Opinions on this drawing OT

more airbrush

tenaka2

Here are some basic ones I did,

My Friend loves Lady Ga ga so i drew her two pics. All pencil

This is just a funny drawing I did of my friend if he did drag.

Some fanart drawn with pen tablet and photoshop elements. Requested by a kid I'm in class with... I rushed it so it doesn't look that good. v.v

SailorH, megaspider, everyone else who posted pics, post more, please.

Mega-Mustaine

Looks good, but the framing really isn't working for me.

1) This just feels really unbalanced. It just seems far too heavily weighted to the right. Some of my primary issues with this are firstly that I only know English, so I'm approaching the picture from the left. Coming in from the left, I get greeted with a whole lot of negative space, with nothing really leading my eye INTO the picture. And then once I get to the woman, she's sort of walking right out of the picture. The actual drawing is simple, but it doesn't look "wrong". I hav absolutely no problem with how you drew the woman. I do have an issue with how you framed the whole composition. I think the piece would be more effective if the woman was on the left, so that I'm following her INTO the picture instead of right out of the picture.

2) And sort of on that note, I think it might help to just crop tighter. There's nothing inherently wrong with a whole lot of negative space, but I just don't see it working here. Maybe a tighter crop would help. Maybe that blank white space on the left needs something actually leading into the picture. But the composition isn't working for me. And I think I sort of see what you may have been going for. I mean...I absolutely notice that the woman is looking backwards (human eyes don't really work that way, but I'll accept that as just the ****that you were using), so that large segment of empty white space seems like it is SUPPOSED to be a critical element. It's just that there's not enough there for me to even be able to tell what's going on. I mean...I think there should be something there. Even the character in the drawing is acting like there's something there. But when I look there, I see nothing. If that part of the piece was supposed to be full of nothing, then maybe at least have beams of light (instead of a huge white empty field of light) directing my eye into the picture?

But then again, maybe that's just me.

And also let me restate that I'm fine with the actual drawing. I just think that it either needs a tighter crop, or needs something over on the left which is actually serving to direct my eye over to the woman. I mean, she really is WAY over there on the right. And once I get to her, she already looks like she's walking out of the picture. Lots of negative space can be fine in certain situations, it's just that I don't quite think it's working right in this case.

pencil one

tenaka2

Very nice.

Shadows look a liitle bit weird because they don't all seem to fit with the lighting, but that's a small enough complaint that I'm not gonna dwell on it. It's a nice, tight framing, pretty much just right. I'm not looking at it thinking that it needs a tighter crop, and it's not making me feel crammed in wishing that you'd given the piece a bit more room to breathe.

And thank you thank you thank you for posting something with actual CONTENT which makes me want to explore what you were trying to communicate. For better or for worse (mostly better, because this really does look pretty freaking good), I love this because it seems interesting, it seems original, and it looks a hell of a lot like you're actually trying to say something.

Number one complaint I have here is that it just seems a little bit too dim. As in, it looks like you actually drew it on paper and then either scanned it or took a picture of it. And that the resulting picture didn't have the impact of the original. I don't know if that was an accident though, or if that was your intent. I'd personally like to see blacker blacks and deeper shadows. But I don't know if this drawing is just looking sort of weak as a result of turning it into a digital file, or if it's looking sort of dima and faint and weak because that was always your INTENT from the beginning.

In any case, nice job. Nice job on the drawing (because as far as I can tell, it does look good) and nice job for doing something which actually looks like it's worth sitting there and thinking about.

I doubt it, they are not real nipples

tenaka2

The TOU, like art, are open to interpretation.

I'm not saying that you WILL receive a moderation for posting that. But if you do, you don't really have a leg to stand on.

I've posted my "art" here, and gotten it deleted far faster for showing far less.

They don't really have to be real nipples, just like how there are millions of cartoon porn pics that'll still get you banned if you post them here.

Psh was going to post something but I saw everyone else's and it looks like a doodle :P I'm more musically inclined anyways, my visual art isn't good.

As for OP, I`d rather judge it when it was done. Looks like it's coming along nicely though.

better what I can do soI say its pretty good imo

Pretty good, imo.

Here are some old ones of mine. I should get back into drawing...

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pencil one

MrGeezer

Very nice.

Shadows look a liitle bit weird because they don't all seem to fit with the lighting, but that's a small enough complaint that I'm not gonna dwell on it. It's a nice, tight framing, pretty much just right. I'm not looking at it thinking that it needs a tighter crop, and it's not making me feel crammed in wishing that you'd given the piece a bit more room to breathe.

And thank you thank you thank you for posting something with actual CONTENT which makes me want to explore what you were trying to communicate. For better or for worse (mostly better, because this really does look pretty freaking good), I love this because it seems interesting, it seems original, and it looks a hell of a lot like you're actually trying to say something.

