thing that I feel your art needs right now are reference pics to variate on the poses. Also: References for backgrounds are very very cool and good to use, that way you can do more than a flat or transparent background! (Not that every art needs it, however it seems like it would benefit that you learn how to do backgrounds with higher details, slowly.) About the refs: Many people don't say this, but I highly believe it's ok to reference other artist's art for your own artwork AS LONG as you make it clear that you used it for ref/inspo (and if you want to be safe please do ask them if it's ok to do so, I know many don't mind with credit).

One other thing I'd like to point out: I saw that the way you draw humans is not very diverse currently, which is OK, people learn with time. Once again I think all it takes is practice and using references, try seeing how people work with different body types (bigger noses, bigger ppl in general, etc.) I think that's all I have in mind currently!

Specific examples from gallery? (optional): For the last tip I gave one example is this: https://www.deviantart.com/avie-ling/art/47-953414536

You had another art (this one: https://www.deviantart.com/avie-ling/art/TH-minigames-953414548) of a black character that has nearly exactly the same facial shape and WHILE THERE ARE BLACK PEOPLE WITH SMALLER NOSES AND MOUTHS, i am a person of color myself and can say that it's important that you variate the character shapes and looks, not only to not look samey but as well to be diverse be it with your own OCs or not

Any specific requests: You can be free to do what you like! But if you need ideas: Ricardo loves poker, whiskey, old movies and songs (70s-80s rock), races and wrestling so you can take away from his likes maybe?

Best part of your week (not mandatory but share some good vibes!): Being with my partner :)

BunnyDogma

ahh thank you so much for the advice! It is a really good point to watch out for over-adding details -- I hadn't thought about that before!

I found a couple of website that offer new poses daily, so I'll start with those when studying -- and I'll def look at some tutorials :)

Again, thank you so much for taking the time to comment !!

kinukos --

I've tried using reference pictures for backgrounds, but I find it hard to mimic the detail//natural patterns. So... I guess youtube tutorials will be my saving grace! xD

I do need to add more variety, though. I think I've been scared of branching out but... that's the only way to improve, right? 

For Ricardo -- 

What do you think abt him setting up a record player? i feel like that would be fun to draw! 

Avie-Ling that sounds great!! i would love that :) also i recommend Pinterest for finding refs if you need too, theres plenty there!!