Snoopyloop artblog

I am probably going to use this to track down my art progress and hopefully motivate me to try out drawing different stuff ( my visual library kind of sucks) and open up myself more. It will be nice if you guys can give me some feedback (I'll appreciate it!) and join in on my art journey hahaha. It will be a tough one cries*

One of my random paintings I just did, I still have a lot to work on I think especially the blending.

Hey thanks for the welcome :D, yeah I tried using the soft brush but the face ends up looking too soft so I stopped. For the smudge tool I'll go try it out thank you

Here are some body sketches I did today, I still can't seem to draw the legs and poses naturally enough

Some oc stuff I did in school, I'm going to improve more on it a little later.

Improved oc design, He looks vastly different haha because I finally know what kind of character it's supposed to be I guess. He's meant to be a necromancer but he doesn't look like one at all lol, I think I have to keep on tweaking the designs a bit more till he looks more like one and the colouring part I'm still struggling with it a lot. I'll work more on it later on.

Some more anatomy studies

30s Gesture drawings I did. I think I have to focus more on the overall form and 'energy', I sometimes focus too much on the individual body parts and I end up not being able to finish them I guess.

Here are some random colouring practices I did...

I'm still pretty weak in my grayscale, I can't tell which colours are darker than the other TuT

Another 30s gesture practice :

Been pretty busy with school work lately I can't seem to find time to work on my digital work . Well, here's some blending I did.... Can't seem to properly blend yet

A head blending practice I did recently. I seem to have quite a hard time blending all the different tones together, I can't seem to make it have a smooth transition yet so I got to keep trying.

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Did some head plane, light- shadow, value studies. I'm going to go practice more and hopefully be able to do more of my own work soon.

I'm not a very tidy person am I.

This is some fan art I did for a manga I read. Tried messing around with the values and composition, and different brushwork.
Some critique on it will be helpful, I can't seem to get the background looking right

Hello!
Thanks for the for the feedback! I will try to stick with the same type of exercises more, it's because I've been doing gesture drawings quite a lot for the past 2 years ( I didn't post it up here-it's all in my sketchbook) and now make my drawings do have that nice flow (only when I do free-hand though) but it lacks 3-dimensionality and the anatomy for my human stuff kinda sucks. So I've been more focused on learning proportions and such but now my drawings are looking a bit too stiff If I try drawing with guidelines... So I've got a lot of difficulty with balancing the two

For the blending, I did try tweaking with the opacity and with the soft brush, and I can say that the blending does look better! I'mm keep trying on making it look less flat, maybe there should be more contrast in the values?

And Thank you again! ( the first one is the original)