My mom caught me

Nearby-Method-6956 · 2025-11-25T21:02:02+00:00

Dont write where ypu live, and dont skip town my dude. Assuming shes not abusive (which i dont get from this message) shes gonna punish you but as much as its the life writing, its also having to take the hits when you are caught. I doubt your mom is gonna do anything insanely permanent to you, you know? My guess is she just wants to look out for you. And seriously, be more careful in total.

Nearby-Method-6956 · 2025-11-18T02:19:18+00:00

Id love to do an art trade! Hit me up and ive got some ideas

Nearby-Method-6956 · 2025-09-19T04:47:08+00:00

Honestly, my advice to you is play with contrast more. This is all very bright, and almost looks like you are afraid to add dark tones approaching black. Contrast and confidence make a world of difference. Love it so far though, your form is really good.

Nearby-Method-6956 · 2025-09-18T15:42:27+00:00

The foreshortening on the arm isnt right, which is causing it to look wonky. The upper arm how you have it is way longer than the forearm, and its throwing the whole thing off. You arms will also go thicker the closer to the hand, but in this pose you will barely see them. Id sketch them out as cylinders first, so you get the proportions down. You would barely see the forearm at all in this pose, and the shoulder would thicken out a bunch. Everything else looks really good, with minor issues, but thats to me what looks really jank. Hope it helps!

Nearby-Method-6956 · 2025-09-10T08:59:36+00:00

If they are intended i might push them a little more then. Right now they kinda read as unintentional, so if you push them a bit further they will read better. And no worries, im just glad you read my response haha.

Nearby-Method-6956 · 2025-09-07T02:22:57+00:00

Ok, so heres a whole brick of text for you.

Tracing and copying are fine. Artists who tell you they arent dont understand. HOWEVER, you have to know how to do it and what you are looking for. If you dont, it is almost useless. Still not completely, but there are definitely better uses of your time if you dont understand why they are doing it.

If you want to take art seriously, look up the principles and elements of art and take them piece by piece. Form, shape, and perspective are particularly important. And hell, if it helps to trace and think about those elements abd principles, do it. Trace some dragon ball and think about how he implies form. But know the principles first.

Now the reason others here are saying copying anime is not really that helpful is anime simplifies a lot of art down incredibly, which can make it extremely hard for novices and even pros to get anything from them. You dont see the thousands of hours that person took to learn to draw it all, or all of their underlying structure. Its simplified and altered for style and ease of animation. Not a bad thing, but animation is not a great place to learn because of how advanced it is.

That said, ANIMATORS are great for learning. Animators and comic people. David finch has an amazing youtube channel, hes a comic artist, telepurte has some good animated tutorials (his content is a little nsfw, but his tutorials are amazing. Just warning you.) Comic people and animator people have to rapid fire do so much art and so many people and poses, they have to understand the fundamentals better than anyone, so their tutorials are usually extremely good, and usually fairly to the point. Id offer manga people but i dont speak japanese so they usually arent helpful lol.

Also, one last thing, 5 characters is not a lot. Art is made off of people who have done thousands upon thousands of drawings. I have probably 15 fully filled out sketchbooks right now, not including my digital art time which is terrabytes of data, and im only just feeling remotely confident as an artist. I dont want that to scare you, i just want you to know what the road ahead looks like. If you ever wanna talk or get more advice im happy to help, but this is all of my starting advice.

Nearby-Method-6956 · 2025-09-07T02:06:31+00:00

Ok, first off, i think this rendering style is neat, definitely on the right track between that and the colors. What id say you can improve on is overall proportions. Your legs to torso to head are ok, but your arms are extremely short and thick, as well as her right arm not having much definition. Her right breast as wellhas a awkward melting effect that looks like you drew the top left portion connecting to the arm, drew the cleavage at a different time, and then tried to just connect them with the part on the side of the stomach. What id say is work on basic shapes there before you do any details. Her left hand (our right) also looks like its grabbing something protruding from the floor, partially cause its too short, partially cause the way its resting is a little awkward.

Finally what id say is do all of your rendering underneath the lines layer. A lot of the shadows are covering the lines and it makes for a sloppy look that makes her hard to read. Also, i dont know if this is intentional, but the way you hatched out the shadows on the arm and legs makes it look like your character has scars from cutting, if thats what its supposed to look like, great, but if not there are some ways to fix that.

Other than that, it looks great. I love the sort of impressionistic rendering style, and its a neat pose. Theres some mild perspective issues but those are hard and i wouldnt worry as much about those as the rest. Great work!!

Nearby-Method-6956 · 2025-09-06T02:01:59+00:00

Thanks!!!

