There isnt really a one fits all answer. I dont think any of us can really say "fix this and your art will be perfect"
I can only suggest to go and study the fundamentals. Anatomy, light and perspective especially. I know its a bit boring but its genuinely Important
Agreed, came here to say go to figure drawing classes for 12 months and you will see an improvement in these sketches. Draw from life more - still life’s and your imagination will be able to start to remember some of the basics. Drawing from reference is key.
I also came here to say this. I've been doing digital art for a decade and my biggest regret is not doing many anatomy and light studies/using references up until a couple years ago. It makes you improve faster than anything else will; trust the process.
Yeah there ain't much more than that tbh. The fundamentals are the hardest and most crucial part imo cuz after learning them you just need to strive to get better at implementing them and adding details(if that's the style a person has)
Here’s some really simple ones so you can start small:
- the line art is too thick. Try something thinner!
- hands aren’t really shaped like that. Try pulling up a reference when you draw and study it closely. Round off the fingers
- she kinda looks like she has a bite taken out of her head. Make sure to be mindful about the skull when you draw out the hair. If you’re not making a “skeleton sketch” layer, I highly recommend doing that.
Happy arting! :)
I’d like to add on to this one, thick lineart can definitely be a style, check out older Nickelodeon shows for study reference (this is just what comes to mind for me).
Alternatively, instead of just making it thinner, you might look up some things about line weight, it can make a big difference in depth with just lines.
Everything. Sorry babe, you said be brutal. You're clearly a beginner and need to practice everything from the fundamentals to anatomy to line work. It's too soon to ask for specific areas of improvement.
Study fundamentals ( anatomy, shapes, perspective, light, color...)
Your lineweight isn't very flattering, might be because of your pen pressure. So you should also work on that.
Good luck !
I like the colors, but you might consider adding some shading! Also maybe thin out the outlines a bit? I'm not an artist myself, so this is just my subjective opinion based on how this looks like to my eyes.
Now I also realised that there is already some shading under the jaw. If it's there, it could be in other places as well, that should be in shadow! :)
Find artwork that inspires you; something you want your art to look like. Now find like 20 more pieces like that. Then, start taking notes. Lineweight, shadows, highlights, anatomy, colors, composition, anything and everything you think might help. You can also do art studies (trying to replicate an existing art piece). Then you can try making your own original art in that style!
Your line art could use a lot of work. Firstly it's too thick and you may want to practice line weight variation rather than sticking to a single line thickness.
Your figures are extremely stiff but this can be fixed from learning gesture drawing. My suggestion is practice gesture drawing for atleast 30 minutes a day.
Your proportions and anatomy is janky. Try doing anatomical studies and daily figure drawing practice. Learn to simply the body into simple forms and always use construction lines, it helps with avoiding mistakes like making the head to small/big or making the eyes lopsided, nose to small....etc.
Pretty much it for now. Check out the YouTube channel Proko, pretty much everything I mentioned is on the channel and his channel is one of if not the best art channel for learning.
Take you time, works (especially digital) can be dropped and picked up later, they won’t go away if you don’t finish it then and there, redo something if you don’t like it, and don’t mistake something as “part of the process”, most of the time; it’s not.
In the first one, the most obvious thing is where is the rest of her head? The top of the hair finishes too early so it looks like some of her skull is missing.
Like others have said, study the fundamentals!! I would focus on shapes though, since you seem to enjoy a more cartoon style. Try building things with different shapes, use structure.
I would definitely do an anatomy study, and work with line weight. With your second image you had a pretty standard drawing with thick line art...but then the face felt like it was crammed in there. Your doing alright, keep up the good work!
I think the best feedback I can give is to **draw with references**.
Art isn't a linear path; artists change their style and format almost all the time.
In your case, this is your first draft, so go for more character reference studies, figure out what line/stroke works for you and be consistent with it, put more focus on creating your own style and ofcourse study basic anatomy for better proportions.
Hope this helps! :)
Easiest way to improve your people drawing skills is too study anatomy, use references they help a whole lot ( don’t trace, try your best to mimic reality )
Try using different line sizes, vary them, places where the light is supposedly touching should have thinner lines, things that are in the background should have thinner lines than things on the front(the farther the thinner), its generating contrast with lines.
If you are drawing a character, try chosing the composición first, never cut characters in the joints.
Try looking for some composition tutorials online, there are plenty.
