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Anonymous09/30/25, 04:18No.7742098I spent 3 and a half hours on this
how can I improve it
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Anon09/30/25, 04:18No.7742100
Here are the progress pictures
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Anon09/30/25, 04:25No.7742108
I like it. It's perfect the way it is.You can work on your anatomy tho. Instead of drawing a whole bunch of different things, like in your background, you can just focus on 1 thing at a time until you get better at it and gradually improve your anatomy. Just as tiny quests you can do on the side. You can still keep drawing these kind of drawings, but if you also study things on the side, it helps you improve faster.
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Anon09/30/25, 04:40No.7742116
3 and a half hours is pretty fast. Don't focus on speed though, focus on anatomy and the fundamentals though you are pretty solid as a beginner already. You'll make it if you keep trying.
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Anon09/30/25, 04:59No.7742124
saved
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Anon09/30/25, 05:31No.7742143
Kino. Hands maybe too big? Otherwise I like it a lot.
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Anon09/30/25, 06:01No.7742161
Maybe rework the hands. You’re going for a soft cartoony style. The outstretched hand looks sharp, almost like it belongs to an evil old woman rather than a girl.
Very good tho
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Anon09/30/25, 06:52No.7742198
its good, maybe try to ink it if you want
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Anon09/30/25, 07:19No.7742228
The composition and detail are good but it can use more contrast. Like for example you have the hair with the pure black, it be nice to see more use of that in the piece, even the boots which should match arent as black.
Also in area that you are using that grey tone try laying the led of the pencil more flat to get a more even tone, I get that you want the drawing to be sketchy but I think on the character itself if you gave it a little more care it would stand out more against the sketchy elements surrounding her.
All minor complaints in the grand scheme of things though, Id certify this as SOVLful personally speaking
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Anon09/30/25, 10:27No.7742333
SOVL
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Anon09/30/25, 12:27No.7742405
Values my dude. Right now everything bleeds into each other
Here in
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Anon09/30/25, 13:33No.7742489
You could work on the shading to give stuff like her shoes more sense of volume and stuff, but honestly... It's a cool style as is. You could employ some comic techniques like making sure images can be read and understood easily (e. g. by making characters stand out by outlining them with a subtle layer of just white paper background so they don't merge with the drawn background etc.) but judging by your panels, you really have a good sense of the atmosphere you want to create. Sure, you can improve on lineart, contrast, clarity, etc. and over the course of getting into realism, you may lose some of that charm, but if you go back to the basics and employ the sense of style and understanding of atmosphere you clearly already have, you'll be just fine.
If you use ink and learn how to hatch to create shadows, you could create more contrast than you can with a grey pencil and it might look more clean too, but it's up to you, there are other traditional tools you can use like graphite watercolour like someone mentioned. Might as well just try things out.
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Anon09/30/25, 14:41No.7742530
Thicker silhouette outlines at least for the girl. like really thick
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Anon09/30/25, 17:03No.7742663
OP this is digital but I tried to grab the lines from
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Anon09/30/25, 19:45No.7742931
draw more
>b-but
DRAW
MORE
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Anon09/30/25, 22:23No.7743119
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Anon10/03/25, 04:55No.7745947
Hi anon, this is a very cute drawing. Generally I just visit there and go away, but this drawing kept my attention so much that I had to make an edit.So, mostly, I would adjust the pose and perspective of her bent leg a little bit, also pay attention to the hand that is holding her waist, the shape isn't very clear.
Other than that, rendering alone could give this drawing a better sense of depth.Here, I have done an edit to give you a better grasp.
Sorry if I erased some of the details because I did it using just one layer on Clip Studio, so some of it may be lost.Anway, what I would do is look into crevices, mainly because there isn't too much space for receiving light, so in those areas, you can fill it with shadows, and if you like, also give more attention to the focal area.Another thing I would do is making the border darker than the rest.
The "vignette" effect makes the focal area more towards the center, where the girl is, and I also think that it makes the overall picture more atmospheric.About the anatomy...
I didn't change the hands too much because I think this "woobly" feel can help to enphasize the strangeness of the scene, so I only adjusted the hand on the waist a little bit and put some very light shadows (making the hand too dark would blend too much with the environment, which is something I like to avoid).After saying all this...
I really like the vibe of your drawing and you have a cute art style.
This drawing may not be the best technically but it has soul and charm, the girl is very cute and the composition is actually well done.
There are things more important in art than doing just a "flawless" techincal drawing, which I think you achieved with this illustration.:)PS: also do note that these are just my observations/suggestions. Don't ever feel like I'm right or anything.
