Critiques and how to improve my illustration
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Markus Lessard
My name is markus and I'm just finishing school this year, here are some paintings that I've done recently. If you have suggestions or critiques on these pieces feel free to do so. I wish to improve my illustration, for example, characters interacting in environments. Some artists I admire are Craig Mulls and Devin Korwin. I love their use of brushwork and composition. Besides studies, what should I focus on practicing? Color, composition, or anatomy? I think I need to improve on all 3 areas, but based on the images below, what do you think I should target my practice on?
below are some landscape, illustration, and portrait paintings. i would especialy like critiques on the ilustrative paintings (characters acting with environments).
thank you, feel free to check out my other work or reach out to me personaly on instagram @markus_does_art
Nice job on these.
Illustration is all about composition. In the mountain landscape, you need to add some variety in your edges to show some atmospheric perspective. The one with the guy and the tree, the composition is too even.
Your doing pretty well with the first portrait, but the second one is missing form because you focused on color and not values.
I did some sketches to show you what I mean, I hope it helps :)
