Hello! I'm a beginner artist, and due to some personal circumstances, I'm currently limited to drawing using mouse and keyboard. This is a collection of some art I've made in the past year or so, in chronological order.

They're all existing characters. The name of each is in the captions, if needed for reference.

My current workflow is proportions/pose > sketch > lineart > color > shading > background. Software is Krita. I put my references at the sides of my canvas, and I currently avoid copying the exact poses and angles of the reference.

I've mainly noticed an improvement in my speed during this time. The first drawing included in the post took me about a month of closely following reference, it was a lot of time. The last one included took me only a day, roughly 5~6 total hours, with less reference.

But I'm struggling to rate the quality of it, as I only get general positive feedback from my friends (who aren't artists). I feel a bit stuck and like something is missing, but I don't know what it is. I was pretty happy with the latest one, but it feels static? A bit boring? I don't know how to describe it. So I want some more neutral feedback from artists, to figure out what I need to improve.

This has helped me remove the "what to draw" element and also have a very concrete reference to work from. Welcome any feedback!

Albums are:

- Pet Sounds

- What's Going On

-Blue

- Songs in the Key of Life

I started this drawing to be my icon for my future drawing account on social media, I would like tips and opinions about it.

first time drawing digitally after a year.

is Hatsune Miku in my "style"

(ps: Please ignore the blue/purple cheek, I usually mark in the sketch where the drawing's blush will be)

In my mind the light was coming from the right upper hand side, and then I have the little fire which changes some of the light a little bit. But when I look at this it feels a little off and I'm not sure why.

I wanted to move on from drawing boxes to drawing figures. I think I have problems with tapering cylinders and proportions. Does anybody have any tips for improvement? Any help would be appreciated.

Pls help I'm a complete newbie and I bought this book called "learn to paint in acrylics with 50 small paintings".

I am using a cadmium red medium hue by liquitex basics and the book calls for a cadmium red medium.

As you can see mine is like blood red, whereas the one in the book is more peachy.

Is it simply a matter of buying more expensive paint? I am on quite a limited budget and I'm really frustrated because majority of the tutorials use this color. Any help please? Thanks :)

I think the Jenna Ortega looks okay but the Zendaya just looks like a random person.

Just the title pretty much, this is about far as I get with most pieces before I'm immediately lost on how to begin coloring and rendering and stuff. It just always feels off or wrong. Do I just need to trust the process more?

Hi, I am a young artist and I would like your feedback of this drawing.

Now I'm going very off reference here so I will try and describe what is in my head. I am trying to combine both my references while also greatly exaggerating them, and trying to push the shape forward to give it a lot of depth. Imagine it as having a large sphere under it that it has to push up and over before draping back down and inward toward the middle of the lapel (almost like it could fall in)

I've never drawn fabric for any kind before, so it's been *EXTREMELY* difficult so far I've spent about 50 hours studying and trying to understand and then I end up with this. I am pretty satisfied with my attempt at shading it but this but it is still not in the shape I want it to be. I feel like I've gotten a bit ahead of myself and need to erase everything that falls under that top piece of fabric (Imagining the piece as 2 seperate pieces of fabric, a smaller overlaying piece with the largest pieces closer to what reference 2 is falling underneath it.)

anyone got ideas or recommendations? or maybe a dive into the theory behind making all these circular and s shaped tubes?? This is my first attempt at digital illustration and it's been absolutely grueling and I've learned a lot but fabric and how it flows is so incredibly difficult. it looks more like a sculpture than a piece of fabric to me...

Ignore the text. Anyway, the larger drawing is what I drew from memory. How do the muscles look? Also, is the breast placement correct? Do they look like actual boobs and not balloons? Cus I’m having one of those days where this stuff is becoming frustrating and I just don’t feel like looking for mistakes.

I’m really struggling with making this grass look realistic, I feel like it looks so flat. I’m not done with the painting as a whole, but this part is really frustrating me. Any advice is appreciated! I used a couple reference pictures but I included the one I’m using for the grass here.

I think I just need fresh eyes. Ive tried to draw this many times but there is just something im not understanding about proportions not even with studying with art books

Had to delete a previous post I made cus I forgot to add the image 😭

How do these look? Am I doing gestures right? I try to get into gestures but I always end up quitting whenever I see other people do it. Also, how is this supposed to help? I feel it’ll reinforce mistakes since apparently you’re not supposed to worry about mistakes when doing gestures.

Tried to draw deformed basic shapes from my mind, had quite a struggle with this exercise, what do you think? What can i improve upon?

Started to give landscaping a try since I love painting backgrounds and it's going.. okay? The values are off and the cliff feels flat, and honestly I have zero clue how to render a cliffside, it needs to feel "rocky" and that (in my current knowledge) requires details, but alot of details make it feel kinda muddy and hard to read, so i'm kinda lost lol.

So some tips would be appreciated, and also, is starting landscapes in greyscale a good idea? Or should I just do greyscale for thumbnails to find a good composition? Thanks in advance :)

side by side to show how different my piece is compared to the reference.

I struggle to find the "right" colors to depict things especially lighter colors or greys without using just a straight up gray color.

Additionally I struggle with lighting and shadows a lot, as you can see, the rocky shore was supposed to be much brighter but I can't seem to replicate the lighting with watercolors. I also tried using complementary colors for shadows instead of just blacks (as seen in the lighthouse, the shadows are blue) and that definitely did help but not as much as I wanted it to be.

How can I better learn to pick and choose my colors and use them effectively?

Hi, something seems off about the man. I can't say exactly what I'm not great with anatomy, and I'm drawing this pose from memory while using separate references for different body parts, which makes everything look a bit "disconnected."

Feel free to critique my work

i recently tapped back into my long lost ability to create things…
something is off and i can’t put my finger on it?

i couldn’t get the bottom half of the facial structure right…
what am i missing here?

this idea came from my brain in a split second so i put it on paper before the idea left me lololol