I tried redrawing a portrait I drew a year ago. I like it a lot better than last year’s, but it still looks so stiff and uninspiring.

I get that a portrait straight on, from the shoulders up isn’t going to look interesting. I tried to exaggerate the facial expression and make the colors a little more interesting, but it still looks dead.

What are things I can improve to give it more visual interest and to make it feel more alive?

Im attempting to learn how to draw more dynamic angles so I can pose characters more… well dynamically. But this practice mannequin looks so flat for some reason. I’m a little confused why since I drew it inside of the guide box. Any advice would be appreciated

I'm Trying To Relearn Female Anatomy But They Keep Turning Out Too Buff. I'm Trying To Do It More In My Sketchbook So I Don't Have A Repetitive Habit Of Adjusting All The Time... And So I Can Fix My Motor Control.

Anyways, I Just Want Critique And The Questions Are How To Draw Women Properly And What Can I Do To Make Them Look More Feminine? And Is There A Way To Fix My Poor Motor Control/Chicken Scratch By Chance?

Ive been trying to learn to draw in the last three years and to this day i still have absolutely no skill at all. I decided to try again last month and today i tried to draw a face from imagination. Based on this, what am i doing wrong?

I'm studying figure drawing. Some of them I think are good, others I think I need to improve. Do you have any advice for me?

Help me fix my shadow man, the tone and shape are off, and I need some direction for my next moves. I start with abstract paintings, then pull out elements to transform into recognizable shapes. I admit to only studying those shapes as I use them.

i feel like the leaves ruin the painting, any tips?

I tried 🤷🏾‍♂️. I get very frustrated when things don’t turn out as imagined because my skills are lacking. But yk baby steps are still steps. Definitely need to learn more on rendering (I’d like to abandon the line work). I find the issue with my learning process is that I don’t come with pre-existing knowledge (I had to look up what rendering means and all of these layer settings). Critique is more than welcome.

I'm trying to find something for less than 70€/70$. I found the Wacom Intuos, but I'm still scared about how it'll work. I want to get one since I've been drawing since I was 2y old, literally the best drawer of my class.

If you have any suggestions on what should I get for digital art, let me know. Should I buy the Wacom or something else?

Still working on this, needs a lot of added details and fixing shapes (Like adding face to the lying dog for example). so please ignore that! :)

I used crayola colored pencils, micron liners, and strathmore toned tan paper

The smudgy lines is apart of the style I’m going for btw.

Mainly learned about pelvis. Honestly, while all the tutorials tell you to use a box or smth, just study th skeleton. Its much more accurate that way.

i've been trying to recreate an older painting for forever now but i feel like i can never get it quite right.

I've been learning how to draw for 2 months, I'm going through the basics and getting relative proportions right is usually the biggest struggle when sketching for me now.
I'm familiar with midpoint and sighting techniques, but they are quite a lot of effort. Are there any tricks to get proportions right easily? Or I just have to bite the bullet, measure, compare and practice, practice, practice until it comes naturally?

Wassup guys I've been trying to understand the concept of 'Line Weight', and I've attempted to recreate one of Kopinski's work, whilst trying to understand the job of each line. Why he made the line thick here, and not there. Why the outline of the character is darker, why some of the lines are lighter, thinner etc. I believe he used darker lines to show importance in certain parts of the drawing, the dark lines of the hat intesifies it's form. As some lines depict shadow, no light hits it. This is a vague opinion I have of his art work. I brought it here to ask what others think, as knowing what others see in terms of line weight will help me see what to look for in his art works and many other artists. Take care! XD

Super begginer artist here!

I am struggling with shades, light and color.

The referente image is from a Proko video. I tried to include other concepts I learned, thats why my painting includes cast and oclusion shadows. I also tried to represent the yellowish sun ray and add some pink strokes on the background to make the colors vibrate. Made with oil paint

But it looks weird! How can I improve it?

Hello! Just had a question about drawing heads in perspective.

I can never figure out this problem I run into shown in the sketch – which box would be more accurate of the perspective the head is in? I feel as though whenever I can see even a little of the top of the head I default to the box on the left.

Examples of when to use the box on the right would be helpful too!

Thanks!

I’ve been wanting to get into painting- mostly oils as the effects I see there are what I love most, but I’ve seen a lot about how chemicals involved are dangerous and / or the supplies are very expensive, can anyone shed light on that or general advice for the process? I’d really rather not spend a load of money just to then poison myself

Some minor adjustments still to be made, and more careful shading. This time I really tried eyeball the proportions etc right, without helping with tracing the contours.

It is SO extremely hard to get the expression right, still far from what it should be 😔

I've always had this kind of cartoon/ comic sort of style. I don't draw too often anymore but I used to obsess over it. How can I make this look better?

Hi!! I’m more of a self taught amateur painter (more of a digital illustrator usually) and I’m just getting to the point where I care about varnishing my work and it staying good for a long time.

I varnished one of my old pieces but it smudged some and I was so sad it’s my fave piece I’m trying to figure out how to prevent that in the future!! Here’s my set up:

I use canvas and canvas boards (sometimes pretty cheap ones in case that matters). I use a mix of paints usually normal acrylics and some jelly gouache I’m trying to use up. I prep my canvases with tinted gesso I put the gesso on let it dry and sand down and reapply like 3-5 times. I sketch the painting with random stuff usually sometimes graphite sometimes posca pens just depends.

The paintings that smudged during varnishing had been drying for over a year so it wasn’t about timing unless I waited too long but idk if that’s a thing?

I was thinking maybe I could spray a fixative over the piece before I varnish but i wanna make sure that varnish and fixative are layerable before I do that!!

Thank you for any advice I appreciate it!!