My OC Lore Is Genuinely Incomprehensible, Absolutely Indecipherable To Any Average Human

Hello! You commented on something I posted in the art critique community, and since I don’t really want to flood that space with asks about the same thing, I figured I could ask here, since you have a post saying you like doing critiques?

Since this is just a base drawing, I haven’t done textures and shading yet, but I did adjust some anatomy bits (including the sets of hands you pointed out) and made the foreground characters larger, but I’m not sure if the perspective is much more obvious.

Of course, I’d like to hear about other things you think I should revise. Thank you :)

person in suit at the top's hair is really close to touching the purple light person in the dress, its called a tangent when two objects are touching like that and it messes with differentiating foreground and background. i think it would be important to either make it clear that the characters on the bottom and the characters on the top are separate, or to make them overlap a bit so we know which ones are in front.

i know you havent done shading yet, but when you do, you should consider making the characters in the bottom brighter so we know that they are in front. also, theres a blue gap on the bottom of the image (its a yellow gap in the first image and blue in the second image) that you should probably fill with clothing or something because it's negative space and inadvertently draws the viewer's eye to it.

i think the drawing overall looks a bit dim, especially the characters which are meant to be the focal point. i HIGHLY recommend turning the image to greyscale and seeing how you can make things stand out more that way. its a strategy i use all the time, and even when your image is blurred and in greyscale, you should be able to see many different values and understand whats going on in the piece.

honestly, this is something you dont have to follow, but you could push the perspective even more and make the characters in front even bigger and the characters in the back even smaller. but then some of the characters would be less visible, so thats why this is just a suggestion.

also the background text/constellations should be much brighter/thicker, at a glance i cant see it at all and it just looks like negative space.

this is something i do A LOT in my drawings, but it really helps, and that's to add a gradient to the background making the bottom of the grey background part darker would help push contrast and make the characters stand out even more, I've just done it in my most recent artwork, it works wonders.

very long post, hope i helped. this is a very complicated composition and organisation, so well done, I don't think I could do much better lol

art trades still open! dm me anytime

Rodrick by @sigmakia

love the design and all the details sm!!!

rendering took forever i'm rushing to write this because it ended up taking a lot longer than I thought I gotta get to bed

makeup slays

this was my first design of puma guy (technically second, one day I will share the handmade cat plushy OG version) erm... it's not very good lol, also from an artistic perspective... ngl find it crazy that this was less than a year and a half ago I improved like crazy!! also I couldn't draw buff people we don't talk about it I distinctly remembering him looking less weedy when I actually drew him idk

the space pattern sucks ew i've really stepped my game up on that too, face is also janky I was still slightly in my anime phase

messy lineart works but like... this is just messy and not in a cool way

its so washed out my art is so saturated now compared to this, this looks like a watercolour version where's all the pink my boy is PINK

shading is ehh i remember loving the skin and pants but it looks pretty flat and the blue... i didn't know what I was doing with that

i HATE the mouth idk it makes me uncomfortable

man it's so crazy to look at my old designs BEFORE I came up with distinct hairstyles for them

he looks like such a generic anime boy it's kinda funny

the basic things that changed is that he looks older, has curlier hair and looks a bit sleepier but I actually do tend to stick very closely with my original designs (even though I've created some of them when I was really young)

omg its my artfight pfp ❤

this gif is actually crashing my computer not even funny

sigh... i'm afraid my doodles don't make sense once again

don't judge my atomic model

genuinely this is insane without context

omg... new blend brush in magma is INCREDIBLE

it saves so much time omg this took 2 HOURS this looks like it took more than my usual 4 hours, im shocked rendering hair and doing lineless art is actually easy now??

also i ate with my colours look at that classic warm highlights cool shadows style

i use so much less layers too... i cant understand how i did digital art for so long without a blend brush

Nevanna, character by Pudding-Bread-6943 on Reddit

ok i ATE THIS UP i'm actually really proud of this lol

did not expect this to be as good as it turned out, trust the process lol

her design slays so much omg

Raleigh, character by petshopB1986 on Reddit

FINALLY something in my art style!! if you're wondering why a lot of my recent art is completely different art styles, it's because i match the simplicity of whoever's character im drawing, cuz i dont feel like i could take a simple design and draw it realistically with accuracy

however the original design of this dude is in fact very realistic so im able to match that realism

me when women: 😍🥵🥵🥵

me when men: 😍🥵🥵🥵

i know i've already said this but i just LOVE the blend brush man this painterly style is sooo good i feel FREE

also erm this was my FIRST SKETCH how is it so good i just cleaned it up a little and coloured it, maybe i gotta be more loose in order to get better at art, also i didnt use guidelines lol... i literally never use guidelines i just trust that i can see good enough

guys should i draw more men

i love SUITS

Noel by @astrunaria

art trades are still open btw please someone do an art trade with me I wanna spend literally the entire day drawing that's what I want in life

i worked on this for way too long (5 hours 💀) I really wanted to do some nice rendering idk why it's just satisfying

couldnt make out some things like the colours and small details cuz your image was a bit messy/dimly lit but I hope that's ok

i def made the colours more saturated than they really are but that's mostly a conscious choice because I love bright colours

sooo glad i've been focusing on posing and anatomy for the past half a year I'm no longer intimidated by anything more than a bust and in fact I often try to include more of the body

i'm gonna be so prepped for artfight i'm ready to get at least a thousand points

no background because... uh i hate backgrounds so much I only have animals and backgrounds left to sorta master I hate that at least in the past I could practice drawing faces or hands or something but I've basically gotten that all down

crazy that just a couple months ago I couldn't render hair at all

pattern was a pain but thats my fault because I REFUSE to just copy and paste cuz then it looks weird and doesn't really cling to the fabric

Estheriel, character by by Estheriel_14 on Reddit

CHICKEN JOCKEYYY

i cannot escape from the brainrot

cool metal hand thing tho idk what's up with that