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At 16 minutes ago, OutonParole89 wrote: let me in with your thoughts on improvement and how i can get better at drawing.

I think it would be more dramatic if you could see his whole face contorted with pain, rather than just his mouth, and also it may be better to draw the more detail into the t-shirt he's wearing, it seems like lots of detail on the arms, with muscles and everything, but the t-shirt just looks plain and simple, also practice drawing hands, the hand on the sword looks decent, but it's too small, and the injured man seems to be missing a thumb...
other than that it's alright,
to improve on drawing altogether it depends on whether you want to draw realistically or not, if so you should consider drawing from references more. if your able to, take life drawing lessons. it really helps to get the shapes of the human body into a drawing.
that's all I can say really though

At 1 day ago, M-Maher wrote:
i think that would work well, if its done well

here we are, not completely happy with it, but I don't want to keep working into it, in case I ruin it

At 6 minutes ago, Decky wrote:

At 5 hours ago, ProjectBirdy wrote: Hope you like it!

Not a style of artwork that I draw myself or view often but it has to be said that this is a great piece. Although I'm a little confused as to what is meant on the post above. And also I don't know why there is a random block of purple between her hands.

I think that's her other arm,

so here it is with colour, and with the floor replaced by a shadow
was thinking of creating a background and some rain pouring down. what do you sexy beasts think?

At 2 hours ago, Spaghetti14 wrote:

At 8 hours ago, Lintire wrote:

At 6 minutes ago, killahwatts wrote: thanks for the critique, however I have one question; is it worth me carrying on? or do you think I would better help humanity by never creating another?

I can totes tell you this - we were all shit at one time or another. Most of us still are pretty crap at what we do. If you're willing to put in the hours, to really commit to getting better - then by damn do I think it's totally worth you carrying on.

Lint has a killer point here. Keep trying different artistic techniques until you find one that you truly enjoy doing, and then pursue it.

wow, getting lots o' advice from this pic, thanks to all of you :D
Spaghetti14, yeah, I'm looking for a comfortable place with pixel art right now. this one was more of a Style over Substance, just to see if i could translate my anatomical knowledge into pixels. right now I'm adding colours and slight details, to see where that ends up, and after that I'll probably start etching in detail after detail. my only problem is that i sometimes don't know when to stop, which is why I'm uploading to here, so you sexy people can tell me :D

At 2 hours ago, Captain-Carrion wrote: Looks good.
Keep it up.

fuck you spag

thanks Captain! that makes me epic happys :D

At 2 hours ago, choov wrote: Thats gangster, now animate it!

would if I could choov, but unfortunately I just don't have the programs to.
but depending on a decision at some point tomorrow, I might be creating a hand drawn animation involving this character.
I know it's not the same, but at least it's something XD

At 3 minutes ago, M-Maher wrote:

At 13 minutes ago, Lintire wrote: Yep. That's pixel art, alright. Trust me - I've seen quite a bit of pixel art.

its like Captain Carrion's work but a little less detailed, and a little less.................well...............visually stimulating lets say.

this is very 8-bit not 16 to 32 bit like the ones you referenced i think the character is great if not for a little more detail to be added, that and a bit less of this single colour business, you should get a feeling for how lighting works and shading

also get rid of that horrendous ground he's standing on and replace it with a simple shadow circle.

yeah that's fair enough, thanks for the advice.
I think I'll go back into it with all that it mind.
might upload the "finished" result of my future tinkerings
but that really depends on whether it's any good or not :P

At 9 minutes ago, Lintire wrote: Yep. That's pixel art, alright. Trust me - I've seen quite a bit of pixel art.

Now here's kind of where you're going to have to help us out. This is the kind of pixel-art you're doing. Objectively, it isn't very good, but not horrendously bad, either.

But, how good do you want your pixel art to be? Like this, perhaps? Maybe this? Or this? This? Hell, this?

Your art is about as simple as it gets. Unless I know where you want to go, can't do much more then that.

thanks, I can tell you now that I have no real aspiration to become the next great pixel God, in fact I threw this one together in less than an hour, and most of that time was just editing the pixel quality through various programs and one website. (im not used to this kind of thing :3)
at the moment I'm just trying new things to see if they work
thanks for the critique, however I have one question; is it worth me carrying on? or do you think I would better help humanity by never creating another?

well, I made some pixels sit next to each other long enough for me to take a picture.
love it if you'd all take a quick peek, tell me your thoughts and sold me your soul.
^one of those is optional.
if you like it, I might upload more in the future
if your interested, I have an entire back story and some semblance of a plot line for this character.
seriously.
it might not look like it, but I actually spent six weeks developing this character.

At 5/31/11 09:23 AM, Luwano wrote: Generally I think it's a funny idea, there are however some things that bother me.

First off, why are the extra limbs in a different colour?

There is a lot of empty space around the actual item, you should consider cropping it, or making it bigger.

