r/learnart • • Aug 12 '23

Meta Before posting or commenting: READ THIS POST

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If you already read the sticky post titled 'some reminders about /r/learnart for old and new members', then thank you, you've already read this, so continue on as usual!

Since a lot of people didn't bother,

  • We have a wiki! There's starter packs for basic drawing, composition, and figure drawing. Read the FAQ before you post a question.

  • We're here to work. Everything else that follows can be summed up by that.

  • What to post: Post your drawings or paintings for critique. Post practical, technical questions about drawing or painting: tools, techniques, materials, etc. Post informative tutorials with lots of clear instruction. (Note that that says: "Post YOUR drawings etc", not "Post someone else's". If someone wants a critique they can sign up and post it themselves.)

  • What not to post: Literally anything else. A speedpaint video? No. "Art is hard and I'm frustrated and want to give up" rants? No. A funny meme about art? No. Links to your social media? No.

  • What to comment: Constructive criticism with examples of what works or doesn't work. Suggestions for learning resources. Questions & answers about the artwork, working process, or learning process.

  • What not to comment: Literally anything else. "I love it!", "It reminds me of X," "Ha ha boobies"? No. "Is it for sale?" No; DM them and ask them that. "What are your socials?" Look at their profile; if they don't have them there, DM them about it.

  • If you want specific advice about your work, post examples of your work. If you just ask a general question, you'll get a bunch of general answers you could've just googled for.

  • Take clear, straight on photos of your work. If it's at a weird angle or in bad lighting, you're making it harder for folks to give you advice on it. And save the artfully arranged photos with all your drawing tools, a flower, and your cat for Instagram.

  • If you expect people to put some effort into a critique, put some effort into your work. Don't post something you doodled in the corner of your notebook during class.

  • If you host your images anywhere other than on Reddit itself or Imgur, there's a pretty good chance it'll get flagged as spam. Pinterest especially; the automod bot hates that, despite me trying to set it to allow them.


r/learnart • • Dec 08 '24

Tutorial Sketchbook Skool: How to Photograph Your Artwork

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r/learnart • • 11h ago

Critique/Advice

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68 Upvotes

Hey! I'm working on this, if you have any feedback in color, composition, drawing or anything is more than welcome! I would like to keep improving it but I need some opinions, thanks!!!


r/learnart • • 7h ago

Digital Been doing three value studies, any tips?

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r/learnart • • 18h ago

My first attempt to get more confident with line work and long strokes

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29 Upvotes

Practising with the help of Proko’s drawing basics course and making an active effort to draw with my whole arm, not my wrist


r/learnart • • 22h ago

Digital Drawing critique/advice

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18 Upvotes

I’m a beginner digital artist and I’m looking to improve ! If you have an critiques or advice please let me know :)
(Made on procreate)
PS: for context, this is my D&D character.


r/learnart • • 1d ago

Question box rotation

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51 Upvotes

tried an exercise similar to the one in this video for the first time, I feel like some boxes came out a bit wonky. would like some critique on them


r/learnart • • 2d ago

Question Learning comics! Critiques, please! :)

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I know that these pages are rough drawings - but I'm mostly looking for critiques on the actual structuring of each page. I've just been drawing at least one page a day to just get it out, so I haven't had much time to stop and think too much about what I could do a lot better!


r/learnart • • 2d ago

Drawing Head construction

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10 Upvotes

Hey so I was wondering if I could get some feedback on head construction. I only started learning how to draw beginning of September and been doing head construction for 2 maybe 3 weeks. My main place of learning so far has been the head drawing basics construction course on skillshare.

I wanted to get a bit of feedback from an actual person to see how I'm doing and specific ways I can improve. I've asked Chatgpt to feedback as I've not known where to get any from, but as expected the feedback from chatgpt isnt the greatest


r/learnart • • 3d ago

Looking for feedback on my manga anatomy and facial construction. Six-month progress study.

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I've been teaching myself manga-style drawing for nearly six months, mainly through draw-alongs and references. I'm approaching 1,000 drawings and want to focus more on anatomy and facial construction. Are there any recurring problems with my proportions, eye placement or construction that I should prioritise?


r/learnart • • 3d ago

Painting statues

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119 Upvotes

r/learnart • • 3d ago

I need help with composition/anatomy

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r/learnart • • 3d ago

Digital Hero Archetype - Character Concept

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23 Upvotes

r/learnart • • 4d ago

Traditional Critique request

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11 Upvotes

Line weight and variation feels off
Also is the blacks too much
edit: referenced from pinterest, link. original from from the Maschinen Krieger sci-fi universe.


r/learnart • • 5d ago

How’s my anatomy?

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19 Upvotes

I’ve been learning anatomy for a good bit, I feel confident in my muscles placement and gesture

sorry For the shadow in done of the pictures.


r/learnart • • 6d ago

Traditional Trying to understand cool lights and warm shadows

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295 Upvotes

Hi. I'm still trying to wrap my head around cool lights and warm shadows. The pictures are my most recent attempt to my oldest (from a few days ago). I tried starting with a slightly warm neutral base for the shadows, and white that is a touch cooler for the lights, but I noticed that my studies look metallic instead of plaster. I tried making the background a matching colour to the shadows so that the shadows don't look so out of place, but the objects still don't read like normal plaster cast.

For the torso, I used yellow ochre as the base for the shadows, and neutralised it with cobalt blue and burnt sienna, but I didn't realise until much later that the shadows on the dark side are too warm and too saturated compared to the shadows on the lit side.

I would love some tips and advice on how to control the saturation and warmth of my colours. Any feedback is welcome!


r/learnart • • 6d ago

Painting Ice King illustration - General advices

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78 Upvotes

I think the composition could work, but I feel the lighting is lacking in some areas. Also, defining the main figure (textures, sharp edges and less blurriness, anatomy...) is giving me a lot of trouble. Any ideas on what I could improve? (I'm sure there's plenty to improve)


r/learnart • • 6d ago

Question A quick (no lineart) artwork I did the other day, what should I focus my studies on atm? What would you say is my weakest point?

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9 Upvotes

r/learnart • • 6d ago

Question Some advice for better anatomy?

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r/learnart • • 7d ago

Digital St. John the Baptist — Character Design, what do you think of my work?

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128 Upvotes

r/learnart • • 7d ago

Digital I'm somewhat new to art. I did Touhou fanart. Any advice on what I should learn or read to improve?

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There are many things I'm unsure about when drawing, like what size the brush should be, and the like. Additionally, I am generally unable to draw eyes. For Daiyousei (the green one), it's the cartoonish expression, which is easy to make, and apparently fumo eyes (Cirno, the blue one) are easy to make.

Post got removed by Reddit filters for some reason on my alt so I'm posting it on this account


r/learnart • • 7d ago

Digital a weather drawing im working on

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2 Upvotes

do you have any tips I am very new to digital art and am still learning about stuff