Hello everyone, I'd like to share a project I've been working on and would really appreciate your feedback — any thoughts, tips, or feelings you get from the work. Let me give you a bit of background. I work at an organic store and farm. A few years ago, one of my colleagues followed her dream and became a baker. She started her own sourdough bread business, baking right next to our shop. Our boss even built a small bakery space with a large oven attached to the building. The breads were made fresh daily, using flour from our own homegrown wheat. Unfortunately, after a few years she stopped baking, and the bakery space stayed empty for a while. Recently, though, we started using it for a new project: monthly cooking classes focused on plant-based and vegan recipes. The idea is to promote health and sustainability while using high-quality products from our shop. It’s both educational and inspiring for our customers. As someone who's always been proud to be part of this idea, I wanted to express it through my art. So I started drawing the building, imagining how it could be used for prints, flyers — something useful, cool, and beautiful. In the artwork, I’m trying to capture a mix of nature, machinery, wooden pallets, and teaching. This is what I’ve created so far. It turned out into challenge my actual painting skills. And I-found myself struggling. I would like to postpone my self critic for now I’d really love to hear your thoughts first😑🙂 — anything that comes to your mind! Thank you so much!

Here are the painting and reference.

Hello, this is my newest digital painting art. I would love to get some critiques and what I should work on more, thanks!

I've been wanting to put some more time into painting with gouache lately so I'm starting a study thread, feel free to join in! Here are two pieces from this weekend's attempts. The first is a Dean Cornwell study done along with a livestream from Jeff Watts. Clear reference was tough to find, so I just went along with the process I saw Jeff work though in the video. I spent about 3 hours on the Cornwell study and then applied the same process to an original sketch I did of Norman Rockwell from a black and white photo, which also took about 3 hours. Still getting the hang of organizing values on the palette, I feel like my palette gets crazy and disorganized quickly, so by the end of the Rockwell piece I was hunting and mixing a lot more to get back to the appropriate values. I'd love any feedback, suggestions, notes or revelations you've had during your own gouache adventures! Tools- Palette - Winsor & Newton Permanent White, and Ivory Black, Holbein Permanent Yellow Deep, and Flame Red Robert Simmons 785 Round #4 Arches Aquarelle Watercolor Cold Pressed Paper Livestream- https://www.youtube.com/live/gsTAsfjR_uk?si=l8BQy83zXAEOzYwk

The first pracitce of the drawing basic course .

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Here some of my painting projects and would like to have a critique on them.

hello everyone in the following painting i tried everything i could but could not understand the shadow shapes in the knuckle area i could not understand how to design shapes in the knuckles and how would the shadows be in the knuckle area please can anyone help mw with it!!!!!

In this one I used Koh-I-Noor color pencils and Staedtler pigment liners. All feedback on what I can/need to improve and suggestions are welcome! The colors on the photograph I took are a bit washed up, that's the best I could get with my phone camera.

I’m wanting to improve on this and be able to blend it better.

Hello, this is a portrait i did early this month. I would love to get some helpful critiques and what i should work on more, thanks!

This is a commision i did, /Mt.Kailash wit the local stupas,Tibet/, acrylic on canvas, 60x40 cm

hi i am new in the plataform, I´ve been practicing my watercolor technique, and I´d like if someone could give me some feedback about it, every comment it is welcome I want to know your point of view :)

Here's my attempt at a study of one of my favorite peices from Norbertine von Bresslern-Roth called "Frey and Odin". I really enjoyed trying to recreate the same shapes and softness in her work. I would still want to try to improve a bit on my proportions as I feel I may have drawn the bottom dogs head a bit too short compared to the original. May do a second study later on to compare improvment. Is there anything else you guys recommend that I should improve on?

I am looking to improve my painting skills and capturing textures might be my best bet

Hi guys! I am working on this painting of my brother's cat and I would like some feedback. I feel like I am having a hard time capturing his likeness and the color/texture of the fur. The painting photo is a bit squashed and in person the proportions match better. Any critique and feedback is welcome! Feel free to add your own painting you would like critiques on in this post chain!

Hi! This is my first attempt at the first project. Not sure if I like the result or not. Please feel free to butcher the drawing with any critique and advice you can give me

DAY 1 I finally convinced myself to start a challenge of painting everyday from life for about a month (We'll see how consistent I'll be) This is the first painting - oil painting on paper - 'simple' still life. I'll be posting the other paintings here aswell. I would like to get any critique (color, composition, etc.) so that I can improve.

