(Big Surprise) Looking for Someone to Check Over a Sketchbook

[C3rb3rus]

Hey, n00b here.

I'm "thinking about getting serious" with my drawings, so I wanted to know if someone could critique a few drawings, and give me some helpful advice.

I don't know if I'm ready for a full mentor-mentee thing, although I would be flattered if it was offered, but I need some critiques and I'm not quite ready to go posting every crappy sketch I have all over the boards; I'd rather confine my trust in one person.

Info About Me:

Experience: Been drawing for 4 years I think...but probably only about 1 year, total, of serious practice. All the other "drawing" is just messing around in school.

Style:I like from fantasy, big scale, crazy sci-fi-ish stuff, to Salvador Dali-like paintings and sketches, to Urban things like that of Catch from Natural Koncept. So I'll do anything, basically.

Well, hopefully I'll get some help now. Peace out.

[jason01]

Before anyone's going to volunteer to give you a hand, you need to open up a little. Show some of your drawings and give us an idea where you're at. It will let people know you're serious about wanting critique and you're not going to go cry in a closet if you're told it's not the best thing in the world.

Let me tell you what one professor told the class on the first day of school - (in Industrial Design) - "My job is to tell you how to get better. If you want someone to tell you it's good - take it home and show your mom."

[Carbono]

I don't think it works like that, and basically, i think this way of thinking isn't very productive.

You should go and open a sketchbook, put your sketches there, comment on other people sketchbooks and hopefully, people will start to check you back. Different people from different places with different objectives will check your works according to their subjective "good art" rules, and with this, you can learn and evolve.
Closing yourself to: "I'll show my drawings to someone and this someone will criticize me till i get good" don't work, of course, someone may be kind enough to view you art and give some criticism. But, in the end, that insecurity of yours isn't productive.

You need to show your work, to face the crowd, to learn how to look at your own works without that much love and hate, you need to be always searching for critiques and improvement; You can't be afraid of failing, the artist is always failing, he knows that he can always give an step further, that "that line" could be in a better place...

Anyway, this is your style, and I respect you. But as a fellow artist, I believe you should change your attitude. All the "I'll show my stuff when i'm good" is just a sign that you may be searching for praise and not for critiques, and believe me. No praise can get close to what you feel when someone gives a well placed crit, really, the feeling that someone cared about your work enough to find a flaw in it and wants you to correct it... Is fantastic. Praise is good too, of course, its like a "checkpoint", you think like "ok, i got here", but in the end, its all about crit, till the day we die.