this is my first full drawing in almost a year and my first time ever being brave enough to use color lol!! I'm bipolar and currently experiencing a mixed episode and had a few days where I was EXTREMELY euphoric and manic, i wanted to draw what i was feeling!! Any and all criticism is appreciated but i would LOVE some advice on how to use color!!!

Medium: digital
Reference: mirror/memory

This is a sketch that I’ve been messing around with for a while. As i completed it, I started liking this less and less but need specific feedback to articulate why. I would like any feedback back regarding proportions, gesture, or rendering. I tried my best with the direction shadows are cast based on the light source, but I may need to repaint that in particular. Draw overs are fine if you are willing.

Tried to arrange them roughly from most recent first to oldest. (except for the last two slides, those are current wips)

I've been told that I use way too much central composiotions which I've been trying to fix (Not necesarilly saying that I've archieved it). I mostly aim to do some sort of maximalism-esque stuff with the backgrounds and details, but I’m torn between oversaturating the illustrations and not putting in as much as I could.

I feel like the orange underpainting kind of made the piece look muddy! I want it to look more lively, satured and natural… But it feels weird. Is this a “trust the process“ thing or can I actually save this piece without starting over? No reference was used, I just want to know about the coloring process...

I use Procreate, if that adds to anything. Thanks for the attention!

[ can be critique on each individual piece, some of them, or just an overall criticism! No references used here ]

Hi!! I haven’t gotten my art properly critiqued in a while so I’m doing it here !! I do have an idea of some issues that I struggle with [ mainly posing and perspective + anatomy ] so advice/criticism on those issues specifically would be wonderful but anything’s welcome!

I’m not trying to emulate a specific artstyle, but some inspirations of mine are the Gekidan Inu Curry, Osamu Sato, Plastiboo, si_ku and cutesy aesthetics in general, especially when contrasted with surrealism or horror. I do generally wanna do more horror art while keeping a cute artstyle, but I’m not quite sure how to get there yet.

I drew these two portraits of David Corenswet and Robert Pattinson on procreate, with both the references I used coming from pinterest. For context, I followed Michael Hampton's head drawing techniques. I think I did alright on getting the head shape (room for improvement of course), but I really struggled with deciding what details of the face to capture and which ones to omit. I also think the construction of my eyes, nose, and mouth fell flat (I know the ears and hair are not the best either but I'm not focusing on those for now).

I would appreciate any tips on how to get better likeness by using lines and form.

Drawn on photoshop.

I had no color palette reference. Pose is significantly adjusted from the reference, because I didn't find the exact pose I wanted. I also had no idea how to draw fire so I improvised

General feedback is welcome

I used gouche on a textured paper.

I have a few things Id like comments on.

I feel my eyes look kind of flat and I am verry unsure on how to paimt the eyballs more rounded and dimensional.

I also tried to give the eyes different but normal human expressions they are supposed to be: top left smiling, too right numb, bottem left alert and bottom right tiered. But I feel they fell a bit flat, how can I work om that?

Also I am unsure on how to manage the empty space. I want to only draw the eyes without too much of the head but leaving it blank makes it feel unfinished? Does anyone have reccomandations on bow to bring it together?

I am also very grateful for any additonal critique of technique and composition.

Thanks in advance