Drawing Critique

[Bricesedge03]

For some old reason I could not sleep tonight. so to occupy myself I drew this. Its color pencil. Please tell me what you think.

[Arranger]

That's pretty bold color for pencil. Well saturated. If it didn't take you all night, I'd be surprised. I'm not a big fan of graphics but yours has a certain solitude that should have helped you with your insomnia.

I like the nearly imperceptible asymmetry in the presence of such obvious balance. It would be an awesome album cover for the next neo-psych band. I like it, even though I'm not as much into that particular media any longer.

If you're interested in a critique in return, check out this older work of mine in ebony pencil from about thirty years ago:

[Jim Nazium]

A bass clef mandala - or are those quotation marks and colons?
Very nice, I like it.

[MJ5150]

Why is one of them backwards?

-Mike

[Bricesedge03]

Originally Posted by Arranger

That's pretty bold color for pencil. Well saturated. If it didn't take you all night, I'd be surprised. I'm not a big fan of graphics but yours has a certain solitude that should have helped you with your insomnia.

I like the nearly imperceptible asymmetry in the presence of such obvious balance. It would be an awesome album cover for the next neo-psych band. I like it, even though I'm not as much into that particular media any longer.

If you're interested in a critique in return, check out this older work of mine in ebony pencil from about thirty years ago:

Thanks. It took me 5 hours to complete. im a big fan of pencil drawings and shading techniques. Shading with color pencils is a new challenge. it is well saturated, almost looks like i used crayons. i remember doing a letter design in high-school in the same way on a much larger piece of paper, it took me two weeks to do.
I'm horrible at critiquing but here you go...I like how you have straight liner lines broken up with the curvature of the structures. you've got a surreal/ realism type feel to it with the odd shapes of the structures with the correct shading.

[Bricesedge03]

Originally Posted by MJ5150

Why is one of them backwards?

-Mike

it was a last minute design change. tried to make is not seem the same as other works.

[mpdd]

add this to the got art page, so we can keep this stuff organized, and consider using some violet in the black areas at the edge to continue your complementary color scheme

[Bricesedge03]

Originally Posted by mpdd

add this to the got art page, so we can keep this stuff organized, and consider using some violet in the black areas at the edge to continue your complementary color scheme

sorry did not know there was an art page.

[mpdd]

no problem, i'm teaching color theory right now

[MJ5150]

Originally Posted by Bricesedge03

it was a last minute design change. tried to make is not seem the same as other works.

It looks cool.

-Mike

[Bricesedge03]

Originally Posted by mpdd

no problem, i'm teaching color theory right now

i took art classes all through school. I am definitely not perfect in my technique but I still enjoy drawing and painting and other such things. I can be rather relaxing. If you consider 5 straight hours of color pencil shading. lol