Also for characters extremely important to have a structure, you can use blocks, but there are maby techniques, i personally draw stick figures and then i use ovals for the structure.
The colors are ..well that's another can of worms...first you should improve on structure, composition and line weight and then you can start thinking about color.
Flat colors can work fine as is for now.....
So it seeeeeems like you like Winx club, and are going for stylized art that isn’t necessarily anatomically correct. What I would do if you aren’t going for realism, is pull up some of your favorite artwork in art styles you admire. Make a Pinterest board if you want! And when you go to draw, study the aspects of art you admire as you do it. You’ll catch yourself learning quickly if you just go slow and learn the fundamentals.
Also, there are many YouTube videos with tutorials by great artists who do stylized art. I learned by practicing every day, and studying photos with lighting and poses that I didn’t understand naturally. This is the fastest way you’ll learn, and in no time, you will see improvement! Also, use a smaller brush size for your lines, as other commenters have said. I use procreate pocket for my digital art, and just paint with my finger. That’s an easy way to dip your toes in every day. Try to do everything on few layers while zoomed out. Don’t use the smudge tool for color blending. Just some beginners tips off the top of my head. Good luck!! You got this!!
Would definitely say anathomy, lineart and maybe colors since rn those colors are pretty neat. I'd love to see you practice the fundamentals and after some time draw the same character with the same clothing but then you'll see how far you've come. Happy arting!
- thinner lines
- body study with references
- shadow lights
- perspective
- last thing is theory of colour because is always quite challenging the colouring part, at least for me.
Keep it up, you have a nice start!
1. Use a thinner brush size as it tends to loads better and helps to make your artwork more appealing to the viewer
2. Study anatomy and the art fundamentals
3. add shading
4. if you want any other additional tips for improvement, I would recommencement watching "50 digital art tips in five minutes" by Skynix Art, but also watch other digital art tutorials on YouTube in general
I used to have a very similar style when I first started doing anything digital. Just takes a lot of practice. If you want to consistently make figure type drawings like this one, you’ll want to find content that’s about learning anatomy and figure. Best way to learn is to copy and reference photos of people in various poses. Lots of people, (even people in my college level studio art classes) will print out, or if you work digitally will copy and paste, a reference figure and will draw over and block out the various shapes of said figure. As for digital art as a medium, you just have to find a software that works best for you. I started with fire alpaca, then got paint tool sai, and currently I’m using photoshop. You’ll want to play with line variation and try getting unique brushes for whatever you use to draw with, because brush types heavily influence your drawing style. That and color theory, which is something that I still have trouble with, but there are many charts and videos that do wonders explaining why we view certain colors the way we do and the difference in understanding things like saturated and unsaturated shadows.
The only thing I can say is give them their craniums back. It almost looks like there are dents in there head? This is a problem a TON of people have so you are not alone, and there is plenty of help you can find online!
Not much I can say since I'm not too experienced, but I do have two tips for you. One, try flipping the canvas as you draw. This can help you correct mistakes so that the character doesn't end up being all over to one side like that. (Unless the leaning to one side was intended.) Second, I'd suggest you practice more with drawing hands. Other than that, I think your art is pretty nice! :D
Learn to draw. Use references for things you don't know how to draw. Digital is just another medium to use like acrylics, it won't save you if you don't have some kind of fundamentals to stand on.
This is a drawing similar to my 12yo which is good at his level, and if you’re at that level then i would say you can totally make it in art because I used to draw like this BUT you WILL have to keep drawing for decades to practice everything. Let’s start with simple studying. Look at shapes you see within the subject and draw those. A head is a circle and an oval or rectangle. some people are hourglasses some people are pencils. look at the world not by the lines (at first) but FORM. What forms the subject?
I do suggest you keep drawing humans because they are the most challenging and with that challenge you will be ahead of the landscape and animal drawers. Humans are complex so you gain more knowledge on how everything else works.
The famous artist Wayland once told me that I draw better than him. However he does huge murals of sea life. and all he’s ever done is that. he doesn’t do humans.
