Roast my art with me ('23 Jan)

You learn best from mistakes!

Maybe you know this feeling:
You just finished a beautiful piece of art and want to upload it proudly to the internet for everyone to see - but not even a few hours later and you see major mistakes that you didn't notice before! Instead of being sad and beaten down about it, try to analyze, acknowledge, remember and correct your mistakes from the past!

Caution! This might destroy a piece for you. At least for me it does. I cannot un-see mistakes once I noticed them!

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I wanted to do an oversized look first, but I do that all the time... I really had a nice anatomy and pose and didn't want to drown him in a big shirt... But this backfired somehow. Idk what it is but I tend to draw fabric with too much folds! I feel like it looks unappealing otherwise... Hair got too fluffy and the nose too flat and well, it seems like I just forgot about his textured arms, or I didn't feel like it was too necessary at the time because it was so dark... Normally I give them a bit of a ripple! 

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I was really happy with this, until I noticed that his hands look somewhat cartoony? I guess it's the black lines against the light skin tone! Note: water has a different viscosity than e.g blood. It doesn't drip the same, but I drew it the same! You can see this especially well on his chin when the drops are side by side. One thing that really bothers me is that the one drop next to his nose let it look like he's got a huge nose. Just a minor adjustment would change that. I made this mistake with an old Shigaraki artwork and I am so mad because of that. Same with his chest/collarbones. I make this mistake over and over....

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Overall I really really like this illustration. It's packed with detail and I really enjoyed drawing it! Because it was in such a dark setting, I was a bit confused about the lighting. I think I mentioned it in my WIP, that I basically have two light sources... But one is for sure... - the shadow of the Endeavor plushie is plain wrong! Additionally, I wish I put the glow of the balloons somewhere higher in the layer hierarchy, so that it would've been more white. I think that would look better.

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Don't get me wrong, I like my men Nacho-shaped, but this is a bit too much in my opinion. The problem is, that with such a low perspective the hips will be naturally wider than normal - and to counteract that I tend to make the shoulders wider.... here I overdid it a bit. I am really mad that I have some random dark spots again! right between his pecs and underneath them too... I guess that's a sign of tiredness?
Again the cartoony hands! Again I think this is because of the high contrast of color and Linework!

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The shirt looks cartoony too! We have a theme this month I guess...
I already said that I wanted to make the scars more textured but I still don't know how I could've made them better... So I guess only time will tell when I draw another young Touya.. And: the nose! I get the feeling I unlearned to draw them, or, they began to bother me just now.... Either way I really need to improve on noses....
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I really wanted to focus on the overall scenery in this piece, but I still would rather had it not so dark on the right side...really, just a tiny bit more lighter and I would be happy!
Touyas hands look a bit weird... to be fair it's a super strange pose/angle and not in focus either...

The Endeavor plushie is what is bothering me the most because it's the focal point in this piece... ugh.

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What I am trying to improve in the future:

· no "cartoony" spots
· noses
· hand details
· no random shadows/dark spots

What do you think?
Do you do this kind of analyzing with your old work? Do you agree with my problems?
I think it's important to just keep everything in mind to improve in your next drawing!