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@kika27
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4yr
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@sokolovska_art
Artworks done with pencil, charcoal, sepia, oil paints... :)
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4yr
Hello - thanks for sharing your work!
While it's a little tough to do a portfolio review without knowing which type of industry you want to appeal to, I can make an assumption that you're interested in a fine arts path, based on the pieces here.
I like the drawing and 3D form happening here. What I think is coming off as a bit static are your edges. It looks (to me, anyway) like you're going for a natural feel to your renderings, but the hard edges are fighting against that. Hard edges are fantastic visual tools because they draw the eye so strongly. It's a form of contrast really: just as a pop of light in an area of dark will gain interest, so too will a hard edge. The issue comes when too many of them are used, and the eye doesn't get a rest. I believe that is happening in your work. I don't want to suggest a style change or anything. But one exercise that may be of help (it certainly helped me!) is to begin your painting with abstract blobs of soft color and value passages, then adding key shapes and harder edges into it. This is like working in reverse: instead of starting with an "in-focus" drawing and then adding "in-focus" shapes, you are now starting with something cloudy, soft, and abstract, which you then *bring* focus to. By nature, this process will give you a range of hard vs. soft, and the goal of the exercise is to gain more insight into what that kind of range does visually, and how you can implement it into any process.
A few artist demos come to mind: Jeremy Lipking's old portrait DVD goes about it this way, and there's a plethora of examples in Henry Yan's figure drawing book.
Good luck!