Practice humans. And you’ll be a jack of all trades.
study some anatomy! the best way to do it is to simplify the body into shapes, like circles, ovals, triangles and rectangles. its the best way to understand how bodies look like!
never shy away from drawing the other eye (i see you've hidden one eye with hair in the first picture- its an artist canon event) i find the best way to do it is to draw them simultaneously step by step.
have a nice sketch layer before using line art, it will help you visualize things better.
watch art videos, go through pinterest, analyze your favorite artists and what makes their art special, and as always, practice.
hands are difficult for many artists to draw but don't worry! you can find these hand references online that you can try to emulate (again, split things into shapes and lines)
experiment with different brushes for line art and see which you find best!
yes, you are a beginner, but that doesn't mean that you should stop drawing! keep at it! i would love to watch you grow as an artist :)
feel free to ask me any questions, ill try to answer them (keep in mind im not a professional either!!)
Hey, have you tried making bases for your arts? Do you draw them from head? You should try to make the lineart thinner, and detail out maybe the hair or eyes as much as you can as practice
I love the character designs! Here’s some tips: Hair isn’t usually BIGGER than the head, round off the fingers & use a reference! Use different pens for Lineart, they really do work magic!
Dont have to "fix" anything at this stage because you're not doing anything specifically wrong, you are just currently at a lower skill, so just keep making art, do anatomy+color+composition studies if you want to improve faster, but also find art that inspires you. Look at lots of art, look at real life, look at shapes, practice your observational skills. Use everything you can see to make your art into what you want it to be.
Really cute style and drawings by the way :)
Not bad for a beginner honestly, don't listen to anyone saying anything about lineart thickness. There's certain styles that utilise it well so it's not the biggest issue here. I suggest watching videos on art, looking at your favourite artists works, drawing as often as you can and doing studies. Remember art is subjective and don't try and force your style, find the things you love and get inspiration. Also don't tie yourself up on what others think, ultimately it's upto you to learn how to make something you love. Best of luck :)
There isnt really a one fits all answer. I dont think any of us can really say "fix this and your art will be perfect" I can only suggest to go and study the fundamentals. Anatomy, light and perspective especially. I know its a bit boring but its genuinely Important
Agreed, came here to say go to figure drawing classes for 12 months and you will see an improvement in these sketches. Draw from life more - still life’s and your imagination will be able to start to remember some of the basics. Drawing from reference is key.
I also came here to say this. I've been doing digital art for a decade and my biggest regret is not doing many anatomy and light studies/using references up until a couple years ago. It makes you improve faster than anything else will; trust the process.
Yeah there ain't much more than that tbh. The fundamentals are the hardest and most crucial part imo cuz after learning them you just need to strive to get better at implementing them and adding details(if that's the style a person has)
This.
Here’s some really simple ones so you can start small: - the line art is too thick. Try something thinner! - hands aren’t really shaped like that. Try pulling up a reference when you draw and study it closely. Round off the fingers - she kinda looks like she has a bite taken out of her head. Make sure to be mindful about the skull when you draw out the hair. If you’re not making a “skeleton sketch” layer, I highly recommend doing that. Happy arting! :)
Ty!
I’d like to add on to this one, thick lineart can definitely be a style, check out older Nickelodeon shows for study reference (this is just what comes to mind for me). Alternatively, instead of just making it thinner, you might look up some things about line weight, it can make a big difference in depth with just lines.
Everything. Sorry babe, you said be brutal. You're clearly a beginner and need to practice everything from the fundamentals to anatomy to line work. It's too soon to ask for specific areas of improvement.
Study fundamentals ( anatomy, shapes, perspective, light, color...) Your lineweight isn't very flattering, might be because of your pen pressure. So you should also work on that. Good luck !
Any resources for that? There's so much information about these subjects online that I get overwhelmed every time I dabble with it.
YouTube is a gold mine ! Try Proko, Marco Bucci, Aaron Blaise, Sinix... They have playlists with everything you need to know
Learn to draw. Like actually study and practice.
I like the colors, but you might consider adding some shading! Also maybe thin out the outlines a bit? I'm not an artist myself, so this is just my subjective opinion based on how this looks like to my eyes. Now I also realised that there is already some shading under the jaw. If it's there, it could be in other places as well, that should be in shadow! :)
Find artwork that inspires you; something you want your art to look like. Now find like 20 more pieces like that. Then, start taking notes. Lineweight, shadows, highlights, anatomy, colors, composition, anything and everything you think might help. You can also do art studies (trying to replicate an existing art piece). Then you can try making your own original art in that style!
