06-26-2020, 11:55 AM
Your art looks like something that would be posted on Elfwood around 2004. I mean that in a positive way. It's very charming. The details and line-work are pleasing to look at.
You mentioned that you're mainly inspired by Korean fantasy illustrators and would like to get to their level. Obviously, no one can tell you for sure how to do what they do (unless someone here speaks Korean and knows of some illuminating interviews, LOL), but it's probably safe to say that it's a mix of studying reality, art fundamentals, and some copy-catting of other artists. So you might be doing as well as you can already, and just need to keep up the grind.
There's a strange idea regarding stylized art which I've seen repeated a lot, and which may have been inflicted upon you, which is that you need to get REALLY good at realism before you can do stylized art well. I personally find this doubtful. Artists like Juno Jeong and Dospi obviously had to study real humans in order to draw appealing stylized ones, but can they draw Loomis photo-study figures and faces from imagination, something which even most realist artists cannot do? Extremely doubtful.
Since you're looking for critiques, I'll mention the main thing that sticks at me. In the 3/4 (or more like 2/4 in one of them) views of faces, I think you put the eyes too far back in the head relative to the nose and mouth. If that's your stylistic choice, then feel free to stick with it, but it bugs me because it makes me think that the character looks like this in profile (see far right of image: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_EFfjRgxynU/maxresdefault.jpg)
In the second image, it looks like you went with a more naturalistic feature placement, and I think it looks better.
You mentioned that you're mainly inspired by Korean fantasy illustrators and would like to get to their level. Obviously, no one can tell you for sure how to do what they do (unless someone here speaks Korean and knows of some illuminating interviews, LOL), but it's probably safe to say that it's a mix of studying reality, art fundamentals, and some copy-catting of other artists. So you might be doing as well as you can already, and just need to keep up the grind.
There's a strange idea regarding stylized art which I've seen repeated a lot, and which may have been inflicted upon you, which is that you need to get REALLY good at realism before you can do stylized art well. I personally find this doubtful. Artists like Juno Jeong and Dospi obviously had to study real humans in order to draw appealing stylized ones, but can they draw Loomis photo-study figures and faces from imagination, something which even most realist artists cannot do? Extremely doubtful.
Since you're looking for critiques, I'll mention the main thing that sticks at me. In the 3/4 (or more like 2/4 in one of them) views of faces, I think you put the eyes too far back in the head relative to the nose and mouth. If that's your stylistic choice, then feel free to stick with it, but it bugs me because it makes me think that the character looks like this in profile (see far right of image: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_EFfjRgxynU/maxresdefault.jpg)
In the second image, it looks like you went with a more naturalistic feature placement, and I think it looks better.