Dustycher's Amateurish Critique Corner

[Dustycher]

Hello everyone.

I am an amateur who would like some critique. I am not much of an artist but I enjoy art, comics and storytelling, thus I joined here.

I have been developping my art skills very slowly for about a year now. Here is my latest piece:

(http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/338/cantharodracte2.png/)

I have named it "Beetle Man", because it is an imaginary hybrid of a man and a beetle, not totally realistic, however. It has an exoskeleton, spiky limbs, hair even. The face is inspired from Marvel's Venom.

I made the piece with pencil and rubber on a sheet of paper. Then, I scanned it and tweaked it with MS paint.

I will try to upload to photobucket as soon as possible. The site has been acting weird.

Thanks.

[toast]

If you wanna get serious with art, I, and many respected artists, suggest you download Loomis's books. Start with "Fun with a Pencil" and then go on to his anatomy & gesture books:

http://alexhays.com/loomis/

Also take a look at Vilppu's stuff. Heres a pdf of his drawing manual :

http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/vilppu_drawing_manual.html

Good luck!

[Dustycher]

Thank you very much! I will!

[Dustycher]

My latest venture into anatomy and perspective.

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/2653/busstopy.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/140/busstopy.png/)

The proccess was the same. It was made with traditional means, then tweaked digitally. Still work in progress.

It features 2 friends waiting for some means of transport.

[JJJorgie]

I think you need to use references for now. Try to just work on straight forward views until you know human anatomy really well.