Rendering Practise

me when i see a like-minded artist who uses an insane amount of colours:

lowkey i follow artists based on just one post, so... don't judge me by who I follow I just think art is pretty

added a small thing...

the two kinds of spirits in my universe's spirit world

they're best friends

also i just cut my hair and its all over my clothes AAAAGH IT HURTS its giving me splinters whyyyy

Hi, so I wanted to know what could I improve based on this drawing, you're free to do a paintover. Thanks! ^^

so first off i really like the colours I see a lot of artists use grey for shading because they don't understand how light and shadow work but you're using saturated colours which is great!!

although I like the colours for the shading, my biggest critique would have to be the shading itself, and especially its placement and how it's blended so much. there's also not much depth with the shading since one colour is used to shade whole parts, when in reality you need to use a big range of colours from only very slightly darker than the base colour all the way to even a colour close to black.

the kitten also looks a bit off with its anatomy, but I wont critique the kitten that much because... i cant draw animals either 😭.

the way her hands are positioned around the kitten look very separated from the kitten, it almost looks like she's praying and the kitten was just copy pasted on. her hands should be tilted towards the camera more to show that the cat is actually being held in her hands.

there's also some slight anatomy issues with rei like a lumpy head and uneven breasts. also the right arm is longer and bigger than the left, and her waist seems to end very low. make sure to draw the underlying anatomy, even if it's being covered up by something! below is me tracing what her chest would look like if I followed the lines that are drawn

you have a very cool art style and I like you draw eyes, but I would make the eyes slightly less wide and the irises a bit bigger so that it looks more like rei, but in the end that is kinda optional since character art doesn't have to look exactly like the character.

also this is optional but some more line variance, especially thicker lines where shadows are makes lineart look a lot more interesting and pop more

a lot of the problems can be simply solved by flipping your canvas regularly while drawing, since people arent usually good at being able to draw symmetrically or even tell when something is asymmetrical

rei's face is also kinda short and her hair is very round, especially at the top. rei's mouth is also really close to her nose, so I just moved her nose down a bit.

below is the paintover, but just the anatomy and design part, not the shading (I didn't do the hands because there's a lot of stuff in that general area and I would have to redraw everything and also I'm lazy)

i tried my best to retain your style while still making corrections. i hope this is ok!

ok now onto the hardest part: shading

the biggest mistake you can make is just adding shadows to the edge of everything, it suggests roundness and so if you're shading something like a face, which is actually relatively flat and definitely not a sphere, you don't need those shadows on the edge of the chin. well, technically a face and chin are slightly rounded, but if you look at a side view of a person, the face is still pretty flat (excluding the nose)

also that shadow right next to the arm that's being cast onto the chest doesn't make a lot of sense since the light seems to be coming from above, yet this shadow makes it seem like the light is coming from the left. make sure you have a consistent light source when drawing, you can mark the location of the light physically if that helps. if the light is being cast from above, then naturally shadows must go downwards

going back to that image of the sphere and cube, you can see that the sphere has blended shadows and the cube has sharp shadows, this is very important to apply into art, because it helps differentiate different surfaces. because every shadow in your drawing is blended, everything looks soft and round, but the human form definitely has some sharper areas. also, there's a thing called a cast shadow, which is a shadow that's caused by some object blocking light. it also has sharp edges and there's many cast shadows on a person (the nose casts a sharp shadow onto the face, and the head casts a sharp shadow onto the neck for example)

idk if you wanted a lesson or not lol but yk there's a saying about teaching a man to fish vs just giving the man a fish

also the shiny parts on her outfit are shaded incorrectly, explaining how to shade reflective surfaces is really difficult and I don't even fully get it myself, but if it's just clothes, all you have to do is shade clothes as you normally do and then make the contrast much higher (highlights brighter and shadows darker) and add some reflections ofc

FINALLY DONE this took all day i'm not even kidding but I really like it

i lied, i did edit the kitten but just its head

anyway hope i helped i worked pretty hard on this

also thanks for letting me do a paintover!! paintovers are so fun but I can understand why ppl wouldn't want their work touched

Rosalyn, character by NoHealth5568 on Reddit

it's funny cuz you can always tell that I like to draw face the most, like the face is always so much neater and polished

sigh i'm DEF not doing any more art trades until summer man finals be kicking my ass and I keep procastinating on some project that's literally art so it should be easy for me but I just don't wanna do it

more OCs i made from when I was 9 I'm not keeping track anymore

why did i make so manyyy also ig im a furry now what was up with me and animal hybrids...

we dont talk about the cat lady chicken feet. i was on smth else back then wtf

ngl i see a lot of artists always draw crazy hair colours but... i went to a Chinese school lmaoo there was like one blonde person in my class and everyone else had black or brown hair, my environment is def reflected in my old art especially

can you tell that my favourite colour at this time was green

really glad no one can see my character annotations I made when I was 9... "soooooo nervous" "wicked cool devil" "very funny jumping lady" "people love his pants" "dat gun looks lethal" why was I so CRINGE

tbf the annotations do help me draw them in present day because they give me an idea of the character's personality and anything I wouldn't be able to make out by looking at them, but... still

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why do transmascs make the most beautiful angelic art ever

like this is so specific but i'm not even joking I see the most beautiful art nouveau-esque renaissance painting art and ofc it's transmasc like what is the secret I HAVE TO KNOW

btw since i draw silly animals to represent ppl hats mean lgbtq don't ask why I just like hats

Z, character by unofficial_doodles on Reddit

bruh even when i'm drawing a zombie who is literally all grey I can't help but put tons of colour and saturation

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this gif is actually crashing my computer not even funny

Ice Cube, character by No_Kangaroo_8762 on Reddit

very simple but its cute

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