just a digital painter on a quest

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

Hi everyone! My name is Marco, digital artist from Italy and i'm really happy to finally see the new Proko 2.0 online! Having a new community to hang out with, share art and interest is amazing. Here are some of my latest works, let me know what you think and if you have any critiques feel free to share!

Hi! These are my gouache studies from watts. 1 painting everyday. I will post more soon.

Hi everyone! I'm Jon and I'll be one of the critiquers here on Proko; I primarily do splash art for SMITE and focus on high-render entertainment illustration. Looking forward to getting to know everyone and seeing your awesome artwork!! :D

Did this portrait sketch in oil recently of a tough guy version of @Kristian Nee. Messing around with edges, textures, and abstractions. Inspired by Nicolai Fechin :)

Hey all! I'm so glad Proko 2.0 is finally a reality, and I'm hyped about what this community will become! As my first post here, I'd like to share a few self portraits that I've made over the years. I like seeing them and think about the things that have change in my skills, my techniques and in me personally. I think everyone should paint a self portrait once in a while. It's a very special experience. Paintings dates: May 2014, May 2019, February 2020, May 2020, February 2021

Some older gouache master studies I did when I was going to Watts atelier, was always my favorite class. I definitely need to start doing them again. Anybody else like doing these? (The artists are Alma Tadema, Craig Mullins, and Frank Brangwynn.)

Hi everyone! So nice to see everyone's work!! My name's Davi, I'm from Brazil and I aspire to be an illustrator! Here's some of my work! Excited to connect with you guys!! ヾ(´ ∇ `)ﾉ

Hello guys! This is one of my portrait paintings, this time i wanted a realistic piece while maintaining a "charcoal/paninterly" vibe. Please share your thoughts and your critiques! Thanks ♥

@Marshall Vandruff and I will be recording a podcast episode on the topic of Plein Air (painting outdoors). We'd like to hear from you before we record it. Post some questions, concerns, stories, anything related to Plein Air and we might talk about it in the podcast. Also, feel free to respond to each others' questions here. Thank you!

So I have been doing MapCrunch street view paintings for some time as a practice for drawing scenes, I started doing that at the mid of 2019, I call this practice "Cloud Travel", which happened to make a lot of sense in the covid situation XD. Recently I started to give those Cloud Travel images some twists on top of the original street views, so here it goes! Hope you guys dig it. I post my stuff on Artstation and also my personal blog gallery: https://www.artstation.com/nicksbest http://www.wellobserve.com/index_gallery.html

I’m so sick of this poor rooster, but I’m sure he’s even more sick of me 😂 I have painted the same rooster (reference attached) three times now in three different styles. I’d love to hear any critiques, and which rooster (if any) is your favourite?

Well there is it, it's finished and i couldn't be more happy with the result!

I like to do quick digital painting 'sketches' to practice being loose during painting. I get asked a lot about my minimal brushstroke type of style, and this is one of my secrets to getting better at that style. I pick a theme, and then I do quick paint sketches to try to just capture likeness and emotion without using too many brush strokes. I don't try to get a lot of detail, actually I focus on the opposite. Here are a few of my examples. Comments welcome!

Hello everyone! Here's the last painting I made, I'm not sure if calling it finished or not. Any critiques or feedback are really appreciated. Let me know what you think about it and what you would change! Thanks!

Started painting on this one last week and i'm super excited to keep developing it. Started sketching it in using transparent iron red oxide and then went in at put down general colours and values in a thin wash. Currently adjusting the values and temperatures of the painting while refining the drawing.

A digital painting study of one of my favorite movie characters Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean.

Not really my usual subject but i'm really enjoying this one! It's probably 95% finished but i'll be happy to hear your opinions and critiques before calling it done! Thanks ♥

