Your anatomy is very horrid, so are proportions. with each day you prove more and more how much is traditional basis needed before jumping onto digital mediums.
just painting constantly is not good, it'll induce bad habits. You have to separate lot of time to do studies and learn anatomy and such.
Instead now you just paint shoddily and had whole lot of filters in attempts to improve it.
100 days of wasted time. Try learning instead of just spamming. Quality before quantity
Guys above nailed it really.
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someones crying in their room angry at why they're so shit at anatomy
You ignorant-
Everyone can see that your characters are not drawn with a fundation of human anatomy, which it should. Stylize all you want but it won't hide your lack of skills.
You said you wanted to do this to become better and you even asked for tips which we gave you and still you just say "oh but it's supposed to look like shit"
Seriously you are going down a road of wrong and if you are not gonna listen then go to another forum that will kiss your ass for what you are doing instead of giving helpful critiques.
[editline]29th January 2011[/editline]
And stop with the fucking lens flares
[QUOTE=daviddorn;27735339]Blah and excuses.[/QUOTE]
My incompetence has nothing to do with it.
I liked them :(, I just wish the text wasn't on the one with the teddy bear. Good luck, I hope you keep with the project, you're much better than I ever will be.
It's not a good art habit to mask shitty anatomy with "silly" stylization
Some of these look very nice to me. I'd say that 1, 2, and 4 are quite good. The perspective seems a bit off in three, the chair is too close to the doorway, and quite large. Day five was good for a smile, but the man from Day six is poorly proportioned. Day seven is pretty, but I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking at. No less pretty for it, but I'm not a fan of the abstract.
Day eight is quite cool, but nine looks rushed. Ten made me grin, and while eleven is neat, the creature's mouth is too wide (its head would fall in half!).
Visual art is not my forte, but I like what you've done. You need do need some practice in proportions (you seem to struggle with arms/shoulders the most, and your faces are sometimes rather uneven). That stuff will come, Keep practicing and pay closer attention to those regions, and perhaps take the time to read up on anatomy from an online source?
I'd also recommend that you don't take harsh criticism personally. While it may seem rude, it's only to try and drill in good advice.
[QUOTE=eps101;27743364] you're much better than I ever will be.[/QUOTE]
And if you trained you could be so much better.
[QUOTE=eps101;27743364] you're much better than I ever will be.[/QUOTE]
If you put any effort into learning to draw you'd be better than him in a week or 2.
Only one which I liked would be this one
[img_thumb]http://hugyu.com/life/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/002.jpg[/img_thumb]
Doesn't seem like you've really put any effort into the rest.
Unlike the others I really like your drawings. I think you've got a nice style and a interesting use of strong vivid colours.
However, you really have lots of faults in your drawings, especially the lack of anatomical understanding and proportion and perspective shines through. IF you want to improve you really need to learn that well. Any cartoon artist knows how to draw a highly detailed still life drawing, cartoons are just stylized human beings.
You need to sit down and learn how to draw proper human beings, correctly perspectived sceneries with and without living beings in them and learn how things scale in accordance to each other because of the distance in the image as well as how the size of one body part needs to be consistent with the rest (or how it's different than the rest because of how close/far it is from us).
You also over-use filters and grungy brushes. It makes your drawings textureless as everything has the same dry harsh texture making it very boring. A rock looks just as dry and hard as a baby's butt.
Basically everything about your paintings is wrong and you just need to practice and practice and practice. But you should practice on real things, real humans, real sceneries, not fantasy scenes and fantasy beings, because they just give you excuses, dumb horrible excuses for not doing things properly.
You know guys, he will probably get better with 100 days of practice. As he stated, his goal was to improve. Comments like 100 days of wasted time is just plain mean. Yes, he needs to improve - but we all had to start somewhere. Stop being assholes.
Personally I like a few of them, and some parts of other. Keep up the 100 days, I'd like to see what comes of it.
He won't learn if he says "I don't want to learn anatomy because IT'S MY STYLE SUCKASH", it only shows that he doesn't want to improve, only recieve praises. YOU NEED a good grasp on anatomy and proportions, you need to know how to draw realistic before you can draw unrealistic things that look realistic.
train your brain before the hand. It doesn't matter how much you draw if you don't know jackshit.
[editline]30th January 2011[/editline]
Seriously take the 'mean' advices, you will thank yourself later.
Well all would be so much better if the guys giving advice here wouldn't sound like little kids using the "I am just helping you" as an excuse just to convince they know better. I mean there is always the gentleman way, no need to stab the dude for some helpful criticism.
