Minotaur Comic Art by lukesmithart on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Hello fellow Critmas participant!

This is one badass minotaur! The expression is really intense, and combined with those muscles and horns, I think I would want to sloooowly back away from this guy- or at least not make him any angrier. ;)

Regarding my critique, I'll focus mostly on the horns, since I think that's where you'd be able to improve the most. First, there's the simple thing of them being not symmetrically attached to the head. His right horn (left for us viewers) is attached more to the side, while the other horn attaches near the middle of the skull. Drawing a center line in the sketching stage would help.

Another thing is that the horns look a bit more flat than you probably want them to be. This is a mistake almost everyone makes at first, but there is a trick to help you draw them more rounded. Check out this drawabox episode on countour lines on organic forms (what horns essentially are, and I think it will become clear, specifically these two parts: https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/5/shallow and https://drawabox.com/lesson/2/5/curves

Finally, the placement of the horns in the frame is a little awkward, with the tips just out of view and one leaning against the side of the frame. While I feel the composition works relatively well like this regardless, you ideally don't want to cut off elements 'just a little', nor cut them off where they are aligned with the frame.

In the end though, this is a super cool drawing! Keep drawing and I'm sure you'll keep improving! :D

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