Heya, my name's Zenith, nice to meet ya! I love the way this site looks already and I'm excited for what the future holds for it. Let's drop some of our art down in the replies and a little message introducing yourself if you want. Here are some of mine:

Seeking feedback is necessary for artistic growth, but it is also possibly the hardest thing to find reliably. Good teachers and excellent peers can lead you on the path to having a thorough understanding of your craft. Being a helpful teacher yourself is another acquired skill-set. How do you know when you have helpful advice, or just a personal preference? It’s worthwhile to make the effort to be a helpful peer to your fellow artists. You’ll make good connections, broaden your appreciation for different art and ideas, and strengthen your understanding of art concepts by verbalizing them to others. === HOW DO I GIVE A GOOD CRITIQUE? === A good critique tries to consider the artist and their goals. Give context for your opinions, and try to be objective about what is technical vs. your own personal tastes and biases. Ask artists what they want to improve on, and be curious about their interests. Try to frame things positively, and push people to have hope and want to work hard. “I like this pose, but the shoulder is looking dislocated. You might need to move it forward to make it feel more natural, like in this reference.” “There’s a ton of detail going on here, but it can be better to have a few places of lower detail to balance out the composition, here’s an example.” “What sort of art do you admire? I feel like you are aiming for this style, but knowing more about your goals might help us give advice.” === WHAT ARE EXAMPLES OF BAD CRITIQUES? === Bad advice does not consider the person receiving it. Critiques shouldn’t be designed to crush someone's spirit or make them feel hopeless. If something just isn’t your thing, it may be better to let people comment who are more experienced and interested in that area of art. Even if someone is picking up concepts slowly or getting frustrated, it’s not an open invitation to treat them poorly. “There is nothing I can say to you other than read lots of Loomis books.” “Stop drawing anime.” “Fan art is unoriginal.” “This style is a fad that will go away, you should just do something else.” “You just need to try harder.” “You’re too much of an amateur for me to even start critiquing” === HOW DO I GET USEFUL FEEDBACK ON MY WORK? === Help us cater to your artistic needs and goals. When posting work, consider including this information for context: - Tell us what your objectives where with the piece you want critiques. - Share anything you were struggling with while you were working on it. - Tell us what your goals are as an artist. Are you a hobbyist learning landscapes for fun? Putting together a portfolio to get into art school? A professional refining your skills in a certain area? - How long have you been practicing this form of art? - Who are some artists you admire who's style you strive to have in your own work? === HOW SHOULD I RESPOND TO CRITICISM? === There are a lot of ways you can respond. Generally, it is polite to show that you appreciate that someone took the time to give you feedback on your work. It’s important to keep in mind that critiques on your work aren’t personal attacks. Feedback is meant to help you see things from a different point of view. An artist might be trying to guide you away from mistakes they feel they made in the past. Arguing with the person critiquing you won’t be productive. It is their opinion based on their knowledge (or lack thereof). Think of them as simply opinions intended to help you out. You don’t have to accept every critique that comes your way, especially if the critique is subjective rather than objective. With time and experience you’ll have a better understanding of where you want to go with your work. Try to keep an open mind, but also have confidence to shed advice that doesn’t serve you. If someone is being hostile and rude or is actively trying to discourage you, report it. === KEEPING YOUR EGO IN BALANCE? === Egos come with being an artist. It is just a fact. If you didn't feel good about your work and didn't enjoy creating it, why would you do it? The sense of accomplishment is a great feeling, and you SHOULD feel good about the hard work you do. In communities, it’s easy for egos to get a little out of control. When a bunch of artists in a room, each with their own opinion of what is good art and what isn't is always bound to lead to a bit of head butting. This is a community that is meant to be friendly and helpful. Be proud of yourself, be proud of the work you do, but keep it in check. Be respectful to your fellow artists who are different from you. As much as possible, be open to criticism from people of various skill levels. Whether you choose to use them or not is up to you, but be open to the fact that they're going to happen. If you accept them with courtesy and grace, and maybe try to learn a bit from them and open your mind, you will help make this a strong community. If you choose to disregard everyone who gives you advice because you consider yourself better than everyone here, then this is not the community for you. Finally, people who post rude, off point or otherwise useless comments posed as criticism will be penalized by the mods. If you see posts such as this, use the "Report" feature to get the attention of the moderators. === WAIT, WHAT IF I THINK I SUCK? === Everyone has to start somewhere! Art takes hard work, and it doesn’t help to get down on yourself. Being humble is fine, but remember that having a little confidence is sometimes needed for motivation. Believe that you are worthy of kindness and that your art has value, even if it's just to you. Find enjoyment in learning and studying, it’ll guide you through the times when you are getting down on yourself. Just remember, begging (or demanding) praise, attention, or sympathy won’t generally go over well with your peers. Wanting to work hard is what gets you support. Embrace your work ethic and show effort whenever you can.