Sometimes there's a 'line' of higher saturation just by the terminator, does anybody know why that happens? Thanks

Been focusing on painting portraits for the last month. My goal is to try to go for a more painterly style, working from big to small and attempting to design my shapes. Any feedback to help me improve is always appreciated. Thank you.

I painted this little still life (not that little.. it's actually about 100cm x 70cm). It's tempera/gouache on paper. I would like to get some critique on it. My intention wasn't to make it that much realistic because it's really hard to paint with tempera.

Hi, I think this is my last post here, just wanted to show some of my paintings (based on photo references). These were done on canvas in quite big sizes (from 80x60 cm to 40x40 cm). I found painting portraits really challenging, and always include some trial and error during the process. I'm a little bit afraid of putting more detail in painting, because of danger to 'draw' instead of finding colour and value. Do not have any specific inspiration for doing these, just realism, but trying to do it in a good way. (Maybe I found something painted similar, there are some old novel covers painted in guache that looks similar) Would like to thank for such a nice welcome on the platform under other posts, these gave some boost to keep doing art :)

Would like some critique on this oil painting study. I personally think it looks kind of flat so far and some of the objects are unrecognisable. It’s not finished and some parts are obviously missing but I hope I can get some tips before I continue. Thanks!

Going to create a large oil painting soon, do you think that this digital study looks good. i think that the compostition is fine, and the values are ok (might need to change), but im over all conserned on the colors of the peice. any tips before i go onto a large oil painting

Would just like to get some general feedback on this still life in terms of color, value, shape, edges, etc. Or just any advice when it comes to the medium of oil painting since i'm sort of new to it. I painted it from life and unfortunately (and stupidly) decided disassemble the subject before I had a chance to take a photo of it. So the reference photo of the re-arranged still life I've attached isn't completely accurate in terms of proportions. Thanks!

I did this piece for a graphic design class I'm taking, before i submitted it, what do you think about it? Is the composition ok, what about the lighting on the form, I think the anatomy of the main characters looks fine but what do you think? Also i was wondering if I should detail all of the other background characters, or should I let them bleed out of the focus and leave them roughly? any thoughts would be great, thanks.

My name is markus and I'm just finishing school this year, here are some paintings that I've done recently. If you have suggestions or critiques on these pieces feel free to do so. I wish to improve my illustration, for example, characters interacting in environments. Some artists I admire are Craig Mulls and Devin Korwin. I love their use of brushwork and composition. Besides studies, what should I focus on practicing? Color, composition, or anatomy? I think I need to improve on all 3 areas, but based on the images below, what do you think I should target my practice on? below are some landscape, illustration, and portrait paintings. i would especialy like critiques on the ilustrative paintings (characters acting with environments). thank you, feel free to check out my other work or reach out to me personaly on instagram @markus_does_art

I'm trying to find the right colors and to blend them together. I'm using procreate program

I been out of commission due to an arm injury. but finally back to work

Drawing is a passion for me and one of the most creative ways to express myself. With every stroke of my brush or pencil, I strive to push the boundaries of imagination, making the world more colorful and meaningful. Through my illustrations, I aim to inspire people and stir their emotions. Throughout my artistic journey, I've worked on various projects, leaving a piece of myself in each one. I love telling stories through colors, shapes, and compositions. My work is often inspired by nature, people, and everyday life. If you’d like to join me on my artistic journey and follow my illustrations more closely, I’m active on social media as well. I’d be thrilled to have you as part of my Instagram community, where I share my work. Additionally, if you’re looking to gain more engagement and likes on social media, you can see more.

Looking to practice painting techniques for digital art. My goal is to improve my workflow so I can create some 2d animations.

Ok so I decided to do a study on various painters and artist. I was wondering how to do that properly so I get the most out of it.

Hello, I am new to posting my art online but would like some objective feedback. For context, I am a begginer and have been doing studies of landscapes in goache for a few months and wanted to try combining a few reference images together in my own composition. I have included my thumbnails and one of my reference images, my goal was for the effect to be similar to a Disney animated background, like snow white. I wanted this to be a dense forest with a low canopy and mossy floor. My main questions are: - I had alot of issues with the colours, especially the tree trunks and the background, I tried to implement things like ambient light but I think that I am missing something. - I don't know how to show the perspective of the branch coming toward or away from the camera. I have learnt some perspective but found it hard to show in paint, should I have constructed the sketch more? Or is it a lack of gouache skill? -I wanted this to be a dense forest, but have I made the background too dark? Thank you so much to anyone who can help me, I really appreciate your time.

