The Two Kinds Of Spirits In My Universe's Spirit World

art trades still open!!

not sure the name, character by @lovdecay

such a cute OC!!! it was so hard to pick one, all your characters are great tbh

kinda reminds me of pinky pie

would love the backstory on these OCs ngl (are they elves? whats with the marks on the other two?)

just realised i really like putting orange on everything i orange-ified this OC

why do transmascs make the most beautiful angelic art ever

like this is so specific but i'm not even joking I see the most beautiful art nouveau-esque renaissance painting art and ofc it's transmasc like what is the secret I HAVE TO KNOW

btw since i draw silly animals to represent ppl hats mean lgbtq don't ask why I just like hats

characters are Vulpa by No-Raspberry-1851 and Cosmos by CHEEZE224 (both on Reddit)

some simpler ones i did and forgot to post

allows me to chill a little bit if I don't have to draw too complex of a character

feeling lazy anyway i just binged devil may cry and it's so good omg

mfs will watch smth like that and still complain when you "try and bring politics into it"

also magma was down i was screaming crying throwing up I need magma so bad man I never seen a user base as loyal as magma users

why must i be like this

everytime i wanna name an OC i feel like i'm naming my baby man that name is gonna be with them for LIFE it's gonna be everything to them

biggest example gotta be freaking puma guy man like i have so much lore for him, I have his whole FAMILY TREE mapped out I know all his traumas and psychology I know how the "don't complain cuz other ppl have it worse" mentality has AFFECTED him I know his whole relationship life I know his whole childhood I know his MIDDLE SCHOOL BEST FRIEND I know literally everything about this guy but a name? hell nah, not even a nickname

ig cuz names mean a lot to me personally... i asked my gyu po after waiting years in anticipation for her to formally give jayden a Chinese name, cuz I only trust her to be able to have that cultural context and meaning, and she gave me and my family Chinese names too, but that was such a big event to me and now I feel I gotta ask my dad for a name for puma guy bc I want him to have a russian first name but that's EMBARRASSING like imagine going up to your dad and being like "erm can you name a person who DOES NOT EXIST for me... and it has to be really meaningful and well thought out you have to put your life into this" unserious ahh

your art trades are the reason I need to finish my Ray ref sheet

omgg nah but i'd love to see you draw puma guy tho I'm just curious I'll help you with it as usual lol

LETS GOOOO first drawing of jayden/zun qiang i have on here

starting off strong man i dont think (im 80% sure ngl) that i will hate this immensely in the future, unlike how i feel in regards to my other drawings of him...

if you know jayden from my reddit or artfight account... no you dont ignore EVERY old art piece of him ever idk what i was thinking

sid the sloth... if you know you know

i was trying to do a shading demonstration for my friend but I ended up drawing a really scrumptious looking sphere

idk what its made of but man it looks good

looks like the apple emoji style lowkey

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Hi, so I wanted to know what could I improve based on this drawing, you're free to do a paintover. Thanks! ^^

so first off i really like the colours I see a lot of artists use grey for shading because they don't understand how light and shadow work but you're using saturated colours which is great!!

although I like the colours for the shading, my biggest critique would have to be the shading itself, and especially its placement and how it's blended so much. there's also not much depth with the shading since one colour is used to shade whole parts, when in reality you need to use a big range of colours from only very slightly darker than the base colour all the way to even a colour close to black.

the kitten also looks a bit off with its anatomy, but I wont critique the kitten that much because... i cant draw animals either 😭.

the way her hands are positioned around the kitten look very separated from the kitten, it almost looks like she's praying and the kitten was just copy pasted on. her hands should be tilted towards the camera more to show that the cat is actually being held in her hands.

there's also some slight anatomy issues with rei like a lumpy head and uneven breasts. also the right arm is longer and bigger than the left, and her waist seems to end very low. make sure to draw the underlying anatomy, even if it's being covered up by something! below is me tracing what her chest would look like if I followed the lines that are drawn

you have a very cool art style and I like you draw eyes, but I would make the eyes slightly less wide and the irises a bit bigger so that it looks more like rei, but in the end that is kinda optional since character art doesn't have to look exactly like the character.

also this is optional but some more line variance, especially thicker lines where shadows are makes lineart look a lot more interesting and pop more

a lot of the problems can be simply solved by flipping your canvas regularly while drawing, since people arent usually good at being able to draw symmetrically or even tell when something is asymmetrical

rei's face is also kinda short and her hair is very round, especially at the top. rei's mouth is also really close to her nose, so I just moved her nose down a bit.

below is the paintover, but just the anatomy and design part, not the shading (I didn't do the hands because there's a lot of stuff in that general area and I would have to redraw everything and also I'm lazy)

i tried my best to retain your style while still making corrections. i hope this is ok!

ok now onto the hardest part: shading

the biggest mistake you can make is just adding shadows to the edge of everything, it suggests roundness and so if you're shading something like a face, which is actually relatively flat and definitely not a sphere, you don't need those shadows on the edge of the chin. well, technically a face and chin are slightly rounded, but if you look at a side view of a person, the face is still pretty flat (excluding the nose)

also that shadow right next to the arm that's being cast onto the chest doesn't make a lot of sense since the light seems to be coming from above, yet this shadow makes it seem like the light is coming from the left. make sure you have a consistent light source when drawing, you can mark the location of the light physically if that helps. if the light is being cast from above, then naturally shadows must go downwards

going back to that image of the sphere and cube, you can see that the sphere has blended shadows and the cube has sharp shadows, this is very important to apply into art, because it helps differentiate different surfaces. because every shadow in your drawing is blended, everything looks soft and round, but the human form definitely has some sharper areas. also, there's a thing called a cast shadow, which is a shadow that's caused by some object blocking light. it also has sharp edges and there's many cast shadows on a person (the nose casts a sharp shadow onto the face, and the head casts a sharp shadow onto the neck for example)

idk if you wanted a lesson or not lol but yk there's a saying about teaching a man to fish vs just giving the man a fish

also the shiny parts on her outfit are shaded incorrectly, explaining how to shade reflective surfaces is really difficult and I don't even fully get it myself, but if it's just clothes, all you have to do is shade clothes as you normally do and then make the contrast much higher (highlights brighter and shadows darker) and add some reflections ofc

FINALLY DONE this took all day i'm not even kidding but I really like it

i lied, i did edit the kitten but just its head

anyway hope i helped i worked pretty hard on this

also thanks for letting me do a paintover!! paintovers are so fun but I can understand why ppl wouldn't want their work touched

my OCs i made when I was around 9 part 2

some of these look... kinda crazy but also some of them look good but I feel like that's pure accident