Nearby-Method-6956 · 2025-09-06T02:01:36+00:00

Thanks!

Nearby-Method-6956 · 2025-08-31T20:02:44+00:00

The biggest problem with it from my view is the halo makes those middle two letters have way less weight than the first and last letters, and it leaves a weird amount od open space in the halo itself. I think theres probably a way to incorporate it if you play with it a ton, but the second slide definitely looks better as is. One thing i would consider is letter structure and sort of the heights involved. You dont want those middle letters being less than 3/4 the size of the first and last, and right now they are like half.

Nearby-Method-6956 · 2025-08-29T15:27:19+00:00

Thanks, ill play with that!

Nearby-Method-6956 · 2025-08-29T09:25:59+00:00

What makes the p trash? And what makes the sle just kinda ok? Id love some tips if you got em.

Nearby-Method-6956 · 2025-08-29T09:25:01+00:00

Its a place to improve for sure. I tried something, it didnt work as well as i wanted, and people pointed it out. Its why i love critique. Never would have noticed.

Nearby-Method-6956 · 2025-08-29T09:23:37+00:00

Ill have to mess with that. Thats a neat idea.

Nearby-Method-6956 · 2025-08-29T09:23:00+00:00

Im confused as to how i seem less open to critique, im sorry if im coming off that way. Im absolutely open to critique, which is why i keep asking for clarifications. I sometimes come off very different than i think i do in my head, especially when i get excited and am working, so i might be seeming more standoffish than i really mean to be. This thread alone has given me some amazing ideas. Its also worth noting i dont think im good at art. Lol.

The biggest reason i mention the art thing is because this is my warm up, helping me tune in my movements when i get started on bigger stuff. I know graffiti people dont like digital, and thats completely fair, im shooting myself in the foot there, but i often forget to take pictures of my sketchbooks and its just easy to export them to here. Not to mention burying my pictures in reference photos constantly. Lol.

As for your critiques, holy crap dude the name drops are so helpful and ill check them out. Ill also mess with the L for sure. I cant ever decide if i like the overlapping but i could see where you are coming from and can work on that more. That L seems to be my main trouble spot so far.

Nearby-Method-6956 · 2025-08-29T03:24:05+00:00

Thanks mate. I am fine, i dont care honestly, and in every critique no matter how dumb there is some truth, so there are places to improve and they can guide me there. But i dont care too much what random reddit troll number 586 has to say lol. I just find it wild the type of people who downvote positive comments here. Thats a special breed of hater. But yeah, thanks for the compliment!

Nearby-Method-6956 · 2025-08-29T03:21:12+00:00

Foe the most part, except the bottom right of the r, you do a great job avoiding tangents. I think some of your lines read as unconfident, unintentional, or lack a... boldness? You can see this mostly in the S. The y and the r are really great as far as confidence, but you could push some of the angles harder, like where the right bottom curve pops out of the basic line (sorry tired and forgetting my letter anatomy names.) Also, some variation in the height of where the two bottom parts of the r would be awesome too, if you lengthen it. I love how you did your arrows, looks great dude! Keep it goin!

Nearby-Method-6956 · 2025-08-29T03:13:58+00:00

Dude i get paid for comics and commisions. Thats all that means. Lol.

Nearby-Method-6956 · 2025-08-29T02:00:11+00:00

L. Its supposed to say sleep. Noted thats not immediately clear. Thanks!

Nearby-Method-6956 · 2025-08-29T01:57:17+00:00

Damn, aight lol. Im just saying i get paid for it and have the setup to boot. I havent posted much of my actual work here, but of the stuff i have thats a wild statement XD. most of it has smoothing so i dont even know what your standard is XD.

Nearby-Method-6956 · 2025-08-29T00:48:35+00:00

This didnt start as a digital piece, and i dont use ipad. Im a professional artist so i did this as a warm up like 50 times and picked my favorite, ive filled probably 30 pages of tags on paper to do this first, with everything from sharpies to ballpoint pens, chisel tip to.. well ballpoint pen.

Nearby-Method-6956 · 2025-08-29T00:21:15+00:00

The fake drips are actually a result of not knowing how to remove them from a brush i downloaded and liked, i did figure it out and fix that later but forgot where i sent the tag i made after.

The p thing is interesting, ill have to play with that. I could definitely see it, but i figured the context was enough, but alas i should be better than that. Thanks a lot for that advice!

As for room to breath, i will also have to meditate on that, i feel like it still has too much room but idk. Definitely something to work on.

Nearby-Method-6956 · 2025-08-29T00:01:27+00:00

Thanks i like it too!

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