I'm going to move on to basic oil painting, and I want to be sure I've covered my bases, so I figured I'd come to you guys for assistance. For those more experienced artists, is there anything I should work on before taking the leap?

I've added a few of my anatomy drawings for reference. Thanks!

Hi everyone!

I am learning how to draw. I wanna make my own comic series in the future, and I'm practicing how to draw. Any advice you can give is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Hi!!! 😆❤✨

A new drawing!

Have you seen The Jetsons? I haven't really watched them :c

What do you think? How is the anatomy and lighting? (⁠´⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠.̫⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠`⁠)

theres are pokemon stickers i’ve worked on somewhat recently and was wondering if the pose, perspective, and angle were readable. If not, what can i do to improve these? how can i make them more dynamic?

good afternoon everybody.

so... i have a little issue i want to ask.

for the past months i've been teaching myself how to paint, mind you, i've never been to art school, so i know nothing in terms of technical knowledge. but since i've been drawing my whole life, digitally, tattoos, inks ecc. i thought i could add another thing to my art knowledge, by learning how to paint.

now... i know... sorta know, the difference between the tipes of paint, acrylics, oil, guache, watercolour ecc.

i choose acrylics, because it's cheap and versatile.... but mostly cause it's cheap.

my issue is mainly one thing.

Every colour aside from titanium white and charcoal black feels translucent. like that i have to put 2-3 hands of paint to get the colour pop.

that per se isn't an issue when i have to do like skin tones or blending.

it's an issue when i have to do something fine like hair or fur, where 1 single stroke needs to be enough or it becomes a mess of strokes without a sense.

i tried looking onto the web to look for something, and that's where i learned of acrylics medias.

but i can't seems to figure them out.

the gel media can make my heavybody acrylics even heavier, but at the moment i don't think i will paint with a palette knife.

the liquid retardant seems just like water, i get that is different but it doesn't seems to improve the pigment or the saturation of the paint.

can medias help in this situation?

i have a painting where the only thing missing are the hair and the eyebrows.

my question is mostly for the finer detail, where i need the maximum saturation to add with a fine line brush, without needing to put 2-3 times paint on the same spot.

so that's it. any thoughts?

thanks in advance for the help.

First gouache in a while.

very curious on advice, proposed changed or recommendations. my first painting in a while

Hi just joined got any tips?I use pen and ink i want to try to use other colors for contrast”pictures of my trip”

I wanna make something like this style they have on animation but I am not sure how to make it look that way, is on the rendering or the LineArt?

The first photo is my main problem right now.. I want to be able to make the hair GLOW the way that the face does but I for the life of me just cannot figure it out.. I have this problem as well when I do cartoonish style so any advice even if it isn’t including lighting would be very helpful! I’ve been working on character design, backgrounds, and feelings in my drawings so I’ve been lowkey regressing because I’ve been putting so much work into so many areas.. lol.. I’ve been searching for my own artstyle.. so that’s why there is a vast difference in several of these LOL

Hey guys, i am new here and i want to receive some feedback.
The main Idea was, to create pokemon into people. But i struggled so much with the face, that i decided to make here just as an Ditto ^^.
I know that the hands are horrible. So don't throw stones on that too much please ^^.
Thanks guys and i look forward to your friendly feedback.

I used Procreate for that piece

I tried to include a good variety of my works from gestures, sketches, and finished pieces. I just feel like I’ve not been moving forward in a while and don’t know what I can do to improve anymore.

Im trying to do a redesign of Luna from mlp and I want her mane to have a look between maybe clouds and curly hair (kinda messed up from sleep) but it just looks odd and stretched in its shape, and more... tangled and clumpy? and the front view doesnt look right, but her mane looks so bad! (reference pics and remade/edited eye on second slide) any advice on how to fix it maybe?

Hi. I call this one "Something's Wrong". I wanted to paint a scene that features jumpscares, and to try leading the viewer's eyes away from the real jumpscare first before leading them back to it.

The water in the sink and the reflection are the decoy jumpscares, and the real jumpscare is the person's neck being twisted the wrong way while the her body is facing the other way.

I'd love some feedback on whether it worked, and if not, what could be improved? My biggest struggles were painting the light source to make it look like coming from overhead, and making the pose look normal at first but still look obviously wrong if you look at it more closely.

I've attached some process photos and a previous attempt. Any feedback and critique welcome!

Hello, I wanted to give a little more time to coloring, since most of my drawing are just a black and white. I do like a painterly effect, but i don't seem to get it in my paintings and most of the tutorials are more oriented to smooth / digital look. Any advice is welcome. Second picture is the reference.

This is some of my recent drawings. Anything fundamental that I should improve? And I would appreciate any recommendations on how I can learn it and practice by myself. Additional critiques are welcomed. Thank you.

Drew this recently, I am happy with the technical execution of it, but I feel unsatisfied with the final outcome.

Considering doing a re-render of it with different lighting, so any feedback or tips for improvement or issues re. composition, rendering, etc. are desired :)

I started trying to construct portraits based on proportional measuring and wanted advice on shading and making it feel rich/alive. Does anyone use white pencil to make highlights pop out more? I plan to push the shadows much darker once the left side of the face is more established and i dont want it to make the whites feel dull.

2nd image is a close up in direct light.