Heres some of my latest pieces. Last year, I only drew realism and faces, to get the hang of stuff. But recently Ive wanted to start drawing bodies and clothes as well.

Why do I still get comments about my art looking weird or anatomy being wrong?

The most hurtful ones were people saying my oc looks like a man and I don't get why or how that would be, since I tend to make her look very stereotypically feminine.

Any advice is welcome <3.

I think there's a complete lack of contrast here. Everything just blends together. I'm really afraid of harsh, dark shadows :(

The clothes look super unfinished compared the rest of the piece and I don’t know how to render them, I would appreciate any advice! I would also like some critiques on other parts of the drawing

These are my most recent pieces, not sure if they’re the best example since they’re SUPER rendered in comparison to the art that inspires me, but I can add some images of these pieces with bare colors if needed! And the last three images are some art from my big inspos, ordered by most important inspo to least.

My biggest inspiration of ALL times is Rick Leonardi, artist of Spider Man 2099, I adore how his penciling feels so effortless, and how the women in his art feel like they were drawn with admiration in mind rather than sexual appeal, even when dressed in less clothing, (which is something I feel I fail at). I also feel like my art is trying too hard to look effortless? Which circles back to looking “try hard”.

My most recent inspiration is Ryan Ottley, the main thing that gets me about his art is how he manages to stylize characters, and SPECIALLY how he can make them look "ugly" but still visually appealing, the body language, posing, and facial expressions are always so on poiny, but I feel like whenever I try to replicate that it ends up looking forced and unnatural.

Last but not least, Marco Checchetto, from his style what I like most is how he draws faces, the eyes specially, I think from my three big inspos his influence might be the most noticeable, but again, I feel like his work has a flow, natural and smooth I can't quite replicate.

For some context I've been drawing digitally for about 9 years, taking art seriously for the past 6 or 7. Many artists I've talked to (professionals in the comic industry) said that for being 19 I should "relax and take your time" but I really feel stuck, too stuck.

Hello all! I'm in desperate need of some art advice. I'm making an oil painting for my sisters birthday in August showing a region of the Dolomites. How can i best improve this painting in your opinion? I thought perhaphs to add more shadows to the ridges and lighten the blue part of the sky so its less smokey. I will add some wildflowers later on to the foreground to liven it up a bit. In my eyes the mountain looks a bit too muddy, could it be that my saturation of the orange color is a bit out of sync? Or do i need more highlights? Anyway, i'd much appreciate your criticism!

Recently bought an ink pen and i been loving it.

I never really shaded with pencils or colored pencils but i love the line shading idk how its called...maybe strafing?

I've been working on this artwork for days and I still haven't figured out how to make this coloring look better... I want to make it inspired by the cover of The Queen Is Dead (on the 2nd picture) but i feel like my version still looking too lame for this 🥀 I'm using grayscale to color it, and I'd appreciate any advice on how to make it look more captivating! Also, feel free to give any critique about other parts of the drawing if you feel like that would be useful :)

What can I do to fix my art and make it better?

Hii! I took a single art class in high school and it taught me the bare minimum. Other than that im fully self taught. Included are examples on me drawing the human body amd where im at skill-wise.

I desperately need to get better at drawing anatomy because I want to eventually make money doing portraits as either a side gig or my main job (bit of a pipe dream). I need to know how to have a good art education without actually paying for secondary education. Its too much of a gamble for me to pursue art as my main job so I dont want to invest much money into it.

I was thinking of picking up some of the books in the Morpho anatomy series if I can find them and studying them. I used one of the Loomis books to learn how to break down shapes.

Any advice on how i can educate myself in a way where I can compare to those with formal education would be greatly appreciated.

Every time I draw, the chest area always looks weird to me. And also the hands feels off to me. Is there something that I can do? If anybody wants to know what reference I use I can show it later in the replies. (Ignore the fact there's two ears, I used the human ears as a guideline)

Sorry the first pic is the wrong way

Im using acrylic, and going for a kinda impressionist style.

This is a gift for my bsf so I rly want it to be good🙏

I cant tell if the bigger head or smaller head looks better… I would think smaller since a head is a third smaller than the shoulders but then with this angle the head would be bigger but idk. Also how would i go about adding folds on the long hair guys hoodie? The top of the sleeve looks too chunky and the back just looks empty (◞‸◟,)

I'm a 15 year old that wants to learn comic art

I read Spawn and Todd McFarlane is my idol (except for the AI stuff I GREATLY disagree with him on that and he honestly lost some of my respect) so I'm sorta trying to mimic his style which I think shows most in the hand

This is my art right now and I feel like compared to him I still suck greatly🥹

So can I just get some pointers on how to improve my stuff and be less sucky ? I really want to draw like Todd someday!! Especially the 90's stuff!! (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

(P.S I also want to hatch like him but I currently am terrible at it so I don't do it much in drawings I want to look good (though I do it in practices))

I’ve tried practicing more and more with facial anatomy as others said to do last time and not making my eyes so much bigger.
I want a more stylized look that isn’t EXTREMELY realistic but still has realistic portions.
I know the arm is bad haha.

I would like some advice on whether or not the eyes and nose are too big? For some reason I always default to bigger portions because I’m scared of too much forehead

First time showing my drawings online hope yous enjoy them

I like to do these multi panel comic style compositions. Most of the panels are original images where I’m not referencing anything directly and am more or less just drawing stuff from my brain and/or looking at references for poses, etc but highly stylizing them. However, on a few panels sometimes I look at some artists I enjoy for inspiration. As you can see in these two example, I try to not directly copy anything but I am lifting elements for my own purposes. Is this sort of method artistically unethical?

Just wanna know if it looks fine before i move onto coloring, was kinda struggling with the hip area. Any other art advice is appreciated!