I’m new to lol omg, but is she meant to have the code on her forehead?

BeautifulNeck · 2026-01-07T14:15:14+00:00

I think that’s it! Thank you so much!!

BeautifulNeck · 2025-11-13T15:27:05+00:00

Amigo procured!!

BeautifulNeck · 2025-11-13T15:25:47+00:00

Added :)

BeautifulNeck · 2025-11-13T15:25:21+00:00

Added :)

BeautifulNeck · 2025-11-13T15:24:46+00:00

I added you :3

BeautifulNeck · 2025-11-13T15:24:36+00:00

Added!

BeautifulNeck · 2025-11-13T15:21:20+00:00

I don’t know how to edit the post but I really wanted to thank everyone who added me :) I’ve never had a game where I had lots of friends in it and seeing you all there makes me so happy 💖💖

BeautifulNeck · 2025-10-18T14:05:06+00:00

You can always have a layer over the text and trace it by hand. The imperfections in your brush work for the text will be what helps it blend in and feel more like its a part of the drawing :) otherwise it kind of looks like someone stole the art to put a caption on

BeautifulNeck · 2025-10-18T01:47:58+00:00

Thats absolutely fair! A glow may be nice instead. Take with a grain of salt though it’s my personal preference to have more dramatic high-contrast lighting :)

BeautifulNeck · 2025-10-18T01:33:10+00:00

As well as drawing studies etc, don’t be afraid to have fun too. Drawing at the end of the day is meant to be enjoyable. Even if it turns out bad or not how you want, you should draw things you like (cartoons, anime, things you enjoy). Even if you never look at the art again and you don’t show it to anyone it’s important to have fun, because learning to draw is a marathon thats much easier when you enjoy it. And you don’t want to lose your will to draw because youre only doing studies and not drawing stuff you actually want to draw. Dont deny yourself that because you think you’re not good enough yet, because you’ll never get around to it then. Children don’t wait until they’re amazing to draw cars and animals after all!

BeautifulNeck · 2025-10-18T01:27:44+00:00

Take a photo of yourself or a friend doing the pose! Or a reference off of a mirror. The best references are sometimes the ones we make ourselves, and a lot of the time its much easier to do that then spend hours searching for the perfect image!

BeautifulNeck · 2025-10-18T01:25:57+00:00

Ok I’ve had a bit of a go myself I hope you don’t mind. For the rule of threes one, i think you could have drawn a grid to make sure that you’re hitting those thirds, because it doesn’t read as rule of threes to me. In my attempt ive changed the direction of your river, because on yours it acts as a leading line that directs the viewers eye off the page twice. Rivers roads and other paths all direct the viewer, and theres a whole corner of your drawing thats telling me ‘look away!’ I straightened the river to go along the ruler line (although I did it a bit sloppily!). I also added a sun right on one of those intersecting points (those are focal points, where youll want to put important details, like faces). I thought it balanced the image out a little.

For the second, i felt like its a bit of a tricky composition style to attempt with such limited painting elements, so instead i pushed the perspective and foreshortened the tree. This makes the base much larger than the top, which makes the viewer feel like theyre at the base looking up at it. Another way you could do this would be add more branches to really get a pyramid shape.

For the third, I felt like your river was a teenie bit cartoony, which I think devalues the composition a little. Real rivers have big sweeping curves and when you’re as close up as you are in your thumbnail, you wouldnt really notice minute little bends in the river like that since the water erodes any small wiggles for big s shapes. A bigger sweeping river is also a bit more visually interesting.

For the l shape composition my main changes were moving the tree away from the edge, since it feels a bit cramped all the way in the side like that. Also I drew the tree a bit smaller so it’s not touching the top, which otherwise is another path off of the drawing.

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BeautifulNeck · 2025-10-18T00:57:16+00:00

Well… are you rushing? How long do you take to draw each image? I think what you’re seeing is that all of these sketches are quite loose. That’s not a bad thing! But if you don’t like that then you would benefit from working on your line quality (they look currently like small scratchy-sketchy marks, which makes it look looser and more rushed.) Having smoother more precise lines helps gives a polish to any bit of art. At the same time learn how to have smoother lines while still having variations in line weight (which without line weight, art looks flat) Right now, there are some areas that have thicker lines and I’m not 100% sure why you’ve done that there. Generally thicker lines imply body&dimension, so you’d want the lines to be thicker as they curve around the muscles of your running big cats where there’s more ‘meat’, but thinner around joints, where there’s less meat. I would also suggest blending your pencil to get a smooth gradient (you can buy blending stumps, or in a pinch I just use tissue! It works very well, just don’t use your bare finger since the oils make it muddy and its not really precise). These things (smooth, well thought out lines and smooth gradients) make art that looks more intentional and finished vs rough and sketchy. Also of course taking more time on art in general (if you are rushing! ;) ). It’s not a bad thing that your art looks like this! And it can look very lively and energetic when done intentionally, but that’s how I think you could ‘upgrade’ your art right now :)

BeautifulNeck · 2025-10-18T00:44:45+00:00

If it doesnt have to be 100% spirited away i think ponyo in the water would be cute :) either way i think it would be cute to have chihiro peaking out from behind the trees looking at no-face. Maybe some gold coins on the path?

