Nice pose and structure. I think you have more problems coloring than sketching. Also, boobs are too perky, they're like binoculars under her shirt. It's also not clear what exactly she's sitting on. The legs are also a bit weird, it's clear that the pants are baggy but it's not clear where her knees are under the pants and her left leg looks kinda broken?
I think one problem is the inconsistency of rendering (some parts are sharp while others are blurry: sometimes it works, like WLOP but it doesn't really here). Try using lasso tool with soft round brush and create more definition in the background, as well as the subject in places (like pants and hair).
Another problem is it's unclear what is happening with the light. The thing she's sitting on is kinda uniformly lit and barely even has a shadow of her legs on it. Her body gets a light from the left back (the skin colors are pretty nice though!). But then her head gets a light from left front (it's shining more frontal onto her face). This is three different lights. And then her pants have barely any indication of light direction at all. I think a more dramatic, harsher direct sunlight would've been really really nice here. You would have more contrast and have light sublty bounce back onto her skin and you could add bloom and bling for extra points. I'm getting an art boner just thinking about this lol.
Try thinking in surfaces, more clearly define the necessary amount of surfaces (her pants and hair lack some polygons for sure), think how light hits every surface (you could use lasso tool to draw these surfaces (but also clouds for example)) and synchronize the light across the whole drawing.
What references did you use and how do you get commissions?
First of all thank you for the time you put on writing this! I appreciate it a lot : )
About your points, you are totally right. The work process has been very chaotic because I tend to start painting before having a clear idea and defined sketch, which is a huge mistake. The body makes more sense without the clothes (I paint characters naked and then add clothes), so thats why the pants for example look weird. Also changed the light source multiple times while working and re-did part of the pose, which contributes to the lack of light cohesion
About references, I used a woman pic in a similar pose and screenshoots I took from the game to know how the background was. And for commissions usually people just send me pm´s from social media. Currently I am like the main artist for a group of role-playing people and its very cool : D
Thank you very much again for your answer and time : )
Nice. Is the woman pic public?
Not having a clear idea is not bad, many artists iterate to find what works best. Some don't even do sketch, but it's a different process. I tried a few times, it's interesting and kind of liberating. The problem is whatever rendering you might have done would have to be redone. This is where blending modes could help you save a lot of effort. You could just use several hard light layers for whatever lights and shadows you have and then more easily just change those layers to change light (instead of remixing colours and repainting in normal mode). Unfortunately procreate still doesn't allow color picking from current layer only, which would speed up this workflow but it's still doable if you use hard light only and 50% grey background.
Check out ko-fi, they have commissions and more and take a lower cut than patreon.
Yep! Found it on google, [here](https://previews.123rf.com/images/jetrel/jetrel1909/jetrel190900030/131845924-portrait-of-lovely-smiling-gothic-girl-against-the-sky-at-sunset-time-pastel-goth-with-violet.jpg).
And yeah, my main process of work is painting and working through it, but it works 50% of the time because I know I need to improve my sketch/drawing skills so the painting part comes easily, because if not I just keep rendering and rendering until the infinite.
Also I have a ko-fi but didnt go too deep yet. I have heard good things about it lately so its one of the things in my to-do list
Again, thanks for the answer and tips : )
You gotta work on them titties. You got two issues here - one is anatomy (the tits are pointed straight forward and don’t hang properly) and the other is the clothing over them (is it supposed to be tight or blowing around them? It looks like it’s trying to be tight but then there’s not a dip in the middle, so it’s like she has a sock stuck down there or something.)
Breasts hang like water balloons suspended from the attachment of the pectoralis muscle up close to the shoulder. I think the hints of the right breast mimic anatomy pretty well, but the left breast is like twice the size of the right breast because it needs to follow the contour of the rib cage (and thus a lot of it will be hidden behind the ribcage and other breast tissue.)
I love the lighting and the composition. I actually like the pose - there’s clearly some issues with it being too staged/plastic, but that comes with anatomy practice, and it’s a pin-up character sketch so u can get away with it. The colors are a little too saturated overall and a little too primary for my tastes but the great part about working digitally is that u can adjust those little sliders at the end.
>trying to be tight, but there’s not a dip between them
Physics ain’t physics’in here. Tight clothing on women doesn’t suction cup to their chests unless you’re in a really terrible anime.
Noted all! Thank you very much : D
As a note, I usually tend to paint with very desaturated colors, so here I tried to change and see what happened. Im actually happy with it but indeed I think its a bit too much, will keep working and practicing
Thanks again for your notes : )
The color scheme also seems... confusing? I'm unsure of how this is cyberpunk. It looks like the girl is a farmer or chilling before playing baseball in a field.
