Doodles and Finished Pieces

[E-Man]

@ E-Man:
Your linework is very sketchy, it detracts from the art, show more confidence, be bold with your strokes!

Your shading could use more contrast, as well as a bit o' color shift in the darker hues, the anatomy is odd specifically from the waist down.

Continue drawing, immerse yourself in the art you really like, surround yourself with great artist, and set your goals high, each piece should be a little better than your last.

*Scratches chin* I see what you mean there.

Personally, I like to use sketchy lines to draw and I don't bother replacing/removing them if it's a quick doodle or concept art. Of course, in addition to your reason, I can understand the other reason why sketchy lines aren't the way to go is due to looking pretty messy and less professional than actually taking the time to ink in the line art. The next time I draw something, I promise I'll not show the skeet lines I used.

Surprisingly, I did actually use a hue shifting based palette for this drawing. The most likely reason why it didn't show very well is due to the new shading style I was trying out. You see, I was attempting to emulate a style of shading and coloring reminiscent of watercolors. If I'm going to make hue shifting work for this shading style, I need to get back to the drawing board. On the bright side, though, at least you didn't mention a thing about how my artwork has a bevel to it. That was a huge problem another shading style I was using ran into before, so I'm pleased that I can assume that I finally overcome that problem.


Anyway, I won't give up drawing until I iron out all the problems my artwork is currently facing. Thank you for the feedback. By the way, is something like this is what you had in mind when you formed those critiques?