Hey guys! SLEW here, This is a 14x18 inch portrait in oil I did of Mr. Proko! It was a challenging project for me for a few reasons! First, the reference photo I grabbed from google was pretty small and low res... which made it hard to really see some of the nuances of the details. Although challenging in that regard, the lack of detail actually helped me focus on big shapes and perhaps ignore detail in the beginning stages. (I tend to try and fish out detail too quickly within the painting process. Another reason It was challenging is that I do not usually do portraits this big. I usually like to work with smaller faces! 14x18 is actually the largest portrait I've painted to date. More paint and more surface area.. challenging but really fun. I spent a few days attacking this bad boy and probably put around 10 hours into the painting. I think overall I went a little too white with the lights.. another issue of mine is I start with too high of a value in the lights and then I don't have a lot of room to push it even lighter with highlights... it becomes a little chalky with too much white paint. But I wanted to make a very illuminated portrait as well as bring a lot of chroma and variation in color. The teeth also killed me, I think I could have represented them simpler and not try to have them look super realistic. All and all I am happy with this painting and glad I gave it a shot! I've attached a few process pictures including a 90 min pencil sketch to warm up. Next week I will be releasing a full video on my YouTube channel going through every step of this project! Please feel free to give me a critique! I am hungry for other people's opinions! SLEW

Hi all Here are a few portrait studies from a digital portrait painting class I took over the winter with Steve Forster. I've mostly painted traditionally and this class really helped me get over a hump with digital painting.

Digital portrait i did recently, any opinion or feedback is welcome. Thanks you so much!

So I have been getting into oils for about a month now. Got some good pointers here before. Better brushes do help a lot!:D I feel like I'm finally starting to understand what I'm doing to the point where I can sit down and try to paint something instead of worrying too much bout mediums, solvents, brushes and all that. I suppose just a matter of experimenting with tools and practicing now. I'd be very happy to get any critique or tips, especially those relating to the oil paints medium:) I was also thinking of buying Stephen Bauman's course on Classical Portraiture, here on Proko. Is it a good choice for me as a beginner in the medium or should I try some more basic courses? If so do you know of any good ones? Edit: Forgot one thing!:D I have to keep my painting in direct sunlight when photographing it since my cheap phone camera needs a lot of light to take reasonable quality photos. I know I will probably have to invest in some better camera sometime but for now I will have to stuck to the phone camera. How much of a problem are the highlights on the paint? It's have to avoid them with direct sunlight and glossy paint. Any tips relating to that?

So, I am gearing up for a new course on making a master copy. In this diagram I am looking at John Singer Sargent and how he uses complementary colors to create a stronger color effect while maintaining a very naturalistic sensibility. Super impressive stuff.

If I could express my joy over this painting in backflips, then I would be doing a quadruple! I'm really proud of it :) I've been oil painting since June and with this piece being my best yet, I'd like to submit for critique and tips. This sketch took me roughly 5 hours. I can tell many of it's flaws, like proportion and that parts are unfinished (I ran out of time). I'm less concerned about the "drawing" part and more about the painting part; about values, edges, color, the painting process, obvious painting mistakes, brushmanship etc. I studied Alla Prima II intently this spring and have been practicing my oil painting through small sketches this summer, but never had anyone look at my work. I've previously attempted self-portraits, but with this one I got a break through. 2 hours in I felt like I was starting to destroy it (I was very happy with the start). This is a point I've hit before. This time, instead of continuing I took a short brake and thought about it, and I noticed that I wasn't really copying the shapes; I had done so for the major shapes, but not the smaller, because analzying them requires a great deal of effort. But now I pushed through, trying to disciplin myself to analyze more carefully. And suddenly I saw more then I have ever seen before, and I grasped better then ever how to brake the face down into brush strokes! I attached some other sketches aswell, though I don't expect you to critique them all, just as a help in finding out my bad habits and weaknesses. And for fun :) Thanks in advance!

Doing a series of drawings with watercolour finish. Will update as I go.

Here's a quick value study I did of John J Park's artwork. The instructions I had received: Use 5 or less than 5 values, look for curves, straights, patterns and other design elements. I was not supposed to render anything so I tried not to do that. Which areas can I improve upon? Thank you

Thanks to loads of help on these forums, I managed to work out what I needed to get going with my first attempts at oil painting - some really fun retail therapy later - some cool "Jacksons" supplies (London based art shop which I really recommend) I have managed my first painting... Whether its any good or not, it was certainly much more fun than the frustrating world of watercolour painting. The first lesson that you learn straight away is what they mean when they talk about the "push and pull" of Oil painting - which strikes me as very similar to trying to blend edges of shadow and half tone with graphite pencils. @Liandro - hope you like it...

