The Praise Community Thread

[Luminosophy]

I just had this idea after spending the last week struggling with low confidence my work. This is a sort of counterbalance to the 'Critique Community Thread'. We post online and maybe some of us do manage to reach a decent sized audience, or even some reach beyond and they can live off their work. However our audiences are comprised of people from all walks of life, we're lucky to find artists in it who either have the ability or time to give in-depth feedback. I don't just mean what we did wrong, but what we did right. Only receiving "what you do wrong" critique, no matter how positive and well intended it is, over time it can lead us into the dumps or even changing the things we do correctly.

More than just "Whoa, nice!", post your work here and tell others in depth what you think they're doing right and what they absolutely should continue doing. This one has straight forward rules:

• You get what you give (tit for tat model)
• Be genuine
• Don't spam (Either collect multiple posts into one comment or space multiple comments over a few days.)
• No one word/ shallow compliments

In layman's terms this means posting a lot of art and not giving much if any feedback in return will result in the community more or less ignoring you. Give the creators in-depth feedback of what you like or enjoy about their work and some encouragement, if possible. This is still a critique thread, it just focuses on the things the creator is doing correctly and why.

I specify creator because writers are welcomed to post too, (as they are in the community critique thread.)

[Demy]

Well....I guess this can't hurt.

@demyartt • Instagram photos and videos

[crocuta]

I don't really know how to critique. Just...keep going? And, don't paint in one layer?
Shading is good. Maybe make the thighs longer. Make the arms longer in general.

I think its great youre using traditional art. I really like the detail in the persona piece.

[Luminosophy]

So I can tell you right away that the best thing you have going for you is a clear desire to improve, it shows in your work. You're drawing backgrounds, environments, full compositions, experimenting with shading, different styles and tackling some really tough perspective. Some artists spend years drawing to the same 3/4 portrait wondering why it takes so long for them to improve (I was one xD), so this is going to be a huge boon in your artistic journey. On the other hand, there's artists who start out only by doing life studies. They do improve much faster, but eventually get hampered by never applying what they learn to full compositions, never putting that ol' brain reference library to use. So I'm impressed you're clearly pushing all sorts of comfort zones you might have. I don't think it'll take you long to get to where you want to be artistically as long as you keep it up. You're doing what I wish I could've told my younger self to do.

[crocuta]

heres my comic, I guess if anyone's bored enough to read it

Black Hole Badger | Tapas

[joe_galindez]

but I don't have any tats

[crocuta]

Im sorry, what? What are you saying ?

[rjollands]

Hey, nice confident drawing, the characters are clear and interesting, making those delicate sketchy lines work with minimal shading which is impressive to me. Keep it going

[NDmangaka]

Rune Symbol | Tapas

Here is my comic. I just started it. I hope you all like it.

[Demy]

Ah thanks! I actually thought that I didn't try to do different things that often, good to know that that isn't the case.

Now whether I do those well is another matter. But I can always get better.

[Demy]

Wait are you speaking in general? Or are you talking about a specific artwork? For like the first part not the second one.