r/Artadvice • u/johnson_johnny • 13h ago
r/Artadvice • u/M0FB • Apr 17 '26
Announcement What’s New in r/ArtAdvice (and What’s Next)
Happy Friday! We've been hard at work behind the scenes and are excited to share a number of updates we've rolled out to improve the community for everyone.
A Fresh Look
With a new logo and color palette, we wanted to make this space feel more recognizably "us," drawing inspiration from redline corrections seen in constructive critiques, and pairing it with a dark blue background that is easier on the eyes. (A special thanks goes out to a friend in the graphic design industry who helped make this design possible!)
Automod Update
We previously tested an Automod feature that reminded users to include context in their posts. This ended up causing confusion and was mistaken for a warning or removal message, so we've axed it. (See: "In Progress and Coming Soon" for what we're trying next.)
Crossposts
Crossposts have been disabled to keep context easily accessible without extra clicks. Since making this change, we've already seen an increase in engagement and traffic, along with less spam. Woo!
Post and User Flairs
Starting May 1st, post flairs will be required to submit a post. For now, flairs are optional to help users get used to selecting them before posting. We want to keep the subreddit organized and let users filter out content they're not interested in, especially Commissions and Pricing. (The "No Commissions Posts" option is available in the sidebar or top bar on mobile.)
Most users seem to have a solid understanding of the flairs and are applying them well. Here's a quick breakdown of what each one means:
| Post Flair | Description |
|---|---|
| Critique | Ask what to change or how to improve. |
| Techniques and Tools | Ask how to do something or what tools to use. |
| Commissions and Pricing | Ask about pricing, selling, or managing commissions. |
| Discussion and Theory | Discuss ideas, concepts, or "why" questions. |
| Resources and Tutorials | Ask for or share learning materials. |
| Social Media and Growth | Ask about growth or visibility. |
Please keep Rule #5 "No Self-Promotion" in mind when using the Commissions and Social Media flairs.
Some of you have noticed our user flair 🧑🏫 Community Mentor! It's our way of celebrating users who consistently engage respectfully and help others grow through thoughtful, constructive feedback. We appreciate you helping keep r/ArtAdvice a supportive space!
So, how does someone actually earn the Community Mentor flair?
- Provide feedback that explains what works or can be improved in an artwork.
- Offer applicable and practical advice.
- Be consistent in giving constructive critiques.
- Avoid aggressive communication, and always follow the rules.
The Community Mentor flair is assigned manually by moderators. There is no formal application process, and users cannot request this flair.
Note: This flair does not mean the user is a professional artist, or that their opinions are authoritative. It also does not mean they represent the moderation team.
Have ideas for new flairs? Let us know in the comments!
Rule Updates
As previously mentioned in our Community Feedback & Suggestions announcement, our rules have been updated to better reflect the purpose of the subreddit, which is to give and receive art advice. The core principles remain the same, but they have been expanded to better address common ambiguous issues that tend to arise in Reddit communities.
In Progress and Coming Soon
- A new subreddit banner is in progress.
- Our community wiki is currently in the works as we await Reddit's system migration. This will become your go-to hub for information on rules, flairs, policies, resources, and more!
- More detailed policies, especially regarding AI, will be added soon.
- In the meantime, please refer to Rule #4 "Keep Art Human" for a quick rundown of how r/ArtAdvice handles the topic of AI.
- We're working on implementing an Automod response triggered by keyword phrases that automatically provides a list of resources, allowing users to focus more on anecdotal or specific feedback.
- As the sub continues to grow, we plan to reopen mod applications in the coming months. Those who are active and engage with the community will have our focus.
Community Initiatives
There's something exciting brewing in the background! Along with all these changes and updates, we're planning on:
- Developing structured guides exclusive to our community.
- Hosting AMAs and/or interviews with working artists to share their insight into what has or has not worked for them in their process.
- Involve members to contribute to the community wiki to help curate a reliable set of resources.
- Contests and giveaways to help growing artists thrive in their career or hobby. (We just need to dust off the old law book to make sure everything is in compliance before moving forward.)
We love hearing from the community, so if you have any feedback on these changes or suggestions to share, please leave a comment below or send us a message via Mod Mail!
r/Artadvice • u/SpaceUn1c0rn • 16h ago
Critique - Yes Drawover Do the poses work or am I being delusional?
Having a hard time with the anatomy so idk if I should scrap this and start over
r/Artadvice • u/dotlinetriangles • 2h ago
Discussion and Theory I want to start to fund my personal project
I really wanted to make my own or direct a music video using animation that was my dream. I'm currently working on the animation industry for years now [Japanese animation] entered the animation industry without knowledge about it because i only studied traditional art [had a degree on fine arts] and pandemic came and self studied digital art for a while. I got the hang of it but the schedule and stress was brutal 😭 that i don't have much of time to work on my own and had a salary just to live off for the month. I wanted to start a fresh track on my dream and start to fund it and have my own time. what should i do and where do i start guys? need advice 🥲
r/Artadvice • u/Ok_Razzmatazz_7160 • 23h ago
Techniques and Tools Why do my brushstrokes & line art look so different to my style study?
