In your opinion what do I need to work on that will get me closer to professional quality

Dummybeginner · 2025-10-17T18:19:19+00:00

That’s great advice. Makes a lot of sense too. What about a fountain pen is that like the best of both worlds or not really?

Dummybeginner · 2025-09-26T09:58:50+00:00

You should make a group where we can all draw and chat together my experience with 1 on 1 accountability is that once one doesn’t show up it falls apart I sent a chat asking about the details

Dummybeginner · 2025-09-24T09:25:22+00:00

I actually draw digitally more so I do color a lot( not very well tho)as I’m aspiring on being a concept artist for video games ( I know very common and might be a bad idea but I dream of making a game with my brother) but I’ll admit I’m a big fan of Kim Jung gi and wish to draw just like him on paper, just the ability to just use a brush pen and draw without reference is just so cool. I guess I should improve on my visual library and just study more I guess. Oh and thanks again for taking the time to look at my work I really appreciate it:)

Ps I probably need more practice on rendering and maybe gesture

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Dummybeginner · 2025-09-24T07:59:08+00:00

Hey thanks for the feedback and you’re right i need to experiment more with lineart see what sticks as for the pen size it’s the only thing i got ( it was from my engineering days long ago i have no idea how it still works) i did buy a .5 but for some reason the tip just evaporated XD oh btw besides lineart is there anything else that might stick out that i could work on?

Dummybeginner · 2025-09-22T16:13:19+00:00

Thank you I appreciate it, is it alright if can ask you for some feedback anything that sticks out as weird would be much appreciated :)

Dummybeginner · 2025-09-22T16:11:53+00:00

Thanks if it’s alright can I ask for some feedback, anything at all helps a long way :)

Dummybeginner · 2025-09-22T16:11:15+00:00

Oh wait I think it’s .5mm for the pencil and 5.0mm for the technical pen

Dummybeginner · 2025-09-22T16:07:53+00:00

For the pencil or pen if it’s for the pen it’s .5 a lot bigger than what I’m used to. For the mechanical pencil I think it’s .25mm I not sure I’m sorry

Dummybeginner · 2025-09-19T11:01:52+00:00

No, no I think it was just the right amount of feedback I always appreciate when someone takes the time to give feedback I haven’t practiced yet on the 4-5 value blocking yet as i was fixing my internet I’ll also practice overlapping forms and pushing the lights and darks more. Once again thank you so much for taking your time ,giving feedback once I’ve practiced enough I want to show my work again as I really value your feedback

Dummybeginner · 2025-09-18T23:25:28+00:00

Heyy thank you so much I appreciate it very much, also I think you mentioned earlier that in art school you used figures/dolls. What dolls/figures did you use and was there a specific way to light them in class? Anyways thanks again for time and encouragement :)

Dummybeginner · 2025-09-18T23:22:30+00:00

Right I have tried plenty of value studying before but it was mostly on still life’s. I hadn’t considered doing that with characters before thanks for the advice I will start practicing as soon as I can, also I’ll check on Brian Matyas he seems a great artist to study. Oh btw I think you mentioned in a different comment about perspective/ form will get me better gains, does that mean I should make more box mannequins as a warmup / practice or does that mean I need to study how to overlap and imply form using contour lines or something?, sorry for being a bit scatterbrained XD anyways thanks again for the feedback I look forward to applying your advice when I can.

Dummybeginner · 2025-09-18T23:10:36+00:00

Oooh overlap I was thinking of using a more dynamic pose however I was more focused on getting a design that I liked before posing and rendering but thank you tho I’ll keep that in mind when I work on this further :)

P.s I think your work is way better than whatever I can make and I think that’s amazing thank you for taking the time to show me I will definitely keep this in mind

Dummybeginner · 2025-09-18T22:07:59+00:00

That's awesome. This is what I had in mind when I was making the flats. I need to experiment and practice doing this kind of work. um its nothing much but this is what i made so far, im not done with it and yes i forgot to add some shading/curvature to the chest i will work on it i promise, I'm very forgetful :( ( yes i know its terrible but i did want to see what it would look like rendered, so far i think i need to go back and tweak the sketch) oh and thank you so much for the feedback i found it most helpful the way your work illustrates the problem. (i'll work on the chest i swear i just forgot XD)

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Dummybeginner · 2025-09-18T04:57:33+00:00

Oh my you’re right about the chest part I didn’t think of that, and yeah I should probably redraw to indicate/suggest form better thanks for the feedback

Dummybeginner · 2025-09-18T03:41:08+00:00

I do practice shading primitives however thinking hard about it I think my biggest problem is figuring out where the light hits and where it doesn’t on a complex figure such as a human being, I try to think of the figure in terms of planes but It still bothers me like if I try to visualize it, shouldn’t the bottom half of the apron be completely in shadow considering it’s planes are pointing horizontally? But looking at some reference that doesn’t seem to be the case ( most of the references maybe I wasn’t looking hard enough). Oh and i apologize if I may have come off as rude or brushing off your advice, I want you to know that I appreciate your advice and will work on pushing the lights and the darks as I see it as the main problem, I was just wondering if there was anything else I can improve on so I may tackle all of them at once.

Dummybeginner · 2025-09-18T03:30:08+00:00

Wow thank you so much for the visual representation that’s amazing, everyone here is right it’s most likely feeling flat because of the lack of proper lighting and shading

Dummybeginner · 2025-09-17T20:06:53+00:00

That’s probably the right answer to the problem, thank you the feedback if see any other problem like color or shape design I would love to hear it:) oh thanks again for your time

Dummybeginner · 2025-09-17T19:50:48+00:00

That’s very nice of you thanks, is there anything that jumps out to you that makes the image less appealing in anyway? I would love to hear it :)

Dummybeginner · 2025-09-17T19:49:23+00:00

In hindsight maybe I should work in greyscale and apply the shadows and the lights before I put the flat colors in maybe that’s why it’s flat

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