giraffe's character doodles...[c&c appreciated]

[giraffe]

Hi, I'm not exactly new here, but this is my first time posting. Knowing the amount of talent here, I'd really like to know what in particular I could improve in my works...I'm a college student, never had any "proper" art teachers, this is all done without reference and watching TV haha...just let me know some pointers so know I where to start the serious studying! thanks a million.

desperate 'rado

goblus

meck

and an older one...

sarge

[giraffe]

changed the pics to links...couldn't them to show up damnit.

[maxetormer]

this place allows remote linking
http://www.photobucket.com/
use it, and keep up the drawing
I like you style start a thread here:
Daily Sketchbooks

[tony iammarino]

Hey, it looks like you have a lot of room in your head for imaginative varriations. There is also a great deal of knowledge, intuitive or otherwise, of the way light plays on different surfaces and textures. My crits: 1. You could play up the difference between the illusionistic qualities you play with in your " TV watching doodles". An example of this would be to really try to break the outline on mateirals that reflect a lot of light and really try to draw the play of light and reflection on the surface. By this token, you could (2)focus on letting yourself slowdown on more complex areas and naturally build up more exclusive relationships in the picture. By this I mean, letting yourself be loose and a lil' bit messy when you are doing a brown trenchcoat with mud splattered on it because it fits the feel of the material and works with the way we design an image to look both "real" and immpossible to create with any other means but to draw. I guess I am complicating an aproach to drawing that could be easily be summed up as, simplify large areas, bring small focuses into sharper detail. If you made an effort to do this, your drawing would jump exponetionally in readability and be less of a uniform treatment between key areas.