The original artwork belongs to @KionLover8. Press space or click to view other images. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Hi there, Kion! It seemed you were really feeling down about your style when you asked me for help, so I pulled together a critique project with the art you sent me. There's no need to feel bad about asking me to help, I'll always be willing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Firstly, I would like to point out that I redlined using a more realistic style, so take my critique with a grain of salt. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Part I: Body I really like the sleek style you use when drawing cats. I think the thin bodies correspond well with the angles used on the face. However, it's important to note that cats have a bone structure. Their bodies have form, because cats have bones and muscles underneath all that skin. So, it's important to make sure you draw the body thick enough to appear as if it has a rib cage. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Part II: Face There weren't many suggestions in regards to the face, I really liked that part of the drawing. All I suggest is that you consider the cat's face as a 3D object. For example, the head might not always rest on the body at a perfect profile view. Maybe the cat would turn their head slightly towards the viewer, so they could see both eyes instead of just one. That's just a compositional suggestion, though. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Part II: Legs You said you needed help with the legs the most, but they aren't as 'bad' as you probably think they are. The only thing I suggest is to consider the joints in the legs. I see that you did this in the leg that is bent upwards, but you didn't in all the other legs. Even when standing perfectly straight, a cat's legs have angles where two bones connect to form a joint. The third image in the slideshow highlights this, along with the ribcage suggestion I mentioned earlier. You've probably noticed I changed the position of the legs. You might be asking "why, Dylan?" I did this for balance reasons. The original drawing was leaning forwards, so I figured I would pull the two right feet forwards so the cat would appear stable. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Part III: Overall Look, man. You shouldn't feel so bad about your art! You've got a super unique style that I've never seen before on this platform. I admire the fact that you reached out to me to improve. That's a sign that you're gonna go far as an artist. Everyone goes through phases where they don't like their art. Considering the fact that you reached out for help during this phase is a sure sign you have ambition. Just don't beat yourself up about your art, man! I think it's really good and has a great style. I think Canary will really like it.
