my art

[Anonymous No.3716909]

right now i'm super unsatisfied with my art because it all looks like copy/paste of eachother. despite being no way close from professional, i'd still like to hear what people might think i'm decent /horrendous at. it gives me a guide to where i shoud explore/experiment.

www.instagram.com/lilaquila
www.artstation.com/lilaquila

any critique is appreciated

[Anonymous No.3716933]

>>3716909
First you should check out the /alt/ thread and pyw there, people over there give nice crits. >>3716318
Your anatomy is pretty good, same with your lines, and it looks pleasant overall but there's obvious issues that feed into the
>it all looks like copy/paste of eachother.
thing.

First, there's an overwhelming amount of pink in your gallery. Your backgrounds are all pink, it's quite bland and repetitive. You could experiment with different backgrounds.
Your characters have the same body type! You could try doing studies to get a wider range of bodies mastered. Also watch out for hands, some in your gallery are a bit wonky. Get out of your comfort zone!
You suffer a bit from the sameface syndrome too. I don't know what else to say about it besides pointing it out since I never really had the same problem... Perhaps experimenting with different face shapes, eyes, mouths,... Could help you make more varied characters?

Hope I could help. GL anon.

[Anonymous No.3716958]

>>3716909
There's multiple threads for this

[Anonymous No.3716959]

>>3716909
There are multiple threads for this

[Anonymous No.3717015]

>>3716909
Maybe stop using fucking pink in every single piece.

[Anonymous No.3717152]

this is my first time ever on 4chan so I'm sorry I didn't quite get how this all works!

Thank you all nevertheless for commenting

[Anonymous No.3717166]

>>3717152
Be prepared to get your ass reamed, but be patient. People here legitimately want to improve and plenty of people do want to help you. Just be prepared for dickheads and fucktards.

[Anonymous No.3717173]

>>3716909
Listen here little baby. You're gonna get a lot of hurtful and degrading comments, but that ain't what I'm about. Let me just say, you are perfect the way you are. You hear me sugar? PERFECT. Don't ever change. You deserve anything and everything you want. Stay safe for me, baby girl.
>mfw thinking of you hurting

[Anonymous No.3717177]

>>3716909
Your stuff all looks the same because it is. Pastel pink background, flat 1-point perspective, pretty girls and soft cel-shading. When you sit down to draw, do you really think and draft out what you're going to make, or do you just let your hands do their own thing?

[Anonymous No.3717219]

>>3716909
You need to come back to your art with a new perspective, study something different. You dont even have to change the theme from your accounts, just take more time out to study lighting, contrast, and anatomy. The fact that you struggle with drawing the same body types gives me the strong suspicion that you rely too heavily on outlines and haven't learned the complex forms of the human body. You have really good proportional understanding of your few body types, but i think that's actually your downfall. You still have to learn anatomy, you cant skip over it by copying the lines you find most pleasing and adding basic shading.

[Anonymous No.3717225]

>>3717173
based

[Anonymous No.3717311]

>>3717173
You're not gonna fuck her anon.

[Anonymous No.3717365]

i actually never have gone on this site for the fact that I've heard the people can be jerks, but there was some kind of masochistic drive in me to let myself be critiqued here. i've been blatantly ignoring things you should be doing as an artist, which i'm somewhat aware of, but having me stay in my own comfort shell all the time won't make my lazy insecure ass move. (this is not an invitation to insult me for no reason, please) so i came here. and a bunch of you guys have actually given me really good advice, so thank you once again!

[Anonymous No.3717413]

>>3717365
learn gesture and figures

read loomis and hampton

come back in 3 months

[Anonymous No.3717432]

>>3717365
I am going to insult you for no reason.

[Anonymous No.3717436]

>>3717311
I don't even browse this board and I know that's a copypasta

[Anonymous No.3717447]

>>3717432
please no, i will cry :(

[Anonymous No.3717957]

>>3717365
Tits?

[Anonymous No.3717969]

>>3717365
Glad you could find something worthwile on this board. The crabs and other anons here will always be quick to point any mistake you make, and while that can be a good thing it can also get the better of your desire to draw.
The artbook thread is nice if you don't know where to continue from:
>>3713747
The "beginners essentials" has a lot of stuff that could benefit any artist really (what this anon >>3717413 said, it never hurts to go through a loomis/hampton book).

