/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Your fundamentals need a lot of work

Loomis

>>5040828
You could try Artfol

>>5040828
I dunno about the art but that dialogue is too stiff and wordy.

>>5041144
this, here is my fix

>>5040828
>if that thing would have cut my neck, I would have been dead by now
This is "people die if they are killed" levels of writing. Please fix it.

OK yeah the dialogue was bad. How's this? Better?

Also >>5040977 be a little bit more specific please? I'm looking for something more specific than just "it bad" or "draw more", thanks.

>>5041452
Didn't notice until after posting that I just used "specific" twice in a row. Maybe my writing does need more work than my art.

>>5041236
Lmao

People will gather around you if you have enough skill/appeal

>>5041472
Give me art critiques then so I can get better

>>5041518
I’ll be straight with you, you’re so /beg/ you don’t deserve a crit and no one will bother because it’s literally what the sticky is made for.
Read the sticky, you don’t even have the basics covered.

>>5041539
thanks

>>5041518
>Give me art critiques then so I can get better
Why? You seem to have a victim mentality and a chip on your shoulder. You're beginner level and already fussing over muh followers, not healthy. Go to /beg/ and post work there. Download Anatomy for Sculptors and start copying high skill artists that you like. Once you've been told to fuck off to /alt/ and can get several replies per drawing you'll get your followers if you make a twitter. Enjoy still feeling dead inside if that's your motivation though. This is probably the most sincere advice you'll get in this thread, it's up to you if you want to sit around here or get to work

>>5041452
>be a little more specific
You can’t draw at all, really. Go back to the fundamentals and learn how to depict form.

>>5041564
I didn’t mean to be insulting or mean, it’s just that on a technical level, you’re just doodling, at least from the single image you provided.
That is enough technical knowledge to get followers on twitter, but there’s nothing to build off of for a constructive crit, the image 100% muh style and 0% fundamentals, so the only thing you can get are opinions and tastes, which are useless.

>>5041452
I like your art style. Is focusing on stylisation at this level ok? Im finding it hard to draw things if they arent in a front, side, or 1/3 angle

People on the internet don't oee you crit. It's your own responsibility to get better.

Discord communities exist.

Also, if you want social media attention for original, non-fanart content, you aren't good enough. Go study.

>>5041452
"You're lucky i'm alright, that thing almost killed me!"

Is better.

>>5042477
wrong

>>5042529
shut up dumb ESL

>>5040828
like your style, twitter?


but also. Draw fan art. If you want followers, you dont have a choice. draw some fanart, post it on twitter and reddit, gain followers then move to Oc work after

OP here. Thanks for the feedback, I guess. I know my anatomy needs a lot of work, and I've been procrastinating about it for a while. I suppose I'll get to work on that.

>>5041567 Wasn't aware of that book until now, will probably buy. Looks extremely useful and gets into the gritty details. Might really study the shit out of it and get my fundamentals up to par.

>>5041591 as anyone else here will probably tell you, general know-how of anatomy is more important than stylization. That's not to say style isn't important, it is. They're both important. Also, you drew that knife upside-down.

>>5042477 Disagree. I think "You're lucky I'm alive" gets the point across in less words. Also the exclamation point would imply she was either overwhelmed or really pissed off, while her expression is more tired and annoyed.

>>5040828
>If that thing cut off my neck, I'd be dead right now
>Clearly shows her holding her bleeding arm

What the fuck is this writing? Holy shit. Just because you can draw does not mean you can write.

>>5040828
Deviantart.

>>5044050
Work on your reading comprehension.

>>5044050
It couldve cut her neck and killed her. But it got her arm somehow

>>5040828
If you wanted to keep this you could have just changed it to "You're lucky I'm alive. If that thing had cut my neck I'd be dead right now."

>>5040828
"nearly died there ngl"
there, fixed your dialogue

>>5040828
The real answer is that there's no magic bullet and starting from zero is a bitch. Here's my tips but take them with a grain of salt since I've never personally tested them on my own accounts:
- Take any attention you can get. 10 upvotes or two likes on twitter is better than nothing
-Find smaller art communities/artists. Plenty of discords, telegrams, and other such exist for small artists. Small artists usually want to hang with people on their level and two people boosting each other every now and then is better than you hoping that god smiles on your page
-Post regularly. one post a day with a decent new sketch or WIP is infinitely better than once a month with a finished piece if you're small. Obviously you should post finished pieces and try to finish pieces as often as possible but engagement is better than quality and there are people who get away with posting 80% sketches/lineart and have a decent following. Start trying to make your drawing process more efficient where possible so eventually you can get it to where making something post worthy takes a few hours rather than day+
-Don't worry about the style. /ic/ is full of do-nothing mongrels who don't look at social media outside of like 3 artists they follow. How you draw currently could honestly get you quite a long ways if you figure out a niche to appeal to.
>>5042966
I don't want to discourage you from studying but the anatomy is perfectly acceptable for social media. Hand looks a bit off but that'll fly by most people.