I’ve never gotten much feedback & rarely use references, so i was wondering if there’s anything i’m not noticing is consistently “wrong” in my art. is the coloring, anatomy, bg, perspective, etc repeatedly being drawn weirdly? As of now im working on bg and objects so tips for that would be appreciated.

These are some of my pieces I just want to know how the public would feel about my art style

I'm a complete noob when it comes to digital art so I'm trying to learn the tools in Procreate but I'm having a hard time figuring out which tools were used, and how I would try and go about it.

My art slide 1 - credited artists in slides 2-4

I've been very very happy with my art as of late, but I feel like it's flat and lacks atmosphere. I haven't had much luck with using different colored overlays to "unify" the palette and colors, as it just always still looks flat to me, just in a different hue. I feel like there's not enough dimension or unity in my art once it comes to rendering, and I'm not sure how to achieve that.

In the next slides I include some examples of artists on Instagram I follow that do "atmosphere" in a way I really admire. I'm wondering, as in the last example, if taking a "coloring book" approach with my lineart is ruining my atmosphere: I color in every section of the lineart the "correct" color without shading, light etc taken into account, and then I try to unify it with overlays of light and shadow.

But maybe I should not be focusing so much on using the "right" colours? For example the pink in the character's skin I drew, maybe does not need to be such a uniform color.

I feel like this is a specific enough problem so I'm not too sure how to research it. That's why I turned here :) id love to hear some advice

I have been creating for years (roughly 15), and I have changed mediums, I have narrowed my focus, I have listened to good advice, I have listened to bad advice, and I have been trying for years to not only get better, but just to get noticed.

I am getting so tired of trying to get somewhere with my art, and fighting in general. I just don’t know if my art is any good anymore or if I’m just wasting my time. What do I do?

I’m struggling with how to improve depth in my shadows, whenever I crosshatch it looks messy, even when done at a narrow angle and I don’t understand why the first sketch appears to have somewhat less depth than the second despite it’s simplicity. (I have also tried just compacting lines closer for darker but I find this makes the shadows look inconsistent.

No reference is provided. Focusing on hatching and line technique.

Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated.

(Sí, este dibujo es sugerente y nada más, jajaja).

Hola. Buenos días. Hice este dibujo sin ninguna referencia; solo buscaba inspiración. Tengo algunos problemas con la composición y la pose.

La posición de las piernas del hombre de pelo oscuro me preocupa. Dudé mucho al dibujarlas porque no sabía cómo hacerlo. La idea era que el hombre de pelo oscuro rodeara la cintura del rubio con las piernas de una manera algo inestable.

En general, dibujar poses dinámicas (no sé si esto cuenta como tal) me resulta bastante difícil. Dibujar personajes interactuando es una pesadilla.

Also, I feel like the line art detracted a lot from the drawing. I feel like the blond guy's back looked better in the sketch.

Además, no sé, no veo ningún otro problema obvio, solo siento que podría mejorar y no confío en mi precisión. Agradecería sus críticas y consejos, oh sabios del arte. Muchas gracias por su atención.

(Lamentablemente, no podré mejorar este dibujo porque lo entinté, pero tendré en cuenta los consejos para futuros dibujos).

Mind you all I asked for was "if I were to do commissions in the future what should I price them as?" And I asked not to give me art advice on my drawings so they got mad \:

I just added color for fun, not sure if it turned out good. I actually prefer the manga style without color.

I'm terrible at anatomy, and to be honest, I don't draw with "realistic" anatomy, but I needed the money, so I accepted a very specific commission. They asked me to use this pose, but with a female character. I'm trying to replicate it, but with a different body type... and somehow it feels out of place. Any advice? 😔

I'm struggling so much with drawing arches and vaults correctly with the right measurements in one point and two points PERSPECTIVE and YouTube does NOT seem to help with this so please gimme suggestions

hi! It’s officially been 100 days since I started drawing, and this is the artwork I created to celebrate it! I’d like to ask advice about some specific things. things. First up, I’m not very confident in my clothing folds. It just doesn’t feel entirely right, but I can‘t seem to pinpoint exactly what is wrong about it and improve it. I‘ve watched some tutorials and I can draw fabric with 2 tension points or draped over a ball just fine, but translating it to clothing folds has been causing some trouble for me.

the second thing I want to ask about is the focal point. Does this artwork have a clear focal point? My concern is that the focal point might have been lost because I have high-contrast areas in separate parts of the artwork. If the artwork does have a focal point, what creates that focal point? And if it doesn’t, got some advice as to how I can fix this issue, even with this composition? Or is my composition just unsalvageable? Thanks in advance!

Is this type of rendering good for commission, or do i need improvement. I'm going for the painterly slightly messy style, not the smooth splash art style.i did this in mobile using finger.

Hi everyone! I’ve been drawing for a few months now, and this is my latest surreal piece [OC]. I’d love to get some feedback to help me improve! Thank you

I have just started out in art uni and we have been provided with creative cloud (meaning photoshop, illustrator, the entire package).
However, my laptop is old and the storage is completely full which I believe is making photoshop lag to an unbearable degree.

Does anyone have any recommendationd on either a way of fixing this or any alternative (budget friendly) laptops that could run phoroshop more smoothly?

I’m really not good with laptops so I’m not sure if simply offloading the storage (I have been debating buying buying a physical hardrive for all my photos — which take up the majority of the storage) will fix my issue or if it’s simply the laptop itself.

For reference I have the HP 250 G9 notebook and I’m planning on using the huion kamvas 13.

Any recommendations?

i wanna start commissions but idk how much to price my artwork, i usually spend around 3 - 8hrs on a piece. also i can only draw till the waist, no full body 🥲🥲 (posted this in another subreddit)

This is a drawing of flash I did (HEAVILY BASED ON THE JLU DESIGN) and I want to do comic art when I'm older... any critiques/criticisms ? :>

Anything helps I just want to know if there are any glaring issues or if I'm on the right track!!

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I tried to genderbend my oc (that rabbit looking guy on the right) but I'm low key buns at drawing women, any advice is welcomed​

I recently got into Gorillaz and it made me realise how much teeth help a character design stand out. However idk how to go about it. I am aware that i need to study teeth placement the question is moreover how to adapt that knowledge in a cartoony artstyle without it looking odd. I’m mostly inspired by the phase 1 art that managed to strike a middle between drawing each individual tooth while still being simple/not overtly detailed.

Newish artist here who’s trying to drill more fundamentals. I’ve been practicing drawing from reference and more value studies but I find my proportions are always slightly off, and something about my values seems to be set up wrong. If somebody could do a quick draw over/liquify to fix and point out errors that would be cool. Also advice on how to replicate references more closely/get proportions right? I’ve already been using pencil sighting to eyeball rough proportions, but is there a specific trick to get more accurate with this method? Any advice about getting less “grainy” pencil marks would also be appreciated. I’ve been trying to apply less pressure but find it still leaves micro scratches on the paper that create an unpleasant “grainy” look.