I think I figured something out on this one. I tilted the horizon line to make it feel a bit chaotic while keeping the main figure rather straight and still. Some peace in the chaos is the vibe I wanted and I think I got pretty close. I have really been trying to push my watercolor skills while having some fun too. 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻

Was planing on doing the artwod program. https://artwod.com Have been wanting to try it out but i am not sure if its any good. does anyone have any experience with it?

Hello everyone there is some thing which is troubling me about art is when expressing ones emotion is it mandatory that we only express it through art can't we talk to our friends and family about it do we only have to release our emotion through art only i always hold my emotions in my mind and think to only release via art and not talk with our friends and family and release emotions I had always had this stress on my mind and these things gives me a lot of headache and it sucks I hate it and I can't take it art feels a lot stressful because of it and there is a lot of stress of emotions because this shit it sucks

Do you like creating while listening to music or prefer silence? If you do like listening, what sort of genres do you listen to and are they different than the ones you listen to when not creating? Feel free to share artists and playlists! I like listening to OSTs from movies and video games, especially orchestral boss fights! Kingdom Hearts and Undertale have some of my favorite OSTs for drawing and painting. I also like finding niche artists like CloZee (I don't know how to describe her work other than it's electronic) that have a high-energy, immersive feel.

If you feel like your art isn’t improving, gesture is impossible, or you’re just ready to give up, this thread is for you! Artists let’s support other artists who experiences those hard times just like me, you, them, him, her, ✨ post one thing that helped you! ✨ read and find one thing that gives you hope! keep it short and kind! I’ll start: whenever I feel frustrated like my art is not coming out good, I look for one thing out of the whole picture/drawing that I noticed I improved. For example, let’s say I don’t like my gestures because they’re still stiff, but noticed hey! My linework is coming less scratchy than yesterday! That’s a win! now it’s your turn!

Hello fellow art learners, trying to get a group of people together to form a little study group! This is for dedicated learners who want to improve their skills… with critiques from others etc. if ur interested send me a message and i will link over the discord!

Tbh i hade no idea of where to post this. But i did this drawing today and its based of Mira from Kpop demon hunters. just want some honesty, Is this trash? I have been stuck at this lvl for soo long and i have no idea how to grow any furthur with my art and i feel just stuck. i have no idea how to add the high lights or do the shadows correctly here. what is it i need to do to lvl upp my skill? I am at a loss. I know i have been avoiding rendering and light theory the most. mostly because i just dont have any idea how to tackle them. I did this all with an hb pencil. no other pencil was used. but i am asking genually for help here. plz tell me. What do i need to practise to get better here. Any feedback will be greatly appreciated, thx. Btw the camera on my phone makes things lighter then they really are. Just a heads upp. ((feel free to critique anything else that you dont like)) again, thx.

Hello everyone i primarily make comics and recently have encountered a problem is that I think of camera shots in comics based on live action film type cinematography and I have the following questions *What are the differences in camera angle type in comics vs live-action film *Is there any difference of usage of camera angle shots in comics vs live action film I am really confused about it

Hello Proko land! Time for inane question of the week (yes it has indeed been 7 days since I last asked a question) Do any of you folks use or create reference libraries? I do save clips from comics, and movies from time to time but nothing too extensive. I was reading through the 1950's Famous Art Course text book and came across this!!! That is a ton of stuff to keep track of! Kind of curious if anyone else has folders in there computer like this or has google made creating such extensive files obsolete? I'm of two minds of it. It's nice to have something to look at that is offline, easily accessible, and the only person that can delete or move the images are me... on the other it would take sooo long to build up a file like that to ever be useful. So does anyone here use a reference library? Any tips of streamlining it so you can create one within this century? Really curious to hear what other folks interested in Comic Book Making think on the subject, but by all means all are welcomed to chime in.

Hello everyone I just want to let out some emotions and that is causing heaviness on my mind is that I always have this pressure in my head is that I have to create art at the level of erik gist, ryan banjamin,proko etc.but i do not have that skill set to draw at that level I just do not have that skillset to create at that level maybe in future i could but not right now also like i bash my self a lot that my art is just is not there if I can't create at that level then I am a mediocre artist and I aspire to be able to create at that level maybe from 20 years or maybe later but I can't create now also I have made art so hard on my mind because of this and in reality art feels so stressful to me please I need help on this!!!!!!

