GIG's Art and Music Potpourri

[Nutshell]

Your music is really good!! Keep up the good work!

[Evil Yoshi Toes]

Nice drawings. To make the faces look less flat watch the shadows. The reason they are looking flat is because the shadows are not showing form so having them isn't doing much for your characters. You should look at how shadows fall on a real face with the lighting you are using.

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The light is coming from the right on this photo. Watch how the shadows wrap around the forms of her face. The nose casts a longer shadow where it protrudes most (the tip). Your light source isn't as strong so it the shadows will be less dramatic, but the same knowledge applies.

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Looking at charts like the one above can also help sometimes, but for me the most helpful way of figuring out lighting is to just apply the lighting to myself with a lamp and taking a photo.
Your style is very simple so you'd have to simplify the shadows, but you should still take into account the way shadows work in real life and manipulate it into your own style. You also have to consider the structure of each face, for example someone with pronounced cheekbones will have more of a shadow underneath (with standard top 45° lighting). In the end it comes down to observing real life and applying it to your own style.

On the subject of observing real life, I'd watch your anatomy especially when it comes to shoulders and necks. In the drawing of the girl's face, her neck is thicker at the top and tapers as it goes down to the chest, which is the opposite of what a neck should do. Her chest is also very high up.

The drawings are nice, just keep drawing and observing real life and you are sure to improve

[GamerInGeorgia]

Finally got around to updating my thread. This time it's pixel art:
A Wario head:

A completed version of the outline which I made for the collaboration competition (which was a flop, sadly) which was in honor of Smash Ultimate:

Another Smash Bros. fighter, Captain Falcon (WIP):

And finally, a girl looking up at the falling snow (this was for a small competition on a Discord server, which I ended up winning):

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Regarding my art in general, I've been using references and I'm planning to hopefully improve and move on from there.

[GamerInGeorgia]

It's been half a year since I've posted in here... Let's see how much I've improved! There's a ton of stuff which I haven't shown off here, so get ready. I'll try to order everything from oldest to newest:
Deku/Izuku Midoriya emotes that I made for a friend's Discord server:

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My avatar on the Main Site:

A parody of the Super Crown; the Super Clown (I edited screenshots of the NSMBUDX trailer):
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"Who needs the Super Crown when you have the Super Clown?"

A drawing for a past Drawing Competition where theme was to utilize a real object in a drawing; I tried utilizing a Jacob's Ladder toy in mine:
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My own design of Luigi-ette for a past Drawing Competition (sorry for the low quality of the image):
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A drawing of a girl that never got colored in:
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Mob and Dimple standing on a path in a field:

Phoenix Wright:

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A Mario parody of Ace Attorney starring Mario and Wario as attorneys:
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A couple sharing an umbrella:

A fox-eared girl:

A tileset I made for MTA3
(I spoilered it in case one of the MTA3 judges looks at this thread)

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Raphtalia (from Rising of the Shield Hero) made in MS Paint as a challenge:
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A drawing of a girl garbed in fantasy-styled clothing:
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Another drawing of a girl:
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I also tried to ink the above drawing, and it was a success!
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Here's a drawing of the same girl in tears:
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I inked this one as well (and learned that white-out is my worst enemy)! Please ignore the part where I tried using white-out to erase something and tried to draw over it.
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Feedback is always appreciated!
Once again, I used references for most of these pieces. I can see my improvement, but I still have much to learn.
I didn't post any Super Mario Generations music since this post was so big already, so maybe I'll post some at a different time.

[GamerInGeorgia]

It's that day of the year again when I finally get to posting my art in this thread. Let's get started, shall we?

Pixel Art

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A Mario Bros. piece:

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Tiles, the HUD, and some more stuff in this style:


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A Kirby's Adventure piece which was made for a Spriting Competition:

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A creepy castle which I made upon The Dark Warrior's request:

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Some sprites I made for @Clobbah for an April Fool's game that didn't end up happening. To give some context to these sprites, the game was going to be similar to the "Toilet Training" microgame from WarioWare: Smooth Moves, where Mario must send people to either the Gulag or the Russian Border.
Mario:

Russian civilian:

American holding a cheeseburger:

The map (credit to Wikipedia for the Hammer and Sickle SVG which was used for the Gulag house because I was lazy):

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Mario sprites:



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I ended up not liking how it looked, so I tweaked the sprite and the colors, and this was the result:

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Drawings and Vector Art

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A vase with flowers in it (I used photo reference for this).
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One of my classmates doing a "blood" hand-sign (don't worry, he's not part of a gang). I used photo reference for this as well.
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Something I drew for a friend and began to ink, but didn't end up finishing.
Full, un-inked version (my friend is supposed to be the guy in the back):

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Incomplete inked version:

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Another drawing for a (different) friend that also didn't get finished (I have yet to learn how to finish my drawings).

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Russian/Gulag Mario that I made for Mario Fan Games Gulag (this year's April fools thing, for those who don't know or remember).

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A drawing of another one of my classmates (though the tie is unfinished):

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Drawings made for @Hypernova.
Secret Santa:

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Request from my "drawing request" thread:

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Thanos: A request from @"mack".

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This thread is getting really long, so I'll end it here for now. I'll try and post some music tomorrow.
All feedback is appreciated!

[GamerInGeorgia]

It's been about two years, might as well update this...
Added some songs to my Soundcloud:
- Remixes -
SMB2 Overworld Remix

WarioWare Inc. Main Theme Chill Remix

Pyoro R Theme Remix

Kamek's Midnight Flight OST

- Original Compositions -
A Gloomy Walk

Spacewalk

Good Vibes

The Final Stretch

Also, I have a DeviantArt page now! So you should check that out for all my art stuff.

[VinnyVideo]

Seems "A Gloomy Walk" and "Good Vibes" both got a little too emotional and ran away - those two URLs aren't working for me.

Course clear! You got a card.