Rip my art to shreds pls

[Breakingchains]

I've always had a lot of trouble with visual art but have been practicing hard for a solid six months at this point, which is about the longest I've ever managed to maintain an art streak lol. The featured tab here is about as close as I've got to a portfolio.

I want to find out if I'm good enough to start fishing for basic commissions (like single-character shots, think people's DnD characters and that kind of thing) or if I need to just put my head down and keep practicing for now. I don't trust my own perception of my work yet and really need some third-party eyeballs. I'm open to the meanest criticism you've got so hit me lol.

[Thorn]

I'm not here for criticism type stuff, but this is absolutely the sort of stuff I would commission! The shading and expressions look great to me and you've managed some cool poses and stuff. So from the perspective of someone who commissions art sometimes, but isn't an artist herself, I think these are awesome!

[Celestial]

I would commission you! Your art is good!

I do have to say that in my experience doing commissions, a lot of it is about marketing. You really got to advertise if you want to attract commissions. I've only gotten a handful, and all were from friends. So good luck. Let me know what works if you find a method.

[Breakingchains]

Thank you guys, I appreciate it!

I did get one piece of criticism from a mutual on another site who suggested that my art basically lacks a distinct identity or style. This checks out to me because I've been very focused on getting all the proportions down, lines clean, etc., and haven't much branched off and experimented with different looks and techniques.

On the othe hand it could also totally just be that they aren't crazy about the semi-realistic, comic-booky type styles I like (and would like to develop.) I'm not sure. Either way I'm going to try experimenting a bit but I'd be interested if anyone has thoughts on that.

[Moni]

An artist's style comes naturally from their influences and how they "see" things, so to speak. Just by doing what you are currently doing, you will develop a style. In fact I would say that you have a style right now--it's just not one that you "like" personally--you have certain things you do (a style of shading and rendering, certain anatomical things like long limbs, and I've noticed there's a specific contour you use when drawing the torso) that are definitely "you."

There's no solution to that that's just not "draw more." It's better to crank out lots of messy pieces of art than a few "clean" ones.

Now I'm not really a good artist by any stretch of the imagination, in fact I'm quite bad at it, but I would say definitely try to draw "realistic" things from time to time, just so you're not just copying cartoony styles and such, if you wanted to actionably "solve" this problem.