r/ArtCrit

i paint my illness

When I ink, I tend to feel like the shadows (darks) look random, especially on characters. I try to be conscious of the light source when inking, but I often just do what I think looks "cool." Like on Deadpool for example. But it ends up looking random and a bit messy.

How can I improve my shadows for this drawing? Should I use more hatching? Bigger areas of dark shadows?

The photo doesn’t exactly do it justice…Anyways!

This is my first time drawing glass and fabric/clothing and I’m looking for some critique. It was a lot of fun, I used references around my room, but I wanna improve as an artist, and that includes my Still Life drawings. I don’t have access to different graphite pencils so this was done with a mechanical one (that’s something I’d like to change in the future)

Any advice or constructive criticism is welcome! Please let me know I’d love to hear.

Hi everyone. I struggle with capturing likeness in portraits so I'd greatly appreciate any help. I probably sound dumb but I am genuinely not sure if I've done enough to capture likeness here. (I have facial recognition issues so I usually just copy reference as best as I can and I have to assume it's close enough to looking like the person I'm drawing.) I am looking for specific critique for this piece, but also if anyone has general advice on getting a likeness down I'd really appreciate tips on that too.

I also realized 6+ hours into this that my reference image was not the best quality (lesson learned for the future) and I had to supplement it with other random references, but I'll post the main reference in the comments.

Thank you, I appreciate any help at all. I have been been working on this on and off without anybody to ask for advice for over 2 months now and I am starting to lose my mind.

it looks really off but I can't tell😭

this was from a bit ago and I wanna continue it but the shading looks a bit off I also used a reference

Work in progress of an Oil on 30x40cm canvas. I’m looking for the feedback on the following

1. Critique on the mood, color scheme and brush work
2. Still one more layer is left to finish, please give let me know where I can correct/improve to make it look more professional, and of course beautiful.

Also any tips on composition and general comments are welcome as well! Will be useful for my future works.

Reference: No single reference, I painted out of memory/imagination of a Tuscany scenery which I saw sometime back.

Goal: I like to keep the brush stokes visible ( as an artistic part), not too much in detail.

Thank you!

Wish I could show them all each but you can prob zoom in

Rough draft for character it’s primarily gonna be used for a YouTube channel idea I have

Based around being static as an artist I’ve been drawing for a bit so drawing her body constantly isn’t a worry but Is there anyway I can make her stronger while also keeping her simple just incase I do wanna animate her!!

TLDR- how can I make her more iconic while also making her animations friendly

charcoal 18x24. Just looking for feedback and thoughts.

I haven’t drawn in several months, and I want to get back into it. I painted this in 30 mins today to try to warm up, and I’m really struggling with pretty much all the fundamentals right now. What do you think I should focus on the most to improve based off what I made today?

Last shot here basically what I’m trying to do is give him muscles but I can’t figure it out for the life of me and references aren’t helping

i was trying out a new style with layering a bunch of colours and im really proud of it but i was just looking at if theres any way to make it any better? im looking for how to get better saturation, or anything to do with my anatomy.

Grayscale for my values (i can def see that the trousers need work so if anyone has any pointers)

thank youu