Rozie's Honest Critique thread

[RoziePozie]

I'm looking for honest and constructive critique.

I have a thread here for commissions:
http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... 62&t=28503

Samples:







Acknowledged Critique and supplement art:

None yet

[SundownKid]

Something basic - your pics look like they could use a digital straightening. A lot of times art must be skewed because you tend to draw it at the angle of your hand.

I also shrunk the eyes, I realize it's a stylistic choice but I think that the realistic shape of the eyes doesn't mesh with their cartoonish size.

Though I didn't change it here, the shading could also be more precise. Instead of making big lines to shade, it should be more triangular in shape like making smaller lines to form shapes and filling them in.

[RoziePozie]

Thanks for the advice!

New piece!

[chocojax]

You should definitely start going into the illusion of form on a 2-D surface! While there is a hint of form on these, most of them fall flat. Learning forms also helped me a ton with shading (slowly but steadily), so that's another good thing about it. :D

I would also suggest value/color studies as well. Objects often are affected by their environment, which in turn changes their color.

Basically, study study study! Not that you have to stop yourself from drawing fun stuff like this entirely, but studying every once in a while is always good. There are also a bunch of helpful stickied (and non-stickied) topics in this section of the forum, so I'd recommend looking there too! :DD

[meiri]

In addition to what the others said, try flipping your canvas while drawing. This is easy to do in SAI, as there is a little arrow button on the top bar you can use, but you must set a shortcut in other programs, such as Photoshop. Do it during the sketching process, and flip and flip until everything looks proportional and non-skewed no matter what direction it is facing. Of course, art studies are very important as well, but like SundownKid said, the tilt of your hand can mess things up a little.