Critique My Artworks

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Do you have drawings you want a professional opinion on?

As a Drawing Academy student, you can submit your artworks for critique. The Academy tutors will give you comprehensive feedback on your work of art and advise on how to improve your skills

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Portrait drawing by Scarleette

Portrait drawing by Scarleette

Drawing Critique

Hello, I am a 16 year old aspiring artist, and in need of your help. Here’s my drawing of a marble bust. I had trouble drawing and shading the statue’s hair. I would like to know what you think of it and what should I improve on. Your help is very much appreciated, thank you…

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The importance of fundamental drawing skills

The importance of fundamental drawing skills

Artworks and questions from Gustavo, Drawing Academy student

Hi Vladimir and Natalie,

Please see below some of my artworks. How can I improve my portrait drawing skills? I know I have to practice, but what and how?

Your thoughts are highly appreciated!

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Relearning how to draw – Drawings critique

Relearning how to draw – Drawings critique

Critique by Vladimir London, Drawing Academy tutor

Hi Roman,

Many thanks for your email and drawings. You told me that you have been drawing from photos for some time and now want to re-learn how to draw from life and imagination, but have some concerns about your progress.

Don’t be hard on yourself, many art students would be glad to have your drawing skills.

There are, however, few things you can start working on right now. Let’s start from the beginning: …

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Drawings by Ann Fitzpatrick

Drawings by Ann Fitzpatrick

We are never too old to learn

Thank you for your course. I am enjoying it immensely and learning a lot at the same time.

At 70 I have a way to go but as they say we are never to old to learn…

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Portrait Drawing Critique

Portrait Drawing Critique

Artwork from David, Drawing Academy student

Dear Vladimir and Natalie,

First of all, I would like to thank Drawing Academy for teaching me how to improve my artworks. Your lessons have taught me so much. Now what I need to do is work harder to reach my goals.

This is a drawing of my friend that I did when we were at a coffee shop. My goal was to capture the light in her face and her eyes, but I see a bunch of mistakes. Hair is my biggest problem. The amount of detail can be overwhelming to me; I guess cause I’m still an amateur. How can I render shade to the hair and face with over-rendering? And how to keep pencil lines smooth yet defined? …

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Artwork critique

Artwork critique

Artwork and story by Jean Botha, Drawing Academy student

Self-Critique:

My creative aim was to try and get photo realism. Outcome: failed.

I love this picture more and more as time goes by. Despite the failure to achieve the goal and all its perspective distortions, I honestly love the outcome. Cartoony looking but striking with color saturation and exposure.

What can be improved:

The most obvious perspective error that an untrained eye will notice is the distortion of the blue bowl behind her. Just drawing what I thought I saw and not knowing to draw what I didn’t know to draw at the time resulted in this distortion.

The vanishing point for the perspective of the bowl is located on a much higher horizon line than the actual point of view from which this picture was taken from, resulting in more of the back plane of the ellipse being visible at the top plane of the bowl, making it look odd because you get the sense that you are seeing the dog from the front yet the further object is seen from above…

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