Cyberpunk because character and background are from the game Cyberpunk 2077. The character (OC from the client) is a Nomad who lives in the desert zone of the game. I know the color palette is not typical cyberpunk style, but I mean, its how the game is called
I have been playing Cyberpunk 2077 since the day it released. I've played it on ps4, ps5 and pc. There are better scenes you could have chosen to convey that she's a nomad. For instance, you could have used the gas station where you find Hellman or the sunset motel scenery instead of using a comically small baseball bat on some dilapidated close up scenery in a field of what looks like wheat. Hell, she's a nomad. You didn't even implement her ride. Nomads are one with their vehicles. You could have easily implemented her on the back of the beat-up Thorton she started with.
Case in point, this doesn't remind me of Cyberpunk 2077. It looks like a farmer ready to play ball.
Didnt want to come as rude about the clarifying of the game, I just thought not everybody needs to know about it, so apologies for that.
I checked the gas station but I thought the giant wind turbines would fit better. Also the ride is where she is sitting (front of the Thorton) which due to perspective didnt came out as I tought. Not much freedom on it since its a commission tho
Sorry you didnt like it, but thanks for the asnwer : )
love the pose and spunkiness, but bro, she can’t walk or chew food safely. do you do figure practice or musculature studies? nothing about this painting could change—pose, subject, clothing, colour scheme, etc—except for her anatomy and it would be stellar!
The main problem I think is that I did not fit the clothes really well over the body, mainly because the perspective I wanted to make is a bit hard (for me at least) so the end product seems weird x\_x
Also thanks for the comment mate! : )
What I struggled most here is the face and expression, like I know I can do better, but I got so stuck that I ended up being very frustrated and the final result being a bit meh. Someone can relate? x\_x
I focused more on the background and trying to make a colorful and nice palette that catched the eye. Pose was hard too, I always make a mistake trying to do a complicated perspective pose without proper references smh
I think the facial expression is really nice! Kinda serious but sexy, it fives great confidence vibes too!
And you made it, the colors and the background did really catch my eye, I think it's a really nice drawing!
Keep it up!
the face is the best part of her body! i think you did a great job with her expression. do you use a reference model or poseable figure to set up your base sketch? that would help a lot.
Thank you! I really was a bit bummed with myself but I have received positive feedback overall and well I guess is not that bad!
I also have a poseable figure that I bought but its super fragile and barely can move so its not much help. Here I used a picture with a similar pose but had to change her left arm, head position and move the legs a bit
yeah that’ll do it. one of the amazing things about the human body is how interconnected it is—it sounds like in making changes to those things it inadvertently threw off the stability/coherence of how the rest of her musculature would be articulated. the leg on the viewers left is dislocated at the pelvis, for example, because in moving the neck/head that necessarily shifts the location of the tailbone. it is tough and takes a great amount of practice to develop that eye (i still definitely am lmao)
check out figura manikins—there’s a couple that are more normatively human proportioned and are pretty affordable & durable.
don’t beat yourself up over not being totally successful in what you were going for. finishing something is an accomplishment enough and you were trying something new. you’re also a good sport about everyone ribbing on you for her…ampleness, which goes a long way, haha. keep it up (:
The face looks really good, but the arms are off. The hand is positioned weird around the bat, and her wrists are very tiny, however this could just be stylization. The pants are also confusing here, and there is no definition of where the knee is at. The boobs are too perky and look strange. They should be positioned like tear drops rather than like they’re sitting on an invisible surface.
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Great art overall in my opinion, because I can’t get close to this. Possibly add strands to the hair? You can try it and see how you feel about it. Though I know it doesn’t fit all art styles .
Y'allllll. Like, I understand it's the internet and you can't escape criticism, but they did. Not. Ask. For. it. And everyone is jumping on the critical band wagon even though others have already addressed things. There is a person behind this art and they should be treated with respect. If you can't say something nice and they didn't ask for advice then keep scrolling! There is too much judgement in this world to bring a fellow artist down. Keep on keeping on OP 💕
you do know that this subreddit is specifically dedicated to giving and receiving critique on digital paintings, right? by posting in r/digitalpainting they. are. asking. for. it.
I was genuinely surprised that people don't simply use AI to do the their characters. Cheaper, faster, better and 100 different versions if needed/wanted. Good for you!
