this was my first design of puma guy (technically second, one day I will share the handmade cat plushy OG version) erm... it's not very good lol, also from an artistic perspective... ngl find it crazy that this was less than a year and a half ago I improved like crazy!! also I couldn't draw buff people we don't talk about it I distinctly remembering him looking less weedy when I actually drew him idk
the space pattern sucks ew i've really stepped my game up on that too, face is also janky I was still slightly in my anime phase
messy lineart works but like... this is just messy and not in a cool way
its so washed out my art is so saturated now compared to this, this looks like a watercolour version where's all the pink my boy is PINK
shading is ehh i remember loving the skin and pants but it looks pretty flat and the blue... i didn't know what I was doing with that
i HATE the mouth idk it makes me uncomfortable
man it's so crazy to look at my old designs BEFORE I came up with distinct hairstyles for them
he looks like such a generic anime boy it's kinda funny
the basic things that changed is that he looks older, has curlier hair and looks a bit sleepier but I actually do tend to stick very closely with my original designs (even though I've created some of them when I was really young)
characters are Vulpa by No-Raspberry-1851 and Cosmos by CHEEZE224 (both on Reddit)
some simpler ones i did and forgot to post
allows me to chill a little bit if I don't have to draw too complex of a character
feeling lazy anyway i just binged devil may cry and it's so good omg
mfs will watch smth like that and still complain when you "try and bring politics into it"
also magma was down i was screaming crying throwing up I need magma so bad man I never seen a user base as loyal as magma users
unnamed roblox avatar, character by HotSausageRoll on Reddit
LAST ART TRADE DONE LETS GOOOOOO 8 drawings in 4 days, im SO glad, im up to my artfight numbers (attack me in july btw i BEG i always revenge and and my username is LionRevolutionary)
ngl idk how im able to pump out good pieces consistently (although i did procrastinate on this one a bit but it wasnt completely my fault)
like my art is BETTER and more detailed than before yet it takes me quicker to do? blend brush feels like cheating tbh i render SO FAST with it
dont smoke guys
this drawing is lowkey giving that one pic of the caterpillar with the cigarette
this type of contrast is smth i dont usually do, but i was kinda forced to since the character is literally completely dark
im getting back into my habit of adding rimlight to every drawing someone stop me omg
lowkey coming back to my old rendering style with sketchy lines and rough shading i shouldnt have abandoned it
been staring at your art actually I'm not normal about it the soft textures are edible
omggg thank you actually im still writing an answer to your other question its gonna be really long π
Clara Mayday, character by @mocacci
sorry for the wait im finally finished!
another art trade done lets goooo
i really like this one man it looks so nice, im just on a roll with dynamic lighting
i put so much detail into this its 2:30 am π
6 hours of work... ive literally done nothing but drawn this whole day ong
LIFE IS SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! I LOVE BEING ALIVE
me rn
who leaves that much money on the ground??? i'd never drop even a dime man
when ppl ask me where i get my income... the ground is my employer I'm jobless allowance-less always have been, lowkey leeching off my family but I have to finish my education first its not my fault
art trades open btw!!!! someone draw with meeee
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Nevanna, character by Pudding-Bread-6943 on Reddit
ok i ATE THIS UP i'm actually really proud of this lol
did not expect this to be as good as it turned out, trust the process lol
her design slays so much omg
Hi, so I wanted to know what could I improve based on this drawing, you're free to do a paintover. Thanks! ^^
so first off i really like the colours I see a lot of artists use grey for shading because they don't understand how light and shadow work but you're using saturated colours which is great!!
although I like the colours for the shading, my biggest critique would have to be the shading itself, and especially its placement and how it's blended so much. there's also not much depth with the shading since one colour is used to shade whole parts, when in reality you need to use a big range of colours from only very slightly darker than the base colour all the way to even a colour close to black.
the kitten also looks a bit off with its anatomy, but I wont critique the kitten that much because... i cant draw animals either π.