Number one complaint I have here is that it just seems a little bit too dim. As in, it looks like you actually drew it on paper and then either scanned it or took a picture of it. And that the resulting picture didn't have the impact of the original. I don't know if that was an accident though, or if that was your intent. I'd personally like to see blacker blacks and deeper shadows. But I don't know if this drawing is just looking sort of weak as a result of turning it into a digital file, or if it's looking sort of dima and faint and weak because that was always your INTENT from the beginning.

In any case, nice job. Nice job on the drawing (because as far as I can tell, it does look good) and nice job for doing something which actually looks like it's worth sitting there and thinking about.

I must confess that this isn't original but only a copy of another piece and I got lazy with the background.

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Some fanart drawn with pen tablet and photoshop elements. Requested by a kid I'm in class with... I rushed it so it doesn't look that good. v.v

SailorH, megaspider, everyone else who posted pics, post more, please.

MrGeezer

Looks good, but the framing really isn't working for me.

1) This just feels really unbalanced. It just seems far too heavily weighted to the right. Some of my primary issues with this are firstly that I only know English, so I'm approaching the picture from the left. Coming in from the left, I get greeted with a whole lot of negative space, with nothing really leading my eye INTO the picture. And then once I get to the woman, she's sort of walking right out of the picture. The actual drawing is simple, but it doesn't look "wrong". I hav absolutely no problem with how you drew the woman. I do have an issue with how you framed the whole composition. I think the piece would be more effective if the woman was on the left, so that I'm following her INTO the picture instead of right out of the picture.

2) And sort of on that note, I think it might help to just crop tighter. There's nothing inherently wrong with a whole lot of negative space, but I just don't see it working here. Maybe a tighter crop would help. Maybe that blank white space on the left needs something actually leading into the picture. But the composition isn't working for me. And I think I sort of see what you may have been going for. I mean...I absolutely notice that the woman is looking backwards (human eyes don't really work that way, but I'll accept that as just the ****that you were using), so that large segment of empty white space seems like it is SUPPOSED to be a critical element. It's just that there's not enough there for me to even be able to tell what's going on. I mean...I think there should be something there. Even the character in the drawing is acting like there's something there. But when I look there, I see nothing. If that part of the piece was supposed to be full of nothing, then maybe at least have beams of light (instead of a huge white empty field of light) directing my eye into the picture?

But then again, maybe that's just me.

And also let me restate that I'm fine with the actual drawing. I just think that it either needs a tighter crop, or needs something over on the left which is actually serving to direct my eye over to the woman. I mean, she really is WAY over there on the right. And once I get to her, she already looks like she's walking out of the picture. Lots of negative space can be fine in certain situations, it's just that I don't quite think it's working right in this case.

You, sir, are now a legend amongst me for being the very first person to give me a proper and very good critique. c:

I would post one of my drawings but gamespot's image server is not working again.

Right I managed to take another photo of it (I don't have a scanner):

Now multiply the quality of this by 5 and that's how good this is. Because some light in the room I took the photo lit up the left side of the largest flower. Which ruins it. And it looks grainy here, which it is not.

Its better than what I can do, but ask me again after its been painted and I'll give you a better answer.

Looks good to me, wish i could do that.:(

You, sir, are now a legend amongst me for being the very first person to give me a proper and very good critique. c:

Mega-Mustaine

No problem.

And BTW, never say stuff like "I rushed it so it's not that good." I have a bad tendency to do that kind of thing myself, and I really need to stop doing it. Because when saying stuff like that, it's like you (or me, or anyone else who does that kind of thing) is getting defensive as a preemptive response to negative criticism. And the way I see it, there's nothing wrong with EXPLAINING things about your art. But if you have to DEFEND it, then you've sort of already failed. Defending it preemptively in anticipation of negative criticism is therefore then sort of automatically declaring the piece a failure before anyone else did. All you're doing is drawing attention to the flaws...like if someone were to say "it looks rushed". And it's like...if you hadn't said anything, maybe no one would have noticed.

So yeah, just my advice...feel free to EXPLAIN your work. But if you're needing to DEFEND it, then you're probably doing something wrong. Furthermore, even if you do find yourself getting defensive, at least wait until after the general opinion is "it looks rushed". If you hadn't bashed the piece first, then maybe the people looking at it never would have thought that it looks rushed. But when YOU tell them that it was rushed before they even have a chance to really look at it, of course they're gonna start thinking that it looks rushed. I certainly understand that kind of preempive defensiveness...hell, I do it way too much myself. But seriously, it's a bad habit. Nothing good ever results from doing it, and it's a good idea to try to avoid doing it. Hell, even if you really do have to get defensive about a work, at least wait long enough to actually see if people are bashing it. Don't put your own work down before everyone gets to see it.