SS's Artish Stuff

Okay, well I don't have much good stuff done on GIMP yet, so here are a few MS Paint things I've made.

This one is a Fire Dragon I did for someone on the DC forums, but I don't think they'll want it, it's so bad xD


This one is Nintendo's Kirby character, a little drawing I did recently. My sister has been drawing them sometimes lately, so I decided to make one myself.


Feel free to comment and give tips on how to make my art better. (Although, don't critisize the shading, just give me tips on it. I didn't spend much time on the shading for these.)

Yes.

UPDATE
Heres a new Sea Cave Dragon I just made...

1st dragon - the wings seem to be coming out of the neck. A good placement of wings on a dragon is usually starting right above the shoulder blade for the start of the wing. Also keep joints in mind, and try doing an art skeleton (Lines and circles ) then draw the figure on top of that to help with proportions and joints (though honestly, I think you have a good sense of proportions ^-^ )

Kirby - My only crit here is to lessen the outline. A thick outline often makes an image appear flat. Otherwise, he's really cute!

2nd dragon - I would thin out the tail a little as it comes to its end. Also, the background seems to take away from it. try playing with the bg and see what really makes it stand out. No other crits.... and I love the brown scales.

Also know that giving your creates a cast shadow will make them more 3 dimensional. Good luck!

I agree with each of those.
But with Kirby, I meant to do a thick line, it's a different style of art I sometimes just do. It makes them look really cute, and pop out more, but normally I would use a line much smaller.

For the Sea Cave Dragon did you use the head of the Dorsal Dragon on DragCave?? It looks like it.

No, but the dorsal dragon was my guide for this. It helped me get my shapes and stuff. But I redrew the face.

I like your sea-serpenty thing SS ^_^

Anatomy needs work.

Anatamy... whats that?

That's basically body structure. To fix anatomical errors, you want to get things in proportion and sitting so that they sit in a way that looks natural.
Look up skeletons and study animals (By watching an animal move, you're watching its anatomy, muscles joints etc, move as well)

Okay thanks. I'll try to work on that.

Heres some new dragons...

aww, the little yellow one is cute!

Thanks.
I think the Brown one has better Anatomy than my others. I call it the beavertail Dragon, because it has a large tail.