/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Hi, i could use some critiques. Thank u. im also leaving my ko fi link to help me pay for art school, hope you like it. This piece is called "Focus"
https://ko-fi.com/santigoode

>>6140752
This is definitely not my first lenguage

>>6140754
Ok, I know that problem very well, if you can draw from reference but not from imagination that mean your have a lack in confidence, you might feel doubts about what are you are drawing and your own technique.

Confidence only gets cured drawing without pressure or expectations. Do not force yourself to “draw well” you might have an idea of “good” and that is limiting yourself to develop your own definition of good.

And never feel pressured to only draw from imagination, artist most of the time can’t remember how some part of the body looks in a particular pose. That’s when you must ask somebody to pose, go to a mirror and draw or look from a reference image online.

I put a emphasis in the importance of drawing from the real world and not from photos or the mirror because of the volume. Photos and mirror doesn’t translate the volume of the objects. When you see and object in front of your bare eyes (or with glasses) you will see even the little shadows.

When I started drawing my teachers almost bullied me for my cartoony-anime style. With time and seeing the self portrait of my classmates I discover that I must draw like a painting.
Translating all the little shadows and darker sides like a brush and not like a single line pencil.
Thinking in paintings helps me, I hope that’s helps you too

If you can mimic reality then there’s nothing you cannot draw. Don’t be afraid or shy and trust in your eyes and hands!


>Pic related is a very poor example of “draw like a painting” because I make almost all the lines without considering line value, is a good example of drawing from imagination when your imagination is full of real world/experimented images.

I see almost all of you having hard time figuring out how to draw, I’m currently studying fine arts and I can tell you the most important thing to learn how to draw is learn how to see.

When you look in the mirror, or look someone and draw the eyes you must draw what you actually see and not how you think the eyes are.

Most of the amateurs artist struggle drawing thing for how they think things are.

Remember, visual art is a lenguage and you cannot speak clearly if you don’t pay attention on how the things are pronounced.

When you learn to draw from the reality you can master the figures. If you master that you can make beautiful stylized art.

And damn you must do it.
You must do your stylized art, you must be able to find YOUR art style.

All the stupid art history and the postmodernism is mean to this moment.
When people find their own voice, and do what your heart actually want to do.
If you never find your own voice you will always be following the singing of someone else.

Keep practicing you fuckers.
Fill a complete sketchbook with reality reference.
Lear how to see and you can develop and eye that can identify reality drawings from photo drawings, even from mirror!

You can do it in a year or two, I promise. Just don’t give up, and do it as and assignment. With deadlines and all

I even give you my semestral program:

In 4 months

Every week you must draw at least 2 in real scale:
Self portrait/portrait (beginners)
Full body portrait (not beginners)

(We truly draw more than 2)

Every week you must fill 5 pages of hands and foots (1 per day, little sized for sketchbook) .

we use the techniques of structural drawing in the sketchbook!

At the end of the semester you must curated all your drawings in 1 big artist book


>Pic related is one of my self portrait 2 years ago.
>it’s digital, bc I want my teachers to see the potential of digital world.
>doesn’t work, I still must to fucking draw traditionally & real scale

My faces feel off can I get some critiques?

>>3725292
It's not fine art. I like what you are trying to do. If it's more detailed and finely rendered to convey a smoothness of flesh it would be better.

>>3725614
Cheers

>>3724234
>>3724235
Are these not works by willem de kooning?

>>3723899
It's kitschy and illustrational
I can't write on it

>>3723252
>>3723253
Rejected. It's not art

>>3722477
Here is sample of my art

I can be your instructor

I can teach you how to get good in drawing females

25$ an hour via skype

>>3722334
I would like to add that the male is depicted from a dominant and more elevated position from the female who is more passive.

I have problem with this because I don't believe in male dominance.

>>3722268
It's interesting how the painting is done horizontally instead of vertically in which case the figures would be standing up. The painting is a male fantasy of man and woman in a dreamlike surrealist space where the man is floating over the woman. Her facial and bodily features are more defined than the male counterparts some of which are blurred or censored into whispy forms of a nebulae. The nebulaic form also appears as clothing and can be understood as birthplace (of stars). The man, according to male point of view, is encroaching the woman, who is warming up to his warm light. Her head in cool light is the last place to warm up to his light. This is hard to read because the man is equidistant to the woman. Im fact it would be better setup for the man to be diagonally positioned so that his feet would be closer to her feet and his head farther from her head. Although the male viewpoint (probably white male) of a nude female can be problematic for some viewers, I must applaud the mastery of painting technique and anatomical knowledge, as well as depth of meaning and symbology.

>>3722235
I don't get what's so funny
My art is good
I want more art to critique

>>3721902
I am learning how to make art with a soul

Yes thank you

You guys obsess with kitschy illustrational drawings

No thank you

>>3721501
I do know what I am talking about. Do you?

>>3721497
Whatever. Do your little thing. Write your crit. Cute.

You can't do as good of a job in art criticism as I can. Remember that.

>>3721494
I am trying to practice. That's just all I am trying to do. It's for practice

A win win situation

>>3721472
I am trying to give insights into the artist's work. It's not just about helping. There is a limit to that. You are so close and narrow minded that you don't understand what I am trying to do here.

If you wanna help and give casual advice go somewhere else.

It's not that they are entitled ot not entitled to my "masterful" criticism per your sarcasm

It's that there is nothing to write about. Literally just that.

I don't want to deal with your negativity so please go somewhere else.

I am looking for more art to look at and critique.

>>3721464
That was not an essay long critique. It was just like 1 or 2 sentences. I can give that.

This thread is for long indepth criticism.

>>3721454
But you didn't illustrate your point. You could have put down a better shape but you didnt. It just looks lifeless to me.

Even if you don't make a full rendering you can make a shape that is alive and full of spirit

>>3721452
Yes I only write criticism on art that is good. That's how I was taught at school.

I can give brief comments but not full length writing on art that is not as good.

>>3721394
It's a nice illustration. I still can't fully critique it because it's not fine art but a pretty picture.

>>3721430
The eye rendering looks dead in your example. It's way too lifeless

>>3721431
>>3721437
Umm yeah compare the depth of info between your "critique" and mine. My criticism is not mediocre. It's good criticism.