Poses and backgrounds, I'd like to see more works like your trade with me

Try fore-shortening and very funky perspective too

Yea, I am sorely lacking in the background department DX>

Thanks dude, much appreciated.

Make up some weird aliens or some shit to stretch your creativity instead of drawing established furry characters. I don't know, I'm not really one to critique since I need to improve a lot too :<

Yea, I'm trying to move away from furry a bit. There are a ton of things out there that are way more interesting.

Enh, I could never ditch furry because I love it too much, but I know what you mean.

Oh same here, I'm never gonna abandon it completely. Furry art is too dear to my heart.

Even though I don't think you're style is generic at all (Laura agrees) You could try improving by adding more details that make the characters and art look unique. Try experimenting with foreshadowing, and yes different poses too. Work on angles that you've never worked on before.

As for content, you could just go to a public place or just drive around and look for something that inspires you. Maybe look at some books, photos or magazines. It doesn't always have to be a person or animal, you could use objects that inspire you to draw. Music always helps me (try something without words so you don't get distracted)

Backgrounds are a great addition but you shouldn't focus on that until you're comfortable with content. I have some tutorials on my computer if you want some. DA (though I know you loathe to admit it) actually has a lot of good tutorials. That's where I get mine usually.

TRY DRAWING MORE WOMEN. One thing about your style is you draw males so much that the characters always turn out masculine.

ok I that's all I have to say. Hope it helped :)

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Comments like this make me happy :DDD
Haha, yea, I get so distracted by my music because, well, it's awesome. But thank you, I'll keep those things in mind.

OMG BUT YOUR ARTWORK IS KAWAII ^-^
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I THINK YOU SHOULD COLOR MOAR
But then again I haven't been colouring that much lately either DX>

YOU KNOW I'M AFRAID OF COLOURS. D:>

THEY DON'T BITE

I HAVE PROOF THEY DO

PICS?

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Still relevant to my interests

your linework is quite strong so i would work on developing your tonal stuff more. go out into town and sketch whatever you find interesing. little postage stamp size watercolors have been doing wonders for me. if you are doing tonal stuff make shure to realy push in the dark colors, alot of tonal stuff ends up being realy grey, pushing in the dark darks adds alot of drama to a peice.
if you have been working on a peice for two thirds of a class and the drawing dosent work you should take execive risks and risk destroying it because an ok drawing isnt that usefull to you.

to do something new you cant know where you are going, because if you know where your going then you are going somewhere you have been before.
those are my two artschooly type quotes and advice i have. as long as you keep searching you are bound to get better. its good to see people actively trying to get better.

took the words right out of my mouth.

Thank you Balson!
I'm biased towards pencil illustrations and sketches, which is why I don't colour the majority of my work. But I will definitely keep your advice in mind when I do colour things!

do you have anything against pens?

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actually no, i love sketchy pen work. one of my favourite things to do when i'm bored is draw with ballpoint pens. but that's because they're a lot like pencils, with the ability to vary the darkness of the lines. they allow to me do some nice sketchy stuff without having to worry about smudging as much

Thanks for your input!

I am trying to get back into colouring more often. I'm a lover of pencil illustrations though, so that's what I tend to stick to. Nowadays I mostly just draw something and either leave it in pencil or paint it with watercolours.

Yea, I'm gonna move away from furry subjects for a while (not including whatever trades/commissions/gifts I have right now to do).

First off, I want to apologize for getting back to you just now. My weekend flew by without me getting much of anything done and I didn’t want to rush and give you a half-assed answer.

Second, I don’t necessarily think furry is holding you back when there’s so many different ways to do such art (such as different perspectives, themes, or ideas involving furry stuff in general). But if you feel bored of it or don’t feel up to drawing it at the moment, that’s understandable.

With all that said, the one thing I need to reiterate is the streaking on your coloring. Remember to test out the circular motion advice I got from Kamilya. (I really wish I could remember all of the advice she gave me, but I do remember her showing me the circular motion idea).

Otherwise, some suggestions of things that I haven’t seen you work on much or at all.

- Perspective (The Garden and the one of one of your older characters in the gas mask are the only two pieces I’ve seen you do in regards to perspective). Try different angles, such as from below and another from above. Also, seeing a character from two different perspectives, (such as looking at both the character and the character’s image in a mirror) is good practice.

- More detail, such as with backgrounds or characters or character items/clothing etc.

- Lighting. To be honest I don’t recall you ever doing a piece regarding darkness and light sources. I realize this particular suggestion might be very hard to accurately achieve but it is a suggestion of something to work on.

Other than that, I can’t think of anything else. So I leave you with some quick examples of good Magic the Gathering art/ideas to hopefully inspire you or give you ideas.

http://magiccards.info/fut/en/43.html
http://magiccards.info/fut/en/166.html
http://magiccards.info/ts/en/134.html
http://magiccards.info/ts/en/93.html
http://magiccards.info/le/en/21.html Note the reflection of the monster coming at him.

http://magiccards.info/bok/en/83.html
http://magiccards.info/chk/en/21.html

http://magiccards.info/chk/en/278.html This is an example of lighting.

There's definitely a lot one can do within the furry genre, but I feel as long as I keep drawing it, I'm just going to be sticking to animal-people. And that gets boring after a while. I'll never abandon furry art, since I DO enjoy it, just..I need some variety, y'know?

Oh man, thanks for those cards, dude. Those are awesome.

I do actually draw some perspective stuff from time to time, but I'm one of those artists that sometimes throws away stuff..but yes, I definitely need to work at it more.

I will most certainly keep in mind what Kamilya said. Right now I'm really into watercolours, but next time I do marker work, I'll try that :D

I do shade things most of the time, but the reason I've never really seriously experimented with lighting is because I get so easily confused about what colours to use. I know, I know, trial and error, and I'll do that. It's my perfectionist tendencies popping up again DX>

But thank you so much for your comment Ganren, I really needed some input. <333