So recently I've been practising painting sculpture photos I found on Pinterest hoping to improve my figurative painting skills. Those are done traditionally in black and white gouache. I'm not sure how to apply this stuff into my own paintings at the moment, it's not quite obvious how to paint my characters and their poses in this kind of manner but I'm still trying :D

I did another photo study using watercolour and gouache. This time I painted in A3 so it allows me to include more small details, so the scale of everything can look nicer, but it's kinda boring to do all the details with different colour because I'll have to re-mix that tiny portion, unlike doing black and white. Please give some thoughts on this! :D My large scanner doesn't really have a good colour reproduction, I adjusted in GIMP to try to make it look as close as what I see on paper.... Reference Photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nainokin/51205946833/in/faves-chengdulittlea/

I love painting portraits but I still need to improve. I'm trying to find my style and make my paintings look interesting. What do you think about it?

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

Just wanted to share a couple of pages from my sketchbook. Nothing too serious. These are all mainly fun and mindless sketchbook painting. I will add more pages to this thread later.

I've been playing around with gouache a bit lately. To study, I've been watching Jeff Watts videos and practicing small heads to get a feel for the paint and trying to get control of my values. I've got a long way to go, but I can tell gouache is the medium for me. I like that it can be used in an opaque manner, and that I can set it aside and work on it whenever I have time. Even the drying time just seems to suit my temperament. I'm sure I'll do larger studies, color studies, etc. For the short term, I just want to create a painting habit in my life to build up brush mileage as Jeff Watts says. I'll post to this thread as I go to track progress.

I am not sure if this is the right forum for this question. My apologies if it is not. Hello, I am a 46 years old computer engineer. When I was a child I drew a little but nothing serious. 3 and a half years ago I am painting in photoshop as a hobby in my free time more regularly. Here I add some of my pieces. The question I ask: Could I make a living as an artist? ...Yes, I know that "it's never too late" but 46 years old and zero experience is too much, isn't it? Thanks in advance.

Hello! I've made this one with a more graphical and minimalistic style in mind. I'm looking for some feedback and opinions on how it could be improved and polished. Also let me know what you think about it! Thanks so much!

Hello everyone! I wanted to have your opinion and critique to improve a piece I'm currently working on. Please let me know what you think and what changes i could apply to make it better!

Let me know what you think about this one and what suggestion you have to make it better! Thanks so much!

Hi everyone :) I just finished this rhino speedpaint and would be very grateful for some new eyes on him - does anything jump out at you as needing fixing? I wanted him to look young and super solid, like if you accidentally drove a truck into this guy the truck would come off second best! Thank you 🦏🦏🦏

Hello there everyone, I was working on this painting and I got some really helpful feedback on my work. I am almost done with the painting and I am really happy with the final result. The only think that is bothering me the most is the area I have highlighted, around the foreground tree. I don't really know what's off but my eye always goes to that spot. I would love to know of any tips on how to solve this error. Any other feedback is welcomed as well. Thank you and have a good day ahead!

Gouache studies. Made last summer. Paper size was A4 and I just divided the paper with tape to get four on one sheet. I feel these studies helped a lot but I really have to pay more attention on the colors. What do you think of these?

A couple of paintings, some finished, and some are still a work in progress. critiques are welcome 🙏.

Here's a digital portrait I just finished up. I had a lot of fun with the texture close up.

So I finished another piece with gouache. I call these cloud travel, basically a reference picture from the internet and some imaginative stuff added on top of it. The colour didn't really pop in this one, and greens are quite hard to tackle so yeah, what do you guys think? Ref: https://flic.kr/p/2ULy5m

Hi Guys, I'm try to open my mind and just paint. No reference and just relaxing. But, to be honest, I still struggle with it. If you have a minute, I would really appreciate your feedback. Thanks.

This is oil on gessobord, 8 x 10 inches. I wanted to document my fiance's pandemic ponytail. I've already decided that I want to keep it sketchy and not develop it further, but since I'm thinking of giving it to his mother as a gift, I'd appreciate it if someone could take a look and let me know if there's anything off. If the ear is too low or the neck is too long, I don't want my mistakes haunting me from a frame on her wall over Thanksgiving dinner.

