Would like some individualized advice

Hey guys I am an amateur self taught artist. I would love sone individualized advice inorder to improve my art (besides practicing a lot)

Here is my DA

http://mythicsonofgod.deviantart.com/

I really want to learn bit I feel very aimless right bow thanks!

You seem to be drawing the same thing over and over again. Start drawing bodies.

What strikes me first on looking at your gallery is that you are kind of stuck on the prominent pointy chin. Only "blue girl" and "a sad girl" don't have a pointy chin, and many of the others have a chin or jawline that looks like it could draw blood.

My suggestion would be, now that you have the basic proportions of a face down, to practice drawing faces that aren't the elongated oval or octagon shape (narrow forehead, wide at the temples and cheekbones, narrow again in the jaw and chin.)

edited 31st Jul '11 8:27:17 AM by Madrugada

There aren't many dudes in your gallery are there now? Except for the fanart. What they said. The very few bodies I saw were...lacking. Draw a wider range of stuff. We can't critique what we haven't seen.

Also this pic's cheek shading makes the girl look like she has bulgey bags under her eyes and sunken cheeks. That...should not be happening, ever, much less when you're smiling.

If you have a local college, and it has to be a four year one, if they have an art degree program, they normally have live nude classes.

Here's the deal. No model can be a student from that college. All models are off campus. Contact the dean of art in that place. They can connect you with possible anatomy classes in the community. Not all can cost money. Sometimes if you're willing to model, you can sit in for free under the radar.

It's the principle of first you have to know the rules so that you can break them.

If you can draw a natural human form accurately, then you can start playing with the forms with more reality to the rules you are changing.

I'm agreeing with the excessive portraiture. If you can't find any affordable classes near you, use Posemaniacs to branch out into full figures.

You also seem shackled to profile or head-on views; you'll need to learn 3/4 views. Drawing from life would be a good way to do that.

(If you can't/don't want to take an actual class, take a sketchbook to someplace with lots of people, like a park, and just practice drawing them.)

Thank you very much fior the advice as of now I am practticing everything that I was adviced