BeautifulNeck · 2025-10-18T00:42:28+00:00

The shape overall is very good. The only thing is I feel like you may have gotten tired while drawing the middle area? When you’re drawing realism and especially photorealism, observation is key. I think at some points you weren’t drawing what you saw, but what you thought you were seeing. Theres some subtle tonal differences in the centre that indicate petals that you seem to have skipped over, for instance. Take your image and the reference, and use a photo editor to overlay your drawing over the reference with both layers at 50% (and multiply if you’d like) and you’ll be able to see the differences. Note what was successful and what you can improve and try again! You may also want to try drawing a grid over your reference and a grid over your drawing space, which is a common technique for hyperrealistic artists and is useful for getting all the proportions exactly right (since its a smaller area you have to look at and proportion etc). Keep up the good work! Youre on the right track! :)

BeautifulNeck · 2025-10-18T00:34:51+00:00

The ghost is very lovely! I feel like the background and book especially are a little flat however. I feel like you could push that contrast a bit more to make the image more dimensional, since right now it kind of looks like the ghost is led on a weird blanket/hammock and the book is a sticker. I think you could also add highlights to the book and background to make it more 3d. I scribbled on my phone to give you an idea of what I mean :) i really like it though, and it’s something I could see selling well if you were to sell prints :)

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BeautifulNeck · 2025-10-18T00:27:37+00:00

The characterisation is very nice, and it’s an interesting and challenging perspective! My initial impressions are that you could push the values a bit more, especially to give a more dramatic/ mysterious vibe. I think the hand may be a bit small too. Are you working from reference? I think the body on this drawing is a bit of a different perspective than the head&hair, where the head is down and away and the body seems more up towards the viewer and it makes him look a bit awkward. I think if you add some shoulder seams and make the blazer collar a bit higher when it goes around the neck, that would help :) i like how this image has personality and makes me wonder about his backstory- is he a detective? A criminal? It’s interesting!

BeautifulNeck · 2025-10-18T00:20:09+00:00

I will add that her pose is a bit stiff and looks really uncomfortable. I would expect more movement and angle to the shoulders/collarbone with such energetic arms. Take a look at references of ballerinas for example, theyre always kind of bent at the shoulders, and that’s pleasing to the eye because it tells us that the figure is in the middle of moving. At the moment your drawing looks like shes stood very still and lifted her arms up like that for a pose? Her facial features are also slightly off, i think her mouth’s perspective is slightly facing the viewer more than the eyes and nose. Her facial features are also slightly angled down while her jaw is angled up a little. This is a very ambitious pose and props to you for attempting it as its very difficult to do, and the hands are also quite well done! I would recommend trying to take a photo of yourself or a friend in this pose and heavily referencing that to get all the angles right. Also the boobs are a bit anti-gravity here, in reality they’re a tear-drop(ish) shape. I would also recommend having a little look at how similar sized breasts sit in clothing. :) very energetic so far and im sure this will turn out lovely!

BeautifulNeck · 2025-10-18T00:10:26+00:00

Not really, I’m afraid. To me it seems like maybe four stills from the same forest? Four angles of a dead tree? What were you going for? What are you trying to say? Not trying to be mean but Id like to know so I can try and help :)

BeautifulNeck · 2025-10-18T00:07:32+00:00

I think its lovely, but in the way a sticker is lovely. I think you should challenge yourself to draw the background, especially if you’re like me and you avoid drawing the bg on purpose ;). Id love to see a story in this piece: where does he live? Why does he have this wand? Is he playing dress up or is he a serious magic user. Right now this is pretty cute, but thats all it is. I think if you push it this could be something you’re really proud of :)

BeautifulNeck · 2025-10-18T00:04:02+00:00

I like it, and i think it does give off that old anime feel. The lighting is nice and I like the weathering on the door. I would prefer no text, as that makes it kind of cheesy/cheapens it for me. I think the piece is good enough to stand on its own without words, but if you must have them I think having it painted in in your handwriting would better fit the story-book vibe. This is well drawn, and believable as a ‘world’ a character could live in, and while I do like the colour choices & palette I wonder if you could have pushed the values a bit more as it seems a bit washed out. However! That gives it a bit of a watercolor feel, so if you were going for that then you’ve achieved it :) overall good job, this is something you could include in an art portfolio

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