Need feedback\critique regarding my work

[cg-monkey]

Hello Everyone,

i work as an artist,i am posting some of work and would be really great to get any feedback\critique regarding my work and how can i improve my over all skills.

Thanks,
Cg-Monkey

[Kiera]

Now this got me confused and I searched for a signature in every picture because they are all so different..
From when is the oldest picture and since when do you paint? I would be also curious if these were done for other people or for yourself.

I ask because I don't see much that connects the pictures, you've got all these different styles from realistic wolfdrawing to horror to cartoony stuff going on and if I would see just one picture from the bunch I would say about every picture that it's alright.

But together they leave the impression of an artist who doesn't know what he wants to do and who doesn't care about what he draws.
What makes these pictures your own pictures?
The styles in the cartoony pictures and the subject in each single picture are all clichee - I have the feeling that I have seen every picture before somewhere.
The mainproblem behind this is that you use symbols or clichees from each genre to get your message across -
skeletal alien + claw fingers + glowing eyes + moon + gargoyle + night = fear
But there is not much behind these things - no interesting design or style, no story, no own ideas, no real fascination
I just get the feeling that you are not interested in drawing all those thing

Technically you are good, but the themes, the ideas, the message and your own style need work - otherwise you will just redraw what other people have done before.

Edit: haha, sorry, I just read it again and I didn't wanted to sound so harsh ^^

[cg-monkey]

Hello Kiera

1st of all thanks for your feedback its really appreciated the thing is Kiera that i draw what ever comes to my mind i just put it on my sketch book if i like it i try to paint it then in photoshop,the wolf was my 1st painting 3 years back when i got my 1st ever wacom, the thing about being the one who doesn't care about what he draws so its not like that i like to draw cartoon like stuff the most but what stops me is that i want to draw realistic stuff as well,i sure is working on my own style and that's what i want to achieve hopefully within this year, i want my own style either its cartoony or if its realistic paintings its like my heart tells me to draw cartoons and my brain tells me to draw realistic paintings stuff,and that's where i think i am suck in between that's why i got some of my work here and posted it to see if you guys can guide me batter so any feed back or guidelines will be highly appreciated once again thanks for your time and feed back Kiera.

[danlambert]

I don't see why being able to do both realistic and cartoony is a problem. Being more diverse as an artist is never a bad thing, if anything it will get you more work. Just make sure you learn and develop both, even if it turns out you do the cartoony stuff just for fun and try to get work with the realistic stuff, or visa versa.

[Kiera]

ah ok, if these pictures date back to 3 years, then it is obvious why you have this variety

To solve the style question you just have to draw and paint a lot
(don't think too much if it should be carton or realism or something else, just get yourself a sketchbook or one of those books with blank pages and try to make a finished painting/finished drawing on every page.. draw whatever you want.. one or two finished pictures daily for a month or so, don't remove any picture from that sketchbook. You will see that some things repeat themselves while others just stay experiments. This helped me with style)

For realism and cartoon - try to read Scott McClouds "understanding comics"

[Black Spot]

Having different styles is not necessary a bad thing if you’re selling to a client various ideas. Your sketchbook is lonely and needs more love. Do it all because you can.