"Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots."

- Frank A. Clark

Hello, and welcome to Critics United*! This is a place for people serious about their craft; people who aren’t content with just being ‘average’ or ‘okay’. It’s for people who may already be talented, but who want to keep getting better. This is a place for artists of all skill levels, whether you’re just starting out or you’ve been drawing for years – the only requirement is a passion for what you do and a drive to improve.

What is Critics United, first of all? Here’s the deal – it’s a community of driven artisans. Whether you’re an eCarder, or a writer, this is a place for you to request constructive criticism, or critiques, from a community of diverse people, all with the same goal as you – improvement.

All right, now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, how does it work? Well, as stated before, this is a community, not a club. If you choose to join, you would subscribe to us, enabling you to receive updates from the Critics United World. You would sign up as an artist, or an author, or any combination of the given categories. You can sign up for other categories at anytime, as well as drop a category. As a member, you gain guest posting privileges, so if you’d ever like critiques to be given on your work, you’d post it up here, and your fellow members would heed the call and offer to you their constructive criticism. But again, this is a community, so everything coexists in a mutual relationship. If you expect members to give critiques on your work, then you have to actively participate in giving critiques on your fellow members’ work. If you fail to do so consistently, your guest posting privileges will be renounced until you can prove that you’re willing to put forth the effort. You get back what you put in, that’s how it goes.

So go ahead, and join now!

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Updates.

♣ 4/18/11: New Feature - Tutorials! Be sure to check it out!
♣ 7/16/11: New Site Launch!

Comic Critique Request

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This would be my American cartoon drawing style. I was in a rush with this; that's why it's not anime/manga-ish. The art style is inspired by Touch Detective and Phineas and Ferb. I'm still figuring out how I want my American cartoon drawing style to be. Besides drawing an American cartoon style for the first time, it's my 1st time doing action like in page 2 and doing backgrounds.

This is all traditional BTW which made things harder.

Critiques, not art wise?

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Hello!
Hmm... it's my first time posting here.... ( Ekk! Im kinda nervous >3<)

Yea i just wanted to ask what you think of this card:

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^^,
Yea i justed wanted to ask if theres any advice you could give me with making cards... cause i'm still a newb at editing... and yea =D

Bai Bai

~~~~Have The Besties Day~~~~

[WIP]Art Critique Request

This is for CCC's Contest about designing a fantasy mascot! HERE~

She's going to be holding a pen but it is currently invisible since I hid the sketch layer XD XD

I know there are some anatomy issues - So I'm particularly interested in those/clothes issues/how to make faces not ugly :)

Thank you all so much!

OH! I use Photoshop Elements (so no pen tool :( )

Konata, art critics

My first post here and I am actually quite honored for that. This is my latest drawing and one of the few that I did colored.
For this one I used for the first time SAI and it proved to be quite good for coloring, especially mangaanime ones compared to some other ones. Not sure about Photoshop, cause I still don’t have that one.

Anyways, this took me quite a while to do. Drawing it not that much (though thinking how to draw Konata and which pose took some time, but I liked how I added the comp part there :P), but coloring… oh yeah.
So yeah, I want to hear your guys opinions.^^ Special note on the advices on signature, could you help me a little by that, cause I am not really sure how or where or in which way to put them on fan arts and which one is the best.
Thanks in advance guys! :)

Welcome to the New Site!

Now that all that administrative-y stuff is done, welcome to the new site! Critics United sort of started as a little side project for me, but now that it has almost 60 members I figured it deserved a page of its own. Also, maintaining it proved to be a lot more work than I imagined, and now that I'm moving forward in my life it will probably get harder. Oh, and I realized a while ago that 'critiquers' isn't actually a word, and it was getting embarrasing. Anyway, welcome if you're new and welcome back if you're not!

Also if you're new, feel free to check out the old site to get a feel of what this is and all that.

So yeah, still getting everything together and it probably won't be up and running for another few weeks, but we're getting there! Please enjoy this placeholder design and the butterflies that come with it in the meantime. Actually nevermind, which one do you think looks better?

-Gemma/(vacuumology)