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Art critique and advice; beginner artists are welcome to post here; includes an oekaki. (NO FLAMES)

Artists, read before posting!

Before you post your art to ask for critique, please read these tutorials. They explain the basic principles of drawing and figure drawing. Most posts where these basics are missing will never get a response, as people are quite frankly sick and bored of explaining over and over that you would have to pretty much learn how to draw first, before you could improve.

Courtesy of Arne Niklas Jansson: Basic and comprehensive drawing and painting tutorial
Courtesy of Bakaneko: Figure Drawing Basics, Further Anatomy, Hands

These were brought to my attention by Aeresque#Artist. Courtesy of Scribd: Drawing the Human head, Drawing Dynamic Hands, Dynamic Figure Drawing
And for those of you who want it a bit easier, we also have the whole thing as one neat rar with all three books in pdf form.

NEW! These were brought to my attention by MajorTom in #fchan. Courtesy of Andrew Loomis: Creative Illustration, Drawing the Head and Hands, Eye Of The Painter, Figure drawing for all it's worth, Fun with a Pencil, Successful Drawing, Drawing Dynamic Hands.

If you think you know a good basic tutorial that would fit in here, feel free to contact me under Xenofur in IRC and I will add the link.

[-] [+] No.1440

Two weeks of practice created this, what do ya think?

File: IvanUpperBody.jpg -(302958 B, 705x1280)

11/12/19(Mon)05:39 No.1440 -

1440

I'm new to arting, and I wanna know why you think! I know the muzzle is all sorts of wrong, and a ton of other stuff too. But, how do I fix it?

11/12/22(Thu)04:19 No.1441 -

1441

It looks very... flat. You need to add more dimension somehow.
There are many ways of doing this...
First of all, shading!
- More shading around the muzzle, plus a tapering effect towards the nostrils will make it look a lot better.
- Tons of shading and darkening on the shirt/top. Wrinkles!
- I can tell you tried to do shading, especially on the hair. The thing is that every portion of the body must have shading in a similar fashion. When you add shading, there has to be a certain point from which the light comes. I would recommend for you the upper-right. That means the upper-right portion of his ears, hair, face, eyes, muzzle, shirt, and arms must ALL be brighter than the center of the objects. The lower-left portion must be darker.
Secondly, a much more natural pose would be better.
- While I'm not saying you should scrap this entire work, you need to pick a better pose. The character looks tense, and his facial expression doesn't match his body language. Drawing works really well with a reference picture. If you're drawing anthropomorphic animals then don't be afraid to look up pictures of human male models (not naked, just posing), or even other furry artist's works.

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[-] [+] No.1420

hmm...

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Corpse-grinder 11/11/09(Wed)04:11 No.1420 -

1420

I am a new artist, i kno it isent furry but i do have some, but there ugly as shit, used pen, pencil pencil crayon and ink. this art is not anyones or related to any charater that i know of, i drew out of sheer bordom whatcha think?

File: random_3.jpg -(426253 B, 1700x2338)

Corpse-grinder 11/11/09(Wed)04:12 No.1421 -

1421

heres one of a human x lesbian couple.

11/11/10(Thu)04:58 No.1424 -

1424

I have a request:
Go back and read the text above the posting box, but below the ad/banner.

File: blackeyedsandwich.jpg -(167707 B, 613x900)

11/11/12(Sat)05:38 No.1425 -

1425

Okay, improved it for you.

11/11/23(Wed)21:21 No.1433 -

1433

>>1425
Perfect!

[-] [+] No.1395

Opinions?

File: by_shnider-d4a7fle.jpg -(2392273 B, 1973x2956)

11/09/19(Mon)09:23 No.1395 -

1395

I had more to do here, but while testing out some lighting effects on the background I flattened all of the layers to do so, then I went to save it as a separate file. Instead of hitting "save as" I accidentally hit "save" like a dumbass and now its permanent T_T

11/09/20(Tue)04:09 No.1396 -

1396

Too late now but uh, you can undo that when it happens. Seriously just undo, then resave the file.

11/09/29(Thu)09:04 No.1398 -

1398

Unfortunately, my history didn't go back that far, but I learned from this mistake and drastically increased my history cache.

