<p>Okay, I need some harsh critique. I want to major in computer animation or illustration but first I need somebody to tell me what's wrong with my work. All my teachers and my friends and parents are always like "Oh, it's wonderful!" but I can tell with the college admissioners and people that don't know me that they don't like it. I starting to think I have a bad taste in art, which is freaking me out lol.</p>
<p>Violin.jpg</a> picture by katherinelam88 - Photobucket
Landscape.jpg</a> picture by katherinelam88 - Photobucket
50Hands.jpg</a> picture by katherinelam88 - Photobucket</p>
<p>those are the pieces that I think are pretty good, but I don't know, please critique...</p>
<p>Do you have anymore? (I’m guessing you do)
Those pieces honestly are really simple. It’s very “plain”.
The violin still life drawing only depicts what? only halfish~ of the violin?
If you were to done the whole violin and let’s say in three different perspectives that shows your understanding of perspective. Your shading on it is well done tho but, if it was darker it would have been strong. Don’t be afraid to go dark.</p>
<p>What’s with the 50 hands? It looks like you just drew hands everywhere could to display a piece of confusion. (I tried my best to use my imagination). Also the fact that it’s in graphite seems very dull. Your hands are well done but, put into good use.</p>
<p>Here is a site that you should really look at. It has professional to amateur art works done by various of talented or less-talented people but mostly talented~. Get inspired [Behance</a> Network :: Gallery](<a href=“http://www.behance.net/]Behance”>http://www.behance.net/) and practice practice pratice.</p>
<p>Thank you for your comments! I do have more, however most of it isn’t on my hard drive right now (it’s on my school computer). I have always felt that my pieces were lacking and sort of boring in a way. Thanks for including the website, I really like all the stuff on it.</p>
<p>One question though: you said my pieces are very simple. Do you have any tips on how to make them more intricate? I think my main problem is composition and the whole black and white thing.</p>
<p>Violin:
The values that you did are too dull. It looks too smoothed down and the middle values are too similar, yet the texture of the violin isn’t really there. The drawing looks like two separate drawings, so it isn’t very cohesive.</p>
<p>Landscape:
There is no focus to the drawing. The front needs to be more detailed, and the back needs to be fuzzier. The perspective of the sign is slightly off.</p>
<p>50 hands:
I don’t really understand this one. It looks kind of stuck in between observational and conceptual. The values are too average, and there is no focus. The anatomy of the hands for some of them look slightly off.</p>
<p>For your question, I’d suggest to draw real life objects, not from photographs. The composition is simply the placement of the objects and varying the sizes of the objects. You also need to have some areas to be detailed and other areas that are not focused.
Black and white does not make the composition boring. In fact, my entire portfolio was in black and white, and it was accepted at National Portfolio day by SAIC and MICA.</p>
<p>My D was afraid to go darker with her pencil and charcoal, and she finally had a prof beat it into her. Her work got much better after that.</p>
