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Wife asked me to draw her some dinosaurs. Any good?

trying to draw my oc but the shoulder/neck area feels so off and i’ve been staring at it for way too long. gave up on the arms entirely ngl. how do you guys make flat colors look less boring without overrendering?? pls drop tips i am fighting for my life in the layers panel rn

Hello! I am really curious about your opinion on this drawing. This is BY FAR my best one yet. For the first time it doesn't look really flat (I hope at least) and I am happy how I drew full body for the first time as well. I know that hair looks like a bit like medusa, but honestly I kind of like it. So if you have anything to say, literally anything, I would appreciate it :)

I’ve been moving forward without direction. I like artists like Marc Brunet and SamDoesArts, whose art is semi-realistic with a bit of anime or Disney style in between. But right now, I feel lost, practicing anything I can think of with no roadmap

Whenever I do a timed figure drawing session, I do 10 1-minute gestures and those look fine but once I get to 2-minute or 5minute like I’m showing, I just don’t know what to do, I’ve tried constructing like Michael Hampton’s book teaches and even trying to copy contours but my drawings just always look worse than the 1-minute figures.

I don’t really know what to do to improve, I’ve been at this for 3 years now and I still don’t know how to use gesture and structure together to make a finished figure drawing.

Apologies for the reupload im a bit of boomer and don’t know how reddit works.

Hi friends 😊

I’ve been focusing on my proportions and face planes lately, as a challenge I did a 3 hour study as I tend to take my time since I’m a beginner (been taking my art seriously for around a year now).

Materials - Willow charcoal, charcoal pencil and A3 120gsm paper.

Process - I began by drawing the proportions, in the first hour I checked the proportions using an overlay tool twice. After which I stopped using the overlay tool.

I struggled with the mouth and the eyes, I find it difficult to capture those areas where there are sharp turns and softer plane changes.

I did focus on the face, choosing not to draw in the hat and the rest of the bust was on purpose as I wanted to keep attention on the face.

Any feedback is appreciated although my main focus is on improving proportions, planes and values.

Feedback and critiques are always welcome!

I have a bad habit of making always drawing the head too small, which I still did here even trying to be conscious of it. But slowly and steadily I'm getting better!

I can’t find any good reference specially since how weird of an angle it’s at. it sort of looks right for what I did but it’s still a little bit offputting. Any help would be great just so I can finish this and be done!!!!!

I always struggle with making pieces but then feeling like they’re a little too mess especially because I’m not really going for a super mess style. Or, like it’s hard to explain, but when I draw messy purposeful brush strokes it won’t like like a pretty messy it just looks like I was slapping crap onto the art. So that’s why I ask how I can sharpen my brushwork or make it more purposeful. Ex of my art is the one showing. I will say, I sort of consider these more sketches since they both took <1.5-2.5 hours

This is supposed to be a sketch of a grumpy persian cat character. Any tips for making him look more grumpy? Also, do the front and side views look consistent?

This is my latest painting and I am unsure how to fix the BG- for me it feels a bit... flat?
I tried to push the values between foreground, subject and background more with some added light and colour adjustments- but the mermaid still sticks out like slapped ontop :/
I used the same brushes for BG and mermaid.
Some progress shots I included so maybe you can pinpoint sth in my process that's the issue
Time: 8h

I just started painting a couple weeks ago. I have never painted before. Where should I focus on in order to improve? I am trying to master realism and I feel like my artwork feels off. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Podem me dar algumas ideias suas sobre esse desenho ?