Toxicpanda's Death Note

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Panda i thought i'd give you a critique, maybe its been a while since you had a good one, im not entirely sure who's in your life and the kind of feedback you get. You're quite good at conceptualization, and seeing your idea come to fruition ;). Youre also pretty good at marketing yourself and networking, which i'll always be jealous of!

I feel you often take the easy way out (comfort zone) on things (which there's nothing inherently wrong with,) like photo compositing, drawing in a very simplified anime style, not working much from scratch on things. I think ultimately you can keep doing this and certainly improve over the years, but if you really really wanna get that stuff better, you gotta buckle down and learn the hard stuff.

Watts has been hugely beneficial for me, it doesnt have to be something like that specifically. I think really digging into anatomy, bare bones you know, learning the muscle then recreating it from memory, testing yourself with a photo drawing and indicating it well in an attractive way, not just a highlight color, but actually drawing it skillfully.

You have some good environment foundations, push those further, read creative illustration by loomis, you did one cool concept with the nude girl in the middle of the broken rocks with a radiating lines style compositon; minimal grayscale thumbnails are effective ways to train, as well as seeing how minimally you can break down a texture (if you can use pen or pencil that's better.)

Also gesture, proper face drawing via skulls, construction, being slow methodical and deliberate with them be it digital or traditional, take your time dont rush, learn every shape and curve. New masters academy is pretty sweet too, and proko obviously has some great stuff ;)