B&W U/B tickling

[rajee]

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

This is one of the few black and white pictures of yours I've seen. Lets see, its ok, but what you might want to try and do next time is put more body into it. And what I mean by that is don't just focus on the face at the exclusion of everything else. Theres nothing wrong with simplfying something, but these characters in this picture are unproportionate. And the tickler has two right hands. You might try adding more contours to their bodies, so that they don't look blocky or choppy and look more like women. The expressions on their faces are good though, and that makes up for what you haven't done in this picture.

You know, something you could benefit from doing, and it would enhance your pictures, is to shade them. Your art could benefit from some shading.

One more little thing. Its more about you then about your art. You draw several pictures a week, and it leaves me wondering if your not just drawing them to draw them. What I would suggest, is that you slow down and improve your skill as opposed to quickly producing so so pictures. You won't get anywhere that way. I'm sure your trying your best to improve, but my question is, are you actually taking enough time off to learn?

You know that I don't mean this as anything but helpful. But as an artist myself, even I have to slow down at times to keep my skills in check. It doesn't seem like your doing that, because to be honest, your art hasn't improved that much since you came here. It has in some ways, and I'm glad to see that, and you yourself know your getting better. But I think what will solve this is if you slow down, re-evaluate what your drawing, how your drawing it, and WHY your drawing. What it seems like your doing, and correct me if I'm wrong, it seems like your just drawing and drawing and drawing with actually little effort. I've seen your better looking pictures, and I hope we can see more of those. It doesn't seem your focusing on getting better, but rather just producing pictures just to produce them.

Dispite what others may think, I know you have skill. Its just a matter of finding how to apply it to your art style. I wonder, what is your goal? Is there any particular style your going for or want to have when your more accomplished? If you can set a standard you want to reach later, then its not as difficult to get there since its defined. And you can use the style you want to achieve as a base for your artwork.

Then again, I might be telling you something you already know. I just want to help, and I hope what I've been saying in your threads has helped you in some way. I'm by no means an expert, but every artist has had to deal with this issue, and other artists should be forthcoming and willing to offer their help to you if and when you need/want it.


- Damien

 

[grippedchimp]

Nice to see you're moving to upperbody, but I can't see the pic!

 

[rajee]

I wasn't logged in anymore...

It should work now. Yahoo seems to log me out after I turn off the computer. It disables the file viewing if I am not logged in.

 

[grippedchimp]

I just realised that you're posting straight from Yahoo! Groups. Not good. Anyone not in that Yahoo! Group it's coming from will never see it. Post it in some other webspace.

 

[rajee]

hope this works

http://home.1asphost.com/SmallGuy/ArmpitTk0001.JPG


What do you use to alert others of updates in your group. What would you use to post pictures here.

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

Well, theres not much more you can do really. Just continue as you are, joining more and more forums sites and spreading the word. I've only recently started expanding beyond my group itself, and the TMF. And already I'm getting more hits and more members faster then I can count. (Well, not faster, but the turn out has been impressive to say the least.)

I suspect the same thing will happen for you once your name gets around, people know your the artist of a specific piece they may have seen, and that you may take requests. If you do take requests it helps increase member potential.

As far as what I personally do to inform others of updates on my group, well, I post the update (in detail) on my group. At first, only my members that have chosen to recieve individual e-mails will get them. The number of members with that mail option selected are in greater numbers then one would think. It would seem that members will want to stay tuned if they know the artist is good.

Second, I post the same update on the forums that would be concerned. Such as the TMF, ATF, and several others.

Third, I post links to the picture as opposed to posting them as attachments. I see such a thing as an act of courtesy towards the site, in that your not consuming more bandwidth then you would by uploading a picture. While many site administrators and owners don't verbally say much about it or seem to care, they do appriciate it.

Thats what I do anyways. Theres not many ways to go about it. However, your skill and recognition will ultimately determine your overall member count/member involvement. Its very obvious although, that how many members you have isn't as important as how many devoted fans you have. Some groups or sites sure have a lot of members alright, but no support to keep them going.


- Damien

 

[rajee]

Thanks, Celtic_Emperor. I also was wondering what site suggestion does anyone have for my artwork? Since non yahoo group members can not see my artwork, where should I download my artwork to so everyone could view it here as a post? I will try 1asphot and hope it works.

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

You're welcome. 🙂

Well, again, thats another reason links are better then attachments. Provided nothing is wrong on their end, they should be able to see the pictures regardless of whether or not they are members of yahoo groups. And its not as if joining and signing up is a hassle. Its quite easy. While its true we should make the experience as easy for our viewers and potential members, in turn, they should also be willing to do a little to recieve access to the artwork itself. Besides that, its free, so nobody should complain really.

If they aren't yahoo group members, signing up is easy, and they will only have to do it once. Not a hardship at all.

As far as your site is concerned, whats important now is visual representation, I think. The site is fine as it is, however the background, color scheme, and things like that should be also be considered. Visual presentation is more important then some people think. If a site looks unattractive or gaudy, then no one will care to view it. (I'm not saying yours is like that, but you might want to change the colors a bit or add a background image.)


- Damien

 

[rajee]

Have you checked it out recently? It's new and improved. Check out my home page as well. www.hostultra.com/~rajee/Home.html

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

Yeah, I saw it before. It is alot nicer. You know, one thing you might try and do to make the site look organized is to put the pictures in thumbnail form, and have them grouped by theme. Just a suggestion. 🙂


- Damien