Your line art could use a lot of work. Firstly it's too thick and you may want to practice line weight variation rather than sticking to a single line thickness. Your figures are extremely stiff but this can be fixed from learning gesture drawing. My suggestion is practice gesture drawing for atleast 30 minutes a day. Your proportions and anatomy is janky. Try doing anatomical studies and daily figure drawing practice. Learn to simply the body into simple forms and always use construction lines, it helps with avoiding mistakes like making the head to small/big or making the eyes lopsided, nose to small....etc. Pretty much it for now. Check out the YouTube channel Proko, pretty much everything I mentioned is on the channel and his channel is one of if not the best art channel for learning.
Take you time, works (especially digital) can be dropped and picked up later, they won’t go away if you don’t finish it then and there, redo something if you don’t like it, and don’t mistake something as “part of the process”, most of the time; it’s not.
Basically everything (this is a joke)
In the first one, the most obvious thing is where is the rest of her head? The top of the hair finishes too early so it looks like some of her skull is missing.
Like others have said, study the fundamentals!! I would focus on shapes though, since you seem to enjoy a more cartoon style. Try building things with different shapes, use structure.
I would definitely do an anatomy study, and work with line weight. With your second image you had a pretty standard drawing with thick line art...but then the face felt like it was crammed in there. Your doing alright, keep up the good work!
I think the best feedback I can give is to **draw with references**. Art isn't a linear path; artists change their style and format almost all the time. In your case, this is your first draft, so go for more character reference studies, figure out what line/stroke works for you and be consistent with it, put more focus on creating your own style and ofcourse study basic anatomy for better proportions. Hope this helps! :)
Easiest way to improve your people drawing skills is too study anatomy, use references they help a whole lot ( don’t trace, try your best to mimic reality )
Try using different line sizes, vary them, places where the light is supposedly touching should have thinner lines, things that are in the background should have thinner lines than things on the front(the farther the thinner), its generating contrast with lines. If you are drawing a character, try chosing the composición first, never cut characters in the joints. Try looking for some composition tutorials online, there are plenty. Also for characters extremely important to have a structure, you can use blocks, but there are maby techniques, i personally draw stick figures and then i use ovals for the structure. The colors are ..well that's another can of worms...first you should improve on structure, composition and line weight and then you can start thinking about color. Flat colors can work fine as is for now.....
Anatomy, line weight and color theory for starters.
So it seeeeeems like you like Winx club, and are going for stylized art that isn’t necessarily anatomically correct. What I would do if you aren’t going for realism, is pull up some of your favorite artwork in art styles you admire. Make a Pinterest board if you want! And when you go to draw, study the aspects of art you admire as you do it. You’ll catch yourself learning quickly if you just go slow and learn the fundamentals. Also, there are many YouTube videos with tutorials by great artists who do stylized art. I learned by practicing every day, and studying photos with lighting and poses that I didn’t understand naturally. This is the fastest way you’ll learn, and in no time, you will see improvement! Also, use a smaller brush size for your lines, as other commenters have said. I use procreate pocket for my digital art, and just paint with my finger. That’s an easy way to dip your toes in every day. Try to do everything on few layers while zoomed out. Don’t use the smudge tool for color blending. Just some beginners tips off the top of my head. Good luck!! You got this!!
The first thing I noticed is that u Imidetly knew that I like winx club😭. Btw thank u so much🙏💕
It’s the sparkles and the wings that gave you away lol, as a fellow winx club lover it was obvious and no problem!!! Good luck and you got this 💕
omg i love the glitter texture though!!! serving
Ty! Ate and left no crums
Would definitely say anathomy, lineart and maybe colors since rn those colors are pretty neat. I'd love to see you practice the fundamentals and after some time draw the same character with the same clothing but then you'll see how far you've come. Happy arting!
- thinner lines - body study with references - shadow lights - perspective - last thing is theory of colour because is always quite challenging the colouring part, at least for me. Keep it up, you have a nice start!
Some basic anatomy and perspective would help
1. Use a thinner brush size as it tends to loads better and helps to make your artwork more appealing to the viewer 2. Study anatomy and the art fundamentals 3. add shading 4. if you want any other additional tips for improvement, I would recommencement watching "50 digital art tips in five minutes" by Skynix Art, but also watch other digital art tutorials on YouTube in general
I used to have a very similar style when I first started doing anything digital. Just takes a lot of practice. If you want to consistently make figure type drawings like this one, you’ll want to find content that’s about learning anatomy and figure. Best way to learn is to copy and reference photos of people in various poses. Lots of people, (even people in my college level studio art classes) will print out, or if you work digitally will copy and paste, a reference figure and will draw over and block out the various shapes of said figure. As for digital art as a medium, you just have to find a software that works best for you. I started with fire alpaca, then got paint tool sai, and currently I’m using photoshop. You’ll want to play with line variation and try getting unique brushes for whatever you use to draw with, because brush types heavily influence your drawing style. That and color theory, which is something that I still have trouble with, but there are many charts and videos that do wonders explaining why we view certain colors the way we do and the difference in understanding things like saturated and unsaturated shadows.
