Wow, your art is absolutely amazing!

It's sort of difficult to critique a collection with such a range of styles, is there anything in particular you are looking to improve at?

Developing a style is one of the most challenging things to harness as an artist, and it can only be done in one way: with consistent practice. Since you've already proven you can draw in multiple styles, I think now it would be beneficial to focus on learning to draw with one of them consistently. Try drawing different subjects but use the same style, you will likely discover that certain styles are better suited to certain subjects.

Take a look at some of your art and analyze what makes each of the styles you've used distinctive. For example when I look at the first and last image you shared I can see they are similar in style, because the line-work is thin. However the last image is much more expressive because the lines have more action. In the first image they are very static and precise. While this makes for a cleaner image, it also makes for less emotion. It might help you to make a list of style traits you like, so you can aim to use them every time you draw.

wow i'm so sorry. tl;dr is below. I'm having trouble articulating myself sometimes. All of this is sorta general long-term stuff rather than a direct critique, but here goes:

One thing that sticks out to me: be more bold with your shadows! You already started out really well with that in the second picture, you used different colors for both light and shadow and your lines are more defined and bold there compared to your other images. Try to push your contrasts much much more. As a rule of thumb, shadows are usually much cooler. In most cases, think blue/violet. Shadow is very important when defining shape. Don't be afraid to go crazy with it. There's always the undo button.

You have some nice strong edges in the shadows of the girl's skirt in your last pic which help define the shape of the folds. Maybe you can try and replicate that in your other pics too, where most of your shadows are very soft. If you're going painterly, try to mix and mach both soft and hard edges. Strong edges can be scary at first but your pics will benefit from it! If you want to practice that, try doing some black-and-white only drawings, or try limiting your palette.

Another thing I think you could benefit from is line weight! You're already sorta doing this, but try to push it just a bit more. Make your lines slightly thicker here and there, and taper them off at the end. In general you will want your lines to be thicker in places that are closer to the viewer, have more shadow, or are "more important" to the drawing in some way. That said, you can get some interesting decorative effects out of homogenous lines.

Generally: Do a lot of studies from life! You have the proportions down well but I can see you are still having some trouble with imagining forms in perspective which makes your figures look somewhat flat. You have probably heard and read this a lot of times already, but really, life drawing is indispensable for any artist. You need it if you want to understand how things like form, volume and perspective work, and why things are stylized the way they are. Stylization is simply an abstraction of what we actually see. So to make a style really look 'authentic' and believable we need to understand what's behind it all. Once you start understanding the basic concepts behind it you will be able to be much more flexible and free in your drawing.

We (i.e. people in general) have a tendency to not draw what we see, but rather what we /think/ we see cause our brain is a filthy liar. We tend to think of things in a more "symbolic" manner and have certain schemas of things in our head. Someone else explained it better than me:

"[Imagine] a simple children's wooden block. When we look at it, from a given angle, we see both broad and flat angles, and we see different angles as we move around. Our brain integrates all these viewpoints and angles to PERCEIVE that all of the angles are actually square, even though we might never have viewed it from an point where any of the square angles actually appeared square.

When a new artist tries to draw that simple cube, even with it right in front of them for comparison, they have a tendency to flatten the sharp angles and narrow the broad angles because they're trying to draw the cube they PERCEIVE (with all of its square corners) rather than the angles they are actually SEEING from their current point of view. That is, their brain is lying to them about what they're seeing to the point where they can't accurately draw a simple shape that's right in front of their eyes.

When you see artists holding out their pencil/pen/whatever and squinting while looking at their model, they're using their pencil as a measuring stick so they can accurately judge ratios or angles to keep their perception of the object from interfering too much with their attempt to draw what they're actually seeing."


You should definitely check out the books by Andrew Loomis which you can download for free. For you I especially suggest taking a look at "Creative Illustration". Not only is it informative but it's also very interesting to read and to look at how the different illustrations are analyzed. Trust me, there's a lot of crucial information for any artist in there. If you want to specifically get into human anatomy, you can try "Figure Drawing For All It's Worth".
Here are some more useful links:
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tl;dr: draw more!!!! be bold!! study!! experiment!!