The idea of the first drawing is very good, but is completely flat, i think you have chosen a very difficoult scene to draw. In my opinion, you should restart the drawing completely, simplify the composition, make a perspective grid and then you can worry about the style. It will take a bit of time but the final result will be better

Hello I made this cover,based on the Natsuo Kirino's book,real world.Would love some critism of what's not working(also would like to know if the font's too small)

This is my submission for this month challenge, I've decided to illustrate Bram Stoker's Dracula and i designed the illustration to give a horror feel but also keep the character of Dracula mysterious like it is described in the book. I've also added some elements in the bottom part of the illustration to give some clues to what type of book is ahead. I've used only 3 colors: red, yellow and some blue. Let me know what you think.

it helps to know exactly what you are going to do the day before, for example on monday night i know that on tuesday morning i have to finish my personal illustration or to practice perspective etc. ,My routine is wake up at 6:00 am, get coffee, and then start to work, some warm ups like 3-5 minutes and then i start my practice or whatever i need to do. Hope it helps

Hi everyone, my name is Alberto i'm almost 23 and i want to became an illustrator, right now i'm studying by myself and 'ive improved a lot just with practice and studying but i want to improve more so that i can reach my goal and your help would be awesome. I would like you to point out the 3 major problems that you see in my work and how can i improve it, thanks a lot for the opportunity :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amlwcI8dh_g&list=WL&index=14 ; i recommend you to watch this video i think it could really help with your problem. At least it really helped me not to focus about style, hope it helps you too

Hi alex, i am doing this curriculum too!! i am currently at stage 4 and i think it's very useful, my art is improved a lot since i started. I would like to give you some advices that i discovered while doing the curriculum: 1) as Karim said, take your time doing the challenges and the section, i found that in the first part of the curriculum i rushed a bit and maybe my results would be better if i didn't rushed. For this reason i feel like i should go back and at least re-watch/read the materials. 2) i think it's important to check out all of the material suggested (not necessarily buying it) because i found that some of the materials ,for me, were not stimulating or efficient. Example, i found scott robertson's book extremely tiring, boring and excessive; i want to be an illustrator so i couldn't care less about product design and doing very precise and calculated drawings; on the opposite side i found the drawabox curriculum extremely helpful even if i didn't submit for critique, because the program is more direct and applicable immediately on your drawings. 3) during your challenges i would advise you to submit examples of your work to critique, that's because doing this at the end it's too late and so doing it at the middle or dividing the work in quarters can help you learn your mistakes and immediately applying what you learned on the next session. 4) i am also working about 2 h per day because i'm currently at university and i have to study for my exams, don't expect this process to be fast, the curriculum says about 30 days and i said "sweet, 2 years and i have all the foundamentals laid out!!!" well i started a year ago and i am only at stage 4 XD. Although this may seem frustrating we have to accept that we can only study for this much time, so peace yourself and enjoy the process, i can guarantee that if you stick to your plan and really draw 2h a day everyday (or so) you will see progress. Hope it helped, i am sorry if some of the advices may seem silly but i found out these things and so i thought it may help.

These are looking great overall and are great fundamental practice! It's awesome seeing you limit your values so the subjects clearly stand out as light shapes against the dark background, that goes a long way towards clarity in finished pieces. Two small suggestions: 1) Some of your form edges are a bit too hard. Remember shadows happen as planes turn away from the light, so a form with sharp plane changes (like a cube) will have hard edged shadows, but a form where the planes gradually turn away from the light source (like a sphere) will have softer edged shadows. You're doing this on some of these, but there's a lot of spheres and softer forms in these with hard-edged core shadows that should be soft. 2) Watch out for your reflected lights becoming too bright. In most of these the reflected light is getting close to the value of the midtones, which starts to break apart the shadow shape and hurt the illusion of form. There are situations where this can happen, but in most cases it's best to be sure that *all* the values on the shadow side are darker than any of the values on the light side. Overall fantastic studies, keep up the good work! :D