I don’t wanna be a D*** here but @celena. you don’t need to complain about works that normally getting scores over 100 or even 200. Take a look at my (only the messy/muddy ones) works they all getting downvoted everytime.
I’m pretty sure that any artist that is at least half-serious about what they are doing will always be looking for ways to get more followers, improve their work and get more exposure, which means that more people will be willing to get commissions, make donations or pledge to a Patreon for example. You shouldn’t see it as petty complaining at all.
If you’re not happy about the response that you’re getting from your art, then the time has come to take a different approach because only an insane person will do the same thing and expect different results. BK summed up the three main things to think about quite nicely:
Burgerkiss
1. Thumbnail
Just like Clearvision said, thumbnail is the bread and butter for gaining upvotes on this site, i saw kevinsano’s artwork being posted in like 56kb image size, but still gained 700 upvotes. If i look your arts from viewing thumbnail only,
i can see that some of your drawing lacks of contrast between your character and the background.
2. Style
You need to rework your style from ground up. The way you draw faces struggles of showing clear expression, but Having a good style is quite hard to achieve, especially if you’re lacking of the fundamental of drawing, like drawing gesture, perspective and basic human face.
3. Character and Context
Let’s be real here, people like to see characters that are popular among the community. Hot mother, big pink princess, shy pones, you name it. If you mainly draw OC, it’s gonna backfire you a lot, because a lot of oc you draws so far have tons of flaws in design term such as unpleasing color palette, reused mane design etc.
Let’s start with the thumbnail. I’m sorry if this comes across as blunt, but out of your recent artwork (I only went as far back as two years), the only images that I personally find catches my eye at a thumbnail size are
this one and
this one. Ignoring the fact that I dislike mud fetishes, the fact that you typically draw ponies completely covered in mud, that means that you’ve got pretty much only a few colours going on, and one of the things that will catch the attention of the eye is contrast as well as good colour choices. That, along with a fetish that some people will avoid like the plague because they feel like it’s not far off from scat is why you’re getting downvotes.
Next, style. It would be a good idea for you to also rework your style from the ground up and learn anatomy. There’s a reason why people have been bringing it up a fair amount in your comments section is because it’s true. Your ponies tend to look quite flat, and I’ve also noticed in the comments that some people suspect that you’ve been rushing your art. Unless you’re doing a commission for someone and they’ve been waiting for months and months on end, there’s virtually no reason for you to rush your art, so please take as much time as you need to make the highest quality artwork that you can.
Next, character and context. You typically use characters that most people would actually be searching for, so no problems there. However, instead of context, I will talk about composition which involves the pose of the character, the angle, the lighting direction, colour choices and the background if applicable as well as any extras. Bad composition is the final nail in the coffin for me; your art may come across as low effort to some people because of the generic looking backgrounds, bad pony anatomy, low amount of detail and bad colour choices. Your grass and plants usually are too saturated in their green colour, as well as your skies. Your clouds don’t really look like clouds, and the only thing that you seem to get right is… well the mud, but even the mud could be improved.
Plus i get almost only comments with same dull anoying critsm. like: work on your porpotion or tag your stuff right (i do that as well).
Don’t see it as annoying, see it as something to work on that has been pointed out multiple times to you. You can call it harsh if you want, but I personally think it is better to be blunt and upfront with feedback and criticism rather than sugar coat everything and only give praise, which causes artists to become delusional.
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