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zmote [2013-10-25 13:49:04 +0000 UTC]

Oh and I forgot to mention, don't use textures directly in your pieces, it throws of the balance of detail that an image has that makes you feel that everything belongs together. Or at least adjust them, warping them to follow their surface. 

PS: I might have been wrong about that texture brush for the feel of the style of that guy/gal you follow, you could achieve that "uneasy" stroke feel with small brush sizes aswell as he/she pointed out. 

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zmote [2013-10-25 13:39:22 +0000 UTC]

Tips: The style the guy/gal you follow is a cell-shading style, with a texture-brush giving it's own feel. Furthermore that guy/gal has the art fundamentals to support his own style. 

So to start with the most basic tips I give any beginner including myself:

- Master Art Fundamentals, ie. Color, Light, Shading, Perspective, Composition etc. (there is so much more like Silhouettes, Texturing, Negative/Positive Space, Figure Drawing and bla bla)

In relation to the art fundamentals, another artist once asked me a list of books I myself am reading on my artistic education, so I've posted some of the books(95% are books suggested by pro artists like Noah Bradley, Feng Zhu etc.)

- Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing From Life

- Harold Speed: Oil Painting Techniques and Materials

- Hawthorne on Painting

- the simple secret to better painting (Greg Albert)

- Picture this: How pictures work (Molly Bang)

- Color and Light (James Gurney)

- Vilippu Drawing Manual

- The Practice and Science of Drawing

- Loomis books (ebook versions, printed)

- Alla Prima

- Imaginative Realism (James Gurney)

- Color (Paul Zelanski)

- Art Fundamentals (12th Edition)

- Basic Perspective Drawing

But you might not want to dwell too deep into the arts, so here some basic superficial tips:

- Improve your visual library, unless people really dress like that, it looks very mundane. Go look up some references for more variation.

- Improve your composition and perspective: Although we have a big family here, there is no depth in the picture, which isn't engaging and fun to look at. A basic depth work: 

i126.photobucket.com/albums/p1… (if the image isn't resizeable)

And that took only 5 - 10 minutes.

- Improve your figures. They ain't bad right now, but minor error here and there. Additionally, I think you'd benefit from gesture studies and facial expression studies, they look very stale and static atm.

Yeah, and there ain't anything else to criticize or give tips on. 

hope it helps.

vesselam.

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Maclafel7 [2013-10-21 14:01:36 +0000 UTC]

I loved it!!  I love the expression of the girl in yellow ^_^

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Niking [2013-10-19 18:17:49 +0000 UTC]

choose high contrast scheme and keep using small brush on everywhere, that's what I do

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Kinggigasmon [2013-10-19 16:14:17 +0000 UTC]

That baby is too cute!

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The-Psychid [2013-10-19 14:40:38 +0000 UTC]

If you want critiques, you should upgrade to Premium Membership.  Then, you can request critiques for whatever you submit.

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