So, I decided to get serious about my digital painting. I have been doing studies and experiments to get more familiar with the medium. Having learned a process that I like and that works for me, I did a full digital figure painting today. My process is as follows: 1) I sketch out my image using straight lines on a new layer. I work out the silhouette and the line that separates the light from the shadow. 2) On a new layer, I clean up my sketch, rounding off the lines and refining the shadows. 3) I create a new layer under the line art, and fill it in with about 50% gray 4) I then fill in my shadows with about 75% gray 5) I turn off the line art layer 6) I then create a new layer above the line art, and paint the image. I have found that I am in need of some new brushes, this painting needs some texture. So I am looking at some youtube videos on how to create brushes to get what I need. I hope this is helpful to any of you who are trying out digital. This is not the only way to do it, just the way that I have found that works for me :)

I was going for slightly stylised realism, but mainly it's a colour / lighting study. Is something looking off? What feelings does it evoke? What could I do to make it look more "professional"?

Hi everyone. I just finished this recent photo study. I'm very proud how it turned out, and I would appreciate any critique. My goal in the future is to make a living from my art, so I'm always pushing my skills. Photo Ref is attached below. Thanks!

Hi everyone! I have recently picked up oil painting and would really appreciate some direction and critique. All three are plein-air paintings, the vertical ones are 8 x 10 inches and were finished outside in one session. The horizontal one is slightly bigger and was finished up in the "studio". I'm trying to think in three values and thumbnailing the composition beforehand but finding myself struggling with the color, value, and just feeling that it's lacking overall. Anyways, would love to hear any advice and critique so I can maybe start improving :)

It's been a while since I've created my own artwork rather than copying a reference image as I usually do. The painting I call: Agony Of War. What do you think of it?

In these images we have two portraits, the first by Sargent and the second by Solomon. Both contain pretty simple analogous color schemes but, as the shape of the color map shows, with diferent levels of saturation mostly within the yellow-orange spectrum. So, along with the master study course I am preparing for I am looking at different ways to assess and analyze the color in a portrait. The difficulty translating oil paint into digital color expressions is that most color in an oil painting is a result of the mixing of literal physical pigments rather that selecting a pixel of color (as it is done digitally). So I developed this color wheel to simulate the neutralization of a hue by mixing with it's complement (red mixed with green for instance). What I can't figure out how to do is how to show the values as well without making the model 3D... Still working on that. Eventually I want to perfect the analysis model so that I can compare the color expressions of artists throughout their career and also to compare between artists. It could also be use to compare color expressions between eras- What color world was available to Velasquez via the pigments availabel at that time vs. as artist with all of the modern synthetic pigments we have today...

Hi! I am looking for critique on this digital painting I finished about two weeks ago. Anything that could be improved, anything that looks strange, any suggestions on how to improve... I will be very grateful for any of your feedback! And please be brutally honest, I can handle it. :D Thank you!

What do you think of the asthetic choices on this one? I know I still have a lot to work on how to descrive form turning but outside of that what would you suggest as next topics for studying?

This is my latest digital painting. I wanted to really try to maintain the gesture I saw in the reference. I did this by starting with a gesture drawing before adding any details. I have to say dancers are really good to look at when working on gesture, they're very expressive with their bodies. Thanks for looking :)

I am once again asking for your help :D I'm doing a portrait right now and it's at a pretty good development stage but i'd like some fresh opinion on it and all the ideas you can give me. Thanks! ♥

Hello, fellow artists! 👋 I was just working on this portrait in Procreate with the default vine charcoal brush and I’m not sure what else to do for it to feel “finished” so I thought I’d ask. Any obvious issues with it? Any tips on improving at observational drawing/painting? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. 🤓

Finally took some tome to finish this photo study I left half done from last week when I was browsing for interesting photos. This is done in watercolour & gouache on my drawing book (just 120gsm laser print paper), with some margins slightly smaller than A4. I don't have dedicated gouache for colour, only black and white, so I used some watercolour to do the colouring. 3 colours: Cobalt Blue & Cadium Red/Yellow. It's really hard to mix teal and some more vibrant purple or "colder red" using them. I should have some lighter pigments so I can pull the saturation a bit more. Otherwise I'm mostly happy with the result, it's just took too long for me to mix. Maybe because I have a rather small palette area. Oh I added a fake film border for some aesthetic LOL Any thoughts on this one? :D I found the reference photo on flickr here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mihoff55/43120962345/in/faves-193183905@N06/

Hi guys! I'm working on a new painting and i'd like to know your opinion about it! Please let me know!

