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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.





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[-] [+] No.345
Hey, can I have some help here? 
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Errrr... Hi. I heard I might get some art advice here. So...

This isn't exactly one of my recent drawings, but it'll do. The many-armed thing is an eldritch abomination/demon/whatever. His name be G'Nhaj R'Jmbl. The girl with the frightened look is my Mary Sue (well, that is, I draw her a damn lot). Her name is "Doggy", because I couldn't come up with any real names.

No.480 - Link Reply Report 480

I was initially pretty excited to critique this because from the thumbnail it looked different and fascinating. I really have to admit I was not quite pleased on having looked at the entire picture.

First, and I've actually had a non-artistic friend say this: the chick is completely useless in this picture. The many-legged creature appears to be nonchalantly holding her up, and there's only one eye that looks like it would even be looking at her. If she wasn't in the picture there would be nothing lost.

You do need to look up/study some anatomy and proportion though. Skeletal, muscular, fat tissue and then how the flesh lays, all the while keeping proportion (how many 'heads' high or wide any portion a character is) in mind. You must learn the basics before you can effectively stylize.

The many-legged thing, what is the pattern on his legs? Or arms, I guess. Is it supposed to be functional gears and plating that make him work, or is it just a design? Right now it seems to want to be the former, but is nothing more than the latter.

I must say I'm really rather concerned with your technique. Not that I want to come out and say it like this, but it is pretty horrible. You need to familiarize yourself with your pencil. Learn how to create value and smooth gradients, learn how to make long, smooth strokes with your arm and not short jagged lines with your wrist. I found something that helped with line confidence was forcing oneself to make continuous contour drawings with a marker, or some form of 'permanent' media that one cannot erase. Once you get used to creating a line without trying to bunch a ton of littler lines together to get it, it can translate rather easily into pencil.

Otherwise, try to have more of a sense of purpose in your pictures. The girl feels unnecessary, and all of the weird things that are going on with the many-legged thing seem like they were put in at random to be 'amusing' but just came out looking juvenile.