Lots of really good critique here so I'm going to reply to each post in order:
@Slog Bait-
Give me your skills.
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If you used a reference for the mudokons, it's not immediately apparent.
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I did, actually ;_; I used the Mudokon concept art and renders on TOGG. Though I can see why you'd say that. Usually, the first time I draw a creature/species, they come out a little wonky and it takes a while to study them and understand how their anatomy works (you don't even wanna know how long that first digital drawing of Stranger took me. Now I can slap down a steef pretty quick). Looking back, I can see where I got proportions or form wrong--likely because, as you said, I was focusing too much on details instead of overall form. I've caught myself doing this before--I'll spend an inordinate amount of time tweaking little details, then be like "aw fuck I messed up that part's shape and now I gotta do it over again".
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It makes me want to see your full body steefs.
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I'll have a couple doodles of them coming later
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I think from what I've seen, more beastly animals like steefs are definitely your strong point,
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You're absolutely right there. 90% of the things I've ever drawn were animals/beastlike creatures, and I've only started to acquire any kind skill with humans/humanoids in the past couple years. Something I gotta work on.
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Also that female steef drawing is very familiar I think we may have run into each other before
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Really? I'm not the first person to have drawn a she-steef, though I've only shown that drawing to a couple people in the past.
Freakova is that you?
@Vyrien-
Give me your skills too.
I can definitely see what you're talking about with the two sketch comparisons, the one one the right is much smoother and crisper. For the steef sketch, did you put down shapes/guides beforehand, or just go straight to lines?
I see what you mean about the line colors too, I'll experiment with that the next time I'm in front of my tablet.
@Manco-
I'll be sure to use those resources. That video's intro and the bits on hairy lines were embarrassingly relatable, but he had a lot of good tips.
Thanks all for the tough love, you all had really good advice.