/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2163975
Why the fuck are you guys impressed by this? This is street spray painter level illustration. Sure, the paint this guy sprayed on the canvas looks kinda like grass, and with this transparent effect it can look like a realistic pond, but does that make it good? Is it impressive?

The reason to some people it looks kinda good but also kinda bad is because it's an overdone painting job trying hard to mask a half assed drawing. The fundamentals are half assed, and the biggest giveaway of this painting's real quality is the figure of the girl and her umbrella. Her body is smushed like she was sculpted with playdoh, and the umbrella was made with so little effort to even look right that the sketch was left in the final rendering.

The center of our piece is this quickly put together sort of minimalistic rendering of Yotsuba, and our background is a gritty, muddy colored, heavily textured dull grass, road and a pond. It's so badly put together there is a sidewalk in the middle of the road, the edge of the road and the lines of paint are so straight and clean they look like they were made of glass.
It's all so flat it looks like a collage. Every piece of this painting is on a diferent plane, and none of them has volume. Even if it was intentional because muh style, the results are awful.
The only great thing on this are these ducks. They are great. Keep drawing these cute papery motherfuckers.

The water effects are a nice touch, this and the heavy texture may trick people on facebook, but if you want more than that, if you want to git gud I would say stay away from these dull colors, and stop abusing the lasso tool and the gritty textures. I saw your tumblr, you can do better than this. You had some awesome shit in 2014, great studies specially. What happened?
Again, don't halfass your drawings. A simple painting over a well done drawing is always better than an overdone painting job over a turd. Pic Related.