MKHIZANK Wrote:
you just love bashing my work don't you.
I see no problems with the criticisms that you have received other than the fact that there isn't a lot of guidance associated with the criticism.
Basically, it's just the simple difference between criticism, and constructive criticism; but I see no bashing though. I'd say keep putting up art, but at the same time, be able to separate the bs comments from actual critiques.
When people are telling you that they don't like something about the art that is specific, they're not bashing you, they're letting you know
(inadvertently) what
not to do, or what
to pay more attention to in the next piece of art that you post up. See what I mean?
--Now, what's wrong with your art?
1.) It is pretty bad. It almost automatically gets knocked because it's not your original art. Which makes it a manipulation. Which is fine if it is, you just have to do more to make it something unique. When you manipulate something, the end product needs to be dramatically different in some way, shape, or form. This speaks to your style.
2.) I can't tell what your style is supposed to be with this thing. Look up some of
MKRocket's stuff on this site to get a sense for his style. Other members of this site that are excellent are
Aculeus, or
JAX007. Search for them and others under the Fan Submission tab,
here, at the top of any page on this site.
3.) What program(s) are you using to do your art?
4.) What you did wrong and how do you fix it?:
5.) Simply Color Swapped - Neon green requires more manipulation in order to be convincing. If you're using Phototshop, get familiar with three things:
:: ALOT of layers and folders. You mind as well get used to them because they organize the parts of your image, and let you effectively create..."art" in Photoshop.
- Creating a layer that only has a black and white (desaturated) version of the image on it. And work from there.
- Layer Mask and Fill or Adjustment Mask. These will let you manipulate your image without destroying your image at the same time. You get to manipulate these layers, instead of your base image. They make a huge difference.
6.) Used sharpen//clarify and blur too much, and in the wrong places. Try lowering the opacity//percentage of output on that tool, and be alot more careful when using it. Don't just go in willy nilly with those things because image quality is key at the end of the day.
7.) Besides his chest plate looking coarse and pixleated because you sharpened it too much, the way you drew the lines on him with the pencil or brush tool looks really sloppy.
To fix this problem, get really familiar with one principle: Light and Dark or Black and White.
:: Black and White // Light and Dark create the illusion of "reality" if you get good enough at this. Even if the image is "cartoony".
8.) You
only used the default filter textures. The problem with doing that, is that so many people do that, we can tell right off that it's what you did. Which knocks your art even more, because it looks cheap and effortless.
The key is to hide it some way if you decide to simple use the defaults. But the general rule is to not use them at all. You want to try to make your art so that people can't understand what you did to get your image to look like it does. And in a positive way.
9.) Went too hard on the neon green shadow. Take it easy with this, it's an easy indicator that you tried to hide something else inadequate in the image.
10.) When you use liquify, use it more carefully. You want it to look natural.
-- Go
here and search around for some good, simple tutorials. Do as many of them as you can tolerate if Photoshop is the program that you're using. The objective is to get really familiar with the tools.
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And no, I'm not a "photoshop guru" by any means.
