It is easy to stare yourself blind on a single drawing or even a few drawings as you try to develop your style. I think this is already looking very good. The arm, the clothing and its folds, the non-generic face. My biggest advice would genuinely be to just draw those panels. Even drawing a simple 6 to 9 panel sheet with consecutive scenes showing characters interacting with each other and their surroundings will teach you more about what you need to learn and improve than anything else. On the flip side I think you'll be surprised at how good a lot of drawings together look when you're not staring yourself blind on a single arm, expression, pose. As for actual feedback: The fur looks overdone and busy. There's a great video on the artwod channel that shows how you want the detail of fur on the edges and not the middle. That's actually how a lot of detail works. Do you know 3D modelling software? If you take a cylinder with say 16 subdivisions and look at it head on. Most of the lines will crowd on the sides. This is also true for clothing and other things. If it faces directly to the camera it will appear as having less detail and volume than at its glancing angles. You already do this in the sleeve and body of the jacket. Just not the fur. Red circle: This section is very busy, what do you want the reader to look at? Generally that's the expression, but there's a bit of an overload here of details. But really, I am nitpicking here. This genuinely looks good. Keep going at it. Draw that manga. It'd be worth reading

Hopefully that helps a bit.

I like the pose, it catches the body language. Maybe the mouth could be more open to show surprise or tightly closed to show more anger or consternation. I matched up the sleeves. I feel the right sleeve wouldn't fold up as much if it was heavy cloth or a coat. Also I made the flow of the coat more bell like to balance the form and get the outline away from the fur lining.

I think this looks generally pretty good. Take into consideration that Manga is not my style... but I'd consider trying maybe to strive for less is more and maybe leave the cross-hatching only for certain places. Then they pop out more. Also, indicating form with shadows, ie. how they show elements (eg. clothing) wrapping around the body, is super essential. My suggestions here are subtle changes, but the more you cultivate these in your drawings, the stronger they'll get. Good job!

This is my first critique on Artwod, and I'm not an expert by any means so take or leave what ever I say. First of all, it's pretty good! The character has feeling, which I think is the most important thing. I don't have much stylistic feedback, but the part of the drawing that is giving me questions is the back arm. I'm having a hard time putting it into space comfortably. And the drapery is a little awkward on it. Maybe more cylindrical forms to define where the arm is in space better, and how it fits into the body? That said, I'd still accept it as a panel in a comic book. I think the stylistic elements will come naturally after just making a ton of these and seeing what techniques work when you work quickly on a whole batch. You could try doing cel shading in a gray tone, maybe

@gabriele49158877

Paintover

I love the Illustration. Just a Tipp that I am stuggling also with. It seems like your left arm in genereal looks a bit odd. I think your left upper arm is a bit too long and in generel your left arm is in a too high position. If this is intentionel than fine but too me it seems a bit off. Try to set your upper arm a little bit more down and try to draw your upper arm as equally long as your forearm. I also thing that your lines that you used on your left arm are a bit wobbly. Try to make them straight. I Dont thing that any elbow of a human looks that wobbly. I think it is common in comics too make a nice Pose pop out with for example lines that directly go to the pose. I think your pose looks nice and you should make it pop out. But you dont have to make it like I did. Try to make your pose stand out and don´t let the background just white.

This looks pretty good. I'm not an expert or anything, but a couple places looked possibly slightly suspect to me. The raised arm looks like it might be too rounded in terms of the forearm and upper arm. It gives off a bit of a rubbery vibe I think, because it feels like it may be a little more bent along the bones than should be possible. The nose/nostril angle is also a little hard to read. Either he has a very wide nose or his nose is a bit crooked relative to the orientation of his face. By the time the tip of the nose clears the face, I think the far eye should be almost fully covered. I might try bringing the tip right just a touch and see if it looks different. The open hand also feels slightly off with the finger placement. The gap between 3 and 4 is very wide, and the angle between the pinky and the palm feels like it's too crooked or else the palm is too rounded. The thumb may also be a bit at an odd angle. I think it makes the heel of the palm disappear a bit while looking overly connected to the first finger. The sleeves make the fabric of the shirt look very thin because there's no edge, but the folds are very thick fabric folds, which suggests it has more thickness. Something about the two long vertical folds in the shirt don't sell that those are wrinkles in the fabric. I think it might need to be clearer where their tension points are and where they discharge their overlap at the edge of the fabric. the hem of the shirt is perfectly round, but it should probably twist and overlap a bit if there are big folds in it, I think. It's definitely overall pretty solid. Hope this was useful. Good luck.