Hi! I just finished my first ever piece (from sketch to color woohoo!). So, i made a small sketch and ends up doing a full piece for the first time. It took about 20hours in the past week. Experimenting and all. But i noticed that i worked on a small sketch all the time. I'm still learning but it was odd... but i think that it was easier? and i really had fun painting pixels! It turned out ok i guess, but it's small. I have the Ipad 9nth gen and Pencil 1. Any tips for a good canva size to start sketching? My canva was 9x11. Of course critics for everything else are welcome too! And i never really done a piece in color, help appreciated for that. Thank you!

looking for a critique on these

I currently purchased https://www.proko.com/course/painting-light-101/overview https://www.proko.com/course/digital-painting-fundamentals/overview I would like to go over the concepts with someone to get abetter understanding

Hello, I just finished a painting exercise using only 3 values: black, middle gray and white. Do you guys have any suggestions for the results of my practice so that my abilities improve?

I just started with painting and wondering how to improve my skill in painting any advice would be helpful.

Hello everyone I just made this digital painting to brush up my painting

I've been working on this one for a little while. This is a gouache study of an Alex Ross painting. I'm trying to follow along with what I know about his process. In this book, "Mythology" he does a demonstration of his process where he does a black wash underpainting before he adds color. I'm just about done with the underpainting and will start on the color probably tomorrow.

Hi, I'm looking for an online oil painting course for beginners, and would be interested to hear any thoughts or recommendations. I've tried finding one on my own, and the ones I'm thinking about taking are on New Masters Academy (Charles Hu's "Oil painting for beginners" and Joseph Todorovitch's courses) and on youtube (SIMPLIFY Drawing and Painting). Do you have any thoughts about these? Are there other courses you would rather recommend? I studied Alla Prima II thoroughly this spring and I have been trying to apply that knowledge during the summer. But I feel like I need someone showing me the basic procedures step by step. I want to be able to paint realisticly, to faithfully capture what I see. Some artists that I like are: Anders Zorn, Richard Schmid, Joaquin Sorolla and Kazuo Oga Thanks in advance!

Hello there, thanks for clicking on this! I was wondering what critiques you might have for a painting I did. I wanted to capture a moody scene, and even though it didn't match my vision in terms of contrast, I think I'm quite pleased with the result, although there are definitely spots to improve. Thank you for your time!

Hello everyone with the following I wanted to copy the coloring style of image from the right one *how to do painting in the style of image on the right I did the coloring on the left

Hello! Just started a course here, but I’m hoping someone can help in-stick me in a painting I’ve already put well over 20 hours into. I’m trying to angle my art toward illustration and concept design, and this one in particular is intended to be an illustration. There are parts of this I absolutely love (the arms and hands around the gun), but there are three things I just can’t seem to fix. 1) His face. I’ve repainted it probably five times and just can’t seem to get it past the uncanny valley. Am I putting too much highlight in it? Are his eye whites too bright? Help! I also see her arms are probably a little short… 2) Landscape. I’m pretty new to attempting landscapes and full backgrounds, and somehow I can’t seem to suggest patchy desert scrub without making it look like a scribbled mess. 3) Marrying the characters and setting. I can’t seem to avoid either 1) the characters disappearing into the background or 2) the characters feeling slapped on top like a bad photoshop job. Any suggestion for helping them feel more like part of the scene without hiding them in it would be welcome. Thanks in advance for any input. I’ll try to go offer some critiques to folks in trade. :D

Hello, these are some landscape studies from recently, I can’t post the actual paintings because of the file size so I took screenshots. I obviously need to keep studying the fundamentals I’m learning but was wondering if anything sticks out that I could do better. I spent the least amount of time on the rocky beach one and it was the most difficult for me because of the water so it’s definitely more messy than the other two.

Hello everyone, so I'm working on this piece and would love to get some suggestions and advises on how to improve it. Main things that I would love to get feedback on: 1. how to better render the mirror that the younger one is holding in her hand 2. the dress on the older girl 3. what light shape to make around the hand that holds the mirror

Looking for critique on this painting as well

Where can I make or find custom brushes to do anime or high quality art like studio Ghibli.

