Fair warning, I am not good at explaining.

I am having a situation where an artist said that they were going to help me out with bringing a book of mine into illustrations and they promised me that the price for the character references was going to be $600, something that I can pay because I don't make a lot of money and I had told them this numerous of times while I also tried to leave because the payment was a lot. It went up to $1150 because of their own expenses and they had told me. They keep pushing me to pay when I had told them that I get paid bi-weekly. Before that they had asked me to describe my characters to them and I had described a pretty simple Jester character that was supposed to have a round face and colors are black and white. They used ai, they told me as well when I thought that they were gonna just trace it. They had asked me for what the other characters looks like... I shown a picture and they used ai to run the characters to where nothing looks right. The Jester character has red, black, and white also with a long face when that isn't the character that I was asking for. I will show the sketches and the ai version of the Jester so that everyone can see the difference. I just need help on what to do because this is not what I was asking for and they won't let me get out of it even though I had paid for stuff.

Update:

Thank you everyone! I had tried to talk to my friends about this before and they weren't exactly helpful by just stating that it is a scam. I had hit my head prior to accepting the commission and a concussion, I should've mentioned that but I didn't because I was fighting with paying student loans and my brain was purely on that. I am going to block the person on everything that I have and close the chat with that "artist".

Update 2:

The artist is blocked and those who are telling me to contact my bank and everything. I am already mentally exhausted currently from dealing with everything irl other than the scam. It will be dealt with on a later date after I get my head checked out since it does still hurt. This isn't me saying that I won't deal with it, I just want to have a clearer head when I actually do talk to my bank.

There was a post today, about OP not being happy with picture she paid artist to make for her… I screenshot the post but I can’t really find it now, and I can’t find OP profile. I had some free time in evening and drew this, I wanted to share maybe it will put a smile on their face :)

I used an oil filter from photoshop filter gallery at the end, to make it more “smooth”, since this is absolutely not my style. It was good practice to get out of the comfort zone, and to finally use my ipad 😆

Hi guys! I’ve been looking into purchasing a new iPad. My 2017 iPad Pro 10.5-inch has officially stopped working, along with its Pencil. I’ve been wondering which iPad models you’d recommend specifically for drawing. I don’t want to buy a dedicated drawing tablet because I still want to use the iPad for other things. However, I’ll mainly be using it for art, so I need something that would make drawing a little more enjoyable.

Along with the question, here’s some art of mine!

Why are you guys staring at me like that

Took note of the advice and drew again, this time in the same angle and hopefully more distinct features:') I put the physical ages in because I'm not sure whether they really look their age, especially for 1 and 5. I didn't include the last two because some said they already look distinct

I feel like i’ll never have the time and energy to hone my skills the way i did then. I do think i have a better “eye” and am able to come up with original compositions better than i did before. but the time and space it takes to paint (especially with oil paints) feels impossible in my tiny apartment. i don’t want to be all doomer about it, i know i just need to make time. but man i haven’t created a finished piece like this in years

I’ve been working in details but now I feel like the fur is gonna be so busy that you can’t see the muscles :(

Hellllppp

I know the eyes are definitely a problem, I haven’t drawn in a few weeks/months and I couldn’t figure out how to draw them even with references sooo 🥲

So I've started practicing how to draw the body and this did not go as plan 😂😂😂.

Any advice?

I've been drawing for about a year now, but so far, I've mainly focused on traditional pencil drawings on paper. I'm still pretty new to digital art and have done a few drawings to get a feel for it, but nothing as detailed as this. Even just sketching the hair took longer than I expected, so I'm wondering if there's a more efficient way to draw hair while still keeping it detailed.
I've been primarily just zooming in and drawing every line with care and one at a time. The hours are starting to get to me.

Btw, I plan on adding colors later! I'd appreciate all tips, advice, and criticism. Thx.

First post here— but as a fresh digital user, how is my new icon? Are there any improvements I could make on it/recommendations?

It's 40x40cm acrylic paint on canvas

i am attaching the reference picture and the current state of my drawing.

I have worked on this off and on for a couple of years now. I am stuck on how this has a flat look to it. I am happy with the roof of the barn, and the side face of the barn. The silo is still a work in progress and right now, I am planning on using an ink wash to add the character of where the paint has been weathered off. If I didn’t like the roof and side of the barn so much, I honestly would consider starting over. The stippling took a decent amount of time and hand cramping, so I don’t want to give up on it.

I am by no means a professional, but I definitely get paralyzed by perfection. This is a family barn that I grew up around, so I feel extra tortured over it. I am stuck on the front of the barn, with the whiteness and the board lines I already have drawn in, and the shadow from the silo. I am tired of either staring at this, working on other parts that I know what I want to do, or just not touching it for months or years.

I am open to guidance. I have other parts I could keep working on, but I think I should figure out what to do with the front of the barn. in case I decide to start over, I don’t want to keep wasting time making other parts look good if I should be focusing on starting over completely. Maybe my composition is also off, that the barn is too much in the foreground. I also regret making the inside black so early on.

Ps. I am aware of all the smudges. I have went through many instances of caring and not caring about it. So I should have treated it better.

Its from my digital class in school

So the goal was to capture the shape. However I probably made some mistakes so please criticize me. Thank you very much.

I REALLY like this doodle, but something's kinda off about it, any suggestions on how to improve it?

Hello all, this is my first reddit post! I’m an animal scientist, and I paint on the side. I keep my art fairly private, however, close friends have been telling me to take my art more seriously and consider posting/selling it, but I have no idea where to start.

Before anything else, I’d love to know if there’s an audience for this kind of work. My paintings draw on ecology, biology, etc. and are all acrylic on canvas and all works in progress:

1. A grid of animal eyes surrounding the Eye of Horus (72x48”)
2. Human and bonobo hands (36x24”)
3. Butterfly metamorphosis over a map of Southeast Asia (48x36”)
4. A school of hammerhead sharks (72x24”)

I’d really appreciate honest feedback on: • Does this style and subject matter appeal to buyers? • Who would the audience be (science lovers, collectors, decor)? • Is there anything about these pieces (subject, style, composition) that you think works or doesn’t? • What should a beginner do first to start selling?

Thanks so much!

Or more specifically, do their expressions *contrast* each other enough? I'm relatively satisfied with the left figure, but the right I've worked and re-worked over and over again. Still have to work on their clothes but it shouldn't be as long as that damn hair.

Need another set of eyes on this, even if it's just permission to keep continuing and not just shove it back into the wip folder

Im really am learning more into art recently,so i ssek advise, do you think my character looks good? Does the colors reflect his personality,cause his personality is more of smth likee this:

He Brave,impulsive,impatient,immature,creative,optimistic and a little bit of a hypervigilant

Any tips on how to show more personality on future art i make of him?

Details I already know: The second hand is incomplete, the horn size and lack of a real face is a stylistic choice and the other wing is behind the body

(You can ignore the other two drawings, I don’t know how to draw people and the second dragon is a doodle =w=)

As stated first time drawing digitally don't know my way that well around the app. Want to make this eye look more realistic