There are plenty of helpful advices here, but obviously OP won't take them he rather wants to cling to his style as an excuse for not learning proper anatomy.
If he needs people to say "aw you're so good, and here's some minor criticism but you're so good at drawing" he can take the picture to his mom.
Harsh or not, it's valid critique being given to him and he acts like a little baby who is being told he can't have cookies for dinner.
General rule if you do art:
Prepare for critique and negative comments, there will always be imperfections and people who don't like it. Deal with it, accept it.
General rule with everything: Throw away the compliments, keep the negative feedback, cause that's where you have to improve in.
Don't throw away the compliments. However, remember that it's the negative feedback that is what you should be after. Don't throw it away if it's rude, because even so there is something about your piece of art that can be improved and one should always strive to improve.
Everyone in this thread is an idiot, from the OP to the last post above my head.
First off, the idea of doing a painting a day for a 100 days is a perfectly fine practice technique. The issue here is the way that OP is applying this idea is incorrect. The whole point of this exercise is to use studies and try to learn something new in each new painting of the day.
Doing your own work as above will achieve nothing but becoming good at what you already know: nothing.
You must consistently learn with the paintings.
With the subject of style, I will refer you to a story I learned about the talented original artists for Disney. The Disney artists started off learning basic anatomy, doing all the fine art lessons you can possibly think of. Through this they gained knowledge of reality so they could create fantasy. With the knowledge of human body they could create proper motion on paper that defied conventional anatomy but still registered as smooth and normal in our mind. If you slow down a disney character walk you will often see their knee cap bend backwards, but its combination with the other cycles of walking plus its smooth execution and knowledge of movement make it seem normal.
So while Detlef and everybody are correct about learning anatomy to SOME degree, the subject of style is still up to the artist. While I do not agree with the artist's style, it is up to him how he perceives the world and both Detlef and everybody need to get of his nut sack.
Now onto criticism.
Please stop pulling ideas out of your ass since they always end up shitty.
Detlef and everybody still have not mastered proper anatomy and both still lack huge amounts o knowledge on the subject. Yall lack variety, smoothness, proper balance and so forth. Because of this fact yall are in no position to tell him what he ABSOLUTELY needs to do.
Especially when yall are prioritizing something that as a whole comes later in the artistic learning process.
Yall have a TINY amount of talent and thus have for some reason raised yourselves above others. All I have seen in this thread is unnecessarily vulgar language, and crude criticism that is telling the artist to focus on something that currently has no importance.
I will refer to my first phrase again and call yall idiots.
OP, here is your actual criticism.
What you need to learn are the basics of properly painting digitally. Currently your forms are very flat and you have no idea how things properly react in their environment. Because of this you can not create the proper emotion you are trying to convey.
What I want you to do is continue with your 100 days but instead I want you to try and learn something new each day PLUS study a famous piece of art.
Here is your resource for learning:
[URL]http://www.conceptart.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=42[/URL]
In this link is a subforum for tutorials concerning all things art related. I want you try and look at least one of the sticky threads each day.
For today I want you to read EVERY SINGLE WORD OF THIS TUTORIAL:
[URL]http://itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm[/URL]
This will get you started, after reading it attempt the techniques shown.
As you progress I want you to look at the following stickies:
-Sticky: [URL="http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=185515"]Perspective Compilation Thread[/URL]
-Sticky: [URL="http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=174732"]Digital Painting Compilation Thread: 9 Links (updated Nov 26th 2009)[/URL]
-Sticky: [URL="http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=174730"]Anatomy Compilation Thread - 4 Tutorials (updated nov-24-09)[/URL]
-Sticky: [URL="http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=174787"]Misc. Useful Information Compilation Thread: 11 Links (updated July 5th 2010)[/URL]
Finally I want you to search these subject in this wiki: [URL="http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=174796"]conceptart.org Wiki[/URL]
- Light
- Color
_saturation
_hue
-Composition
-Anatomy
-Edges
-Any other subjects you have questions about.
While this may seem overwhelming, TAKE YOUR TIME TO LEARN THE ABOVE. The exercise may last a 100 days, but you still will have time after to learn anything you need.
The above information should be used not by just the OP, but everyone here, especially 3verybody and Detlef.
too many posts to read in this thread but i really like your paintings and your style, for doing them in one day i think they are enjoyable to look at
OP you are doing fine, just be sure to push yourself to learn more and implement new techniques and learnings into your paintings.
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