Character artist in the making! Critiques and tips appreciated

[Arthurv]

Hi, guys! In this thread I'm going to show some of my recent works. I am 20 years old and an aspiring character artist from Brazil. Any and all critiques will be taken into account and appreciated. Thank you.
Also, I have close to no experience on posting in forums, so if my post is a little bit messy, please help me with that as well.

https://www.behance.net/arthurvelasco

[Arthurv]

And this one's a little more realistic:

[thunderdumpling]

How long have you been an artist?

[ashix]

Hello Arthurv!

You have a good sense of gesture in your characters that makes them look lifelike and not stiff, as shown with the piece with Zelda. Also I like how you exaggerated the characters expressions, it is very eye catching. The tonal piece at the end is very striking, if you do more tonal piece your comprehension of shapes will improve also.

Where you are going wrong is the proportions. The legs look too short for the body in the Zelda piece as well as the character with purple hair. In my opinion, if you studied more on proportions it would make your characters look more appealing.
- Ash

[akkerin]

Your characters show a lot of emotions and have fun gesture. However, if you want to be a character designer- the way these are displayed (like an illustration) is not the way to go about it. You want character sheets with their front, back, and 3/4 view. It can be boring to display your character that way, but it also shows your understand of the entire form of a character and makes it easy for anyone else to model after it whether that's animation or 3D. Cheers.

[fathomcube]

yeh you got a point

[fathomcube]

And nice pics yo......I can agree with what these guys said!!! I'm bad with critiques so I won't mess around there

[Arthurv]

The short legs were quite on purpose. Sorry if it didn't look appealing! And thanks so much for the feedback. I will watch out for proportions in the future. Sorry for the late reply

[Arthurv]

I've been taking drawing seriously since I was 17, that makes it three years. Sorry I took so long to reply.

[Arthurv]

our characters show a lot of emotions and have fun gesture. However, if you want to be a character designer- the way these are displayed (like an illustration) is not the way to go about it. You want character sheets with their front, back, and 3/4 view. It can be boring to display your character that way, but it also shows your understand of the entire form of a character and makes it easy for anyone else to model after it whether that's animation or 3D. Cheers.

I wouldn't say I want to become a character designer, I would want to become more of a character illustrator, I have some model sheets as well, but I thought that I could better show my skill to you guys in the forum If I showed you the illustrations. Thank you for your feedback. Sorry I took so long to reply!

[Arthurv]

Fighter girl who's possessed by a Samurai spirit

[Arthurv]

Another more realistic painting. I would really appreciate any feedback on the painting techniques