Sometimes I get myself in a bit of a tizz when I look at my art in comparison to others and I feel I hit this wall of not really knowing how to proceed what I need to do to further get better and produce artwork that people wanna see

Practice x)

As for working on anatomy and everything, I did that at a time. Copying pictures, nudes and all, trying to put muscles correctly and so on ... But that's really, really boring.

What I was asking was if anyone sees a particular area I could do with practicing on lol.

I can't think of something in particular, your art is pretty balanced.

Can't seem to find nothing wrong with the art, It's perfect. If you need particular practicing though I suggest vehicles. Practice drawing vehicles. Well that is all actually, your truely amazing artist. Love your hard work and dedication to each piece of art.

Well you DID get a F- in eating...

*giggling* that's true it seems also that no matter how much I practice most of it ends up everywhere else rather than inside my tummy.

Poor Miffy, she just wanted the stars; not steak juice and tomato!!

Firstly, I think your art is super amazing as is. You're certainly not a sham!

Secondly, if you want some suggestions on what to draw/improve on drawing, I have one.

What about furs & people (any age group) with various disabilities? It may be a tiny bit self-serving, as I'm disabled, but disability seems rarely touched upon by anyone. I get that drawings are fantasy so some disabled people who are depressed about their situation wouldn't want their disability reflected in their drawing...but I was born with my disability, so I can't imagine life as able bodied, you know?

That's an interesting idea. I'll certainly hafta think about that one :)

Life drawing. Practice it for awhile.

I maintain that your biggest weakness just now is probably perspective. I think if you can master perspective better — making sure things in the foreground are bigger and things in the background are smaller, making sure parallel lines converge to the horizon, that sort of thing — I think that will have a very positive effect on your composition and anatomy and such as well.

Maybe practice drawing some 3d mathy stuffs, like try to copy some architectural drawings full of straight lines. Things where the beauty comes from the inorganic composition, from the harmony of lines describing shapes in 3d space.

Things like this, or this. That should give you something to chew on that can help with probably the only weakness I can identify in your pretties. :D

If there's one improvement I think essential, perhaps you oughtta go for pinstripe-sized inklines. I'm thinking you may also wish to replace speech bubbles with coloured text with black outlines similar to the speech text you get in LucasArts adventure games. For example Gem would have hazel brown text, Paul would have teal blue text, you get the idea.

Never underestimate yourself, I salute you.

As you can already see from others in the thread, Gemmy... others think your art is good.

Please try not to be too tough on yourself. Grub wouldn't want that, and neither do I.

*Hugs* Btw, good to hear you had a good weekend.

in all honesty, I can't really think of any particular are that could be improved upon without drastically changing your art style, though I suppose I could go through your gallery and study it a little more (yeah, tough job, but somebody's gotta do it! ). I think it's a mistake to try and compare one's work to somebody else's, as every artist is different and has specific strengths and weaknesses. I know I look at my work, and then other's, and get a little depressed sometimes. But, then I look closer, and see that there are things that I do really well that others don't, and things that I can learn from how others do their art.

I'm at work right now, so I really can't take the time to say much more, but I promise to turn a critical eye to your work when I get home. Maybe I can help identify where you can grow as an artist.

I agree with what Stoneth said.
You've conquered the cartoony proportions and expressions, maybe you should try and venture out into the more realistic?

More fatty cub drawings. >w< *thinks all artists should chubby cubs*

Hi there. First off, your art is great, and your ability to spin a story is phenomenal. If I was to pick one single area for improvement, it would be lighting and depth. You already make a pretty valiant effort at it, but you might benefit from a bit of time just studying how light falls on faces and objects. Then use those observations to help add a bit of shadow and depth to the faces and forms in a consistent manner. One thing I've noticed in a few of your comic strips is that lighting is a bit inconsistent and seems to be coming from multiple directions based on how the shadows fall.

Anyway, just my two cents. Cheers!

I love your artstyle, its soft and cute.

Everyone has great suggestions, and I can possibly only add onto all of them. Why not have more poses, different poses. Something that is just outside your comfort zone =3

I have to say that I think your art is already amazing and you produce some awesome art! x3

In my opinion, the way to feel like you are drawing good art is to listen to what people who see it say. I personally believe good art comes from how one enjoys it, and vice versa. If you want to improve personally then go for it! Achieving goals and improving is always good! But never feel like your art is bad if everyone who views it says it's good. But that's just my opinion. :3

Also, happy birthday again for tomorrow! x3

Life drawing can be helpful, I am not even that good at it, but just looking at stuff around you, and observing how light and stuff plays with it can be helpful. Also look up center of gravity, if you study and apply it properly, it can give your characters a feeling of a realistic weight and movement in their environment.

Otherwise, you asking on advice and wanting to improve, is probably enough evidence that you will improve. Don't feel rushed trying to learn things , appreciate what you have, and in no time you will look back and see you have made progress!

ya art looks pretty perfect to me perhaps the sky? it looks gorgeous in that pic you did in the experimantal style of me and sarah but flat colored in all other pics

Did you ever fix that one picture with the regressing horse and the odd tilt. :P

In all seriousness, you're so good it's hard to say. It's mostly you your backgrounds that could use a bit of life. They are sometimes a little dull.

I'd definitely suggest working on anatomy and proportions, and looking at the difference between the animals that you draw. Like other people said, you might wanna do some life drawings and work on realism a little more.

It seems that most of your art has a light, airy mood to it. What if you tried something morbid and unhappy?
You could also work on color theory, and perspective.

I've noticed you've been getting a bit too into furries lately and you've gotten away from human anatomy. I'd give a human drawing a go every now and then again just so you don't loose touch with that side of your artwork.

Well when an artist runs out of ideas they sometimes do MLP related art. I remember you did that sketch for me a while back but that was the only one I remember. Idk maybe give it another try?

First off, let me say that I love your work, that you've got a unique style that makes your work instantly recognizeable, and that you story telling abilities are da bomb! Areas you could improve upon? I think they've pretty much been touched upon by other commenting here, perspective can be a little off sometimes, poses could be a little more dynamic, shading, etc. a couple things mentioned that I think are worth repeating though... Color theory and light study.

While rich saturated colors are beautiful, if you use them EVERYWHERE they loose their impact. I would suggest you could tone down backgrounds and things less likely to need attention and save those pops of rich color for things you really want to pay attention to. Another thing to think on is how color fades over distance. It's an atmospheric thing, the further away something is, the dimmer it's colors. That alone could add a ton of depth to your work.

And that leads into something  acidgrunt said that is near and dear to my heart... Light and how it interacts with objects. It would definitely behoove you to spend so,e time studying light and how it moves around and reflects off of objects. There is NEVER just one source of light in any situation. It bounces odd of objects and illuminates things from different angles. It can be truly fascinating to study, and you might want to do that sometime!

Once again, I love your work, and I love the fact that you want to improve ourself. Keep it up!

From a watchers pov, I think it's eye catching and always easy on the eye. I think a lot of people prefer simple colouring or pose compared to something fancy and over the top. It makes your art recognizable to others. It's either you'll loose watchers or gain more, so it's 50-50 in the end in my view. But if your willing to expand your skills and ect, I'm sure many people will love your work.