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[Arx]

Spoiler: 6-8 minute speedpaint (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Slightly refined (click to show/hide)

[Shook]

I really like those colours actually, nice and saturated! Also nice touch with the yellowing at the brightest spots, looks neat.

also here have a classy skeleton

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[BlackFlyme]

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[TD1]

Definitely atmospheric.

[Darkmere]

Working on the cover for my NaNoWriMo novel. I'm not great with masking layers in Krita but I think I've got this is okay shape while still being readable.

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[Parsely]

Working on the cover for my NaNoWriMo novel. I'm not great with masking layers in Krita but I think I've got this is okay shape while still being readable.

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Hey that looks pretty good!

[Mesa]

So I drew this piece of fanart for Kruggsmash's awesome Dwarf Fortress Let's Play Series, Steelclutches, and he not only featured it in the latest episode, but also said that it's basically an inspiration for that particular...well, he calls them "parts" but it's effectively like "seasons". Go and watch it, it's amazing.

Spoiler: Bim Silversnarl The Rapid Violator of Shadows and the Hero of Balance, versus Lyce˙i Seeriddle the Sin of Dusks and the Demon King (click to show/hide)

[Shook]

Ooo, awesome, congrats on the prominent feature! A spot well deserved, you got some cool lighting going there.

also ANGRY CHEF DRAGON

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YOU BURNT THE FOOD SO NOW YOU SHALL LEARN HOW FOOD FEELS ABOUT BEING BURNED

[Arx]

I made an Inktober 2017 thread, for those interested. Also gonna post at least my first day here since it might be the only one/

Spoiler: Moon Rabbit (click to show/hide)

[Parsely]

CC from Code Geass being tempted by pizza.

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Done for an art trade with my friend Jenga.

[Noyemi K]

I haven't been in in a while because I installed Win10 and didn't want to bother re-logging into all my sites. However, I bring goo tidings

Spoiler: Innocent Goo and Oscilloscopes (click to show/hide)

[Arx]

Spoiler: Rough Portrait Values (click to show/hide)

I'm rusty and this is ugly.

[Parsely]

* BadLemonsXI face desks keyboard.

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Thoughts?

Been meaning to reply to this for a while now:
- I'm the wrong person to comment on this first one.
- Pretty good. Anatomy works, proportions are OK, the clothes look good. Her bangs look awful, they don't even look like badly cut bangs they're just far too square and the gaps are too big between them. If it was a more cartoony art style it might work but here, no. This is a great start, the next step is to start varying your line weight. If you can figure that out your art will start improving immensely.
- Looks like a dude from Bob's Burgers, copied the art style perfectly if it was intentional. See above complaints about line weight. I can't tell if he's wearing a shirt or not because you didn't completely draw his shirt collar.

Spoiler: Rough Portrait Values (click to show/hide)

I'm rusty and this is ugly.

Perspective is good and the values are excellent. His hair needs a little more volume at the back to but that's just a personal thing I think. His shirt makes his neck look too short, I think that's just wrong. There's some edge highlighting on his right cheeck but we don't really see that on the rest of his face.

This is something I see in a lot of your work and I don't mean to be rude, but a lot of your stuff is very blurry and unrefined and it makes your work feel unfinished. Have you noticed this and if so do you mind if I ask why you always stop painting at this stage?

I haven't been in in a while because I installed Win10 and didn't want to bother re-logging into all my sites. However, I bring goo tidings

Spoiler: Innocent Goo and Oscilloscopes (click to show/hide)

I didn't know you did tablet sketching! Your colors are always great and you make such cute characters. Seriously I am so in love with your art.

Ooo, awesome, congrats on the prominent feature! A spot well deserved, you got some cool lighting going there.

also ANGRY CHEF DRAGON

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YOU BURNT THE FOOD SO NOW YOU SHALL LEARN HOW FOOD FEELS ABOUT BEING BURNED

Yes! Such clean! Many refined lines! You should try a transparent background on pieces like this where you just have a solid color background. It'll show up better on different site themes (and feel more finished, to me at least, there's something nice about clean and crisp art with transparency, like a fresh sticker).

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Spoiler: WARNING: sketch of a mostly naked guy within (click to show/hide)

[Arx]

Spoiler: Rough Portrait Values (click to show/hide)

I'm rusty and this is ugly.

Perspective is good and the values are excellent. His hair needs a little more volume at the back to but that's just a personal thing I think. His shirt makes his neck look too short, I think that's just wrong. There's some edge highlighting on his right cheeck but we don't really see that on the rest of his face.

This is something I see in a lot of your work and I don't mean to be rude, but a lot of your stuff is very blurry and unrefined and it makes your work feel unfinished. Have you noticed this and if so do you mind if I ask why you always stop painting at this stage?

Thanks for the feedback. In this case the piece is blurry and unfinished because it's a rough values study. In most other cases, it's either because I was working quickly (I haven't had enough time for art of late, sadly) or an intentional stylistic choice.

I usually try to work on details in a focused fashion; so, taking the above as an example (which is terrible in some ways because it's all rough), his eyes and nose have far more detail than anything else. The rest of his head is picked out in some detail, and the rest is sketched in because it's not the focus. It conveys what I'm trying to communicate (he's wearing a suit) without holding the eye longer than necessary with tiny little gribbles. It's obviously more extreme here because everything is sketched in on some level.

I also have a mild dislike for photorealism. I think striving for it is a healthy stage all or most artists should go through, to develop a strong understanding of form and anatomy, but I don't think it's an inherent good. WLOP's style is one of my favourites, for instance (although I only discovered them recently - a couple of weeks ago).

[Shook]

Yes! Such clean! Many refined lines! You should try a transparent background on pieces like this where you just have a solid color background. It'll show up better on different site themes (and feel more finished, to me at least, there's something nice about clean and crisp art with transparency, like a fresh sticker).

THANK MUCH

I actually keep the white background mostly because it provides a consistent backdrop for the lines; forum themes vary a lot, and i feel like thick black lines don't look as good when the background is too dark. It is, however, a very easy fix!

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Hooray for layers. :v (also displays the spots where i failed to close the outline completely, gg me)

Spoiler: WARNING: sketch of a mostly naked guy within (click to show/hide)

THICCBOI

Lines and anatomy are looking good, even if reality would object to any human having a colossally padded arse without the upper body being similarly padded. But, reality also doesn't have angry chef dragons, so screw reality. :v

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Also i was absent mindedly browsing through the depths of my own gallery (AS ONE DOES, RIGHT??), happened upon this thing from 5 years ago and thought like "man i had a hard time with that t-rex, i wonder how well i'd do today??".

Spoiler: NICE CUP OF T (click to show/hide)

Well, it was certainly easier. I might also be developing a soft spot for giving t-rexes stick arms.