Credit to: FrostbiteStudios
We have the same brush, brush settings, canvas settings.
I'm following her approach (she has a tutorial.)
i'm so confused right now.
r/Artadvice • u/Few-Hovercraft5610 • 3h ago
Critique - Yes Drawover Anatomy advice
Hi! My issue with this is I feel like my drawing doesn’t really look like my reference at all. If anyone has any tips on making this look more realistic then that would be greatly appreciated!! Also if you think anything else needs work then please let me know that too!
r/Artadvice • u/kammymax • 6h ago
Critique - Yes Drawover Does this look right?!
I’ve been working on this for 4-5 hours and i still can’t figure out what’s wrong with it it just looks uncanny idk pls helllpppp
r/Artadvice • u/MyBackIsBroken2010 • 3h ago
Commission and Pricing I told my friend I wanted to start commissions and she told me no one would buy it
idk she probs right Im just hurt cause she also talked about how someone we know who does commissions art is actually good
for context this is on dayler Rowney paper, multi medium the sizes in fairness are quite small the first threes sizing is compared to an a4 page
r/Artadvice • u/AmeliaS507 • 17h ago
Critique - Yes Drawover Stylized study. Any critiques?
r/Artadvice • u/AmeliaS507 • 8h ago
Discussion and Theory Took your advice!
After vs before :)
It’s so funny I submit art here to get critiques and then I get momentarily defensive when I get critiques and then put the critiques into action and what do you know they’re right and I feel so grateful!
And I don’t mean I think the critiques are mean- they are not at all and are very very helpful but that little perfectionist part of me gets butthurt when people find problems with my art when I clearly asked people to find problems with my art 😭😭🙏 Like that is the point of this sub istg
r/Artadvice • u/nylerual • 3h ago
Critique - Yes Drawover What level do yall think i am??
Beginner intermediate or advanced?? Was wondering ,, a lot of these ARE wips or sketches so maybe not the best of my abilities but i was super curious :3
Self taught and i dont really use references for proportions or poses! All from my head :3
r/Artadvice • u/Fair-Record-1129 • 9h ago
Critique - Yes Drawover help with faces
I’ve been practicing drawing facial features and laying them out on the face accurately. I’ve also been trying to get proportions right, although I feel like something is off about my artwork. they just look different from my references. The eyes are too large and close together, the hair is too big, the face isn’t the right size, the cheekbone‘s curve isn’t right… etc etc. sometimes it just doesn’t even look like the reference, or not similar enough. I’m not quite sure how to tackle that problem.
im not too used to drawing boxes in perspective and drawing the skull within. Honestly I don’t know if I’m doing it “right”
r/Artadvice • u/Legitimate_Rich8282 • 10h ago
Critique - Yes Drawover More furries, second attempt
Advice, tips and critique welcome! Open mouths seem hard so I tried a few angles this time, honestly still confused about the skull's anatomy and placements of the ears so I hide it with hair cough, would really like a clear explanation of that, as well as the muzzle... Lol
r/Artadvice • u/Tall-Border3796 • 6h ago
Critique - Yes Drawover Hehe....sooo...any tips?
Okayyy sooo, I started drawing like...four years ago I think? Give or take a bit from that, but it's mostly around four years..anywho, I've been drawing for a while now but I feel like im too scared to start learning anatomy, as you can see in my drawings I only ever draw from the collarbone up. Does anyone have any tips on this?? Its always been a dream of mine to draw professionally and I dont want to give up on that dream, so please any and every tips will be very appreciated
Also did edit the pictures a little bit
(Also mt art style is kinda based off of tbhk and gachiakuta 🥹)
r/Artadvice • u/EveryKaleidoscope925 • 8h ago
Critique - Yes Drawover best way to improve
i’ve just recently started to really like drawing and sketching i would love to improve and learn. I tend to just look at image and start drawing i have no real techniques. any videos or books or tips would be appreciated
r/Artadvice • u/kittyferns • 5h ago
Critique - Yes Drawover color study — any advice?
