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o uo why sure, that would be greatly appreciated anytime!
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Please, this is a warning: Do not take what I say negatively but rather, a critical advice on where to improve:
The comment you made about "give me references" and " I can do just about any style" seems to mean that you rely on other images to develop art. I think a lot of the art requesters on Gaia can tell when a person made an art completely from scratch.
One of the ways you can tell is the grasp the person has on the human anatomy. Are all the humans in your art consistent in the anatomy? Or do we see one where it's phenominal and others where it jkust fell short? If so, this tells buyers that you visually replicate another art or photographs pose while not understanding WHY the pose works the way it is. There is a different between copying visually, and using a reference when you already have the basic foundations down.
Now, this doesn't necessarily mean you do that. I'm just pointing out a generic example.
Another is more towards your art.
You have a very stylized trademark way of art that stands out attractively, however, I cannot help but notice that your art seems to start from pencil or pen lines. This style of art can be done very well but I believe there is a step you haven't found in your process that could greatly increase the appeal of your art: Leveling.
A black and white pencil or pen drawing when scanned or taken a photograph on has a lot of "dirt" on the image. The small sketchy lines also may sometimes appear to be messy. Although there is a style of messy lined art, most of the time it is done intentionally and rendered into a distinctive style. Commonly, those artists are still very much so capable of having crisp clean lines but for artistic preferences, chose not to.
A suggestion:
After you've scanned the image into a program like photoshop,
there is a Leveling option which I prefer . The examnple I linked doesn't show you what it can do to a black and white image, but essentially you will get crisper lines while a lot of the "dirt" and excess "scratchy lines" go away.
After the image has been leveled, you have two options - you can change the blend mode to make it so that you can color underneath the blk n wht image OR, there is a neat trick where you can create lines on a transparent background. Here is how:
You make a Brush out of the image. Simply go to the file or edit tab and go to define brush. By doing that, you create a "brush" of your own artwork. Now you can color freely and not have to play with the blend mode, which may or may not have tainted the colors you use to color with.
:3 If I haven't scared you off, there are a few more points I can discuss with you if you're open to them~ <3
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