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Like the people above me have said, it really just depends on who is evaluating. Everybody has their different likes and dislikes. One person may absolutely hate something you make, while another may fall in love with it. Though, I think that the best way to evaluate something is to put your own preferences aside and do some empathizing. This means you put yourself in the producer's shoes. Try to look at what the artist was going for. Do you see the same motivation they had? Sometimes, it is also best to put more though into it than the original artist did. Can you imagine why the artist would take the time to make he or she made? What is he or she trying to prove, if anything? Then after you ask yourself all of these questions, then perhaps you may jump back to your likes and dislikes. Of all the thought you've put into the evaluation, does the piece before you please you? Why or why not? What could the artist have done differently?

I guess this is just an example of one of my ways to evaluate stuff. I know, it kinda sounds like a bunch of Bull-Huh, but I think it is effective.

Unfortunately, people on this site tend to evaluate art based on the if the art has giant breasts or bubbly butts in it. Not to be a hypocrite or anything, cuz I draw a lot of that stuff, but, damn, some people are just so anal about porn. I mean, it isn't even art to begin with. But I digress.

So what I'm saying is, evaluation should have a bunch of critical thinking done in it. It should point out the negative as well as the positive. In the evaluation, one should not try to change the artist's style, no, rather, they should give tips on how to improve. That is the key. There is no such thing as the perfect artist. But, by golly, you can sure as hell try to get pretty damn close to perfection.

I hope this helps~

At 8/10/12 08:08 AM, aoisgd wrote: i was doing some threads until someone told me i should do a single art thread (you know to keep the forum clean) so....
i will post here sketches and finished works...so... letÃ'´s have some fun shall we?

lets start with deadpool

Your sketches are really amazing! They look...well...sketchy...haha. But seriously, I really enjoyed looking at them! You got some real skill!

At 11/27/12 04:40 PM, Template88 wrote: Improvement? yes. Significant improvement? no.

I would really appreciate it that if you are going to post in my forum, that you actually post something useful instead of four useless fragments.

HI there! Are you still taking requests like this? I don't wanna overwhelm you or anything. But if you have the time, do you think you could draw my character?
The picture is black and white, but I will tell you the colours.
His hair is red, kinda like a maroon and crimson mix. His eyes are lilac purple. His skin is pale but not too pale. Like an ivory tanish colour. and his hoodie is jade green. And yes, he is wearing eyeliner.
I won't be picky about the colours, since my ref is black and white. :P

At 11/25/12 02:48 AM, bigCman321 wrote: Post both images separately and without the right one being distorted.

Clearly your shading has improved.

Oh okay. That makes sense to do that lolz.

Thanks. I try.

At 11/24/12 11:34 PM, lovingthedark wrote: It's hard to tell when the pictures are so small, but it does seem that your shading has gotten smoother between pictures. The anatomy is pretty bad- I know it's stylized, but the thinness of the waist is alarming and the breasts will be much more impressive if you attach them further down like real breasts (they don't start up by the collarbone, I promise).

There's no real light source here, though you've done a good job of including highlights to show texture.

Yeah, sorry about the smallness, I'm new to this whole forum thing. Thanks for your input. The anatomy is supposed to be exaggerated and stuff. It's just the way that I like it, i guess. I think realism is boring. But I get what you're getting at. I'm still trying to perfect my style. And, oh yeah, I did forget to draw the collarbone, lolz, so it threw my off on breast placement.

Thanks for your input! I will keep this in mind next time.

Heehee! Your style reminds me of Adventure Time! Great stuff here, bro. You said that these pictures are album art? That's pretty awesome. Are you getting paid for doing this? Or is this a charity work or something?

Okay, so here are two pictures places side by side. One of them is one that I did a while ago, and the other is the re-made version of the first one. The one on the right is a little bit distorted so that it could fit in the frame of the place-holder of the meme. I'm sorry that the picture is tiny. Can't exceed 200k.
I think that overall, yeah, i did improve quite a bit, but I am looking for some more advice on how to improve even more. I probably won't redo this pic again, but I would still like some *friendly* advice.
By the way, I draw with Prismacolor Coloured Pencils. If there are any pencil-wizards out there, I would greatly appreciate some tips from you!
Thanks to anyone whom contributes!