Need help after coloring and shading!

[vestal birch]

I need help i usually color my traditional art digitally. I know to color with flat colors and try to shade with a clipping mask. But after that, how do i really make my art pop. Im trying to go for a cel shaded look. Do i add mor color other blending options?

[warped gulch]

i'd work on anatomy first! 😊 the face anatomy of your character is very off, and his neck is too thick by the unbuff way he looks, good anatomy always pops more than good cel shading! at least in my opinion 😋

[gilded spade]

Gotta know ur lightsource first before u can add ur shadows

[vestal birch]

Well thats just my artstyle. Drawing a smller neck doesnt really fit. And i still doubt myself, so my art is s good as it could be

[warped gulch]

😭

it looks

well

if youre not accepting critiscim how are you gonna improve man

[vestal birch]

I am accepting the critisim. Im just saying i dont draw small necks because it dont fit the head. If i wasnt accepting your criticism, i would be flat out denying your claims. I do know the art is bad. If i didnt, i wouldn't be asking for help. I'm jusy giving my side

[warped gulch]

and i am telling you is anatomicly wrong for him to have that fat ass neck 😭

[gilded spade]

If u dont want smaller neck then make the shoulders/torso bigger

Shoulders are usually about half a head width over on each side

[vestal birch]

I did make the shoulders bigger. How big you want them to be.

[wooden karma]

u need to work on anatomy, not jump into shading
shading is a later thing first work on understand the body structure

[gilded spade]

i made them bigger and straighten out the neck

necks dont curve like that in front facing view. it would only curve if youre angling your head a certain way

[wooden karma]

1 eye is bigger than the other, id start with fixing that

[gilded spade]

additionally i just realized the left eye is way too big compared to the other eye. once you figure out where u want the lightsource we can work out the shadows

[wooden karma]

^

[warped gulch]

no need for the fat neck if your character aint buff, you gotta learn that not everything can be "just my style"

ugly ass arms ik

[vestal birch]

I drew this back in 2020 when my artstyle got better. This is just how my artstyle is

[wooden karma]

this 1 looks better tehn the other 1
the other 1 looks a bit lopsided to me

[vestal birch]

Again like i said ik my art bad. I can fix or redraw it later. Im just politely saying this is how i made my artstyle and still lck confidence which affects my art a bit

[vestal birch]

I dont know if anyone here cares. But i get frustrated easily. I do appreciate the advice. I understand my art can be better. But keeping up with your artstyle makes me frustrated and start to lack that confidence. I hope i didnt offend anyone.

[gilded spade]

broski just ignore the neck comments. just straighten out the neck, make the left eye smaller and resize the head to be smaller to fix the body OR resize the body to fit the head. figure out where u want the lighting to go and then we can apply the cell shading youve been asking for

[vestal birch]

But how do i apply the cel shading. I look3d up videos and i still get confused

[gilded spade]

a hard brush used to placed where the shadows are

what you see in western animation and basic anime is cell shading

[vestal birch]

I love art but man it gets tedious sometimes lol

[gilded spade]

Fr. I die a little inside every time i have to do the tedious parts

[sharp lichen]

The thing about art styles is that you first learn the fundamentals and THEN break the rules

[sharp lichen]

Fr

[vestal birch]

Oh i understand. I been drawing for 10 years. Im self taught. Ik im good but i just doubt myself all too much

[sharp lichen]

Just have confidence in yourself, you got this