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Category Artwork (Traditional) / General Furry Art
Species Raccoon
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File Size 1.78 MB
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I promised comments so here I am ;>
First of all, you certainly have potential, a talent which just have to be polished.
You can see the details in anatomy, in characteristics of certain species, in environment. You don't stick with what you know but observe the topic and manage to show the species distinctively. Actually, many beginner artists have problems drawing different species. And when I look at your works it is clear what animal it is. Some artists drawing for example a canine, can't clearly show if it's a fox or a wolf or a dog or whatever.
I can see a common problem in proportions - often your heads are too big. The whole bodies are usually okay just heads are too big. So when you sketch the character, dont push your pencil too hard until you set the body right, dont draw the details before you have to anatomy right(because then you would waste time and effort to erase the details and try over just because "the base" have wrong proportions, nobody does that).
About the colour palette. It's hard for me to tell if you're a good colourist or not. In fact colour pencils leave little space to show real skills in this matter because they have limited abbilities to blend - very limited in comparison to paint. The way you use watercolour pencils is also quite shy, so to speak. I just don't have much to comment on for now. You should try to always blend together at least two colours(try, I'm not saying that I do this all the time), don't just go with the basic tone of one pencil. If you observe closely it's sometimes not even natural.
I would say that drawing is the first lesson, to grasp the right proportions and a level in anatomy that pleases you, for now. I think colouring is harder to master. Didn't you say that you prefer colouring over drawing? If so, this fascination should naturally drive you forward and it can be that you wont even notice how fast you will progress c:.
I hope this was helpful and tell me on which pieces, or in which aspects exactly you need feedback, I will try to help c:.
First of all, you certainly have potential, a talent which just have to be polished.
You can see the details in anatomy, in characteristics of certain species, in environment. You don't stick with what you know but observe the topic and manage to show the species distinctively. Actually, many beginner artists have problems drawing different species. And when I look at your works it is clear what animal it is. Some artists drawing for example a canine, can't clearly show if it's a fox or a wolf or a dog or whatever.
I can see a common problem in proportions - often your heads are too big. The whole bodies are usually okay just heads are too big. So when you sketch the character, dont push your pencil too hard until you set the body right, dont draw the details before you have to anatomy right(because then you would waste time and effort to erase the details and try over just because "the base" have wrong proportions, nobody does that).
About the colour palette. It's hard for me to tell if you're a good colourist or not. In fact colour pencils leave little space to show real skills in this matter because they have limited abbilities to blend - very limited in comparison to paint. The way you use watercolour pencils is also quite shy, so to speak. I just don't have much to comment on for now. You should try to always blend together at least two colours(try, I'm not saying that I do this all the time), don't just go with the basic tone of one pencil. If you observe closely it's sometimes not even natural.
I would say that drawing is the first lesson, to grasp the right proportions and a level in anatomy that pleases you, for now. I think colouring is harder to master. Didn't you say that you prefer colouring over drawing? If so, this fascination should naturally drive you forward and it can be that you wont even notice how fast you will progress c:.
I hope this was helpful and tell me on which pieces, or in which aspects exactly you need feedback, I will try to help c:.
Yay for feedback, thank you very much =D. Your suggestions definitely gave me some ideas, as I've said, I am far from happy with the results I am coming up with, and having no formal education and far less constructive feedback makes it quite hard for me to figure out which aspects need more improvement (everything I'd say T.T). I'll definitely pay more attention to overall body proportions and head sizes =).
I like coloring a lot but that is one of my weakest points, not to say the weaker. This year I decided to invest some more time to try learning how to properly work with acrylics and watercolor pencils however the final results never seem to look finished even with several hours of retouches, that is one point where I am quite clueless on what to do.
Last year was the one I dedicated to learn more about anatomy by doing lots and lots of sketches of different animals on different poses, which helped on more complex pieces, but there is always room for improvement. Being stagnant bothers me a lot so I really appreciate you taking your time to write this critique, I'll surely carry your words with me ^-^;.
I like coloring a lot but that is one of my weakest points, not to say the weaker. This year I decided to invest some more time to try learning how to properly work with acrylics and watercolor pencils however the final results never seem to look finished even with several hours of retouches, that is one point where I am quite clueless on what to do.
Last year was the one I dedicated to learn more about anatomy by doing lots and lots of sketches of different animals on different poses, which helped on more complex pieces, but there is always room for improvement. Being stagnant bothers me a lot so I really appreciate you taking your time to write this critique, I'll surely carry your words with me ^-^;.
No problem ^^
There is also one thing you cannot do faster, a thing that just happen with time. And that is overal eye and mind training x'3 so to speak. You develop your skills, your sight(to see details in anatomy, colours better), your tastes, you browse art from other people, you notice what is repetitive in the art world, what is more original, etc, and with time you're just able to see more so your art gets more advanced with it. When you look at your old art or even old favourites from other artists, it all seem terrible. But you did like it in the past after all, so it's an example of artists' development I guess.
Day by day you just need to have fun with it and don't expect imidiate results.
Alongside of that, of course practicing is important and gathering theoretical knowledge. There's a lot of self taught artists after all and internet certainly provide a lot of learning materials. I'm sure you can do it just by being determinated ;3
Hmm... I guess I have to be boring again and say tutorials :<. And practice, practice, practice. Hhmmm.... There was a thing my teacher told me in art school. Sometimes you need to lose yourself, get crazy, and not be afraid to damage a drawing or painting(he used no other word but "damage"). Make a copy, if you will really regret damaging it, and experiment, just do something you haven't done before. It's okay if it will be useless, you cannot learn by not making mistakes. And who knows, maybe that will be the moment when something pop up into existence in your range of skills. I remember few of my works which, completely unexpectedly, turned my artistic world around.
No problem ^^ I'm glad I can help.
There is also one thing you cannot do faster, a thing that just happen with time. And that is overal eye and mind training x'3 so to speak. You develop your skills, your sight(to see details in anatomy, colours better), your tastes, you browse art from other people, you notice what is repetitive in the art world, what is more original, etc, and with time you're just able to see more so your art gets more advanced with it. When you look at your old art or even old favourites from other artists, it all seem terrible. But you did like it in the past after all, so it's an example of artists' development I guess.
Day by day you just need to have fun with it and don't expect imidiate results.
Alongside of that, of course practicing is important and gathering theoretical knowledge. There's a lot of self taught artists after all and internet certainly provide a lot of learning materials. I'm sure you can do it just by being determinated ;3
Hmm... I guess I have to be boring again and say tutorials :<. And practice, practice, practice. Hhmmm.... There was a thing my teacher told me in art school. Sometimes you need to lose yourself, get crazy, and not be afraid to damage a drawing or painting(he used no other word but "damage"). Make a copy, if you will really regret damaging it, and experiment, just do something you haven't done before. It's okay if it will be useless, you cannot learn by not making mistakes. And who knows, maybe that will be the moment when something pop up into existence in your range of skills. I remember few of my works which, completely unexpectedly, turned my artistic world around.
No problem ^^ I'm glad I can help.
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