Feedback/Criticism on my Art

I'm hoping someone will be nice enough to provide some feedback and criticism on my artwork seeing that I'm trying to draw humans.

I have several pieces (excluding abstract works) from my recent work to show off.

(sorry for the cheap html page, linking to image-shack didn't work out that well)

http://arch129.webs.com/art.htm

I'm proud of my latest piece, but still believe it's no where good enough. I'm not sure what aspect I should or need to work on more.

Also sorry for disappearing after my 'introduction'. I'll try to post more.

edited 25th Mar '11 5:08:08 AM by Fobeis

@Fobeis

I am by no means an expert. I consider myself bad. But I will give you the advice I wished someone gave me when I started.

1. Don't draw anime
2. Don't draw from memory

As I explained on this essay "Be Original".all art comes from real life if you want to really learn you will need two things

1. theory (leraning proportions and information) Anime tutorials can help, if you want to understand a complex thing simplified. But otherwise focus on Realism tutorials.
2. practice (drawing from life or photos) Use a mirror. Never practice from memory.. ever.

After you learn with those two you will be able to draw from memory not before.

I really recomend you the book "drawing from the right side of the brain by betty edwards (there are pdf version on the internetr). Trust me, that book will teach how to see. that's fundamental in drawing. If it wasn't for that book I would have given up drawing a long ago.. yes it is that good.

Finally focus I can't stress that enough. You wont learn to draw everything in a day. Focus on just one thing to improve. practice one subjet at a time. heads, mouths etc.Also don't fbe afraid to get back to things you have already practiced.

I recomend you to start with the head. as the head is used to measure most of the other parts of the body. Do one thing at a time. Don't feel bad you can do it. Just never give up!

edited 27th Mar '11 5:21:44 PM by FallenLegend

It's not animé that's the problem it's blind copying of ANY style, without any attempts to learn the inner workings and mechanics.

Your coloring is absolutely gorgeous! =D And I like your character designs...in some ways. I'll explain—like said, it's very animesque, and you'd benefit from drawing from life, if only, in my opinion, because everyone and his cousin is drawing from anime and you'd distinguish yourself better if you had a style that was really your own. I also think you should put these on deviantart, because you've drawn them huge (and drawing huge is good) but they're hard to look at when you have to scroll, and deviantart lets you show them whatever size you want without having to resize the file.

Back to character design—I just...like them. I get a sort of feel for the characters. They're distinct from each other, interesting, I honestly want to read about them, and...the slogan...this whole world thing. I'm completely intrigued. Aaron Diaz's art blog can probably talk about character design better than I can ("Indistinguishable From Magic") if you haven't already read it. You're doing a lot of things right, from what I can see, but it's a fantastic blog anyway and worth taking a look at.

(oh, and I really think the billiard-ball eyes are cool, but they don't work if you'r using roughly normal-sized eyes, so you could always have them replaced with those miniature pool-balls, which are almost exactly the size of an eye. It's just a bit jarring to see something you know couldn't fit in an eye socket. Stylistically large eyes? Not a problem, but a billiard ball will always be larger than an eye.)

edited 29th Mar '11 1:04:34 PM by DaeBrayk