Can you look at my work and say that I have not "mastered the basic skill of drawing" and am not some what "familiar with the basic use of the aplet". I did not use a ref for this pic and didn't feel like doing a pixel by pixel realism. Perhaps if you critiqued my picture you might have a valid arguement.
I'm not one to tell people where they should stick there art, but for Squirrels sake, if you just take a look at most other intermediate work and compare it to your own, you'll have your answer.
I can see you have put effort into this and you do know how to operate the applet fairly well, however, you did say, "didn't feel like doing a pixel by pixel realism", you don't have to do pixel by pixel realism, but what i understand from that sentence is that you don't want to put too much effort into your picture, which is what stepping up from beginner to intermediate really means.
Take my two cartoon character copies i recently did, i don't think they are quite intermediate quality, but i put them there for the amount of effort i put in.
Anways, that's a nice mushroom. I hope i didn't just make an ass of myself ^.^
I meant "didn't feel like doing realism" as more like i didn't want this picture to have a photo realist quality. If you look at the thumbnail it does look like could be realistic pic but of course the actual size pic shows the use of the appelet lines in a raw way. Which is perhaps the offense Squirrel took with this picture. He perhaps would want this pic to be realist or a crazy line drawing abstraction. As it stands its looks like more a water color picture and my appreciation for that media is why I post the pic here. Thanks Hunter ^^, your stuff is defiantly intermediate btw if not advanced some of it. As for effort my teacher once said "I don't grade on effort if the final product is crap" lol.
F.S. if you have a idea you shouldn't let the medium (command of English) you need to express it in scare you. Though it seems negative critiques are frowned upon on this site.
Not really 'frowned upon' i would say, but it is deffinitly not given very often, unless someone asks for critique.
Personally, i wouldn't mind seeing more, but then again, this is more of a 'doodle' site (below advanced level anyways), and we wouldn't want to discourage young artists with harsh critque.
Lots of artists here get pretty defensive about their work, and that can discourage people from leaving negative critiques sometimes.
This site is definitely not meant for doodling. If you mention that you were just bored and decided to draw something, it very much increases the chances of the drawing being moved down or deleted. 2draw is about inspiration, community, and helping people improve, not wasting time.
Realism and a clean look are by no means necessary for the intermediate board, but this lacks definition and depth. A picture this simple compositionally should have more developed form, lighting, and texture. Think of ways to bring more contrast to the picture and make the mushroom pop out more. Also, the way that one half of the grass is darker than the other is confusing. A mushroom wouldn't cast that big a shadow.
Overall, good effort, but not quite intermediate level.
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I can see you have put effort into this and you do know how to operate the applet fairly well, however, you did say, "didn't feel like doing a pixel by pixel realism", you don't have to do pixel by pixel realism, but what i understand from that sentence is that you don't want to put too much effort into your picture, which is what stepping up from beginner to intermediate really means.
Take my two cartoon character copies i recently did, i don't think they are quite intermediate quality, but i put them there for the amount of effort i put in.
Anways, that's a nice mushroom. I hope i didn't just make an ass of myself ^.^
F.S. if you have a idea you shouldn't let the medium (command of English) you need to express it in scare you. Though it seems negative critiques are frowned upon on this site.
Personally, i wouldn't mind seeing more, but then again, this is more of a 'doodle' site (below advanced level anyways), and we wouldn't want to discourage young artists with harsh critque.
This site is definitely not meant for doodling. If you mention that you were just bored and decided to draw something, it very much increases the chances of the drawing being moved down or deleted. 2draw is about inspiration, community, and helping people improve, not wasting time.
Realism and a clean look are by no means necessary for the intermediate board, but this lacks definition and depth. A picture this simple compositionally should have more developed form, lighting, and texture. Think of ways to bring more contrast to the picture and make the mushroom pop out more. Also, the way that one half of the grass is darker than the other is confusing. A mushroom wouldn't cast that big a shadow.
Overall, good effort, but not quite intermediate level.