help on rendering

i need some feedbacks on how i could render this piece better, it feels muddy and lack something

Elf sketch

Any suggestions for improving lineart, proportions, hatching

Your Paddle & your Canoe !

Final before after. Two drawings and light years between us, thank you for watching !

Your Paddle & your Canoe !

Reworked the tail based on feedback, I tried to keep the silouhette nice and readable while modifying a bit the size and the origin.

Perspective Guidline Practice

Before moving on to the next lesson on the roadmap, i thought about practising the concepts from the ‘perspective guideline’ lesson on other images. I believe i have found the correct horizon line, as you can see underneath the cornices on the building, but I'm not a 100% sure, as i am still very new to this. Finding 2 parallel lines that cross to find the horizon line doesn’t really work for this image.

Hippo Dragon by Axel

Hi everyone! With this very angry, very scary and very gluttonous dragon we shall start Smaugust 2026! Submit your works, share your process if you need to. 2 Winners as usually, 1 for the best artwork and 1 for the best feedback. FIREEEEEE! * Find rules here if you're THAT guy blog/join-smaugust-draw-an-epic-dragon-with-artwod

OC art

Forced myself to stop before I completely ruin this

Obelisk in a heather field

I have decided to do a few version of the revision, since thats what I have been doing for most of the recent time. I should have done these with more references, but I just kinda got into the flow and did them without. What I struggled the most doing the revised versions are a) details or ilusion of them b) foreground. When things are far its okay, but closeups are my bane it seems, or at the very least a skill not learned yet

Obelisk in a heather field

I wanted to capture the feeling of a more or less mythical obelisk on a small hill, surrounded by a heather field and encompased by a small forest. I have done this around march 2025, back when most of my knowledge came from drawabox