Drawing the head from any angle can be challenging but rewarding. Here's a general step-by-step guide: Start with Basic Shapes: Begin by sketching a simple circle to represent the cranium and an oval or egg shape for the jawline. These basic shapes will serve as the foundation for the head. Establish the Angle: Determine the angle from which you are drawing the head. This will influence the placement and proportions of facial features. Add Guidelines: Draw guidelines to help you position the facial features accurately. These guidelines can include a horizontal line to indicate the eye level and vertical lines to mark the center of the face and the sides of the head. Position the Features: Place the features relative to the guidelines. The eyes typically sit halfway between the top of the head and the chin, with one eye-width of space between them. The nose can be positioned between the eyes, and the mouth is usually located halfway between the nose and the chin. Consider Perspective: Pay attention to how perspective affects the appearance of the head. Features that are closer to the viewer will appear larger, while those farther away will appear smaller. Add Detail: Once you have the basic proportions and positioning of the features, start adding detail. Define the shape of the eyes, nose, mouth, and ears, paying attention to their individual characteristics. Refine the Drawing: Refine your drawing by adding shading and texture to give the head dimension and depth. Pay attention to light and shadow to create a three-dimensional appearance. Practice: Drawing heads from different angles takes practice, so don't be discouraged if your first attempts don't turn out exactly as you'd like. Keep practicing and experimenting with different angles to improve your skills. Remember, drawing is a skill that improves with practice, so don't be afraid to make mistakes and keep learning from them. Experiment with different angles and techniques to find what works best for you. Click Hare: https://www.gbpros.in/

I've been doing black and white studies in gouache and decided to do a master study of my favorite Frazetta painting before I moved on to color. I'll probably come back and make a few adjustments to this, but on the whole it was a great learning experience/confidence builder.

I guess what I’m asking is how do you plan out a painting? Do you look for light source first how do you choose the colors and doesn’t matter if it’s on a tablet or traditional?

i gave up on finishing this when ur realized the original wasn’t actually a perfect square so all of my measurements were off and the background which included a relief sculpture didn’t really allow for any stretching or invention, plus it’s supposed to be a master COPY so I decided to just leave it there. I should have said this at the beginning because no one is going to read all of this but speaking of the background that’s the part I found the most difficult, mostly the plants and trees, if you couldn’t tell. It’s one thing if you’re inventing your own trees and branches and plants but when you’re copying them and they aren’t in the right place and you have to erase and start again and you can’t seem to find a way to accurately depict them without cracking down and doing a full render it becomes pretty tedious, at least for me. Anyway if anyone has any critiques or advice for trees and plants in particular I would greatly appreciate it. Like I said I’m capable of sitting down and rendering every last leaf if I really have to and making it look presentable but I envy other artists who seem to be capable of a kind of sprezzatura approach to painting plants and trees and a lot of it probably comes down to just drawing plants and leaves more but there’s gotta be a few tips to make it a little easier. I watched a YouTube video with a girl showing people how to decorate their notebooks with leaves and that was actually surprisingly helping even though it was more of an illustration video I just need to internalize more rules of thumb and ways of depicting branches and leaves so they seem more organic and random. I don’t hate the foliage in this piece but I didn’t really tackle it because I saved it for last to get my confidence up and put pressure on myself to actually do them, but since I didn’t finish them there’s not much to hate lol.

Hi fellow artists, can somebody recommend a basic oil painting course for beginners? Specifically interested in portraiture. thanks! Michael

Hey all, I've wrapped my brain into a bit of a knot trying to sort out the colour of light and it's effect on skin tones in dim indoor settings. I'd love it if someone could help me sort out what colour the shadow areas would have been in my attached mini example painting (Zelda), or explain some of the reference images' colours attached. (The post is a bit long, so no need to answer all questions, any help with this topic is appreciated!) - My Thought Process/More Specific Problem Points: If the figure was in moonlight, I think the expected colour is a greenish or blue ambient hue, and if they had a lamp or a warm light on I'd expect a yellowish or orange colour cast on them. (Correct me if i'm already wrong) In the referenced examples, characters are in indoor spaces without man-made lighting. All of them, despite the rooms and spaces not being overtly purple, have an ashy purple-ish tone to the skin. (This is where my brain gets all confused - how do I know the underlying skin's base colours!? Why purple?) My example image was trying for a block of brighter highlights as the sun gets lower (thinking, just before golden hour) streaming in a nearby window, and I initially mapped out transitional blocks where the light might come through ("1"). I made these light spots transition with a yellow/orange from the light getting lower in the sky. Do you think, since it is falling on the skin, I should have made this transitional shade a red colour only? If the light is relatively bright, even if only in the few mapped out spots, Is the problem that the rest of the face being in shadow is unrealistic? I also couldn't decide why the references all seemed roughly purple. If the indoor space is a white, grey, brown etc you'd think a simple brown/grey colour would be the main shadow colour, but I already knew that wouldn't look right. My current conclusion is the reference images look purpley and ashy due to a blue tinted cool lighting from remaining atmospheric colours from the sky outside (as there's no other lights to override the blue tone, even if they aren't directly exposed to the sky when indoors) and the purple is created through some subsurface scattering type effect where the redness of the skin is being enhanced? ie. weak remaining light is blue + redness of skin is showing through more = purple I also tend not to work in digital, so the colours i gave for examples ("2") aren't exactly the same ones I can mix on my palette, but the un-pictured middle stage gave me a very lifeless looking skin. How do you think the skin keeps some livelihood even in such ashy cool-toned settings? I tried just adding a warmer pink blush colour, but it was a bad patch for the problem which I later painted over. - Thank you if you read this far :) I hope to read your thoughts!