the way her hands are positioned around the kitten look very separated from the kitten, it almost looks like she's praying and the kitten was just copy pasted on. her hands should be tilted towards the camera more to show that the cat is actually being held in her hands.
there's also some slight anatomy issues with rei like a lumpy head and uneven breasts. also the right arm is longer and bigger than the left, and her waist seems to end very low. make sure to draw the underlying anatomy, even if it's being covered up by something! below is me tracing what her chest would look like if I followed the lines that are drawn
you have a very cool art style and I like you draw eyes, but I would make the eyes slightly less wide and the irises a bit bigger so that it looks more like rei, but in the end that is kinda optional since character art doesn't have to look exactly like the character.
also this is optional but some more line variance, especially thicker lines where shadows are makes lineart look a lot more interesting and pop more
a lot of the problems can be simply solved by flipping your canvas regularly while drawing, since people arent usually good at being able to draw symmetrically or even tell when something is asymmetrical
rei's face is also kinda short and her hair is very round, especially at the top. rei's mouth is also really close to her nose, so I just moved her nose down a bit.
below is the paintover, but just the anatomy and design part, not the shading (I didn't do the hands because there's a lot of stuff in that general area and I would have to redraw everything and also I'm lazy)
i tried my best to retain your style while still making corrections. i hope this is ok!
ok now onto the hardest part: shading
the biggest mistake you can make is just adding shadows to the edge of everything, it suggests roundness and so if you're shading something like a face, which is actually relatively flat and definitely not a sphere, you don't need those shadows on the edge of the chin. well, technically a face and chin are slightly rounded, but if you look at a side view of a person, the face is still pretty flat (excluding the nose)
also that shadow right next to the arm that's being cast onto the chest doesn't make a lot of sense since the light seems to be coming from above, yet this shadow makes it seem like the light is coming from the left. make sure you have a consistent light source when drawing, you can mark the location of the light physically if that helps. if the light is being cast from above, then naturally shadows must go downwards
going back to that image of the sphere and cube, you can see that the sphere has blended shadows and the cube has sharp shadows, this is very important to apply into art, because it helps differentiate different surfaces. because every shadow in your drawing is blended, everything looks soft and round, but the human form definitely has some sharper areas. also, there's a thing called a cast shadow, which is a shadow that's caused by some object blocking light. it also has sharp edges and there's many cast shadows on a person (the nose casts a sharp shadow onto the face, and the head casts a sharp shadow onto the neck for example)
idk if you wanted a lesson or not lol but yk there's a saying about teaching a man to fish vs just giving the man a fish
also the shiny parts on her outfit are shaded incorrectly, explaining how to shade reflective surfaces is really difficult and I don't even fully get it myself, but if it's just clothes, all you have to do is shade clothes as you normally do and then make the contrast much higher (highlights brighter and shadows darker) and add some reflections ofc
FINALLY DONE this took all day i'm not even kidding but I really like it
i lied, i did edit the kitten but just its head
anyway hope i helped i worked pretty hard on this
also thanks for letting me do a paintover!! paintovers are so fun but I can understand why ppl wouldn't want their work touched
Raleigh, character by petshopB1986 on Reddit
FINALLY something in my art style!! if you're wondering why a lot of my recent art is completely different art styles, it's because i match the simplicity of whoever's character im drawing, cuz i dont feel like i could take a simple design and draw it realistically with accuracy
however the original design of this dude is in fact very realistic so im able to match that realism
me when women: ππ₯΅π₯΅π₯΅
me when men: ππ₯΅π₯΅π₯΅
i know i've already said this but i just LOVE the blend brush man this painterly style is sooo good i feel FREE
also erm this was my FIRST SKETCH how is it so good i just cleaned it up a little and coloured it, maybe i gotta be more loose in order to get better at art, also i didnt use guidelines lol... i literally never use guidelines i just trust that i can see good enough
guys should i draw more men
i love SUITS
dont ask abt the teethchinese+russian, any pronounsI'm completely broke please don't ask me for money and I don't do commissions (yet)
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