I'm Looking For Art Help!

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So I crawled into a cave for a few hours and came out with this:

So, I did this on MS paint with a mouse because I am not into drawing enough to actually try to scrape up money for a drawing tablet. It is a drawing of my character "Aziz Fareed"-a qadir/avanthar scholar air mage. He is holding a book. How is it? What could I do to improve?

 

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adjusted the head shape-looks far better

 

[SorryNari]

Summary:
His pose looks a little stiff. I think the legs look okay (proportionately) which is a great start, and I think this is actually sorta decent since you drew it with a mouse. Most people aren't able to steadily retain their lines with mouses.

Body:

• Perhaps try a more relaxed pose?
• Try to test out different types of color combination. Green and red don't go together well. (at least that's what I personally think, unless it's christmas).
• Add maybe a bit more variety to the clothing.

Head:

• His eyebrows are barely visible to me since they're close to his skin color. Maybe try to adjust into darker colors?
• Practice expression with eyes. To explain it better, it's like trying to make eyes look more natural. In this drawing, he seems to look surprised but I personally don't know what expression you were going for.

 

[Cyliah]

By seeing what you're able to do with a mouse, I'd definetely suggest buying a drawint tablet, mine costed like 60 bucks.

Anyhow, Nari gave you some really good advice. Plus, if you need some tutorials, Youtube is filled with amazing artists, like Jazza or Proko, just throwing a few random names <3

 

[SorryNari]

By seeing what you're able to do with a mouse, I'd definetely suggest buying a drawint tablet, mine costed like 60 bucks.

Anyhow, Nari gave you some really good advice. Plus, if you need some tutorials, Youtube is filled with amazing artists, like Jazza or Proko, just throwing a few random names <3

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Yup yup! Cintiqs cost so much but they have those nice screens that you can see while drawing.

I know it might be hard to draw with a tablet that doesn't have a screen, but don't worry. If you do get one, try your best to adjust to it by practicing. Practice practice practice. Your eye-hand coordination will improve with tablets.

 

[Nixces]

Linework would be good, also MS paint is a bit....ehh. I would suggest getting a better program like Paint tool sai, which you can get for free...if you look in the right places : >

 

[Enkiduu]

If you're gonna stick with a mouse, zoom in and draw big. It's easier to draw wide, broad strokes than picking off little ones.

As mentioned, the pose looks stiff. Put some more curve in his posture.
Color-wise, the shirt and pants are too bright, try toning it down with some more muted colors, like a more brownish red or a more darker green.

Also, if you insist on using low-tech tools like a mouse and MS Paint, I'd suggest practicing figure drawing. Search up a photo or image and practice drawing that exactly as it is. If you do it right, you'll train your eyes to be able to see things in a more objective and artistic point-of-view as well as learning perspective and proportions.

 

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I used the basic form and went through all the steps, slowly filling in the original mold but i didn't steady the mouse at all, i just used the line and circle tools and slowly fillied things in

 

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I try to draw my characters in a scarlet tunic and a blue green good that looked quite good to link a reference that nobody has found yet but I will experiment later. Thanks for all the advice!

 

[Arganam]

I draw with a mouse too lol... Okay, I'm not the best artist here, as you can tell by my current profile picture, but the largest problem I see with your art, is that you are using a small canvas, and can see the pixels. I suggest using a 1000 by 2000 or something canvas, maybe even 50000 by 3000. 2nd, I suggest adding more detail to... everything. when using the Program Paint.net, which is free to download, you can add extra layers. I suggest adding a layer, and then coloring the parts where there should be shadows. I would use blues and purples for night time shadows, and maybe orange or red for shadows such as the one on my current profile picture. after you do this, select "EDIT LAYER" change the setting from normal to multiply, and then make it semi transparent. Hope this helped, just keep practicing, you will get better! =D

 

[Gabauchi]

50000 by 3000

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woah ho ho slow your roll partner

okay first off, i hope you added some extra zeros because that's horrifying. second, you never really need anything past three thousand for normal art stuff (i.e. no hyper-detail professional graphics design type junk) and even then that's pretty over the top.

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I suggest adding more detail to... everything

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detail is fine, but don't do anything unnecessary. details in a simplistic style like this stop contributing real fast. just focus on the basics (clothing lines, shadows, lighting, etc. etc.) and if you /want/ something much more detailed, then you'll need to revamp the style entirely.

about the colors, try to avoid colors on the opposite of the color wheel for your base. like nari said, red and green do not go well together. and on the topic of coloring, when you shade, think in terms of warm in cool instead of light and dark. red's are warms, and blue's are cool, light is warm, and shadows are cool. if that makes any sense.

 

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woah ho ho slow your roll partner

okay first off, i hope you added some extra zeros because that's horrifying. second, you never really need anything past three thousand for normal art stuff (i.e. no hyper-detail professional graphics design type junk) and even then that's pretty over the top.

nextly

detail is fine, but don't do anything unnecessary. details in a simplistic style like this stop contributing real fast. just focus on the basics (clothing lines, shadows, lighting, etc. etc.) and if you /want/ something much more detailed, then you'll need to revamp the style entirely.

about the colors, try to avoid colors on the opposite of the color wheel for your base. like nari said, red and green do not go well together. and on the topic of coloring, when you shade, think in terms of warm in cool instead of light and dark. red's are warms, and blue's are cool, light is warm, and shadows are cool. if that makes any sense.

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Hmm, ill give it another go this weeked, I'll also get paint.net, I think its already on my pc already but idk, thanks for all the help!