beginner attempts (four works)


#1

hi,

I’m a real begginer in drawing and CG. I intend to work in 2D more in a painting view than based on other material (photo, drawing, etc…)

I made some drawings while training a specific things in each.

Feel free to comment any mistakes, i definitely need some directions for improvement.

FIRST:

Goal: i tried to work more specifically on perspective and try some effects as dust.

SECOND:

Goal: human body (took me four hours just for the body), dynamic water, elusive shadow in the back

THIRD:

Goal: faces, more particuliary shading

FOURTH:

GOAL: I said to me “You have ten minutes to do a real life object”, here is the result.

Thanks for all the advice you can give me.


#2

Below is my standard reply to beginner artists who are posting work that really don’t benefit much from critiques:

It’s really hard to critique works from artists who are still very early in their artistic development, just like how it’s very hard to critique someone’s language skills if they are just starting to learn a new language, because so much of what they do is wrong. To critique beginner’s work would no longer be critique–it would become instruction in all the basics, because you would have to explain every aspect of the visual art foundation in detail and how they related to the mistakes made in the image–from composition, perspective, values, lighting, tonal composition, atmospheric perspective, color temperature, color contrast, radiosity/color bleed, deceptive colors, contextural color illusions, anatomy, figure, psychological and physiological roots of body language and facial expressions, aesthetic sensibility, hierarchy of edges, brushwork, line quality, visual storytelling techniques, and so on.

My suggestion is for you to focus on learning the critical foundations of visual art–don’t rush into trying to construct your own images because you lack the necessarily knowledge/skill/experience to do your ideas any justice at this point. Head on over to the Art Techniques & Theories forum (linked below in my signature) and start reading the sticky threads–they will help you far more than any critique you’re going to get at this point, because any critique you get would essentially be very condensed and simplified art instruction anyway, and they won’t help you that much if you aren’t learning those instructions in proper context through a carefully laid out learning/teaching plan.


#3

Thanks, i’ll follow your advice.


#4

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