No, seriously I mean that. Explain the basics and painting preliminary work to me like I’m stupid. I’ve included some art from League as a point of reference only. I know they’re digital but I’m confident I can get something close to the big splash art in acrylics it’s just getting there that I can’t figure out. I’m wanting to do fantasy style paintings (non-anime) like you see on MtG cards and in Warhammer and Warmachine/Hordes. Don’t get me wrong I like Frazetta’s art but not his style. First off: pencils. Everything related to using them that I’ve found online is generic typing or assumes I’m going for full graphite art for the most part. I found David Finch’s channel which lead me to other comic artists and I get why they recommend 2H and HB to achieve the results they do for the second image I just don’t want to go that route since I’m not a fan of how the final results are colored (her dress is two distinct red tones and black lined, good but probably a bit boring to do). Also, while impressive, I don’t like how comic sketches look without color (sorry, David). Other places I’ve seen recommend sketching with 2B or 4B for some reason. So my real question here is, what pencil should I use for my sketching (probably gonna draw it on sketch paper and then transfer it in some way)? Why? Further, would how I made the line or its weight actually matter if I’m gonna cover it up completely with paint like in the first image? Also, how far should I take the sketch before I start putting down paint? Once I get the lines down? Shadows blocked in? Ink. Really not sure it would be a needed supply. I know I’d need it to do something like the second image or if I was going for an ink only image. So worth it for the first image, skip it, or what? Figure. Time for some crunch. I know comic artists use “standardized” construction method like Loomis to achieve consistency since they need to repeat a character’s design. I also know that most fantasy artists lean more on references (live or still) to achieve what is likely a one off piece in a specific pose like the first pic. So where should I concentrate my efforts? Life/reference or construction? Does it really matter? I don’t want to waste time learning something like Loomis if I’ll never use it or drawing from life if I’m always constructing everything from the ground up and only referencing specific items (like a fox’s tail). Bonus: what is a “painterly” style? I’ve seen it in places and have no idea what it means. I know all this is subjective but that’s what is making it confusing, I’m very nuts and bolts like that. And yes, I do have painting experience, I’ve painted minis for years. I’m just tired of painting other people’s work. I want to be able to have an idea, commit it to paper, and eventually have it painted instead of conforming my ideas around what is available.

In Photoshop command H is the keyword function to remove the lasso selection when you try to colour. I don’t know if there is something similar with Clip Studio Paint. It is distracting when you see the selection boundaries and trying to colour something. I want the selection boundaries hidden when I paint something on screen. I hope I’m making sense, it’s hard to describe. I use Clip Studio Paint because I own it and can’t afford Adobe subscriptions. Any advice is greatly appreciated

Hello guys I have a following questions about color and currently I am studying lighting and color to make comics please can anyone answer the following questions 1-how do local color affect the temperature of the subject 2-what if we go cooler in the light and warmer in the shadows 3-why do color gets cools off through the horizon 4-how do light color affect the image for eg if there is yellow light and should we use yellow color light everywhere

Hi, I'm trying to improve my art skills as a 3D Artist. I would love some feedback for this piece that I'm working on which will be a 2.5D piece when it's done. The light source is from the top right side of the tree. I'm thinking of adding some yellow grass and tiny rocks to the ground part. This is a stylized project. Thank you in advance!

So, I've posted it in some communities but no one has given their thoughts about what I am concerned about with the topic. I learned that the controlled edges could make a better painting, but I'm not sure what to consider which part is better to let loose or stay sharp, Do you have any thoughts or experience about it guys? Oh, but I appreciate any feedback anyway!! am forever thankful for it!!