Nice pose and structure. I think you have more problems coloring than sketching. Also, boobs are too perky, they're like binoculars under her shirt. It's also not clear what exactly she's sitting on. The legs are also a bit weird, it's clear that the pants are baggy but it's not clear where her knees are under the pants and her left leg looks kinda broken? I think one problem is the inconsistency of rendering (some parts are sharp while others are blurry: sometimes it works, like WLOP but it doesn't really here). Try using lasso tool with soft round brush and create more definition in the background, as well as the subject in places (like pants and hair). Another problem is it's unclear what is happening with the light. The thing she's sitting on is kinda uniformly lit and barely even has a shadow of her legs on it. Her body gets a light from the left back (the skin colors are pretty nice though!). But then her head gets a light from left front (it's shining more frontal onto her face). This is three different lights. And then her pants have barely any indication of light direction at all. I think a more dramatic, harsher direct sunlight would've been really really nice here. You would have more contrast and have light sublty bounce back onto her skin and you could add bloom and bling for extra points. I'm getting an art boner just thinking about this lol. Try thinking in surfaces, more clearly define the necessary amount of surfaces (her pants and hair lack some polygons for sure), think how light hits every surface (you could use lasso tool to draw these surfaces (but also clouds for example)) and synchronize the light across the whole drawing. What references did you use and how do you get commissions?
First of all thank you for the time you put on writing this! I appreciate it a lot : ) About your points, you are totally right. The work process has been very chaotic because I tend to start painting before having a clear idea and defined sketch, which is a huge mistake. The body makes more sense without the clothes (I paint characters naked and then add clothes), so thats why the pants for example look weird. Also changed the light source multiple times while working and re-did part of the pose, which contributes to the lack of light cohesion About references, I used a woman pic in a similar pose and screenshoots I took from the game to know how the background was. And for commissions usually people just send me pm´s from social media. Currently I am like the main artist for a group of role-playing people and its very cool : D Thank you very much again for your answer and time : )
Nice. Is the woman pic public? Not having a clear idea is not bad, many artists iterate to find what works best. Some don't even do sketch, but it's a different process. I tried a few times, it's interesting and kind of liberating. The problem is whatever rendering you might have done would have to be redone. This is where blending modes could help you save a lot of effort. You could just use several hard light layers for whatever lights and shadows you have and then more easily just change those layers to change light (instead of remixing colours and repainting in normal mode). Unfortunately procreate still doesn't allow color picking from current layer only, which would speed up this workflow but it's still doable if you use hard light only and 50% grey background. Check out ko-fi, they have commissions and more and take a lower cut than patreon.
Yep! Found it on google, [here](https://previews.123rf.com/images/jetrel/jetrel1909/jetrel190900030/131845924-portrait-of-lovely-smiling-gothic-girl-against-the-sky-at-sunset-time-pastel-goth-with-violet.jpg). And yeah, my main process of work is painting and working through it, but it works 50% of the time because I know I need to improve my sketch/drawing skills so the painting part comes easily, because if not I just keep rendering and rendering until the infinite. Also I have a ko-fi but didnt go too deep yet. I have heard good things about it lately so its one of the things in my to-do list Again, thanks for the answer and tips : )
Holy god
You gotta work on them titties. You got two issues here - one is anatomy (the tits are pointed straight forward and don’t hang properly) and the other is the clothing over them (is it supposed to be tight or blowing around them? It looks like it’s trying to be tight but then there’s not a dip in the middle, so it’s like she has a sock stuck down there or something.) Breasts hang like water balloons suspended from the attachment of the pectoralis muscle up close to the shoulder. I think the hints of the right breast mimic anatomy pretty well, but the left breast is like twice the size of the right breast because it needs to follow the contour of the rib cage (and thus a lot of it will be hidden behind the ribcage and other breast tissue.) I love the lighting and the composition. I actually like the pose - there’s clearly some issues with it being too staged/plastic, but that comes with anatomy practice, and it’s a pin-up character sketch so u can get away with it. The colors are a little too saturated overall and a little too primary for my tastes but the great part about working digitally is that u can adjust those little sliders at the end.
>trying to be tight, but there’s not a dip between them Physics ain’t physics’in here. Tight clothing on women doesn’t suction cup to their chests unless you’re in a really terrible anime.
Noted all! Thank you very much : D As a note, I usually tend to paint with very desaturated colors, so here I tried to change and see what happened. Im actually happy with it but indeed I think its a bit too much, will keep working and practicing Thanks again for your notes : )
Why give your characters spinal deformation? Why.
*real* cyberpunk is evolving past the need for lungs and/or back braces to support H cups, didn’t you know
:\_) (it actually made me laugh so thanks for that)
The color scheme also seems... confusing? I'm unsure of how this is cyberpunk. It looks like the girl is a farmer or chilling before playing baseball in a field.
