Whoops, accidentally wandered into crossover hell again.

Autism alert!

TheFuzzyMan said:
Autism alert!

So there's a general scheme to how autistic people draw? Huh, I'll have to remember that the next time I make a cheesy picture for people to lol or facepalm at.

I'll be honest, this is one of my goofier drawings. I do this sort of thing when I'm practicing and bored. I actually had the guts to post this, being the oddball I am. Ah well, gotta start somewhere, right?

OddyMcStrange said:
I'll be honest, this is one of my goofier drawings. I do this sort of thing when I'm practicing and bored. I actually had the guts to post this, being the oddball I am. Ah well, gotta start somewhere, right?

dont worry i think this one wasn't bad at all ^w^

It's not bad. You're just learning how to draw is all. For better or for worse, this site (really the internet) just isn't always very friendly to aspiring artists.

As for constructive criticism... The hard cell shading on the characters clashes a lot with the soft shadows on the ground. Not that it can't work together in practice, it just creates too much of a distraction. They are also somewhat inconsistent in that none of the other objects in the room seem to have any.

You need to step back and think "where is my light source?" In this case it almost looks like there is a very bright light in the middle of the ceiling, but the placement of the shadows aren't consistent enough to agree with this. For instance, the back character's shadow completely defies this as if they have their own spotlight over them. The deer on the left has shading on the bottom and left side, but the stocking frigimon is holding has shading on the right side.

I'd recommend working on shading/shadows for objects in the background.

A good exercise for this is to try having to objects/characters on opposite sides of the page with a very bright light between them (you can actually draw a light if it helps, just a circle with lines or a quick toony light bulb will probably do). Do the same drawing a second time with the light higher, make the shadows shorter, a little dimmer. Do a third drawing with the light lower and make the shadows longer and darker. Try a fourth with the light off to the side on top of one object/character and try to adjust the shadows/shading on each object/character.

The window looks like a poster. I don't have any particular advice with this but you could try to make it look "frosted" or draw part of the trim to make it seem a bit more integrated into the wall.

The tree is extremely angular and the straight lines feel out of place compared to the characters; rounding the bottom and each tier slightly might help, but I'm better with drawing trees by pencil than working with shapes like this so I can't help much. However the highlights on the ornaments could easily be adjusted to look as if they are reflecting the lights on the tree (the lower left green one should have 2 highlights on it actually, a huge one and the smaller one you already have on there).

The fonts clash a bit, but it almost works. The only problem I have is it looks odd how one is pseudo-3d and the other isn't but it's probably not that much of an issue. The only suggestion I have is to give the text a thin (very thin, almost imperceptible) black shadow or outline; this helps readability against any surface.

Oh. And +1 for Minty.

TheFuzzyMan said:
Autism alert!

I think you may be a bit lost. This is probably what you were looking for.