Hello everyone when studying lighting doing master study is good or learning the light and apply it in your portfolio which one of the following way is good

Y’all thoughts? Mainly just used arcylic and a smudge brush

So i got some extra income and bought myself a drawing display. Ive tried a tablet couple of times but the hand eye disconnect was too much, especially with learning a new medium. Im gonna keep learning this between my other work, and i also like that i can paint digitally after a hard workday because i can save the picture and not worry about ruining it. Ive now had it for 2 days, and im loving it. Ive started ctrl+paint sites videos for how to use photoshop. This is my first try, just trying everything. I do it like i would traditional so i use my eye, dont trace (not that its wrong, im gonna try tracing for some master copies or something) and try to use brushes that feel oily. I gotta say, digital is not easy, the undo button and layers and other things are great but you have other things to fight. soo.. tips how to learn, tips to make these more organic, and what to avoid.

Hi can I take Marco buccis color survival guide with alcohol markers

Hey everyone, here are some of my small landpainting exercizes, insired by my teachers @Tiffanie Mang and Stans great 80/20 rule video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GknVZeFJ2Ug Any tips for me?, thanks you..

So a work in progress. Please give me critique on all aspects and share what you think about it. I'll take a better photo later.

I've been taking online classes for watercolor for a few months now. It's not something that is coming easily, but I love the medium. I enjoy the struggle. Here is a value sketch I did last week where the water I paint is finally starting to look like water. Still a long ways to go, but I'm happy to celebrate whatever progress I can make.

All of these are kinda old, like around this summer and my early college semester, but i would like some advice on how to improve on understanding painting and anatomy from other artist :)

Trying to push a little further into finishing pieces and improve my rendering. (As well as everything else) The hat felt pretty weak compared to the rest, and the blade of the sword doesn't really pop as I had intended. Thoughts, critiques, things to work on all welcome.

I really value copying artists that really know what they're doing, and Jorge really knows what he's doing. You can tell from this painting that he has a great understanding of values and how to use them. I enjoyed copying this very much :)

So do you calibrate your monitors? I noticed quite big difference between my huion and phonescreen. This is natural of course, but i was wondering do you calibrate your drawing display so it matches with for example phones? Offcourse the viewers screen can be off a lot and you cant go and calibrate their screen lol. Im thinking of getting a spyderx colorimeter but dont know how important this is.

I recently started Ahmed Aldoori's Med's Map course. A first problem I have to deal with is the choice of brushes and the right techniques to use them. At first glance I cannot find a separate lesson about this anywhere in the course. Can anyone help me with a tip to a good tutorial on that subject? I am using the latest version of Procreate on an iPad pro OS 17.1.2. Thanks!

I read that a brushpack is provided for Ahmed Aldoori’s Med’s Map course. I can’t find that pack. Can someone help me please? Thanks.

I've been working on this one off and on for a while. I'm going to make one more pass on the heads and a few details then call it "done." I'm doing a few separate head studies just for practice before I start in on the painting. This is done in gouache using the Zorn pallete. I feel like it's taught me a lot about mixing colors.

First digital painting. Worked mostly without reference. I would love, if you told me all about what could be improved in this picture.

These are some paintings I'm working on and hopefully finishing this week for class critique. I am applying a blue glaze over the one with the banksy piece to make the rest of the darker blues pop. Still in process of adding details and rendering the couple. The dark blue face and hands will be space with stars. I am using oil paint, the banksy and octopus have a yellow ochre undertone, the couple does not to truly see the difference of undertone for myself. I am using original digital collage for reference.

First sorry for the bad photo with glare and everything, this is a WIP so some spots are wet and others sunken in. This is something done without reference, im mainly interested in if you like it or not and after that technical aspects. During this painting i learned about composition and shapes and design but it was too late or cumbersome to incorporate what i learned.

Hi, this is my first post on proko, i'd like any suggestions on my panting of a woman. My goal is to master the velatura technique (through layering and glazing) to achieve a good realistic painting using acrylic colors. I've struggled studying the right technique to utilize, finally i choose to make it with magenta, ciano, and yellow as first layers and finally add skin tone. Any comments on my result? And how to improve ?

Hey, everyone! :) I'm red-green colorblind and I've been messing around with colors in this drawing, attempting to follow some of @Marco Bucci's lessons from his course The Color Survival Guide plus a bit of color theory and painting stuff I'd learned in the past. I'd love to hear some feedbacks and suggestions from you all about this piece, specifically regarding colors. Thanks in advance!

