Art Critique Please!

[brown4life26]

HI! I would just like to know thoughts on my art and comic! ItsThe Devil's Neighbor
I know i need to put in more work on backgrounds but I want to know what you think of my art.

[NanettesClouds]

The main thing I think you could focus on is your figure drawing, not like muscle strucutres and fancy-latin-words anatomy (that does help, though), but being able to draw characters in comfortable poses with strong lines of action. Best way to practice this is to go to a live figure drawing session, but those are expensive so instead you could ask a friend to model for you, or sketch people around town, or sketch people in a movie if none of those things work you could also use Pixelovely.com

Figure drawings should be quick and gestural, and the most important thing is capturing the rhythm of the model, feel free to completely ignore the details.

That said, it looks like you draw your figures in a variety of different poses and camera angles and that's really good. Keep doing that.

[brown4life26]

Thank you, I'll try these out immediately!

[DMBrigman]

I would say, don't be afraid to look at reference. You can either Google specific poses, follow some stock photo accounts on DeviantArt, or take photos yourself. Looking at reference and trying to replicate it will greatly improve your knowledge of anatomy and posing and will level your art skills up faster.

[perfectboy]

While figure drawing helps literally everyone, even seasoned pros, i would say some good exercises that you could do to improve your characters would really be practicing some gesture drawings (these are really loose and quick drawings where you really focus more on structure and the overall flow of the figure, rather then the details) When I took figure drawing classes in art school we would always warm up with these, and they really helped me figure out tons of problems with my work fairly quickly.

[Jinral]

You can also try out design doll for poses as well. It's got a free version that you can use just as easily. All it wont let you do is open a saved pose for you to go back and reference.

[Valalaraptor]

Which art program do you use?

[brown4life26]

I use an online free version sketch pad caleed sketch.io/sketchpad

[Valalaraptor]

Do you use a tablet with stylus or do you use a mouse?

[brown4life26]

I use a mouse for now. I havent figured out how to get my wacom to work yet

[Valalaraptor]

Okie! If you're up to giving it a try, you could always download a mouse stabilizer. I noticed you were having a little trouble getting smooth lines (though, they're still really impressive for just using a mouse), and a stabilizing application might help a bit.
Also, I noticed that your demon/devil character has digitigrade legs. First off, congrats on not making him look like he's awkwardly crouched, since that's the most common problem I see/have had with digitigrade legs. Second, there's a lot of good references out there, since I know how difficult they can be. I'm personally a big fan of this one by Zyraxus on dA, and this one by arleedraw on tumblr.
Good luck! Hope I was at least some help!

[brown4life26]

Thank you very much! This helps alot!

[eicue]

If you're having trouble drawing with the mouse, I suggest you to try Medibang Pro. It's a free software that has a tool called "Shape brush" that allows you to draw smooth lines. (The standar brush also has 19 levels of stabilizer).

[pliviswmilt]

More mileage and practice is always useful~ I agree with a lot of the posts already here. Some advice I received a while ago is to bring a sketchbook with you all the time and sketch whenever you get the chance! Good places to practice drawing people are malls and parks since there's usually people milling around. I recommend sketching on a bus too, which can be frustrating at first because the bus is moving and you get shaky lines if you go too slow but that'll encourage you to make faster, more confident lines. People are also sitting down long enough to give you time to draw them.