Critic my Art (warning, this a lot of {freaky?} pictures)

[Paper Carnival]

Finally, I got a scanner!

Here is some of my art. I drew a lot of other things but I can't find them. These are my favourite ones though. They all look better (and the colors more vivid, especially the blood and the fires) on the actual paper. They're freaky, yeah, but they show what I feel when I'm lonely or depressed. Oh, and I'm not a satanist, but a lot of people claim so when they see my drawings.


This is one of my rare kinda cheery drawings. It's a donkey-ish animal I made for fun, I called her Marina because her eyes remind me of a girl called Marina.


I called this as "The House of Mutated Pumpkins". It doesn't mean anything, it's just a random thing I drew.



In this page you can see the frog-human-demon Vortagos who's eating my arm. You can also see that strange winged creature who is supposed to represent my guilts. The other drawings don't mean anything except the burning dude who is supposed to be for that poem I wrote on the left. Viva la cheesiness!


This is Peter, a walking plant with eyes! Isn't he adorable?


This is called "My precious misery". It's the latest one I've drawn so far (I drew it yesterday), but it didn't come out good at all. I should have made him kneel or something. It's supposed to be a symbolical drawing of someoneÃ,  who holds tight whatever he thinks its precious to him, but in reality what he holds is what makes him bleed. Bleh.


These were drawn in the beginning of this school year. They don't mean anything, they're just drawings. The one on the top right is supposed to be a joke. I asked some guy called Andrew what to draw next and he told me "I don't know, my brain is dead at the moment". So I drew his brain being recharged.


This contains a drawing of a girl in my school that I find way too cute (even though it doesn't really look like her all; and yeah, I do know that her eyes look like testicles. That was not intented, but I did want them to look weird). It also contains another symbolic drawing (the guy who's kneeling; people take it as satanic, even though it's supposed to be the opposite).

(zoomed versions of the girl and kneeling man are here and here)

So, what do you think of it? I'm not asking much for a theme critic, but for a technique critic. I use a lot of different pens, a yellow highlighter and some pencil too. I make mistakes that most times can't be fixed because once the pen gets there it can't get out. Maybe in the future I'll try to optimize my drawings with photoshop, or I'll get a tablet to draw instead.

I know the shading is wrong, but I wasn't trying to make it correct.

So is there anything I could do for my future drawings? I can't edit the ones I have obviously, because they're on paper. But what do do that's wrong and needs to change?

Finally, I thought that maybe a game with graphics following this style could be a good idea. Maybe the blue stripes will be visible in all backgounds too to give a sketchy look. Obviously, AGS won't be able to handle this idea right because this would abuse the alpha-channelling. But this is only an idea, I don't plan making any game anytime soon.

[Nikolas]

Ok. Έτοιμος για κριτική;

Well, I can see that you drew most of these while at school probably...

Their not bad and it is very good that you have so much creativity in you. I mean music, games, now this. All these are great.

When you grow up a little bit more you'll see for yourself what these pictures are and what they represent to you.

The shadings are not exactly bad. They are not correct but this is your style. And I like the tectures you use. But again it does seem that you are killing off time in the school, since everything is from manuscript papers. And it is freaky, I can tell you that. For a game I think it will be difficult to handle this kind of sprites... but then again why not?

[Paper Carnival]

Thanks for your input ^.^

Yeah, I drew these in school. Obviously I'm usually too lazy to do anything other than draw, compose or write.

I guess they do represent me if you except the blood - I want to puke when I see actual blood and stuff, but not at all if I know it's fake.

As for a game with this type of graphics, I thought a 3d engine that renders graphics emulating this style (something like cel-shading) would do that. Unfortunately I'm not nearly skilled enough.

[Nacho]

They have potential, they show you are good. But they are scrawls, I don't think we can/should critic them... 

[skyfire2]

those drawings are awesome! still, i don't know how you would implement characters like that into a video game.

[Haddas]

He doesn't have to. ANY art can be posted at the critics lounge. game related and not game related.

[skw]

Wow, you're inspired by Satan!

Just kidding, I especially like those on the last sheet.
Critics? You draw the hands in a weird way as for me.

Maybe I've just missed the style, but hope it helps:
http://drawsketch.about.com/library/weekly/aa112402a.htm
http://www.anticz.com/handtut.htm

[Paper Carnival]

Thanks everyone for your comments

Those tutorials show how much I have to learn. To me the hardest part is the legs, I rarely do them right.

Those tutorials are definately going to come in handy. My drawings look like bloody cartoons and I want them to be a bit more realistic.