I have been pushing myself to create a more full fledged illustration portfolio as a result I am tackling less comfortable subjects for me like characters. This is the first time I have tackled a figure/character to this extent, I'm unsure if it is really portfolio worthy but I would like to get some feedback on what is working and what is not working to help apply to the next one that I tackle.

The final five. The 21st piece was painted with a reference (I think some would recognize it since the reference is quite popular). Man, I had a hard time with color accuracy. The reference felt humid. It felt soft yet vibrant. I tried to replicate that feeling but I failed, haha. The 22nd piece uses almost the same color palette as the 21st since I thought the colors were actually interesting despite its failure. I think I painted the 23rd quite well, until I added the vibrant yellow. I think was trying to add a reflection of the color of a morning sun, but I think that I overdid it. I also added a little bit of purple because it seemed interesting to do so, but looking at the result, I'm not sure about that decision. 24th was painted with a reference. It was supposed to feel darker to represent a sunset/dusk. But I'm still proud of the result. 25th took longer than expected. I kind of "cheated" by copy-pasting half of it and flip it vertically to imitate a reflection on the water. I think I should have refrained from doing that and painted it manually. I think it would look more natural that way, and I would have more freedom to articulate the ripples.

Hi! I made this illustration about a month ago with the intention of putting it in my portfolio. I think it has lost some of its freshness and fluidity after a few corrections, especially to the pose. The pose has definitely become very rigid. What do you think? Any advice is welcome! Qualunque consiglio è ben accetto!

Mostly the title says it all but I would like to learn how to drawing and painting digitally. I'm thinking of Photoshop or Clip Studio Paint and I take most of my courses on Udemy

I submitted this in a competition by an art store, but unfortunately, I didn't win. Basically, they want something that shows the knowledge and creativity gained through books and sharing your favorite books with others. That's not exactly it but that's what I remembered from their instructions. This was inspired by Guillermo Del Toro's color scheme and vibe

Hello again, proko community! I was lucky enough to get to go to a Sargent exhibit in my state(!!!) But that's sort of a tangent. However, it did inspire me to do my first sargent study ever-- his portrait of Mrs. Charles E. Inches specifically. I feel my understanding of values when it comes to color has been a bit lacking, (Of course, the value of studying it in black and white, which I'm confident in, rather than in actual color, when my problem is very chroma-focused, is debatable. But you can't really go wrong properly studying Sargent, am I right?) I think the values are pretty spot on, but the proportions are WILDLY off. However, I think they're off in a somewhat appealing way. If you have any advice, critique, or artists to study to help me "get" color, then that would be appreciated greatly! Thanks again for clicking on this post!

I wanted to learn to paint and decided to focus on landscape painting although most of my time spent drawing was focused on portraits. I painted one small landscape study a day. Most of the paintings are studies from Tiffanie Mang’s Tiny Big Worlds book. Found it to be a good way to learn to mix color and get comfortable with painting in general.

Hello, here's my latest artwork. I was sketching and overpainting character on Adobe Firefly-generated assets. I was using a photo of a girl for reference. I'm not convinced about her proper anatomy. When I was using the Skelly app it showed me that the ribcage should be longer and the belly shorter. I'm not sure about the foreshortening of her left arm (but it is visible in the photo reference).

