Ela's Sketchbook - Critiques Super welcomed and Desired!

[elanorepenn]

I am more than willing to receive a harsh critique, in fact, I Prefer it! You don't have to compliment when putting forward what you think/observe to be incorrect. That's one of my favorite things about my instructor, Ed Binkley; He will look at one of my drawings and critique them to the point of destruction, and that is what makes an artist grow.

I can promise the same in return, though my eyes are not quite as trained, it is always good to receive a fresh eye.

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I'll be posting a lot of my practice drawings, concepts, and other things too. I would adore some critique and suggestions




Thank you so much for looking!

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This first post involves some new figure drawings.

[elanorepenn]

30 min studies for my figure-drawing class

Unfortunately, the images are extremely stylized and that really takes away from the pictures themselves. Hopefully in the future I can change that by NOT DRAWING THE FINAL LINE MORE THAN ONCE. A great rule of thumb to create clean AND descriptive linear work.

[elanorepenn]

This is Jen, she's a fantastic model and usually does extremely playful and dynamic poses

[elanorepenn]

Ophila my OC - she's part of the Shadow Realm, something that I'll probably elaborate more on the more I post in here

[elanorepenn]

Hahaha.

A few of my friends wanted them, so I indulged them

[elanorepenn]

This mostly consists of random doodles

Most of these are in ball point pen

[Growling]

oh wow, i love your lines and the life drawings are so fun to look at...I totally think the stylization is really nice though. i don't know what to critique...i need lots of critiques myself. ^_^

[DiR3Kt]

Hi Ela,

Your sketchbook is nice, keep it going!

#1 First pic: Ogre with girl.
I really like the pose of both characters, espcially the girl. But the arm in front looks a bit weird. Maybe the position of the shoulder and elbow are not correct? But overall it's a really nice sketch

#2 First pic: Man sitting
Something is wrong with his pelvis. To me it looks too small.

#3 First pic: Girl sitting
Maybe you exagerated too much the curvy lines in the back. Maybe not ...

#6 Third pic: Girl standing
The render of the cloth is f**king awesome great job!

Take note that you are way better than me so I might be completely wrong with my critiques. Hope it will still help you ...

[elanorepenn]

The Harem

A semi Quick line sketch i did

[elanorepenn]

Also, a self portrait! My friend hates it because he thinks it's hideous haha.

[elanorepenn]

A lot of new art to post

http://www.thechrisgargantheroy.daportfolio.com for figure drawing :]

[elanorepenn]

My characters Lyn and Leyander being dramatic as well as Leyander's desired outfit

Part of a series I'm working on

Small update to show I'm alive :]

[Zarahn Southon]

I dig your self portrait, and like your illustrations...I think you could benefit from doing more life drawing using a directional light source to get stronger contrasts of light and shadow. This will help you get mass and volume especially as you shade from the shadow into the dark light.

[elanorepenn]

Then I inked him!

@ Zarahn Southon - I really like your suggestions and I think I shall do a few still lives with intense lighting :] Thank you!

[elanorepenn]

Some texture spheres for practice and class