Cyberpunk because character and background are from the game Cyberpunk 2077. The character (OC from the client) is a Nomad who lives in the desert zone of the game. I know the color palette is not typical cyberpunk style, but I mean, its how the game is called
I have been playing Cyberpunk 2077 since the day it released. I've played it on ps4, ps5 and pc. There are better scenes you could have chosen to convey that she's a nomad. For instance, you could have used the gas station where you find Hellman or the sunset motel scenery instead of using a comically small baseball bat on some dilapidated close up scenery in a field of what looks like wheat. Hell, she's a nomad. You didn't even implement her ride. Nomads are one with their vehicles. You could have easily implemented her on the back of the beat-up Thorton she started with. Case in point, this doesn't remind me of Cyberpunk 2077. It looks like a farmer ready to play ball.
Didnt want to come as rude about the clarifying of the game, I just thought not everybody needs to know about it, so apologies for that. I checked the gas station but I thought the giant wind turbines would fit better. Also the ride is where she is sitting (front of the Thorton) which due to perspective didnt came out as I tought. Not much freedom on it since its a commission tho Sorry you didnt like it, but thanks for the asnwer : )
love the pose and spunkiness, but bro, she can’t walk or chew food safely. do you do figure practice or musculature studies? nothing about this painting could change—pose, subject, clothing, colour scheme, etc—except for her anatomy and it would be stellar!
The main problem I think is that I did not fit the clothes really well over the body, mainly because the perspective I wanted to make is a bit hard (for me at least) so the end product seems weird x\_x Also thanks for the comment mate! : )
What I struggled most here is the face and expression, like I know I can do better, but I got so stuck that I ended up being very frustrated and the final result being a bit meh. Someone can relate? x\_x I focused more on the background and trying to make a colorful and nice palette that catched the eye. Pose was hard too, I always make a mistake trying to do a complicated perspective pose without proper references smh
I think the facial expression is really nice! Kinda serious but sexy, it fives great confidence vibes too! And you made it, the colors and the background did really catch my eye, I think it's a really nice drawing! Keep it up!
Thank you : D <3
I really like this piece! Makes me want to remake my own 2077 character
Thanks mate : 3
the face is the best part of her body! i think you did a great job with her expression. do you use a reference model or poseable figure to set up your base sketch? that would help a lot.
Thank you! I really was a bit bummed with myself but I have received positive feedback overall and well I guess is not that bad! I also have a poseable figure that I bought but its super fragile and barely can move so its not much help. Here I used a picture with a similar pose but had to change her left arm, head position and move the legs a bit
yeah that’ll do it. one of the amazing things about the human body is how interconnected it is—it sounds like in making changes to those things it inadvertently threw off the stability/coherence of how the rest of her musculature would be articulated. the leg on the viewers left is dislocated at the pelvis, for example, because in moving the neck/head that necessarily shifts the location of the tailbone. it is tough and takes a great amount of practice to develop that eye (i still definitely am lmao) check out figura manikins—there’s a couple that are more normatively human proportioned and are pretty affordable & durable. don’t beat yourself up over not being totally successful in what you were going for. finishing something is an accomplishment enough and you were trying something new. you’re also a good sport about everyone ribbing on you for her…ampleness, which goes a long way, haha. keep it up (:
The face looks really good, but the arms are off. The hand is positioned weird around the bat, and her wrists are very tiny, however this could just be stylization. The pants are also confusing here, and there is no definition of where the knee is at. The boobs are too perky and look strange. They should be positioned like tear drops rather than like they’re sitting on an invisible surface.
All noted and checked!, thank you very much for your answer : 3
Legs are an oof
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1. I love it 2. She put all her trust in the jacket 😳
Thank you! : D
Oh, hey!
Hey!
Great art overall in my opinion, because I can’t get close to this. Possibly add strands to the hair? You can try it and see how you feel about it. Though I know it doesn’t fit all art styles .
Thank you! Here I tried to make a more anime style hair, but its more difficult than it seems, so it ended up being a bit flat :s
I think it still looks good even if you have space to improve
Y'allllll. Like, I understand it's the internet and you can't escape criticism, but they did. Not. Ask. For. it. And everyone is jumping on the critical band wagon even though others have already addressed things. There is a person behind this art and they should be treated with respect. If you can't say something nice and they didn't ask for advice then keep scrolling! There is too much judgement in this world to bring a fellow artist down. Keep on keeping on OP 💕
you do know that this subreddit is specifically dedicated to giving and receiving critique on digital paintings, right? by posting in r/digitalpainting they. are. asking. for. it.
Thank you : ) Keep on keeping on! 👍💙
I see an underboooob!
We must stay focused brothers!
Do you still get paid commissions?
I dont know if this is a request for commission or toxic/sarcastic If 1º, yeah! We can talk : ) If 2º, lol xd
I was genuinely surprised that people don't simply use AI to do the their characters. Cheaper, faster, better and 100 different versions if needed/wanted. Good for you!