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"You’re Melody"
The character looks nice, although there are some proportion issues here, specifically, their arm looks a bit longer then they needed to be. Generally, one shouldn't be able to reach down their knee when standing up right, and the elbow, I think, should be slightly above the waist-line. I am not sure how you build up your character, but its difficult to get a sense that there are bodies underneath those clothing’s.

“Bless into the sunshine”
Compositional wise, this piece is a world of better then the first one. The pose is dynamic, there is a background, and it is colored. There is same type of proportional problem here especially with the guy in the foreground. There are some little different problems here and there, particularly the right hand of the guy in the background. You might want to do some sketch practice using your own hand as a reference to work out these anatomic problems.


The character looks pretty interesting, are those original?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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Tried to make the lines more solid in Photoshop. Didn't work.

Those are done in pencil right? do you push down on the paper really hard? Have you tried differentiating the line weight between sketch lines and finalized lines? As in, do very very light sketches that outlines the shapes of characters, laying down simple guidelines, and when it comes to the actual drawing of character itself, instead you would use a very precise heavy lines to finish up. It makes it easier to clean up afterward. If all else fails, you might want to ink it and go over it with eraser like Steadtlers for example, and then scanning it.

On "for you"
One character looks a little bigger then the other, its subtle though. It seem to be dividing the images right down the middle. The dark shading for the robot is pretty nice.

What do you mean you are "becoming less and less proud" of your own work? Even though you are getting better as you practice, that doesn't mean keeping those older images is any less valuable. Its a documentation of how you had learn to get better at something. Its like foot prints of a long journey. If you were to go back and review what you have done in the past, its easier to assess how you had become better in the future

There's nowhere I can't reach.