monstahunta

The Irregulars -- An Art Improvement Group

Brand said
Your foreshortening is good. The biggest problems I see is the structure of the face. For an anime style, the right side looks good. But I feel like the left eye is angled oddly, and needs to be drawn facing the viewer more, and we should see less of the ear too, but just a tad less. I think its mostly the left eye. The second problem, and the biggest in my opnion, is the background. I feel like the background is competing with your subject. I think even just filling in the white with some other (lighter/ less saturated) color would do good, and It also never hurts to make your background fade gradually following the lightning of your subject. So darker in the lower left corner, and lighter in the upper right with the light source. I also feel like more contrast on the subject wouldn't hurt, but honestly since your drawing more of an anime style anyway I'm not sure how necessary that would be. Like I said earlier, your foreshortening is pretty damn good.

Thanks for the input! =D

I tried to angle the left eye with the face, as it's sort of looking down, and turned, but after reading your thoughts, I can now see that it's a little screwed up. I'll try to fix that.

I sort of like how the ear looks though. Perhaps if I pushed it back a bit further it would look more like I want it to, and not look like I'm showing too much of it? I'll give that a shot too.

Backgrounds... yeah. I'm terrible at doing backgrounds. It's my weakest area as an artist. =\

I can definitely see how more contrast would help the picture, since a great deal of the picture is blue, but that's sort of the theme for the character. =]

EDIT: Or do you mean more contrast in the color scheme as a whole?

The Irregulars -- An Art Improvement Group

My first, "Multiple Sittings", project that I've done in a while. I'm normally really lazy when it comes to my art, so I'll usually opt for a bunch of practice over taking on an idea that I've come up with.

Mostly I just do a lot of rough sketching, or some slightly less rough sketching, and add a little color. This time I tried to refine my lines much more, and focus on improving my coloring abilities.

Vyra Kort

I'm pretty happy with the results, so I think I see more detailed practice sessions in my future.

The Irregulars -- An Art Improvement Group

Roran Hawkins said -snip-

Another Shinobi - Your perspective seems to be a little wonky in this picture. Most noticeably in his shorts. I may draw a quick reference later to help with perspective when drawing characters.

Storm Troopers - Very, "comic-y", style, and I like the detail work on the helmets. Good job

Lords of War - I don't like the shading on the second picture. Particularly on the flap of his helm. Notice how the shading doesn't follow the shape of the flap? The other two look nice though.

Brand said -snip-

Sketch 1 - His lips look a little lopsided. They appear to be drawn down to the left, but if that were the case, then the chin would compensate slightly for it. Otherwise great.

Sketch 2 - Looks amazing!

WIP - Unless there is a lot of grey reflected light in this picture, the shadows on the angel appear dull to me. Just my opinion, but I would try a more saturated color for the shadows.

Random - I really like this piece, but the light grey blocks in the background tend to draw my eyes away from the lady's face.

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EDIT: So for practice I wanted to draw a couple sitting, and this is what came out of it:

Rough Beginnings

I just guessed on the perspective, so I'm definitely going to have to fix that should I decide to continue working on it. To be completely honest though, I tried to flesh out the idea already, and I just couldn't make it look like I wanted it to. So now even the idea of finishing it is a little daunting to me. I was on a roll while sketching out the basic elements, and now it feels like I crashed right into a brick wall.

The Irregulars -- An Art Improvement Group

Roran Hawkins said -snip-

I love the wolf in your shinobi picture.

As for the girl's face, I've drew this for you to take into consideration, should you decide that you want to.

Reference

Notice that the further the head's turned along the x-axis, the more pronounced the cheeks, and forehead become.

The Irregulars -- An Art Improvement Group

Hello everyone.

About a week ago I did my first painting in a while, and would love critiques on it.



Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Practiced some anatomy since It's been a few months since last I drew anything. I tried my hand at drawing some Homestuck fan art.

Anatomy practice results

Finished Image

Monsta's Assorted Art

A couple drawings of a character I'm developing for a comic that I'm planning:

Images

Don't mind the, "Official", stamp. I draw whatever comes to mind sometimes, and I finally drew her face the way I wanted it after hours of trying.



I made her neck too long, and her one hand too small.

It is fucking impossible to get Skype off your computer.

Try typing in, 'run', in the start menu, or if you're using Windows 8 then whatever the alternative is to open the, "Run a Program", box.

Then type in, %appdata%, and see if there's a skype folder. If there is delete it, and try deleting the registry entries again.

I had a dream I was suddenly a father.

Sole said
hahahahahmore like-hump-ly

I wasn't bragging about what I do, I was giving a real life example of why I disagree that white kids don't work for crap. I'm not a very social person, so I used myself for the example. My cousin has been doing the same thing for longer than I, and I by no means meant to demean anyone else with my statements, so what's so prideful in my statements that I can't say that I humbly disagree?

Sure I stressed some details about how hard the job is, but it's not just that way for me. The point is that I'm one of many in my family, and in my line of work, [EDIT: and in many lines of work,] who do work hard, and are white.

Happy now?

I had a dream I was suddenly a father.

rpg101 said
Sure you mean humbly?

I thought that over before posting, and yes. I'm sticking with my statement. I'm not bragging that I'm the best worker on the job, nor am I saying that I'm the only one out there doing it, but I am indeed doing what I said. So yes.

I had a dream I was suddenly a father.

genghismike said
wut?White kids can't work for crap.

I was working for a tree service at age 14, and every summer thereafter until I graduated high school, and I now work there full time. I get up at 3am to go on a two hour commute to the capital district area from the fucking mountains in upstate New York. I dragged brush 80 yards across an open field in the hot sun today to reach the chipper, and then wheeled several wheelbarrow loads of blocks of wood to throw onto the back of the chip truck, cleaned up the mess of the trees we had taken down, and that was just what I did after my lunch at 11:30. That was one job, and we completed 5 today, so I'd have to humbly disagree with you there.