@esteban84127385

Paintover

Good pose and expression, be more aware of the proportions of the arms (the right one looks smaller) and the ear (shrunken or stuck down)

I feel like this is kinda comic-esque enough. For clothes, I think emphasise more folds on the part of the coat for the torso. Maybe check out Night Light Hounds or Vinland Saga and copy to learn their techniques. Your style somewhat reminds me of those mangas. I'm not much of an expert at this but I think you would benefit there. Maybe work on the palm of the hand a liiiiiittle. Overall though, this looks professional enough to be in a comic panel already. Keep it up!

I've retyped my awful handwriting here so you might understand it! For me, there's only 2 minor things that you will want to look at to get your work where I think you want it. So far, things like the texture of the trim of his tunic and the folds in the same garment show your not just starting out here. I liked how definite they are, which probably reflect your confidence in these areas. Also, I totally get what you're saying about the old Marvel style of drawing which leaves you with big panels of dark black just for shadows. I noticed, however, you've lifted the tone of the trousers to 90-95% black to allow you to see the creasing. You could totally do the same with your shadows and it would read just as well. The hatching you've done at the shadow transitions on the inner sleeve are great and if you decide to stay with the 100#5 black, this style of hatching will carry you easily! As for the adjustments; 1-the right hand looks like it's missing a thumb. I don't think you've forgotten to draw it (or maybe you have!!) but, for me, the easiest solution would be to draw the hand round a bit more, to show the thumb and maybe one or two of the fingers. I suspect if I looked at a hand in that position on a photo reference, it would still look like a missing thumb, so it's more 'shift your pose a little' and less 'relearn anatomy'!!! 2-Your cuffs don't match. The great news is you can copy the size of the one you want and just move it over, I've done this in blue for you so you can see it, but I expect you'll make a nicer job of it! And that's it! I like your drawing style, and would be happy sitting down to read a manga or comic of more of that style, so you're already going in the right direction. Good luck! NOTE: I don't like using red for corrections. It feels punitive and unnecessary - thus I've done one in blue.

Hi! That’s a nice character so far. You wrote that you want to prevent harsh shadows. The shadows inside the sleeve are very harsh, but the there are no shadows of arms and chin. The character feels flat without them. Also there are some details which could use some corrections (red circles and arrows). I tried to show in the picture what i meant with my comments. Also I am a fan of backgrounds, they make the characters stand out more.

@e44297070

Paintover

In terms of style purely maybe more soft hatching on the left side of the body to draw attention to the pose. Or even use the background behind the character for this. But yeah think in terms of leading lines and drawing attention here. Keep them soft and yeah don't need to go over top. You can also experiment with textures like those in spiderverse spotted ones for your background or even character. While it is a more western style i do see manga use similar too. Of course this is your style so you can develop it how you like, just a matter of trying it. Do think a little tone or anything to highlight it would be great but subtle. I attached something but its really quick.. only for idea.. or speed lines could work.

@m67533302

Paintover

I love the expression on the pose! A couple of things seems off, however. Aside from the other corrections, I can't tell how you're handling the model's left hand. Keep in mind how you're placing tangents when doing lineart. The right hand placed on his forehead seems a little small so I think it could be a little larger in proportion with the whole body. I hope my corrections make sense and help you out! Excellent job overall!

I'm just starting out, so take anything I say with a grain of salt. Overall, this is a really impressive drawing. The only thing that jumps out is the position of the figure's right arm (marked in red). It looks like the elbow's turning towards his body. I don't think that's "wrong," but it feels a little unnatural and I think it should be angled in the other direction. I also think there should be more shading of the fluffy bits of the jacket on the non fluffy bits to indicate that they're sticking out (I outlined this area in blue), but that feels kind of nit-picky. Basically, what I think I'm saying is the quality of your artwork exceeds my ability to determine what might not be working about it.

I think you can clear the arm shilouette to get a better lecture of the pose. Also yo can separate the left arm to get better shilouette too and unify the two middle fingers.

Try to make the pose a bit less stiff, I raised the shoulder with the arm up and made the pose affect the entire robe, be careful of the angle of the face and the perspective of things, dont draw hairs like that, its messy and you can describe the same hairstyle with shape and shading, its cleaner and faster to draw, dont put texture details where we dont need them (fur).