/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Still good though. You've got a really good eye, it's just clear you've never sat down and done a study of a master painting or someone you really admire, or you'd understand a little better how to create the effects you enjoy.

Remember, art is just a group effort to strive for beauty, ideals and an understanding of how our minds work. Everyone builds on the breakthroughs and discoveries of the previous geniuses, from the Greeks improving the anatomy of Egyptian sculptures, to anime artists using the drawings of Rembrandt to work on pleasing simple form and colour. Geniuses are the first ones who unlock a new realm of understanding, which we are left to figure out and understand and marvel at their ingenuity and mastery.
The periods when people stop studying the past seem to be the periods with the most backwards progress in art, for instance the naive and crude understanding of isometric perspective and proportion employed in the Middle Ages where it was forbidden to actually paint a nude woman from life, or artists were cloistered monks, or the modern world of contemporary art, where snot nosed pretentious dyed haired faggots think that art history is just patriarchal old racists painting sexy nudes (as if that's a bad thing).

What I'm saying is, do some studies of masters you like. It might give you a lot more reward from your painting, give you the language to communicate between the image in your mind and the canvas, and it's immensely rewarding to study and breakthrough the thoughts of these geniuses laid bare for all to see and unlock.