New here, requesting critique

[MaskedGuardian]

Hello folks. I had opened this account quite some time ago, but I left it hanging for a while. However, I've decided to try and expand my (still quite little) audience by posting to this account, as well as my main source of artwork on deviantART. Point in case, I was wondering if some artists on this site would mind checking out some of the pieces I've posted here and giving me your honest opinion and critique. I don't care about being patted on the ass - I want to know what I did right, what I did wrong, what you'd recommend I do next time. It's mostly traditional work, with one sculptural piece in the mix - I do have digital art, but most of it is either quick drawings or lower-quality, and I don't want to submit it to this site. But I will say that you can probably expect digital art in the future. Thanks for your time.
Cheers~

[Kinsei]

At 8/30/11 10:03 PM, MaskedGuardian wrote: what I did wrong,

Well... As soon as you get the posted in the thread, we'll give them a look

[MaskedGuardian]

Here's one, to get people started.

[MaskedGuardian]

Here's one, and another in the forum itself. Thanks.

[MaskedGuardian]

As soon as you get the posted in the thread

Gotcha, will these do?

[Kinsei]

At 8/30/11 10:16 PM, MaskedGuardian wrote: Here's one, and another in the forum itself. Thanks.

I really don't like the angle of the photo. You got a different one to show it off a little>

I like the paint job of it. And the hair is a nice touch.

The texture on it is a bit awkward. Is it Paper Mache?

[MaskedGuardian]

At 8/31/11 04:49 PM, Kinsei01 wrote:

I really don't like the angle of the photo. You got a different one to show it off a little>

I like the paint job of it. And the hair is a nice touch.

The texture on it is a bit awkward. Is it Paper Mache?

Well, I do have a photo of me wearing it, but it's not as professional-looking as this one. I can put it up here though, if you'd like. And no, it's not paper mache, but that's a good guess - it's actually plaster gauze. It gives it sort of a gritty texture, rather than making it too smooth.

[bigjonny13]

At 8/30/11 10:13 PM, MaskedGuardian wrote: Here's one, to get people started.

Reminds me of Merol's style.

[MaskedGuardian]

At 8/31/11 05:00 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote:
Reminds me of Merol's style.

Who?

[MaskedGuardian]

I've posted some digital art as well:
http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/maske dguardian/itoshii-at-the-water

[Fifty-50]

At 8/31/11 05:02 PM, MaskedGuardian wrote:

At 8/31/11 05:00 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote:
Reminds me of Merol's style.

Who?

MasterMerol. Come to think of it they do look very similar.

[MaskedGuardian]

At 8/31/11 05:48 PM, Fifty-50 wrote:

At 8/31/11 05:02 PM, MaskedGuardian wrote:

At 8/31/11 05:00 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote:
Reminds me of Merol's style.

Who?

MasterMerol. Come to think of it they do look very similar.

Oh wow, I like his stuff! Though I don't quite see a similarity.... but even so!

[MaskedGuardian]

Been a while, but I've got some new pieces, and I'd like some critique for these too, if you don't mind.

[MaskedGuardian]

One more.

[LordDF]

At 3/26/12 01:48 AM, MaskedGuardian wrote: Been a while, but I've got some new pieces, and I'd like some critique for these too, if you don't mind.

For the red and green sunrise one:

It's got a good simplification style, and it's a start on abstraction. However, for this this to be a successful piece, you really gotta look at the colors. Strong red and strong green will never go together half and half like that. They are compliments, but they should be used with one very very faint.

Even though the grass fields are green, they will be heavily affected by the red light. What you'll end up with for the ground is very muted. example

For the underwater one, I'd say just work on your shapes/values. It's a bit hard to read right now, everything is dark and muddy. Decide before you paint what you want people to focus on.

Aside from that, keep painting and drawing! You're going to face a lot of criticism as an artist, but try not to let it get to ya.

[MaskedGuardian]

At 3/26/12 02:02 AM, LordDF wrote:

At 3/26/12 01:48 AM, MaskedGuardian wrote: Been a while, but I've got some new pieces, and I'd like some critique for these too, if you don't mind.

For the red and green sunrise one:

It's got a good simplification style, and it's a start on abstraction. However, for this this to be a successful piece, you really gotta look at the colors. Strong red and strong green will never go together half and half like that. They are compliments, but they should be used with one very very faint.

Even though the grass fields are green, they will be heavily affected by the red light. What you'll end up with for the ground is very muted. example

For the underwater one, I'd say just work on your shapes/values. It's a bit hard to read right now, everything is dark and muddy. Decide before you paint what you want people to focus on.

Aside from that, keep painting and drawing! You're going to face a lot of criticism as an artist, but try not to let it get to ya.

Thanks for the feedback - I like the example you showed me. It really does work better. Actually, the bottom piece is in space, but it's sort of odd-looking, so I can understand if it looks like it's underwater. It was majorly-improvised.

[MaskedGuardian]

By this point I'm not exactly new... but I'm going to keep putting things up anyway. This one wasn't really a major undertaking of a project, but I still think it turned out pretty interestingly. Let me know what you think.