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The Critique Forum

As one might expect, this is where you hope to get feedback on your art. Hopefully it is pretty straightforward! Someone will start a topic with a piece, easily uploadable, and others will be able to critique and offer constructive advice. If necessary, nay, it is heavily encouraged that you show the concepts visually more than verbally.

Bring down the image to your computer, take it into Photoshop or your favorite digital art app of choice, and then reduce the opacity and go at it! When done, you can reply and upload your own image. Easy, non?

I will be more than happy to answer anyones' questions. But, most of all, keep an open mind and an eye toward improvement. That is a big part of what we are about!

Hi Seurat. I appreciate the friendly atmosphere you've set up for artspots, and I feel you've done a marvelous job on the entire site.

However I feel we are in a serious and growing need for clear rules and guidelines for this part of the forum. This is so both critiqued and critic know what they can or cannot do to avoid potential confrontations and misunderstandings.

Thank you for listening to my suggestions.

blue_moon22 said:However I feel we are in a serious and growing need for clear rules and guidelines for this part of the forum. This is so both critiqued and critic know what they can or cannot do to avoid potential confrontations and misunderstandings.

I am curious about what rules should be implemented. Off the top of my head, and as concise as it can be, it is just any criticism must be constructive, and there is no being derogatory about someone's work.

Are there any particular concerns or questions you have that you would like addressed?

Edited this a few times to get it right.

I posted the request before the red about redlines thread and since then I think a lot of good points were brought up. So maybe instead of a critique forum, we might have an entire forum moderated by AS reviewers?

To explain, there was a dicussion about what artspots would like to see. In this hypothetical forum, while there may not be extremely specific guidelines and criteria, there would be enough examples that people would understand the priority list and general qualifications of acceptance. Maybe for those pieces that are close or readily accepable these pieces would receive moderator comments and a note the artist is close to ready. And when a moderator has time, they would comment on other threads to give the community a better idea of what is gallery material.

This hopefully saves reviewers a bit of time on apps, yet gives applicants an extra layer of reassurance, transition and privacy between jaxpad and artspots. And most of all, it allows equality by maintaining an artspots/anonymous moderation system.

Not sure if that suggestion is helpful, so back to the general critique forum stuff.

There are a lot of hard and fast rules I found that I could post if you're interested. But I think general guidelines and examples might be more encouraging? I found a wetcanvas post that was very specific and included what critiques should focus on. http://www.wetcanvas.com/Articles2/509/168/

I don't really have anything that needs to be addressed though. I might have jumped the gun when I said AS needed rules, but that's because I'm fearful of artspots' welfare.

This is my first time here, so please bare with me...

Do the images we upload have to be complete drawings or very well done sketches? And do they have to be super clean? My picture is in its roughest stage, and I only want to know how to do the pose correctly. I'm afraid to put more effort into the image before knowing the anatomy's correct.

If it helps, this is the image: http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b335/Mythrilwolf/SketchWolf.jpg

The images you upload, especially for critique, can be of any stage in the artistic process! Be it very rough or fully completed. You bring up a great point, and that it is good to get opinions early on so you do not realize a mistake just before you finish. I am sure we all have had times like those and they are not pleasant.

Just make a new topic in the forum with that image as part of it, and let all the artists around have at it. :)

Hopefully that answers your question!

Thanks, I'll go post my images then ^^

I have a question...

One of the images I saw in this forum being critiqued raised a question in my mind about technique. Basically, now I want to ask for advice on how to do something the artist was critiqued about. [Someone said her grass looked like carpet and she should add more dimension, which I've always had trouble doing and would like advice on how-to!]

Anyway, my question is...can I post a thread asking for help when I don't even have a picture for redline?! I'm not sure that would fit with this forum's theme, but I don't want to create a whole picture just to ask for help with grass, haha. Maybe I should just ask in the artist's original post? But then it would be off topic, asking for help in someone's "help me with this picture" post.

Where would be the best place to ask my question?

xainy said: I have a question...

One of the images I saw in this forum being critiqued raised a question in my mind about technique. Basically, now I want to ask for advice on how to do something the artist was critiqued about. [Someone said her grass looked like carpet and she should add more dimension, which I've always had trouble doing and would like advice on how-to!]

What about "Ask an Artist?" I think they do tutorials there.

I thought that might be a good place, but I wasn't sure...there's nothing there, really, at the moment that fits with what I wanted to do, so I wanted to make sure before I made an idiot of myself. 8D
Thanks!