Hello everyone today I want to share some emotions of mine which are getting heavy on my mind and causing me a lot of stress and are affecting my progress is that I have made art very hard on my mind I have made these a lot of stress that I am being to obsessed with art that I mostly just focus of drawing drawing and drawing and ignore personal life with friends and family and all these have made art heavy in my mind whenever I think about it and is it really a sin to be obsessed in art is having obsession in art a wrong thing

I have always been interested in art since I was little but never had any real chance to get into it, my parents weren't against me doing it but they also didn't want me to waste my time on it so I was never able to join any clubs/classes to get any practical experience. Eventually I just dropped the idea all together of trying it, telling myself that i'd be no good and that its just a waste of time. But I just couldn't get the feeling to go away that I was missing out on apart of myself that could make me happy. Now that im 19 and have a job of my own to pay for materials ive been playing with the idea of starting to get back into it. Its just that I feel a bit lost because I know that I dont have any "good" skills with drawing or painting so I dont know where to start. I've been looking up books an videos on perspective and shape sketching but I dont know if im doing or looking at the right things so I need advice on how to start "any book recommendations would be really appreciated". Another reason Im on this Page is to ask about oil painting specifically what kinds of paints should I get. I've been looking at oil painting thinking that it could be a fun medium to work with so I bought a few random paints after doing some research. Tell me what you think and make any recommendations you think I should add to round out what I bought already. Also a link to a good set of brushes would be appreciated too. Cold Pthalo Green - Gamblin 1980 Viridian - Winsor & Newton Dioxazine Purple - Gamblin 1980 Raidiant Violet - Gamblin Pthalo Blue - Gamblin 1980 Prussian Blue - Winsor & Newton Cobalt Blue - Winsor & Newton Warm Cadmium Red Medium - Gamblin 1980 Yelloe Ochre - Gamblin 1980 Cadmium Yellow - Winsor & Newton Cadmium Orange Hue - Winsor & Newton Permanent Alizarin Crimson - Winsor & Newton Burnt Sienna - Winsor & Newton Raw Umber - Winsor & Newton Black and White Titanium White - Winsor & Newton Ivory Black - Winsor & Newton

I do anywhere from 7. 5 hours to 15 hours per week I tend to do it in 90 minute stints, so I'll typically always do 90 minutes a day 5 days a week but if I have the energy after work I'll put another 90 minutes into it. All of my errands, family time and cooking are done on the weekends so little to no drawing for two days unfortunately. Wondering if it would be more beneficial to try to squeeze in 3 hours before work or does breaking it up not hinder progress? Curious to hear how other folks in the learning stage break up their drawing time.

Hey everyone, I wanted to ask something that’s been on my mind. Lately I’ve been putting a lot of effort into creating my original character — exploring different styles, studying artists I admire, and trying to capture what I see in my head. But sometimes I feel like a “phony” because I’m not drawing fanart of popular anime characters like a lot of other artists do. It makes me wonder if I’m missing out on something important by not doing fanart, or if it’s okay that I’m just diving deep into my own OC and trying to find my style through that. Do any of you ever feel this way? Is it normal to feel guilty or “less valid” as an artist for focusing on original work instead of fanart? lastly I guess the style that’s been attracting me is more anime, where their gestural, more dynamic, action, expressive, and fun. Thanks for any advice or encouragement 🙏

Hello Proko land! Strange post... or maybe not so strange? I've been having a real rough time learning how to draw, like really, really rough. One of the biggest problems is that I can't find people that I jell with who kind of sucks like me that I can chat and draw with while slowly improving. I've bought 2 course here (only survived 29 days in the gesture course) both labeled for beginners and well... I'm clearly in the bottom .00000001 percent of the class. It's hard to really connect with other classmates when they're a million miles ahead of you in competency and skill. Thus brings me to my dilemma. I do (kinda/online acquaintances) know a couple of other adults that suck at drawing... like really suck.... suck like me. All flat, no form, awful colors, all the problems that I struggle with. I would love to convince them to take the Basic Course with me or some other beginner class but here is the rub. They seem happy with their art. They have never conveyed any displeasure or contempt with their skill, they happily post and share their art online. I on the other hand, have made it very clear how much I hate my art and want it to improve. So now I feel weird asking them to join me in a class because it make it seem like I'm saying they should also be displeased with their work. Does this problem make any sense? So to bring this long ramble to an end. How do you ask fellow adult artist to take a course with you without insulting their own art making ability? As an add on question how do you find other adult beginners that want to draw in a group?

Hello everyone hope y'all doing well and there is one thing which bothers me a lot is that when I draw for longer hours after that I feel mentally exhausted and is it normal to feel that does that mean that I lack passion for art that's why I feel exhausted and I always felt art is something which is meant for play and have fun and while having fun you won't feel mentally exhausted but when I draw for longer hours I feel mentally exhausted and I feel bad about it and I try to push myself even in the exhaustion to be better artist but no fruit comes out of it and it sucks!!!!!!!!!

Hello everyone how are you going to adapt with AI like how do y'all incorporate AI into your work????? I want to adapt myself and evolve with ai that is why I am asking

Hello, I've been on a journey to learn art on and off for years now. Unfortunately my friend group doesn't share this interest so it has been lonely trying to work through learning the fundamentals of art on my own. As the title says I'm looking for a study partner or group that I can interact with to get feedback, share ideas, ask questions ect. If you're interested feel free to send me a message.