Plug yourself here (aka post your artworks for us to see and possibly laugh at)

You're the best one here, that's for sure.

I've been trying to draw backgrounds so my drawings won't be full of white space. I still need to learn how to perspective.

Are you doing that mind-bending thing with the trees and iron bars on purpose or nah?

No I guess I should have drawn the tree higher up or in front of the bars.

Are you implying that this isn't a natural thing to happen?

@Khanzer ?

Yes

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I could use a critique right now. I'm working on the image below to use as a background for a gif.


I'm happy with most of it, except for the door frame and the cabinet on the right side of the hallway. I figured I did the shading and lighting wrong which is why they look so flat. What can I do to make them look better?

At the very least, I believe I got the proportions right this time. Well, better than last time, anyway. Should be.

She looks like Pinocchio's retarded LARPing sister, who got stuck half-way into becoming a real girl. Seriously, her legs look like they're made of wood. Where are her kneecaps?

If you are going to use the bikini armor type at least give her curves, you fucker.

First off, if you're going to do a hallway drawing, for the love of God use a straight edge. I may not have taken a studio art class since high school, but I can already tell you that your perspective is fucked.

I dunno about looking like wood but it's probably because I didn't smooth out the leg shading. And I had unfortunately forgotten about the knee. Anyway, I've updated the original post now with that in mind.

Her legs are too shapeless Wulfy. And the shading on the foot pointed at us makes it look like its a stump at the bottom. She also needs more butt.

I'm wondering what color exactly the rug is. I can see you're trying to go for a high-contrast, light-of-day-is-really-bright-compared-to-the-hallway type of deal, but it wouldn't turn the rug into the same color as the light. The rug in the shadows looks like a dark purple(maybe a reddish indigo?), so you just need to brighten that up. I'd wager a higher-than-midvalue, violet/red-violet would suit that lit-up square better than the bluish-white of daylight.

Also it looks like the hallway dips in the middle, like the house was built on an uneven foundation.

Alright, so you somewhat fixed the proportions. She at least seems to have a neck now. And it doesn't seem quite as flat as the last pic.
I get the impression that you don't have a lot of experience in drawing women. You don't give them much curves, and their arms and legs are super thick with really thick wrists and elbows.
Some rules of thumb I keep in mind for drawing women is that they're all points and curves, points and curves. Women's limbs taper off more, with pointy elbows and knees and skinnier wrists and ankles. Instead of using a block to describe the leg(as you might a man), try for more of a triangle. Even on muscular or heftier women, this general structure can be found. A woman's waist typically dips in just enough to form a lovely little shelf for your hand. It might also help you to remember that a woman's pelvis is shorter and wider than a man's. They also actually have shorter legs than men usually, just so you know.

I wonder if you're the sort who enjoys the rendering and painting process more than the actual sketching process. If you spent more time refining your sketch, you could probably catch a lot of these issues on your own.

Slimelurker, master of women's proportions.

Well I used a structure underneath to figure out the proportions (along with photo refs of wimminz), but I probably did screw some of it up still:



I did feel there was something wrong with the shaping of the legs as you and Bunu pointed out, but I decided to just roll with it after a bit of further refining. And yeah, I do enjoy rendering/painting more then the sketch, but I do spend a lot of time working on getting the sketch part right, tho some stuff manages to skip my notice. I don't believe, at this point, that it's simply me being unable to see the errors in my work, I do see them, I think sometimes I just don't notice it until some time later or it's pointed out to me.

Anyway, I suppose I do need more experience drawing women.