[VanAkita]

Nyan cat with Miku and Momo

[Sappokei]

If you come to finish it, please try to avoid using multiple strokes. It is actually quite an amateur technique that people used in order to make it seem like they're doing hardcore art when they're not (I understand if you aren't trying to show that, but I'm saying that people usually do).

Do you find that you have to press really hard to create a line, by the way? It just seems like it is from what I can see. If it is, try going to the Advanced settings and changing the "Hard<->Soft" setting to 200. This will give a much thicker line with less pressure. Less pressure means your tablet nib won't flatten as fast.

And I highly suggest trying to plan out the whole composition roughly, before going into as much detail as you have. Try also using guidelines to indicate where the eyes go on the face. And I've also noticed you didn't flip the image (you can easily flip it back and forth using the double arrows button at the top, next to a box that should normally say "Normal"). Prolonged watching of your own art can make you believe anything looks right. Your eyes get too used to the image and therefore cannot tell if something is devastatingly wrong or whether it is completely fine. By flipping the canvas, you can spot mistakes much easier. I would suggest to anyone to do this often. By the way, inverting using that button will only invert how it's seen on the program. When it is saved it will be saved in the original way.

I think that's about it. Please consider my points, and I hope it'll help!

[aamucoffee]

Sappokei, on 14 January 2012 - 10:14 PM, said:

If you come to finish it, please try to avoid using multiple strokes. It is actually quite an amateur technique that people used in order to make it seem like they're doing hardcore art when they're not (I understand if you aren't trying to show that, but I'm saying that people usually do).

Well, I do that but it's because it makes the drawing a lot easier and funnier. Plus I think they are beautiful. I'm don't draw that way to make myself look professional because I shouldn't even try that because I am not x'D

And I think your drawing was just good! The cat was adorable and you're good at drawing Miku and Momo in your manga-style. I don't find anything disturbing. 8)

[VanAkita]

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If you come to finish it, please try to avoid using multiple strokes. It is actually quite an amateur technique that people used in order to make it seem like they're doing hardcore art when they're not (I understand if you aren't trying to show that, but I'm saying that people usually do).

Do you find that you have to press really hard to create a line, by the way? It just seems like it is from what I can see. If it is, try going to the Advanced settings and changing the "Hard<->Soft" setting to 200. This will give a much thicker line with less pressure. Less pressure means your tablet nib won't flatten as fast.

And I highly suggest trying to plan out the whole composition roughly, before going into as much detail as you have. Try also using guidelines to indicate where the eyes go on the face. And I've also noticed you didn't flip the image (you can easily flip it back and forth using the double arrows button at the top, next to a box that should normally say "Normal"). Prolonged watching of your own art can make you believe anything looks right. Your eyes get too used to the image and therefore cannot tell if something is devastatingly wrong or whether it is completely fine. By flipping the canvas, you can spot mistakes much easier. I would suggest to anyone to do this often. By the way, inverting using that button will only invert how it's seen on the program. When it is saved it will be saved in the original way.

I think that's about it. Please consider my points, and I hope it'll help!

I actually drew this way to make it look like a very early sketch, mainly because my time is a little limited for me to complete it in one take.
Anyway, thank you for the tips
I am going to finish it someday and I will follow your advice for sure. Critiques is a form to make yourself better after all xD

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Well, I do that but it's because it makes the drawing a lot easier and funnier. Plus I think they are beautiful. I'm don't draw that way to make myself look professional because I shouldn't even try that because I am not x'D

And I think your drawing was just good! The cat was adorable and you're good at drawing Miku and Momo in your manga-style. I don't find anything disturbing. 8)

Thank you I practiced a lot in the past months and this is a style I really like drawing. And the cat was probably my best parody-of-a-real cat I have drawn so far

[Sappokei]

I'm glad you'll consider! That's not to say that I don't enjoy your work as it is, by the way, because it is quite good!