Anubis523's Sketch and study book crits and comments welcome

[Anubis523]

the old stuff(from years ago)
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x30/Anubis523/Sketches/ColdBlooded_by_Naruto523.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x30/Anubis523/Sketches/Dragoonfuture_by_Naruto523.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x30/Anubis523/Sketches/Roborob_by_Naruto523.jpg

[Anubis523]

they were done in pencil and were scanned at 300dpi
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x30/Anubis523/Sketches/SamuraiBlack.jpg

[mambug]

I like it a lot. Matter of fact I think they are great. (I can NOT draw worth my life if it came down to it.) Hah!

Thats why i'm here..searching for people who can!

[munkymu]

If you want crits, post more recent stuff. What's the point of writing out a crit for a problem you may have solved years ago?

[Anubis523]

Well the thing is I want to input as far as style and such as well as structural problems my non-existent abilities haven't changed all that much. Sorry for the misleading beginning, the other stuff (2nd post) on is all recent and has been done in the past month or so.

[Anubis523]

Stuff I drew this week. Please comment I need to improve.All are scanned grayscale at 200dpi the sketches come from a 5x7 sketchbook.

[Anubis523]

Here's the rest of them since the attachment limit is 8. They were all 5x7 enjoy.

[Anubis523]

I did this one on the subway took 30 minutes need some crits.

[munkymu]

Hey there. You've actually improved quite a bit since the stuff you did at the very beginning. Your characters look pretty good when they're just standing around with their arms down... but the poses where their arms are up show that you're still grappling with anatomy problems. The only way you'll get over those is by studying real people and what they look like. If you can manage to get to a figure-drawing class, then get there. If you can't, bribe your friends to stand still for you, sketch people on the subway, or find reference photos. The same goes for wolves -- Amaterasu has some odd-looking legs there.

Other than that... keep at it! Feed your imagination with details from real life, and you'll just keep getting better.

[4ntimatter]

Totally agree, you've improved loads.
I really like your faces and your robot design.

[Anubis523]

These are some studies of arms I did on Mother's Day tomorrow I'll upload some thorough ones once i do another once over.

[Anubis523]

Some sketches/studies of the arm and some random stuff

[kilowatts62]

Anubis523,

I am impressed with the amount of work you have put into your anatomical studies.

I should follow your example.

Just a side comment...all of your characters appear to look sad. Given that, you may want to work on giving them different expressions...happy, angry, giddy,etc.

Other than that, just keep at it. It may not be much coming from a hack like me, but I see some great potential in your work.

L8R

[Anubis523]

Face sketches, expressions and eyes. Not much else I'm working on CHOW from conceptart.org I'll post the WIP's as well as the final draft later on.

[Anubis523]

First sketch for the CHOW referred to in the previous post.