Give Me Criticism (for my birthday!)
12 years ago
General
It's my birthday, and the only gift I want from you is Honest Criticism!
See, there used to be this website called failin.gs where you could offer someone anonymous feedback, and I used it to get honest criticisms about my art and what I could do to improvement.
Then they changed it and that doesn't work anymore. And it's been awhile since I've gotten feedback on what I do and how I do it wrong and how I could do it better.
So here, in this journal, all of your names and icons are ignored, and you can tell me any damned thing about my art that you please.
Please!!!
Tell me what sucks! Tell me what I need to change! Tell me what I need to study harder! Tell me what I need to do to get better!
It'd be the best birthday present ever! <3
See, there used to be this website called failin.gs where you could offer someone anonymous feedback, and I used it to get honest criticisms about my art and what I could do to improvement.
Then they changed it and that doesn't work anymore. And it's been awhile since I've gotten feedback on what I do and how I do it wrong and how I could do it better.
So here, in this journal, all of your names and icons are ignored, and you can tell me any damned thing about my art that you please.
Please!!!
Tell me what sucks! Tell me what I need to change! Tell me what I need to study harder! Tell me what I need to do to get better!
It'd be the best birthday present ever! <3
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As far as I see from my eyes your male anatomy is still one if the best and sexiest. However perhaps broaden things than keeping it just line work as epic as it is perhaps colouring in your pics is a way to move forward. I'm no where near a good artist but looking at your anatomy is great and I can't ever see faults my only thought is that of colouring and working on that side aswell as much as I don't do it but drawing females aswell broaden it beyond ink work :)
I hope that helps
And as for what you can improve on, well...this may be a personal preference (of either yours or mine), but...I don't know. It feels like there's not a lot of variety in your drawn characters. Many of them are similar in build...but then again, if one actually looks, they see that you draw guys without cobblestone abbs, how potbellies do occur, and if Fratbear is anything to show, you also do make chunkier guys rather than just runner/jocks.
It's honestly hard for me to really critique you when I'm not only not a visual artist, but your stuff is just so appealing. :/
Improve your shading, to give accessories a more circular and less flat appearance
Improve your perspective, so angles of held items seem to more correctly correspond to their surroundings (eg, the knife appears to be held at 80-90 degrees away from the viewer, but the handguard appears to be facing 20-30 degrees away from the viewer, instead of being 90degrees away from the blade.)
And finally, I'm pretty sure feet don't look that spread out normally, but as I can only compare mine, as viewed from above, I cannot be sure of this criticism.
You have a good range of character physiology, but I think you tend to draw more muscle on lithe characters than perhaps they should have. Of course, my memory might be off, and i might be forgetting some pieces that contradict this. I know it takes more time, but maybe add color to more pictures when you have the time, to help make it pop out.
Other than that... I got nothin'. What do you think about my critiques? Do you think they hold true? My memory could be wrong, so think about everything carefully before you let criticism nag at you.
Also, happy birthday and I hope it was most excellent! Want any bound jocks?
Other than that it's all subject things and the way situations go down.
Though, I'm fairly sure I got lost in the shuffle of you moving house, which was both forgivable and fortuitous as it turned out I didn't have anywhere near as much money as I thought I did.
That said, most everything else is gravy. ^_^
If you can do this, truly you will have mastered the craft.
Seriously though, I'm not an artist so I'm vastly under-qualified to give critique, but I saw this: You keep getting better. Just look at Favor for a Friend and that Once-Every-Other-Year series. Picture to picture, your art is cleaner and clearer.
Personally I find your technique to be excellent (you know how to tell a story with your pictures -- something that a lot of artists around here have never learned to do). Your faces are distinct (other artists’ faces all seem to be drawn from the same store dummy) and your display of anatomy is delicious especially since you age-vary it appropriately. And I particularly enjoy the UCLL “world” (and the other “worlds” and characters (the Naga, the Charn Family, Fratbear, Professor Lion, etc)) that you have created.
All in all, you are an artist who is a pleasure to watch (and download).
Happy Birthday, Beachy.