Hello, alongside several drawing I had just posted, I would also like to ask critique for this remake of an old painting I did a year ago (it's here if anyone interested https://www.proko.com/community/topics/hello-i-made-another-fanart-would-like-some-critism) But the original was done with gouache/ acrylic/ watermixable oil on acrylic paper. I frame it behind glass but I realized a year later that the glass wasn't uv protected, meaning it would darken if left exposed to any direct/ indirect sunlight. I wanted to change the glass but the glob of watermixable oil stuck to the glass, meaning it might rip the paper off if I try to dismantle it ;_: So in light of this, I remake my old painting in oil (The medium that I actually wanted to create it in the first place but got afraid because of the toxicity of the solvent) I already mentioned James Bama as one of my influence for this painting in my old post, his thoughtful costume design and his respect for the sitter, to give each of his subject a dignity with their own problem. Even though the character I'm painting isn't real, I want to give them as much humanity Bama does. But also, I don't think I mention Valentin Serov, whose color palette really attract me. This part may be a bit more general than what this post is discussing, but I really want my painting to be as varied in color as Serov does. When I look at James Bama work, even though the thing he is painting varied from painting to painting, and the texture and application is different, I found their color so similar that it started to annoy me. Serov's work are also kinda similar (at least, if you compare him to someone like Jeff Watt or Fechin) but I found there's enough variation to make his body of work interesting. Something I strive for in my work. Speaking of Fechin, this is probably the final artist whose work is most noticeable here. In term of this painting, it probably is the biggest influence, since I wanted to simulate the viewer being in a blizzard and looking at this girl and Fechin's brushstroke I found perfect. Though in term of overall career, I'll probably move away from his work, considering the more I look at it, the more I feel it gimmicky >_< (Also, this may be unrelated, and I'm sure the man I'm tagging is busy- so I'm very sorry about this, but I wonder if Mr @Stan Prokopenko would like this, considering he's a big Fechin fan) Anyway, going back 50 sentences, the 2 biggest critic I would like to know is if the figure of Reimu (the girl in the painting) not being directly in the middle and not being symmetrical annoy the viewer, I try to fix this asymmetry in csp but for the love of me couldn't make it perfectly balance, it always either made the painting boring or when I flip it, it became asymmetrical again. I'm asking because I wonder if this is something I should be worried about or if it's all in my head, I saw John singer Sargent's Lady Agnew (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Edinburgh_NGS_Singer_Sargent_Lady_Agnew.JPG/800px-Edinburgh_NGS_Singer_Sargent_Lady_Agnew.JPG) and Ilya Repin's Autumn Bouquet (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BD,_%D0%98%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F_%D0%95%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87#/media/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Repin_bouquet.jpg) And I don't think people care about the fact that both of them are off center (But then again, I don't know how much people notice that or if these painters were still alive today, would they groan at this fact? Would they want to change it if given the opportunity? I wonder) Secondly, I ask if the bow on her head is distracting. I added it there because the original design of Reimu had it there, but I'm starting to wonder if I should downplay it more considering the rest of her outfit is very down to earth, and also not to mention that her expression is so serious, that I ask "will this ruin the tone of the painting? Is this not consistent enough?" I try ridding of it when the oil paint was still wet (hence the thick paint above her bow) but in the end it made the design less interesting and more boring. So since I can't fix it now, I will just ask for some opinions and see if I can 'fix' it for my next painting This post had become too long. I only thank the people who have read this from start to finish and had given their time to write a feedback for my work (thank you a lot >_<) (Oh also, I know this is rare, since I usually only tag you guys once per month, but @Liandro and @Jesper Axelsson any thoughts?)

I had challenged myself to paint 25 clouds. I was not confident in my ability to paint backgrounds and I wanted to improve, then thought of clouds as my starting point. It was difficult. I began the first 10 on grayscale, aiming to study the value and structure of clouds. I found that clouds also have gesture and it affects the composition of the piece. From painting 11 to 25 was colored studies. This hit like a truck. I had extremely little experience with color and brush work. Getting my colors and values accurate to my reference was not easy. Even after finishing he challenge, I still think that something is off in the most recent paintings. Most of the pieces are done at around 30-60 minutes. There are some that took 2-3 hours especially the final 25. This is merely 25 little paintings and I have told myself that it would only serve as a milestone in my art journey. I still have a long way to go. P.S. Some are painted with a reference and some are from memory. It was also done digitally.

Hi everyone so I need help figuring out a substitute for my oils. Let me clear this out, so I paint with oils but I wan't another painting medium that will also help me improve my oilpainting skills at the same time. Is Guache a good option? If yes why? Cause I been thinking about Goache and watercolours mainly beacause I cant think about any other medium (I think about theese mediums beacause in my mind I can do a painting faster and after I've done the painting in this medium I can decide if I want to do a oilpainting of it). Any tips and advice will be really appreciatied. Kind regards Jonathan

This is a self portrait I painted a couple of years ago.

Hello guys! This is my personal piece. I wanted to make a painting with storytelling in a dark setting and make the character look like she is a rebel. What do you think about it?

No need to wait for paint to dry.

Hi! I would like to get some feedback on these illustrations I did on this article as an exercise: https://www.worldwildlife.org/magazine/issues/winter-2022/articles/family-trees I basically did one illustration on each section of the article + a cover. The article is about the importance of mangroves in Boca de Camichin. I tried really hard to make the images work together color-wise. They're enclosed in this order: 1. Mangroves, people, and more 2. Family dynamics 3. Water ways 4. Ripple effects 5. The big picture 6. The cover 7. Legacies I am very thankful for all criticism. Just hit me with it! :D

Hi, these are a couple of 30 minute watercolor sketches I did in the last couple of days. I am struggling a lot with still life paintings in art school at the moment. Therefore I tried to familiarize myself with the medium a bit. Let me know what you think. Any critique or tip is always welcome. Philipp