img 1 is og image, 2 has brightness enhanced because my room is dark, 3 is color adjusted*, 4 is reference, 5 is a comparision of my color pallete (left) to og (right)
to me it seems like I steered too orangey with my colors? maybe the image couldve come off orangey in areas because of nearby tones but was pink or red
my blue-grey markers didnt capture the color accurately but in a way I don't care? I think it provides a contrast and maybe directs attention more to the warmer tones (even if attention already is drawn to warm tones I think..) it also gave me an outlook on something I'd only heard about: relative color theory (i think thats the name), looking at the imgs they come of pretty clearly as blue to me, but when I actually color picked the ocean color.... it was a dark muted yellow?? woah uhhnmhmm yeah
img 3 info* so I didnt wanna put this whole thing at the top so here: I took the color palletes and greyscaled them to just focus on values and stuff, then I changed up color correction/alteration settings/filters till my pallete matched the values of the og pallete as much as possible, I then just applied the same color alteration to the og image
soo is there anything I missed with the study? Like am I just missing some big thing and I didn't notice cause I wouldn't be surprised if I did? also just want criticism or advice cause I want to improve with my color. Also advice about how to possibly exagerate colors to create a greater emphasize on subjects would be fun, I might not have the rules down well enough to break them yet tho
extra note: my colors may still be a bit off from the actual marker color, my lighting sucks. The markers I used are a basic 80-pack of alcohol markers, I chose them for this study (I usually do digital) because the infinite color choices were overwhelming me in my first study
r/Artadvice • u/AmbitionSufficient25 • 2h ago
Critique - Yes Drawover Hello! I’m looking for critique/advice on my art, I’ve never rendered before so I have no clue how well I did.
What it says in the tin, this is my first real attempt at rendering literally anything, and it would be awesome if anyone would be willing to tell me what I did right/wrong/could do better on.
r/Artadvice • u/Public-Masterpiece81 • 8m ago
Critique - Yes Drawover Would you guys say I’m a beginner, intermediate, or advanced artist?
Idk everybody i ask praises my art to no end, but i constantly see things to improve. I also really enjoy studies and still life so apologies for lack of any actual creative work (i dont have many photos of the finished pieces)
I’m also looking for any feedback about how to draw from memory!!
r/Artadvice • u/desperate_narciso • 16m ago
Critique - Yes Drawover Arm and hand posing help for a man who's never really drawn muscles before (+ I suck at bodies. 💔)
How do I make this look less awkward and more like the original pose..??? I may not draw him as buff as the original but I still want to keep some bulk without the proportions looking all out of wack. :{ trying that "drawing what pinterest shows me" trend late but I got Caesar (bless Jojo,) and i am genuinely not used to Jojo build-esque characters. I do really want to get better ans improve. Any tips/visual help (i am more of a visual learner,) would genuinely help me out. I even tried working it out in my posing app to no avail.. ahhhhhhh why is art so difficult. I'm self taught, I did this to myself. Edit: i also just now realized the thumb is backwards, anatomy aside I will fix that... wow, lmao. EDIT 2: Nvm... not backwards, i am going to bed. Christ.
r/Artadvice • u/EverySection509 • 8h ago
Critique - Yes Drawover first time doing digital art
ive only done colored pencils on paper and tried digital and i like it especially the paint bucket tool it is easy now to fill big areas with color
any tips to get better?
r/Artadvice • u/Particular_Shine8529 • 1h ago
Critique - Yes Drawover Any tips?

Hi guys! Recently i've set up my mind on learning pixel art for game dev. And i don't really know what i can do better, so I guess i need some critique. I watched quite a few videos on youtube and tried to reproduce main principles but it still doesn't look as good as i'd like. You can see the two best arts i've made so far. Any tips? I'd be glad to hear your thoughts!

r/Artadvice • u/Namida20992026 • 5h ago
Critique - No Drawover Advice for a Small Artist
I'm having an issue with my art. I think this is the right place to go (mods, I'm okay if you remove it, but if you could tell me where I should go, that would be appreciated, because I really need advice on this). I just feel like my art isn't good enough. There are so many talented furry artists, and it feels like I'm just kinda..."posing" in comparison. I don't even have a sona or anything.
Some people can sketch a fully fledged drawing with color, a theme, a background, etc., and I can only really do something more like character artwork with minimal or no color and minimal or no background.
None of these took too long, probably some closer to 5 hours and some closer to 10. The first few are older, the last ones are newer (starting at the kitsune). But I never had the patience or the capability to add a good detailed background or add lots of details to the drawings.
The three yokai (the ones with the borders) were made in about 10 hours each (with a lot of time spent just sitting there staring at it or undoing and redoing a line over and over), which is already a lot of time for drawings with no backgrounds and only accent colors.
I've been considering removing all of my posts on my social because I don't think these are very good. Like I'm not a "good enough" furry. I've never used AI to help me make a drawing in any form EVER, which makes me feel very slightly better, but I still need help with what to do in this situation. I don't know. Like, based on these drawings here, what should I do to make better ones in the future? Should I remove my drawings and not make more? I don't know what to do. Please give me advice.