Would like to get some initial feedback for this study of drawing a sad face. Don't mind the lack of the hand... I've haven't started studying it ^^".

As I said in the title, critiques and feeback are more than welcome! Let me know what you think about this. Thanks so much!

Hello, recently I've finished this piece and would love to see some opinions about it. The biggest issues for me here were general composition of the piece and getting good feeling with these clouds. Let me know about anything you think I can improve.

Wuxia costume study I did in Photoshop. C&C are welcome. Thanks.

Hey everyone! I love traditional charcoal/graphite based portraits, I'm trying to recreate it on digital in some way. What do you think? Is it close somehow? Also, if you have any suggestions for the portrait/painting, please let me know! Thanks

I did this study based on a J. Park tutorial. I think it can be improved by aa lot

Hey guys!! It's been a while since I logged on Proko XD. Had a bit time today and I think I could share some of my latest digital paintings with you guys. I've been learning from the works of my "art parents" a lot, which helped me figuring out some techniques and I also get to explore more on my world building stuff :D

Hello everyone ! I thought I would post my latest art as my firt topic. I have been practicing watercolor for a year and some months now and I’m having a blast. As soon as you get over the “backwards” way of working, it’s such a great medium. Especially to convey an idea quickly when doing plein air paintings. These 2 are based on photos and like the title says, they are my latest 2.

I’m finally getting around to painting this after wanting to for so long. Here’s the underpainting done in transparent red oxide. I did a general color study as well as one of her face to further work out the flesh colors and temperature relationships more.

Here is a portrait study I did in Photoshop. I really try to do minimal brushstrokes to get the emotion and detail. Comments and critiques are very welcome!

Some landscapes I made for study. I would apreciate some feedback

I posted some of these before, but I've added to them since. These are small master studies form Rockwell and Layendecker paintings. I'm about ready to attempt a larger master study.

A Question for Oil Painters - I recently found out I'm pregnant (exciting!) and have started experimenting with solvent free options - I started with Gamblins solvent free fluid as a replacement for W&N Liquin (the normal oil medium I use to moisten the brush and speed drying time) and I hate it... Does anyone have other suggestions for me to try (I have already gone through my pigments and limited a few harmful ones, and am wearing gloves as a precaution, it's mainly the solvents in mediums I haven't solved yet) To give more detail, I find the Gamblin medium very fat but somehow doesn't assist in paint movement - fat but tacky? it's a chore to work with. Pictured is one of my pieces to give you an idea of the finish I can get with the W&N Liquin

I did a quick portrait study and I wanted some critiques on how the shading looks. Im trying to keep it from getting muddy. I tried to stick with hard brushes. I want to know if headed in the right direction before i take it further. Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks

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.

Hi! I did this portrait painting a while ago as fanart for a youtuber I like. I’m now wondering if someone could critique it? Excited to hear your replies 😄

Did some still life drawings just wanted to share. These are like 1-3 hours drawings. Any feedback is welcome.

I do digital paintings mostly from imagination. I've been developing a small fantastical world in an alternative history kind of way. I've been learning from Marco Bucchi's 10 minutes to better painting videos. I still haven't understood edges quite well but Craig Mullins's tutorial has helped. I painted all those in MyPaint (a very light painting software) and a surface pro 6 running linux. I'm mostly inspired by Alex Andreev, Fedor Titov and a lot of Russian artists.

Hi everyone, I'm fairly new to digital painting and have been practicing for a couple of months now. Here are a few works I've done since starting. A lot of them vary in style as I'm still experimenting with the capabilities of Photoshop, and I'm taking different courses that teach different approaches. Please let me know what you think and, of course, feedback is greatly appreciated. Thanks and be safe, Gino

Moving on to working with color.Done in gouache.

Hi guys! I would like to get some feedback on this portrait of Kim Young Gi because I'm thinking of doing an oil portrait of this. Do you think I got the likeness? Does anything look odd? Thanks in advance.