You could add some scribbling that looks like handwriting just like on the original vitruvian man.

It would probably look even cooler if it was monochrome, like the real one. But that's just an idea, not a critique.

Apart from that I kinda like it.

okay, thanks.
the extra limbs are a different colour so that you can see them, if i were to make all his legs black, you would not be able to tell that they are legs.
i like the scribbling idea, i might try that, i'll make the tankman a bit bigger, and the writing should clear up the rest of the space.
i'll put it up later today with these changes.

made this pixel art of a Tankman.
based of the famous sketch of Leonardo Da Vinci "Vitruvian Man".
critique would be nice, this is my first real pixel art. and i only did it because i'm ill, confined in my room and generally bored.

here's another poster

hello, i have recently been doing Gorillaz fan art. here is my newest piece of Cyborg Noodle.
please tell me what you think of it, as i shall be working on it in photoshop aand i want to knpw the problems i can fix now before i start.

these are all pretty great. the zombie/ mutant one looks a bit odd, what with pencil on red, they look like cutouts.
to be honest, your style in drawing is fine the way it is, but you need to straighten those lines a bit. thats it. the only criticism i can give for your drawings is to polish them up a bit and refine their shapes a little.
i use colour rarely, so i shall not push it upon you, but i do think that you might need to get some Photoshop (or similar program) practice.

it looks okay, if a little confusing.
i really like the silhouettes, they look really good. but is that electricity that is pumping into that dudes head? because that doesnt look great. and i think that thats the bit that confuses me.
my opinion is that you should have left it out.
as there is not much of the characters i cannot tell if you are good with proportion or not, or anatomy. but i can see that you are good with detail.

nice 3D model.
i noticed that you drew Noodle from Gorillaz, on the Windmill island. NICE! love that band.
on to the art though; you seem to have gotten several comments on how to draw your characters, so i wont touch on that. but your backgrounds are pretty bad.
we can see what they are, but they dont fit with the character, you need to regard each and every object as a character in its own right; put time into it. detail it. shade it.
as it happens, i have been studying Hewletts style (Gorillaz artist) and if you wish to continue drawing noodle i can give tips and tuts as to how.
of course you will need an example of my skill (if you consider it)
my fan art.
i find it helpful to your own style to study other styles. and you seem to be interested in manga art, you also have potential.

it could be a lot better. put it that way.
there is not a whole lot to the picture, there is a couple of teeth, an eye and some more (spikes?) further to the right. and thats just from memory. now some basic drawings can be amazing, some small drawings can be amazing, but your small drawing lacks clarity, which is what you were going for, to be fair, but a small drawing should always be clear.
and yes, i know that tecnically you did fill the page. but you filled it with black, with a few murky features dotting the centre.
if i were you i would give the teeth and eye a bold outline, to make them stand out.

much of the above; spend more time with your drawings. the first drawing was terrible. no effort no detail and misplaced shading. the second one was okay but needs a lot of work.
the lines are shaky on both of the drawings, but i'm sure that practice will help you with that.
If you could, i would suggest posting your best hand drawing via scanner. i think that if we seen your hand drawings we will be able to help more; as you've only just got the drawing tablet.

At 2/11/11 05:03 PM, SoConfused wrote: I want to see what you can do when you put them into photoshop (or whatever you use) and add some life to them.

i shall warn you that i am really terrible with photoshop. i am only intending to colour and outline them. but thanks nontheless.

At 2/11/11 03:45 AM, Silo2000 wrote: I have to admit, I am a huge fan of Hewlett's. Love his stuff.

And your stuff here is fairly well done, indeed. Though I'm sure that may just be bias.

thank you. not sure if its Portal worthy, i'll make a few more and we'll see.

At 2/10/11 05:25 PM, BluGil wrote:

) I love the gorillaz, and especially noodle haha.

It looks nice, but it lacks a personal style - looks just like a copy of her from an animation. So try to add something of your own to it.

Also if you have Photoshop, I suggest opening it in there, tracing it with the brush in a new layer, and posting that instead since it looks a lot nicer and finalized, and allows for easy coloring too. Just a suggestion though.

i was going for Hewletts style of art, you saying that it looks like a copy straight from the animation is high praise indeed. as for adding something of my own; the guitar is actually mine, i used is as a still life model (added a few details to make it cool though), as i have never drawn a guitar before.
in any case; heres the next one

hello, i'm a relatively new user, so this is my first thread i think (pretty sure).
I have posted these pictures on some other websites, and am generating some good critique, but i am ever thirsty for more ways in which to improve. cuz i'm never happy i guess.
unfortunately i'm not sure how to post two attachments in one post, so i'm gonna have to double-post to show you guys both of my fan art drawings.
both of these were requested by others, the first was requested by my sister, the second was a user on one of the sites i posted the original on. I have yet to photoshop them; to add colours and shiz, but i hope you appreciate them nontheless.
i would explain who they are, but you probably dont care and just want to see the picture, so without further ado: