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I keep neglecting practise, and even just art in general lately... I'm gonna try to draw/post a new picture everyday. There are so many problems with my art... I joined this guild to improve, so I'll try to put a better effort into that now.

Please be as harsh as you want with your critique - it won't hurt my feelings.
If you want me to draw your avatar, you can go ahead and ask, but I probably won't go into great detail and I might exclude a bunch of the items you're wearing. Also, don't expect that I WILL draw your avatar.

Not that I think I'm that good, but please don't post blind praise. Saying something like "looks good" won't help me improve. Pointing out specific things you think are well done helps, though.


I know the pencil shading didn't turn out well here, so I'll use a brush tool next time.

Well, let's see:

1)Unless she's going to karate chop you into submission, you might want to make her hand into a fist and spread her feet apart to match her facial [removed](she looks embarressed, she might want to hit someone); most of the time the body language is matching facial expression. With a blank expression, you convey emotions through body language: defensive = arms crossed, anger = clenched fists, relaxed = sloped shoulders and relaxed pose, submissive = hands behind back.

2) hair ties are braided into the hair, you might want to look up braiding.

3) her hip is too pointy. You could round it out some.

4) wrinkles in fabric. You should go to the help/tutorials for that.

Oh yeah if you want to draw my avatar feel more then welcome too smile

ok so i think your proportions are quite good, except id say you make their bodies look somewhat manly, as in not very curvy,make the butt stick out a bit more seperately from the thigh, a change in thickness if you know what i mean. more definition on the elbows and knees, it seems like kit just connects without a joint. with women, the shoulders and teh hips should be the same width, and then the breasts area uncluding the rib cage size is smaller, also there should be a small space between the thighs near the vag. XD you also make your upper arms a tad longer than they need to be, but then take away that length from the lower arm to make it right, the upper arm should end at the halfway between the boobs and hips, where her wiast will be smallest. maybe make the neck a bit longer, but its fine how it is i just like them longer.

I didn't really have a pose in mind before I got to this... At first I was thinking "jumping in happiness", then "a disturbed face since all the snow melted and she was apparently expecting/wanting snow", then the jumping thing sorta got scrapped and I dunno...

And I won't accept any sorts of payments for these. Critique is a payment in itself!

Ah, that's right... For some reason I was trying to have the front leg more forward because her left leg would be farther back if she was standing perfectly straight, but that doesn't make sense with her pose. And I totally forgot that knee caps kinda bump out a bit.


Here's Kenshiro from Hokuto no Ken ("Fist of the North Star"). I drew him from memory as much as I could, but I looked at a picture of him to find out which arm had the bandages and which had the... forearm thing... My design's a bit different from his actual design, but the real problem is I had his chest scars backwards before, so that's pretty much all I looked at for reference other than a quick look at his general appearance.

He was supposed to be cracking his knuckles, but the first arm I drew threw that off, so it turned into some sort of headlock position.

The Japanese text has his catch phrase, "You are already dead."

Well, sometimes they end up a bit bigger than I thought, but I'll try to draw them whole whenever I can (without having to enlarge the canvas).
I'm used to drawing characters in rather plain, boring stances... I'll try some more "exciting" poses in these daily drawings, but this is sorta unfamiliar to me, so specific advice (when applicable) would be great. Well, pointing on specific problems on anything would be great.

Also, what do you mean by clear and clean? I can see how a lot of the lines are sorta smudged, rough, and I made the mistake of going over some lines more than once... What do you mean by "clear"?

Well, I'm no pro, but if he was shot from behind, shouldn't he look more surprised, and it also seems like his back is broken, he look bent too much, again, I'm no expert