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I need some serious help.
Seems like I haven't improved in literal years and I'm sick of it. I keep trying new techniques, styles, themes, on and on, and recently I've grown somewhat comfortable with a style like these. I need any sort of critique/tips/etc that I can get, whether from experienced artists or just the common viewer. Everything welcome and very very appreciated. So, in general, what's wrong with my art? Let me know.
Also, on a lesser note, I'm considering opening an actual shop again. I was thinking to charge 100k per piece but I'd like other opinions on that.
Enough blabbing. These are my three most recent pieces, tear them to shreds. :') 
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So, it appears you are looking for a critique in order to further advance your art.
With that in mind, I will touch mainly on the things that I feel (opinion) could be improved. Please keep that in mind as to why I am not harping on positives. It is not because I dont like your art (It is quite lovely!), but because I want to offer you my best advice vs. a bunch of pat on the back word vomit.
The thing that sticks out to me the most is your horse prep. When viewed from the tiny afar image, it looks decent. But when brought to size, it looks like you just used one of the PS filters on it to achieve a fake painted look and it incredibly blurs out alot of the details I would expect to see. It does not match the detailed style of your hair. Next topic, hair. I actually really like you hair technique. I would push you to explore doing longer strands on your tail, though. It comes across more fluffly plush fox tail fur vs. long sweeping hair strands. You seem to have a good grasp of creating movement in your manes and seem to be exploring how hair in motion would move and seperate. Id like to see more advancement here, and I feel you are quite lacking again in the tail department. The lack of segmentation and flow here really adds to creating the illusion of a fox tail vs hair. Ex: In your waterpiece you have the tail basically going straight out behind th horse. You did not even explore the option of the water creating drag on the hairs that were touching it. In order to create more realism in your themes, things like this will eventually need to be accounted for. Next, lighting. I think you actually are doing quite well in this department, I see a lot of improvement. The only thing I will currently pick at is that it appears you do not take the time to go back and erase out the areas that should maintain shadowing. Such as around say the inside of a nostril, or a knee, etc. Horses arent flat, and the lighting wont spill in a perfect round brush around it. Keep in mind the shape of something, and remove some of that painted lighting to match the shape. |
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Okay, I just want to out it out there, that I think you art is incredibly (I actually asked HRS if she'd let me steal the first piece). -- You should definitely open a shop for at least 100k+++. I will be first in line! --- Piece number one. Completely zoomed out the horse is a bit lost, but I feel as that is the point and like it quite a bit, the lighting behind the horse, is a bit strange, you have highlights on the right side and a bright white glow coming from the opposite side. I would have completely left out the glow and let the white of the water work it's own magic. The lighting in the right side of the horse looks very nice except for the point of the shoulder. It gets overly bright there, but there is no light to create that. Your grounding, shadow etc needs no improvement, last but not least the hair, the little we can see if the mane is amazing, the forlick is perfect in the "friesiany" way, but holy shit, there is a lot of it. I would have loved a soft blue eye here. The tail itself has length but the hair does not, the short strands you use give it a very puffy unnatural look, instead of the flowy, sleek look. --- Numero 2. Amazing background work. At first glance gorgeous, lighting is very pretty, I love your style of body prep and shadows and such, it looks very painted and it's awesome. Mane and forelock look b-e-a-utiful, the mane is a bit foalish, but it fits in. The tail. The pretty horses tail, is very wide and quick "fox like". I would have loved some up in the air movement or a nice swish, instead it ends up looking quick heavy and weighed down. The only other thing that really stands out is the way you kind of carved out the horses firth area, it looks a bit strange but I not sure how you'd fix that, possibly less if a curve or not so dark. --- An finally, 3. Love the color, love the lighting, love the BG, LOVE the body prep. You shoulder carving out is much better here, forelock and mane are nice, it's awesome to see some movement in the tail, but it again looks heavy, a much thinner, and with longer stands tail with a light curve or flick would look epic. |
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your art is *fantastico* but, i will say this - piece 1 - so i feel like with this piece its a lot too zoomed out. i zoome in and found the hair was perfect, but body prep was a tad splodgy and messy. id work on creating pieces with the horse as the large centerpiece of the image. - 2 i love this! horse fits well and hair is beautifully done. but i feel like perspective-wise, its a little off. from the imaginary "camera" view, the horse should be bigger. and maybe ad subtle splashes of water too. -- 3 hair brilliant, body prep, eh. it looks like above theshoulder ou have just done lots of strokes and it just doesnt look right. try blending colors together more. also id add some more ripples around the horse's feet |
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I truly appreciate what you all have said. I've been keeping it in mind while expirementing with these latest WIPs I'm hiding. :) If anyone else has anything to say, I'd still love to hear it. Thanks everyone! |
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