I'm lazy and biased and also a little bored, so I think I'll get you guys to tell me a few things about my scribbles.

1. Which one you liked best and why.
2. Which one you think should be burned and why.
3. How you think I could make them look a little less like the paper and pen/paint were put in a blender together at high speed.

My gallery is at shadowed-silence.deviantart.com. And yes, it is DA, I'm sorry Rad.

Originally Posted by Coppertop

I'm lazy

Welcome to my world...

Originally Posted by Coppertop

2. Which one you think should be burned and why.

Why do you artists always try to say your own art sucks?! MY ART REALLY SUCKS! But at least I am proud of the comics I made for the JCF! So that people can enjoy them! So that people can say how awfully bad they are drawn! DO I LOOK LIKE I CARE?! NO! I look like I could use some good critic, I look like I could use some tips on improvement! But you, Coppertop, mustn't be harsh on yourself! And that goes for every one of you talents out here! This forums is full of great artists, and I won't speak again untill someone agrees!

*hugs Coppertop*

And that's final!

Err, haha, I meant that as sarcasm. There's always someone who doesn't like it, and I want to know why.

Everything that I put online I like. I don't keep drawings that I hate. Eventually I might decide that they're not good, but that's after some serious self-improvement.

I think your featured deviation looks best and your latest deviation as prepared to burn me.

The autumn serpent looks more benevolent than that, er, red monster you drew. I am not sure whether it is evil or not ('does it bite?') because the tree looks barely alive, the land dead, but the sky is leafy, lush green, making it look more like spring. I also notice the vines on the wooden frame. IMO the two comments don't actually help anyone. ;P I guess the serpent does do harm, but is innocent in that it doesn't mean to(?) and is only passing by. Er, yeah.

My next favourite is Transient Reality because I've always liked the surrealism theme in general, but intergalactic mushrooms are really overused, and it reminds me too much of Mike's 'SPACE ISLANDS WITH ISLANDS' CTF level.

The Lurker isn't bad either, and the lack of colours is positive, IMO, but I guess only if you wanted it to look all melancholy, dark and bordering on sinister.

And, yeah, I like Scarlet Hunter least, even though I admit it's well-drawn. It' just that it looks more like it's having a bad hair day and I can't see anything that goes 'beyond' the drawing. The other 3 drawings I wrote about have significant more depth than this one, and you can interpret them many ways.

Even though it was sarcasm, the -smiley did the trick in making me believe it. And, most others that I know don't mean it as sarcasm. Ok, here goes.

1. The Autumn Serpent is certainly my favourite. What do I need to say? It's just pretty! It's nice to look at. It has grace, style, good coloring and shading! Need I say more?
2. None should be burned! Explained in the other post.
3. You don't have a blender... My dog ate it!

the smiley was for Rad, he dislikes DA with a passion.

Okay, let me rephrase #2. Which one do you like the least?

That'd be Calever. I just don't like the way it looks at me... The face is also kinda... undetailed... (Said the person who draws faces as a -_- ).

1.) The second on me likey, but then I'm weird.

2.)Burn them all! Its what post modernist artists do, along with wierd stuff like consume live goldfish

3.) Set your belnder at a lower speed of course.

I'll do it if you give me comments on some of my newest pictures....
...yes, I'm kind of desperate.
And Rad, no. >O

DeviantArt won't let me register an account, so I'll comment over here.

CT:

The Autumn Serpent is quite a nice picture, however, it doesn't look like autumn in my opinion. More like early winter here in Germany. There should be more leafs at the ground under the tree, and not all leafs should have fallen down yet. Maybe a different background colour would work well too. This is just my opinion though. And I like the dragon. ^^

Scarlet Hunter is a nice dragon. Looks pretty scary. You like to draw dragons, right? d= I don't know much else to comment on, other than it's.. pretty fine.

And yes, I completely ignored the questions because I don't know any good answers. =l

Faw:

I always liked your art, you know. ^^

Happiness on paper is still my favourite of all drawings that I have seen from you. Pretty sexy by the way. xP

The comic is pretty nice too. I'm not used to not being drawn as a paper that smiles, but it's a nice touch to look different. I especially like the 'Quiet citizen! We are busy looking awesome.' line. ^.^



Well, yes, I suck at commenting art. But I tried and did my best, so be quiet and don't bug me, because I'm busy looking awesome.

Originally Posted by CrimiClown

Why do you artists always try to say your own art sucks?! MY ART REALLY SUCKS!

Haha, wow. Maybe you unknowingly understand it already.

Brave and intelligent thing you are doing, asking for Criticism, Copper. So, I will answer the call!

1. Which one you liked best and why.
I looked through them all, and I'd have to say Flight. The dark outlines and sharp colors give it a very nice high-contrast look. It's a simple design, yet has very good composition (working well with the Rule of Thirds). The dragon itself is well designed; the long, flowing lines work well with the general simplicity and the sense of loneliness given by there only being one figure in the painting. Definitely not the most complicated or amazingly drawn one, but it has a real professional quality.
The harvest hunt one was okay. The pretty autumn-y colors are nice and composition is decent, but the coloring on the characters takes away from it. The color of the yellow dragon, for instance, seems too close to the sky - you can separate it easily, but it doesn't "jump out". Some of the horses (namely the orange, yellow, and reddish-brown ones) look like they lost too much detail in painting. The white one in the background looks the best to me, perhaps because it has the most contrast in its shading, preserving detail and 3D-ness.

2. Which one you think should be burned and why.
Burning things is bad D=
Of course, being a critic, I'm not even going to be nice with this. I really don't like The Dreamkeeper. Okay, so there's this dragon sitting in some ruins. The painting seems kind of sloppy, but it would really take more than better painting to improve this, IMO. You're just kind of looking down at him, standing in the ruins, with a particularly dragony expression. He's not keeping any dreams; he's not looking particularly threatening; he's probably just feeling the column to see if it's alive. It would be much more powerful if the dragon were actually doing something and it had a better camera angle. And more shading.

3. How you think I could make them look a little less like the paper and pen/paint were put in a blender together at high speed.
Ink! Or it's digital equivalent! A sharp, professional inking job on pieces like The Mourner would really make them amazing to look at.
On paintings, you really want to aim for contrast. The bold transitions between lights and darks in paintings such as Transient Reality look much better than the pale, low-contrast coloring in pieces like the Harvest Hunt one.

And Faw, don't worry =P. I gave up with critiquing you and deemed you hopeless.

I have to admit, many of my old paintings I'm not too fond of. At the time I was ecstatic, but now they just look sloppy and grainy to me .. Transient Reality is the first of my newer paintings, of which I have only posted four - Transient Reality, World's Edge, Autumn Serpent and Kalieken (which is really not a finished work). I have a few others that I really like that I haven't put on DA yet.

I also agree about the contrast, Rad. It is difficult to put enough contrast into a painting to avoid a muddy, blah look, and avoid the cell-shaded look at the same time. And the Mourner is just lineart, if you want to ink/shade it go ahead

I'd redo my old drawings if I had time. But as I said, I'm lazy. So no.

BTW, if I scanned some of my lineart in (it looks good before I paint it, don't worry) would you be interested in coloring it Rad? Because I know you can.

And burning things is fun, what are you talking about

Originally Posted by Coppertop

BTW, if I scanned some of my lineart in (it looks good before I paint it, don't worry) would you be interested in coloring it Rad? Because I know you can.

Me? All I do these days are 20-second cel-shading jobs and scribbly openCanvas shading D=. It would be like a sacrilege to your awesomeness.