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Anon10/03/25, 05:18No.7745970
>>>/beg/
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Anon10/03/25, 19:51No.7746636
Your art style reminds me of ohuton and other outsider artists from late 2010's Pixiv and tumblr and I mean that in the best way possible. Really the only thing I think you would need to improve on is your line confidence, but other than that I love what you're doing. Keep at it!
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Anon10/03/25, 21:11No.7746728
I think it would look really good inked with some halftones
very sovlfvl, keep improving your rendering and anatomy without losing that
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Anon10/04/25, 01:06No.7746953
cute, i'd do her
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Anon10/04/25, 10:17No.7747215
First of all this is a good drawing and has a nice mood to it. But there's a strange flatness to it and a slight lack of confidence about the messiness. The shirt for example feels pretty 3D with it's subtle curves to show the thorax volume, but the boot looks very flat and not in stylistic way. The lines for her head are the same way, the general shapes read well but it sits in an uncanny crevice where it's almost perfect and clean, which makes it look like one of those amateurish cartoon or anime pencil copies.So overall I say work on your line speed, thickness, and smoothness. Work on making your shading scribbles more appealing, and get some 3D reference for things you might not be familiar with like boots.
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Anon10/06/25, 04:28No.7749394
what kind of trauma causes this sort of artwork
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Anon10/06/25, 04:45No.7749405
add color
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Anon10/08/25, 18:48No.7752156
it's posts like these that give me hope. your art is cool af. fuck all the other posts telling everyone to hammer down studies and shit. people should be making art. ideas > technique anyway
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Anon10/09/25, 14:36No.7752801
It's fine by me.
One tip: it's fine to stop working on something if you feel like that's all you can get out for the time being. Move on to another project and try something different.
Doing a lot of commissions and art piece I learnt that not everything has to be your magnum opus. It's fine to consider something as finished.
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Anon10/10/25, 07:03No.7753380
Hello anon,
I looked through all your art in the thread, and I think it genuinely is cool and soulful.Take good care of your wrists and maybe just do some basic lat/trap/core exercises for pain management, not to mention what the other anons said about posture, etc. Physical therapy and physical activity in general will help you a lot.Hope to see more of your art and improvement, anon!
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Anon10/10/25, 10:19No.7753439
Like other anons have said, your main issue is values. Almost everything is sitting in the midtones range.
I did a quick n' dirty edit on my phone, darkened everything up and then laid a midtone down on the carpet so that the objects on top stood out more. I then added a little bit of shading here and there so that the central character and some of the objects popped out of the background more.
I really love your work, by the way. Very cohesive style, communicates feeling and personality very well. Very SOVLpilled.
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Anon10/10/25, 19:59No.7753860
i like it! i assume the noisy background is intentionally hard to read, otherwise, it can be a point of improvement. the your stylistic choices for anatomy is charming, have some solid gestures, yet you can improve in complex angles (like her legs, they feel a bit flatter than the rest, it might be due to a lack of perspective practice in anatomy.)
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Anon10/11/25, 11:16No.7754486
Have sex with me
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Anon10/11/25, 13:24No.7754533
If you planned on coloring this you should seriously consider using a limited palette to help contain the chaos. I wanted to try but I really can't make out the shapes of the objects surrounding her. I may come back at another attempt around lunch though.
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Anon10/11/25, 18:46No.7754716
Update. I bought some pencils and a sharpener, I'll try to make something soon to put your fellas advice to the test
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Anon10/13/25, 11:16No.7756476
Wow thats cute af. Love your art style!! Honestly i dont think you need to improve it. Idk how you do it but your rough linework brings more character to your piece. Also you got that unique art style that brings emotions to the character. Keep the good work! And please make a cool comic book with that art style!!!
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Anon10/14/25, 13:54No.7757883
is this a loli?
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Anon10/15/25, 01:37No.7758695
don't ever listen to those faggots, this art is garbage, buy drawing tablet, even 50$ one, buy clip paint studio, install jrita, search for the brushes and draw everyday and don't skip any day, if someone tells you this is good, he is fucking lying
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Anon10/15/25, 01:39No.7758697
krita* fucking phoneposting
and yes faggots, in 2025 this kind of artwork is piece of shit even for a beginner
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Anon10/15/25, 12:19No.7759140
kill yourself you fucking nigger
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Anon10/15/25, 12:37No.7759150
This is why retards use AI.They can't tell what makes art good and palatable.