@Mel-F It's looking great! I love the bats especially. 😍 Good overlapping while keeping them dark-on-light.
I feel like the frog is a bit of an odd-one-out: he looks a bit more realistic than all the other animals.
I'm looking forward to seeing more of this book!

I actually think you already have a very defined style. You might think you’re working different styles sometimes and it might vary a little bit, but ultimately I can always tell your work apart, that includes things you have on your website. And a lot of the things you have pictured are very similar in style to those on your dream board not just in theme. So I don’t think your as lost as you might think. Or if you want to separate your styles there’s nothing wrong with have more than one! I think I might be headed that way myself. Just make separate areas for each one (like you already have) 😊 hope this helps you find piece of mind❤️

@Melissa-Bailey-0, you didn’t step on any toes at all. Your advice has been great and I’ll definitely heed it next time. Thank you!

Well, since you all helped me so much, I figured I should post here the final version. I still can change it if any of you have any suggestions, though.

Thank you everybody for all the comments, suggestions and, in a sense, lessons, I should say!

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@Zachary-Drenski said in Critique requested portfolio work:

@Lobalyss Keep making great art!

Thank you ! I will !

@Laurasketches said in Critique requested portfolio work:

I think your work has a lovely, simple, graphic feeling. I did notice on your website that your images take a long time to load-consider smaller files or compression? I'm not a techie, but I do know that load time matters.
Best of lucK!

Thank you for your opinion ~
I thought about it one day and I guess I totally forgot to change the file size, thank you have noticed me that 🙏🏽

@Meta I’ve slowed down in forum writing. Your doing a wonderful job at these master copies!

@nkdrawings thank you, I think I'm going to be crawling along with all this into the new year 🙂

@larry-whitler There's a story about the composer John Cage, that early in his career he was studying under the famous composer Schoenberg, he was late to a meeting and his mentor berated him saying he had no sense of time or melody for that matter." Fine " he said then my music will not be about time or melody. He went on of course to change music forever. I think there's a lesson there for all artist , find what you do well, usually that will be what you love to do,in the beginning copying other styles is a great way to learn but at some point you have to give up looking around trying to do what's in style , what's selling, and find your own voice. Each of use are unique, Chris

@pam-boutilier I really can't give you any advice on portfolio pieces and what should go into them. I would say whatever style you are happy working with, go with that. You want to be happy with whatever you end up doing otherwise you will eventually regret it.

I really like the style and render in your final render of cozy cuppa. It feels warm and fuzzy. FYI The work on your Instagram is amazing. Whatever you decide to do, i wish you the best of luck!