Requesting Public critique!

This is an image of Princess Sally Acorn and Amy Rose I make. I don’t really like Amy, but I enjoy drawing her and as she’s a friend of Sally’s, I’ve decided to draw this with a nonsensival “Never Give Up” message for the heck of it.

I’ve done this with Macromedia Flash 8 professional. If you know the program, would you mind giving me tips on how I could make my artwork more effective? (Blur, shading tips, lineart tips..) You don’t HAVE to, though. Thanks!

Oh no, I hate giving critique to an artist better than me!  What can I say?  This looks really good.  Let’s see… If the only light source is the light in the middle, I think the shading on the back of Sally’s hair should be in reverse, since the side facing the light is in shadow, and there are highlights on the back of it when the light is coming from the front.  Maybe also have the highlight between he legs trail off, because right now that line of highlight makes it look like there’s an even distribution of light all along the curve, when it should get darker between her legs, I think.  What are they looking at?  They don’t seem to be looking at each other. They both seem to be looking at the word “give”.  Also, with Amy’s hand, the shadow on her thumb is positioned right, but with the drop shadows behind it, it looks almost like the shadowed bit of her thumb is the first layer of drop shadow at first glance, which makes her thumb look a little weird.  

I’m familiar with Adobe Flash CS3 and up.  I don’t know how that compares to Macromedia Flash 8.  I’ve mostly used it for animations rather than still artwork, so I don’t think anything I know would be news to you, sorry. 

-Not-Lynx

Lulz. Is there ANYTHING good to say about this? Also, notice the warning about stealing artwork…lmao! Anti art is sad in general…Anon plz.

Something good? Let’s see… I think the colours on Sonic and Amy are accurate.  So that’s something!  Also, I am forever amused at the fact that the louder people shout about not stealing their art, the greater the probability that no one would ever want to claim that art themselves.  

CRYING BECAUSE HIS ENTIRE GALLERY IS A DIFFERENT VARIATION OF THIS AND HE’S 19. HELP.

AHHHHHH I can’t tell if that’s a long, upturned nose, or a spot between his eyes with lines of his face circling his eyes.  Is that a mustache on his face or a really bad toupee?    

Also, at first glance I thought this was supposed to be Night Owl.  You know, from Watchmen.  This guy:

I don’t know why I thought this.

Personally i prefer the older one…he actually drew it

Oh my god this is the saddest use of the Sonic create-a-character I have yet seen.  This does not count as improvement!  

Hmm…yeah, that’s still a worse Chun Li than Jackie Chan.

It’s like eye bleach at this point. At least he has a human torso.

THIS IS SUCH AN IMPROVEMENT IT HAD A PRINT. HELL YEAH!

It’s really sad when the old one is better.  I could actually tell she was sitting in a window, for example, and not at a multi-coloured checkerboard picnic table near a crooked tree.

it’s her sonic character killing an anon. the artist is around 18

anon pls

I bet the reason the anon needs to shot is that they told her her art needed some work.  Yeah, this will show that anon.  Way to go.

This is from Sonic the Hedgehog comics this is after the fact of Antoines father, Armand D’Coolette dies and grieves and blames on himself. He keeps asking himself why me and Bunnie comes to comfort him with a warm kiss on his cheek saying, “Don’t be sad Ant… I’m here for ya.”

why is this picture so small

why are you trying to make sonic oc’s deep and emotional

why are you posting something you drew half a year ago

why

Four very good questions, which can all be answered with “Because it’s so kawaiiiii”

Well. At least the person has kind of a good taste in games.

What’s the black space in the middle?  Are they all lined up on the side because they’re actually pong paddles?  Is it video game art within video game art?  This is brilliant!

Requesting Public Critique

This is one of the best drawings I have done of a character I’ve adopted/bought on DeviantART, called Miyu. It is done in the style of the (absolutely horrendous) anime, Sonic WreX. I keep begging for critique, but nobody gives it to me and I feel my art is garbage and needs to be burnt. Is it truly as bad as I think it is?

No, this definitely isn’t garbage.  If someone had submitted this, I probably wouldn’t have posted it.  That’s not to say there’s nothing you can improve on, but you seem to have a good starting point.  Most of what i have to say is small improvements that might seem a bit nitpicky.  

The first thing I notice is that there doesn’t seem to be a defined light source.  There are highlights on all the edges and she seems to be standing in an ambient glow.  You should pick one direction that the light is coming from and base your shadows on that.  On her face, her eye seems to be intruding into her ear, so you should make it a bit smaller or move the ear back a bit.  Her snout sticks forward on top, but then there’s no other lines and it looks like it goes flat again, so I’m not sure if her mouth is supposed to be flat against her face like a human mouth or a more animalistic muzzle.  

The hands could be fixed up - the one on the left has all fingers the same size, and the on the right you might want to define the shape of the fingers a bit.  

Her stance looks a bit unstable.  She’s standing pigeon-toed, and her thighs seem to be different lengths.  The leg on the right is twisted at an odd angle  - as if from the legs down she’s being drawn from the front, but above the waist she’s at an angle.  

This is definitely a good starting point, though.  The colouring on the gem on her shirt is really pretty.  Good luck drawing and I hope this helped!

-Not-Lynx

The hardest part about getting critiques on DeviantART is…everything actually. Generally you won’t get a word of advice unless you’re insanely popular, bad enough to get trolls and a small hatedom, or have a group of friends who praise everything you do. For various reasons, most people don’t look at something and feel compelled to leave so much as a comment. I’ve never used a DA critique group, but I’ve heard they’re full of people who want to get, but not give, critique. So no matter how good or bad the art, it’s not generally a reliable source of getting down about something.

The first thing I noticed is that this is definitely inspired by Sonic, without directly referencing a specific character. The colors are vibrant and clear, and the eyes are large and expressive. That’s defintely done well and it’s recognizable at a glance if you know the source.

Not-Lynx brought up pretty much everything, so I’m not going to repeat her. Something about the face that confused me is her cheeks. On her right, the cheek juts out, and her freckles are centered on it with her eye behind her cheek. But on her left, the freckles seem further from her nose, and are off to the side of her eye. I’ve found that for animals with short muzzles, it helps to add extra guidelines to keep track of what goes where. (It’s parts like this where I usually stress skeletons to see where the cheekbones jut out the most.)

Overall it’s kind of like those pictures that are nice in pieces, but stick the body parts together and it doesn’t match up. Unlike most of those, it’s nicer to look at and is going in a clear direction.

~Lynx