Hello everybody, I would love some critique!
Hi! I'm a student hoping to work in concept art for characters, and I'm hoping for some critique on my work, mostly on the design part, but if you've got input on color or anatomy, that would be fine, too.
This was an assignment to take a public domain story and draw characters for it. I chose Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Little Mermaid'.
This is a character who's part of a personal project I'm working on. He's some sort of spirit from another world.
This character is another spirit from that same project. Her name is Tentaclara.
Thank you very much!
(EDIT: images issues fixed)
This was an assignment to take a public domain story and draw characters for it. I chose Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Little Mermaid'.
This is a character who's part of a personal project I'm working on. He's some sort of spirit from another world.
This character is another spirit from that same project. Her name is Tentaclara.
Thank you very much!
(EDIT: images issues fixed)
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That way you'll hopefully be more satisfied with the critiques
I really like the style you have, you have a very strong sense of designing 2d shapes and that is awesome. I love the aesthetics of that nose going down the middle of the face! That is just wonderful.
But it is possible to push it more, and push your designs into something a bit more special. Minimalist designs are good, but what they force you to do is to get more out of less, so in a minimalist design every single feature means more. Pay more attention to the shapes in the hair, and the shapes of the mermaid tails.
The fringe on long nose girl for example is a very simple shape, and you could do a lot to push that more.
Artists that i always look to for this sort of thing are, it might help out.
http://www.jamesjean.com/ - James Jean
http://larolaro.blogspot.com.au/ - Rob Laro
http://alexandrediboine.tumblr.com/ - Alexandre Diboine
http://androidarts.com/ - Arne Niklas Jansen
I liked your style.
On second image the yellow color on the pants, and the hair, background is everything too much bright, maybe you can work with the background more darker, and the pants with less saturated yellow, will help to read the character better.
If you want to go more deeper in the the colors, you could read the James Gurney book: "color and light", the book cover some tips and color theory that is very helpfull.