Here's my latest, my BLL character Clair! Crits invited, I'll write some myself when I take another look in a day or two with fresh eyes. I wish you could adjust these thumbnails...

This is the third of my Brooklyn's Last Light characters, Maisel Taschen, or "Emdash".

This is Seung Park, the electricity-wielding lady known, not sarcastically at all, as "Brightspark"! It's a pun on her name, do you know how long it took me to find a Korean girls' name beginning with S? And it's a unisex name that mostly isn't given to girls, I'm told! Well that's fine, I like the name Seung.

To kick this group off, I'm going to post three recent works of mine with noticeable flaws, and give myself "feedback" with a fresh eye. These are all promo images from my upcoming webcomic, BROOKLYN'S LAST LIGHT. No, I will not generally be promoting it here, is just that all my recent art has been BLL-related! First up, there's the character of Bianca Perez, or BP Honey, whose name came to me in a dream!

Hello and welcome to "DILETTANTE HELPS YOU DO ART", the place where you post your artwork at whatever stage you want, from the sketch at the beginning to the fully rendered glory of the final portfolio piece. I will invite the rest of the community to comment with constructive feedback, which is great for catching anything my AuDHD brain might miss, but the real treat is the advice I, James, will give you for free! Why am I doing it? I enjoy providing methods for improving the artwork of others, having regularly done so on the "Anatomy and Action Poses" Facebook for... well, about 2 years. I can help you improve, even if I don't catch every single chance for improvement, following my advice will ALWAYS net you a better outcome. I have studied (and failed to achieve) qualifications in Animation, "Digital Art" (real specific, thanks TAFE), Graphic Design (twice!), IT (I got that one, but who cares) and a Bachelor of Arts in which I studied literature, journalism, and political science. This broad field of study includes basic color theory, (your picture of Cammy from Street Fighter looks like a sexy cheeseburger! I'll help you fix it!) extensive media literacy (if your OC has stereotypical Karen hair and you didn't even notice, I'm going to warn you before the normies laugh at your work! And if your furry German Shepherd character is wearing a Nazi rune, I WILL TELL YOU BEFORE YOU SHOW YOUR JEWISH BOYFRIEND!), miscellaneous cultural signifiers (I know why your picture of Deedlit from Record of Lodoss War looks uncannily masculine!), and a bunch of other stuff, it's all a rich tapestry. With a cartooning habit dating back to 1989 (I was a late starter obviously), a digital artwork hobby dating back to 1999 (Paint Shop Pro!), a passion for comic book coloring dating back to 2000 (when I discovered Layers in Adobe Photoshop 6.0), I am completely formally unqualified but buried in a wealth of miscellaneous education and experience that will help YOU do better art. I can give you pointers on drawing faces and hands (I'm no Andrew Loomis, but I can show you his book and tell you what to focus on!), I can guide you on where you need to go next based on the parts of your artwork that aren't as up-scratch as the rest, and even if I love your work so much that I can't find a flaw, we can chat about your work's cultural background, and reach each other about new artifacts that will broaden our knowledge and add great enjoyment and learning to our lives.