FenrirLokison 11/10/13(Thu)18:57 No.1410 -

1410

looks pretty good to me, you got a fa account?

11/10/21(Fri)12:07 No.1415 -

1415

>>1410
yeah, I have an FA account, but I made it only a few months ago, so there's not much on it. Only 2 pics so far.
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/shnider/
all my other stuff is on my DA

[-] [+] No.680

Argh Angles D:

File: Scrabble.jpg -(619749 B, 853x1280)

Zeddish#FHIjdD4qGU 10/04/05(Mon)22:50 No.680 -

680

Toying about with camera angles and perspective and stuff. The guy down on the floor has a few flaws which I just noticed, but it's the girl up on the sofa that I can't really seem to get. She's defying me. I'm trying to go for sort of "bored and disinterested in her boyfriend's rule-quoting, but am having a hard time pulling it off with the high angle.

File: Scrabble2.jpg -(72937 B, 864x1280)

Zeddish 10/04/06(Tue)06:25 No.682 -

682

Fiddled with a few things. Completely scrapped her pose all together.

10/05/10(Mon)18:29 No.727 -

727

Might be worth just getting someone to do the pose for you. Reference is always useful in pose situations.

[-] [+] No.875

Wanted: Honest (not mean/troll) opinons on art~

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Ryshili 10/08/03(Tue)22:03 No.875 -

875
Source: When things look too flat or I how I just can't ever be happy with my drawings.

Obviously posting up here on the /crit/ alone says what I want.
I never feel happy with any of my drawings, and no matter how much anatomy, tutorials, or different styles I do, I always feel like I'm messing up. I know I am.
BUT!
I can never place what. ... so that's why I need /crit/'s help. Be the eyes I don't have (and mind of understanding drawings...blah).
I know they are sketchy and lines are everywhere... bit of an issue I have. Either I don't complete them, or it's really just my lousy inability.

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Ryshili 10/08/03(Tue)22:06 No.879 -

879

File: CANNOT_DRAW_KISSING_BAW.jpg -(496119 B, 1336x1626)

Ryshili 10/08/03(Tue)22:09 No.880 -

880

embarrassed at lower one
And yeah.. I suck at humans too. And kissing. FFFFF.

Ryshili 10/08/03(Tue)22:10 No.881 -

881

And not wanting to spam... anything else you want to tear apart...
FA: Ryshili
DA: Ryshili
Been in such a huge art rut because I know my stuff never comes out right... that I actually want opinions... tired of friends just blowing me off when I'm asking for honesty.

BushidoChu 10/10/26(Tue)01:39 No.997 -

997

>>881
If you have a program capable of doing it, try to give your image a horizontal (mirror) flip every so often as you do delicate areas such as eyes and muzzles and correct centers of balance. Doing the flip can show you where you might have created an off angle.
You have great ideas, but some things (such as the questionable symmetry with Daxter's eyes) could make your ideas even better if they were taken one or two more steps.

10/12/01(Wed)00:05 No.1015 -

1015

>>875
I'm not much of an artist but I decided to check out what this part of fchan had, I love your first drawing! There is something about it, I want to see more of it! This character is just...strangly amazing to me. Thanks! Your other are it rather nice too!

[-] [+] No.633

fish

File: crit_1267797963564.baracudaboy_feeesh2.jpg -(78318 B, 700x700)

10/03/05(Fri)08:06 No.633 -

633

What am I doing wrong?!
And before you say "everything" ugh, could I maybe get a redline please :<
I really dont know where to go with this. :<

10/03/05(Fri)08:11 No.634 -

634

Anybody want to help?

Deatzh#Artist 10/03/05(Fri)12:33 No.635 -

635

Yes, as long as you're actually baracudaboy.

10/03/05(Fri)14:13 No.636 -

636

Don't blow my coner D:
I'm like the shittiest artist on the planet and this drawing almost seems like a joke.
WHYYY would I want people to know who I was.
lol, oh, the file name. last time I post on lulz stoned -_-

Deatzh#Artist 10/03/05(Fri)15:21 No.637 -

637

Lol, lulz is over there.
It is okay, though.
I will see what I can do.

10/03/05(Fri)22:00 No.639 -

639

>>633
hahahaha, even more evidence I should stay off the computer at times of...brain deficiency. XD jesus.

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