I tried again to paint with a triadic pallette. I took your advice and also watched a few YouTube videos today. Here's how it's going so far! Do you all think this is a good direction so far for colour blocking, and do you have any additional advice for the redraw? Keeping in mind that it is a WIP.

Thanks again for your critique and helping me grow and learn as an artist 💞

Original portrait in second slide, reference in third slide :)

Ough im trying to actually practice but idk how to stylize the eyes, and how i could draw the lips more... not out of place? ... maybe thats a problem with my outlines or my coloring,,

With ref !

Hey all, I'm looking for feedback on this drawing I did of a wide-angle shot of an off-road rally car I saw recently. Attached is the reference image I took. I sketched in the larger object silhouettes on paper, scanned that into my computer to compare against the reference and see how close my shape matching was, then erased and adjusted the shapes a bit based on the differences I saw, then finally started filling in detail till this point.

Main goal: Focus on accurate perspective, making things feel like they were planted believably on dashboards, center consoles, and the footwells of the vehicle. The forward vanishing point is the dot in bottom right of the windshield, there was another just behind the seat headrest.

Side Goal: Trying to add line weights generally on the lower right side of objects or when it was a hard/sharp edge. I didn't do any shading and very minimal texturing, but the goal was basically to have a light source somewhere above and out the driver side window.

Where I feel I'm struggling: I think I struggle drawing texture, like the paint chipping on the roll cage bars and also conveying the texture of the racing seat. I settled for a few contour lines on the seat so it wasn't just a blank silhouette. The footwells, insides of the doors, and roof feel like they don't have enough detail/texture and I'm stuck on how to do that. Apparently I also struggle not dripping coffee on my work too.

Inspirations: I really like busy and filled-in environments with lots of detail. I like Kim Jung Gi, Geof Darrow, and Dong Ho Kim. I want to depict environments and placed that are bursting with things to look at and feel "lived in", like the subject matter is deeply integrated into the world it's from.

Any and all constructive criticism is welcome!

Designing a sorceress OC and can’t figure out how to do the lighting from her magic. Any tips to help me out?

(No reference)

Hi, I didn’t use references because I couldn’t find the exact pose I was looking for so I just used basic foreshortening tips on yt and prayed. In the end I thought it looked good until I showed it to my friends and they say that the bottom half of the body “looks off” even if it is intentional. I was wondering if any of you guys knew what the problem is and tips on how to fix it?

I’m pretty happy with how this one is going, but I need help with the hair I feel like there’s something very off about it. Also, I’ve been trying to work on efficiency and stroke economy so any advice on that is welcome
I did use a reference however it’s of someone I know so I won’t share it on here for privacy reasons :3

Drawing on ref, i attach it here

So I don't have much drawings fully colored so I'll just use this, but I have no idea how to choose colors that look good together, I'm confused on how others do it, I watch videos on YouTube explaining it, but I still have no idea, why do the colors not go well together and how do I choose them that makes the drawing looks much better?

And how do I study it? I have asked this a millions of times but I'm still confused on how to learn colors, ik i have to draw but I don't understood what to drsw that makes me understand colors or how it helps me, should I draw landscapes but how will that help? Or something else? What am i supposed to do to understand it?

reference is on the second slide

I did not used refs, and I want to achieve a semi realistic artstyle, the characters are supposed to be 14 btw! Paint over is ok

I have a very specific artstyle, especially coming down to the hair and eyes, I would appreciate mainly anatomical tips or facial expression tips, also drawing mouths is kinda hard for me so far. I try to balance the size of the body compared to the head but lmk if I need improvement on that as well. ty!

Second day of doing studies of paintings I like. I'm an artist who mostly does sketching and lineart, never painting, so l thought it would be beneficial to finally do some as I follow a course.
Some were from yesterday, some were from today. For the value studies, I mostly stuck to 3-5 values, and for the coloured ones, I didn’t colour pick, used only intuition.
Just wanted some advice on whether I am doing this 'correctly'? Of course, as long as I'm learning something from these, I can't really go very wrong, but I do know that I struggle with making things actually legible and getting lost in details, overblending when I've messed up the larger shapes, making things too big when translating into the thumbnail size (saw an art teacher had their canvas much smaller than the reference so that’s what I did, are you supposed to keep your canvas the same size?), etc.

Advice on how I can fix my mistakes & what to actually concentrate on would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!