[Anonymous No.3717974]

>>3716909

The first thing that pops from your gallery is that the values are weak. The bottom right one of this gallery is the strongest image as it has some value scale. When you turn the image black and white you can see the value contrast. Value is one component of color (hue and saturation being the following ones) but it's the most important. I'd recommend some monochromatic studies for you, which means dropping the hue out of the study. Choose one color of choice (like seepia brown or chalky red) and work only with value.

I can see that you aim for softness in your pictures, there are subtle changes in hue but next to none of value. I can also see that you work comfortably in the pastel area of colors, these desaturated light value colors. Try to compliment that by adding some contrast in value. Your images would be contrasted greatly by making the background earth color, like earth brown. Many pastel chalk artist use these backgrounds. But the characters in the foreground scream value changes themselves.

[Anonymous No.3718019]

>>3717974
Here I added a darker background and just a little bit of value. I don't have photoshop where I am so the selection tools are bad and I can't be bothered to add more value to the character, but you can see the stark contrast is a lot more pleasing. The thumb nail would look a lot better with more value on the foreground character as well.

[Anonymous No.3718023]

THERE'S MORE COLORS THAN PINK OUT THERE GOD

[Anonymous No.3718033]

>>3716909
You seem to have a pretty good grasp of anatomy , your lines are pretty good, not perfect obviously but keep practicing and challenging yourself to see improvement. As for the feeling of stagnation, I would suggest looking at other styles you enjoy and try emulating them and also looking at very dynamic poses and drawing from those, maybe focus on one part of the body every day and draw it any way you want while still maintaining the basic structure of course.
Just have fun with it.

[Anonymous No.3718245]

>>3718019
that's so nice of you to do!! really helps me out <3

[Anonymous No.3718249]

>>3718023
i might have an unhealthy obsession with that color...

[Anonymous No.3718258]

>>3718249
Challenge: try using any colour other than pink. Don't include any in your upcoming paintings (or use a very minimal amount).

[Anonymous No.3718654]

>>3717152
go away newfag

[Anonymous No.3718661]

i think you could do something nice with peach colors or orange, maybe pastel purple? start close and then branch out to dark greens and navy blues... i believe in you!

[Anonymous No.3718823]

I'll mentor you in exchange of sex

[Anonymous No.3718859]

>>3716909
DONT GET OFFENDED HERE, BUT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO ROAST YOU SO BAD. INCOMING.

[Anonymous No.3718902]

Where's the ahhh so lonely so horny poster?

[Anonymous No.3718903]

It's flat tumblr shit with no hard edges and pink everywhere. It'd be fine if you knew composition but it's all completely unfocused. Your artstation "portfolio" looks really beg/deviantart tier.

Find what you want to accomplish and chase after that, studying and practicing what you need to get there. This is advice for anyone.

[Anonymous No.3718905]

>>3717365
This is rude(nice) board and we all are tsunderes who can give good advice from time to ti... Who i'm trying to fool?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Please be my art gf and i'll give you advice anytime, you are cute and want to make you happy PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE I'M SO FUCKING LONELY I BARELY REMEMBER THE TOUCH OF A HUMAN BEING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[Anonymous No.3719009]

>>3718905
the based one has arrived

[Anonymous No.3719024]

>>3718905
absolutely based.

[Anonymous No.3719095]

>>3718905
Please help this soul, OP. Ever since you first arrived I knew you would be the chosen one.

[Anonymous No.3719661]

>>3718903
my first "art" platform was tumblr so it's just something i always had surrounding me at my start.

if you have the time, could you elaborate on why my drawings look like that style? (other than the fact that i do boring flat illustrations) is it my undeveloped style?
thank you for your comment either way!

[Anonymous No.3719936]

needs more tit

[Anonymous No.3719941]

>>3716909
well it certainly gives me an idea what you look like with nothing on. ahhh so horny and lonely. ahhh. keep up the great work my lady.

[Anonymous No.3720052]

>>3717173
>mfw thinking of you hurting thinking of white knight thinking of OP hurting