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 there everyone! I hope you are having a wonderful day. I recently did this painting of an OC. I am not really happy with it. The problem that I have been facing is The character does not feel like a cohesive part of the environment. I don't know if it's the lighting or the colors but the character feels like a sticker over the background If u guys could please help me with this, it would really mean a lot. Thank u for your time and please let me know of any other tips u might have.

Here is a digital painting I had to do because I loved the lighting.

Hey did these charcoal drawings and liked them so much so I made a painting. Feel free to give some feedback

the first image is mine but the other artists are in order @ninev_ @g_nai_art @snatti and @redum4 on twit , i wanna know how the color/paint like that? i know i need to practice but im not sure how to practice if that make sense like what brushes i should be using and just how to do anything basically? any advice would be helpful

Morgan Weistling study, other portraits and im open for any critiques:))

Are there any glaring issues or things I could improve with this portrait? It was kind of quick but I'm trying to learn how to balance getting an aesthetic looseness while still being able to accurately convey the subject.

Hello, guys, I did this illustration for Marc Brunet's Croma Island and I am really happy with it but somehow it doesn't feel dynamic and the characters blend in with the background. Please help me. Constructive Criticism appreciated, thank you. Also which one of the 2 looks better, the normal one or the one with the lens flare

First painting I'm posting on this platform. I am hoping and excited to learn a lot from on here. I tend to get intimidated by what colours to choose for a painting, I am hoping for some tips to overcome that.

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.

I painted this for this year's Mermay challenge. How do you like it guys? :)

Hey, thanks for finding the time to stop by and view some of my quick sketches. Just a brief background... These are 30-45 minute digital head sketches done for practice. I've been painting traditionally consistently for the last 4 years or so but this is my first week of actually trying to learn to paint digitally. My goal for these sketches is to create somewhat believable heads from photo reference in the limited time frame to force myself to focus on large general shapes and forms. I did this also to familiarize myself with the digital workflow relative to traditional painting. The attached files of the individual heads are the ones I particularly liked the outcome for, but please feel free to critique any on the grouped spread. Thanks again in advanced for your generous advice. Take care. Your fellow artist friend, Gino

So here is my latest portrait, this time of Evil Ed from Fright Night. I think the likeness came out accurately enough, but I’m not happy with the style. It almost looks like I took the photo and just added some smudges and effects. I don’t want so realistic a look, but I don’t want to lose the likeness, so how and where can I add more style and personal preference? As far as personal preference, I already changed the composition, made it greyscale, changed the brightness, contrast, and gamma. I made some adjustments to a couple of areas, blurred some areas to not distract from the focal point, and added some of my own detail in the eyes. After all that, it still ends up looking like I could have just photoshopped the actual photo and saved myself hours of rendering. Any general feedback or tips to overcome these specific issues would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! 🤓

Ok guys - please hit me with your critiques. what can I do to improve this little hare (or is it a rabbit - does anyone know)? Reference included. I’m going for a whimsical illustration-y style. Thank you! ❤️

Although most of my work is digital, I've started doing plein airs in gouache as a side hobby and have been having alot of fun with them. I'd like to know what yall think could be improved. Specifically, I still feel like my values, colors, and temperatures could be better. Here are my most recent ones. Any and all critiques are always welcomed though :)

Here is my latest digital portrait painting. I do have a time lapse video available for this one if you are interested in seeing my process. https://youtu.be/EodD-0ladDM

I tried to give a sense of realisim on this painting, just by the color and not the perspective. I think that maybe I should have gone for less stylized shapes and tried more texturated ones.

Feedbacks are welcome. I didn’t really copy the whole piece i change it a little bit.

Here is a portrait study I did in Procreate. I took reference from a movie scene. need some critique on color and light :)

A recent painting I just finished a few days ago. Inspired by some lighting conditions of my school dormitory apartments. Also it's #marchofrobots so I figured let's just do a weird robot-ish piece :D Characters are still a bit wonky, I don't really plan to nail that down really accurately, but rather capture a mood. Overall, I think the global illumination/occlusion/reflections are a bit not there, because the colours of those two robots don't really want to mix pretty well, and the orangy secondary reflection don't show pretty well. Maybe because at early stages I didn't nail those down. Could use a bit more aggressive gesture on the wing on the far side tho. Done in MyPaint. Size ~11700px wide.