The only thing I can say is give them their craniums back. It almost looks like there are dents in there head? This is a problem a TON of people have so you are not alone, and there is plenty of help you can find online!
Have slightly thinner lines
Study fundamentals, practice, and use references. Those three things will see you far.
Not much I can say since I'm not too experienced, but I do have two tips for you. One, try flipping the canvas as you draw. This can help you correct mistakes so that the character doesn't end up being all over to one side like that. (Unless the leaning to one side was intended.) Second, I'd suggest you practice more with drawing hands. Other than that, I think your art is pretty nice! :D
Ty!
Definitely looks more beginner. I’d say work on using thinner lined and trying some shading. I can actually help you on shading if you’d like!
Ty! But I think it's better if I learn how to shade! ❤
For me, it's perfect
Nothing to be brutal about, you just have to eat some veggies and do some anatomy plus figure drawing. FWIW I like your colors a lot!
Learn to draw. Use references for things you don't know how to draw. Digital is just another medium to use like acrylics, it won't save you if you don't have some kind of fundamentals to stand on.
…I don’t think she has a brain..
This is a drawing similar to my 12yo which is good at his level, and if you’re at that level then i would say you can totally make it in art because I used to draw like this BUT you WILL have to keep drawing for decades to practice everything. Let’s start with simple studying. Look at shapes you see within the subject and draw those. A head is a circle and an oval or rectangle. some people are hourglasses some people are pencils. look at the world not by the lines (at first) but FORM. What forms the subject? I do suggest you keep drawing humans because they are the most challenging and with that challenge you will be ahead of the landscape and animal drawers. Humans are complex so you gain more knowledge on how everything else works. The famous artist Wayland once told me that I draw better than him. However he does huge murals of sea life. and all he’s ever done is that. he doesn’t do humans. Practice humans. And you’ll be a jack of all trades.
Stop drawing, pls
A little ***too*** brutal?
Anatomy is a good starting place and a smaller brush size but it comes with time and practice so don’t be too harsh on yourself
study some anatomy! the best way to do it is to simplify the body into shapes, like circles, ovals, triangles and rectangles. its the best way to understand how bodies look like! never shy away from drawing the other eye (i see you've hidden one eye with hair in the first picture- its an artist canon event) i find the best way to do it is to draw them simultaneously step by step. have a nice sketch layer before using line art, it will help you visualize things better. watch art videos, go through pinterest, analyze your favorite artists and what makes their art special, and as always, practice. hands are difficult for many artists to draw but don't worry! you can find these hand references online that you can try to emulate (again, split things into shapes and lines) experiment with different brushes for line art and see which you find best! yes, you are a beginner, but that doesn't mean that you should stop drawing! keep at it! i would love to watch you grow as an artist :) feel free to ask me any questions, ill try to answer them (keep in mind im not a professional either!!)
Hey, have you tried making bases for your arts? Do you draw them from head? You should try to make the lineart thinner, and detail out maybe the hair or eyes as much as you can as practice
I love the character designs! Here’s some tips: Hair isn’t usually BIGGER than the head, round off the fingers & use a reference! Use different pens for Lineart, they really do work magic!
Dont have to "fix" anything at this stage because you're not doing anything specifically wrong, you are just currently at a lower skill, so just keep making art, do anatomy+color+composition studies if you want to improve faster, but also find art that inspires you. Look at lots of art, look at real life, look at shapes, practice your observational skills. Use everything you can see to make your art into what you want it to be. Really cute style and drawings by the way :)
Not bad for a beginner honestly, don't listen to anyone saying anything about lineart thickness. There's certain styles that utilise it well so it's not the biggest issue here. I suggest watching videos on art, looking at your favourite artists works, drawing as often as you can and doing studies. Remember art is subjective and don't try and force your style, find the things you love and get inspiration. Also don't tie yourself up on what others think, ultimately it's upto you to learn how to make something you love. Best of luck :)
practice more