Please let me know if this belongs in a different subreddit, I just dont know where else to post this.

So recently, I made a post seeking for art advice, and my post is shown in the secondimage above, and just a few hours ago, one user commented on my post saying that they fed my art to Claude agent since it looked 'nice'.

I never gave them permission to do so, and I do not understand as to why they decided that it was a good choice to steal my art style. When I say stolen, it includes the character designs as well. As shown, some of these ocs weren't mine, and by feeding it to ai, the user has not only stolen my art style, but fed other's creative ideas to ai.

Im really disappointed, and now am really hesitant about posting for criticism on reddit.

Im not saying that every users do this. I know that there are tons of great artists that provide professional criticisms, and I got lots of good ones on my post as well, Im sorry if this post is really long, I just wanted to discuss about this and spread awareness of ai feeding.

Recently started painting. Ive made this and am pretty proud about the colours and the overall resemblence, so that has made me want to ask someone who is better than me: am I still a beginner, and what Can I focus on or get better at to get better.

I already know my proportions are wonky, and my hands are god awful, so I'd prefer no comments on that (I'm learning slowly through practice). The thing I mainly want help with is the render looking muddy and uninteresting. Also color and lighting help would be appreciated.

I included earlier versions of the same image, the proportions changed because I used the transform tool.

Hey so I've been working on this for a while now and keep quitting because I'm struggling with his hair. I was able to find references on Pinterest but none of them feel right and I'm trying to match it to the picture in the reference window. I'm planning on redoing the reference photo I have of him to match my art style as the reference is something I made two years ago. Any advice would be appreciated, also maybe how to draw his neck and shoulders. He's got muscle but a thinner frame hence the softer face structure.

Hiii my cousin wanted me to draw her. I drew her potrait based on the reference. I thought it looked ok for me to gift it to her as a bday gift but my mum couldn't tell who it was and now I am kinda embarrassed. Idw to gift smt she doesn't like so lemme know what y'all think. :)

Basically, I dropped out after 2 years of art school, I'm a psych student now in another college and am currently in my first year

I left the school for a lot of reasons, toxic people that hate me because I because our language teacher's favourite (Which I didn't even expect to happen), facilities are so bad that we are expected to bring our own computers cuz the computers at school don't always work despite us paying thousands for our tuition, we don't even have our own college building because it's still not completely finished after a decade and it got destroyed before

But one thing that really stuck with me was our art teacher, the strictest one in our school

Now, my other teachers like me so far, especially our art teacher that taught us simplification and sketching (Forgive me, I forgot the names of our subjects as it's been years and I'm technically supposed to be a fourth year right now if I didn't drop out)

But our strictest teacher, the one that makes us take every single measurement possible with calligraphy and how much detail is in our work

I didn't know how to please this teacher because he wouldn't tell us other than the usual instructions

Plus, his subject is traditional art while I'm used to digital art, so it was taking me a while to get used to it

One time, we were made to do achromatic painting so that's what I did with the color green

I was really proud of my work and I followed his instructions but when I showed it to him, he looked sad

Then he told me if I'm sure I even want this course

I was really confused and he didn't even say what was wrong with my artwork specifically, he didn't say if more details are needed or if I misunderstood the rules

Or if I just needed to improve more on my traditional works

I would've done what he said if he had just told me but instead he just look really sad, as if I really disappointed him and made him sad as a teacher

That comment has stuck with me since and makes me feel like I must've been a really bad artist if that's the case

I try to work on various postures to improve my art, especially hands (my nightmare !!), perspective and mouvements using pictures références. I d like to have some comments or tips. Also which one do you like ?

hello all, this is a book cover for a school thing, and originally the kid in the picture was going to be much less rendered/realistic, and more cartoony, but i ditched that, and now some things look out of place. the cookies are giving me a hard time because i want them to be raw dough, and they look just awful lmao. help me plssss

tldr: title

Feel like the face looked a little off in the beginning (#B) so I adjusted and moved around some things

Does #A look better? Ik the right eye is a bit off thooo I think I still need to fix that

Recently started painting as a new hobby/anxiety relief activity but have a lot of self doubt on the outcome of my paintings. These are my first and second painting and need any feedback on how I can improve and hopefully move onto more complex subject.

I felt so bored so i tried to drew Androssi Zahard from Tower of God like 3 days ago, the first image is my first attempted but i didn't like it so i tried again that took me 2 days to draw and the second drawing done i changed the art style and arm position but i still didn't satisfied like something is still wrong about it, can u help me? I used some random cover magazine i found and i like the pose cause it looked pretty challenging but yeah i guess it didn't ended up pretty good..

Hi everyone!

I’m interested in trying an image transfer technique using acrylic transfer medium or gel, but I’m not sure whether it would work on the surface I have.

The painting I bought is printed on a hardboard panel, not canvas. The surface has a regular, canvas-like grid texture, and I don’t know whether it has a protective varnish or coating.

I’m considering using a laser-printed image and a transfer medium, such as Amsterdam Photo Transfer Gel, to transfer it onto the existing picture. I’d also like to be able to paint over parts of the transferred image with acrylics afterwards.

Has anyone tried this technique on a printed painting or a textured hardboard surface?

Would the transfer medium adhere properly, or could it damage or lift the original print when removing the paper? Would a different technique, such as adhering thin printed paper with acrylic matte medium, be a better option?

I’d appreciate any recommendations for suitable products, techniques, or precautions. I’ve attached photos of the painting and a close-up of its surface.

Thanks in advance!

I'm trying to study anatomy. I've been learning more about the bones of the torso (I'm a beginner, so I wanted to start by going point by point, to learn each part well before moving on). I made these sketches to practice my new skills. I'd like to know your opinions and what things you feel are wrong or could be improved. Thank you very much.

I also have trouble masculinizing the figure. I aspire to be a gay NSFW artist, and I feel like I haven't done a good job of conveying that this figure is masculine, if you know what I mean. I feel it has to do with how I draw the upper area. Although I think I accidentally made the pelvis too wide and the rib cage too narrow at the bottom.

Self explanatory from the title, I’ve always loved the Rockstar and Death Note drawing style but I haven’t drawn since I was a kid with no experience and no equipment at all, any advice?

I had the WIP in the bottom right laying around for a while and a friend of mine almost challenged me to stop drawing flat faces and instead draw them at an angle. So I kinda stopped working on it and now decided that I can do better with this one. (The perspective on the WIP is alright-ish because I spent about 20 hours on sketching that crap, the rough sketch is about an hour worth of time.)

I wanted to do some cool perspective and foreshortening but holy shit is it difficult. I tried foreshortening a few times already but I never made it past a (bad) sketch, because I never could get it decently right. And I also struggle quite a lot with perspective.

I think the overall idea comes across but the execution is just bad but I really want to learn to do perspective well and foreshortening. So any help, advice, resources, good tutorials, anything, is greatly appreciated.

I'm trying to improve my face drawing and there is a lot of videos on youtube, I watched few and they sound like they're making it for content and not an actual tutorial. I want a video that is worth learning from or any other resources

As the title say, but it’s hard for dream to come to life since I don’t remember frankly what I saw

I've only recently gotten comfortable enough to actually try coloring, but going further than that things feel really fast n lose. Not sure how to improve or practice tbh. I also need to get better with structural stuff but I'm getting somewhere. Any advice appreciated!

ive been experimenting with my style recently but nothing i do really changes the fact that a lot of my art reads to me as boring and not really interesting to look at😭😭 i think it has something to do with the colors but I'm unsure... any advice would be greatly appreciated!

EDIT: thank you to everyone who replied with their tips! I'll definitely work on adding more highlights and darker shadows in the future, currently im super busy with school but I'll post the updated work as soon as i can 🥸🥸

I tried to look online for what different shoulder and hips ratios look like but most of the results were shoulder and waist.