I wouldn’t know how to categorize them, but I’ll give my overall impression. You seem to have two main themes, high contrast and abstract/paint drip. I like the high contrast better. Abstract/paint drip probably takes a lot more practice to get something aesthetically pleasing out of a inherently chaotic technique.
Pluses:
As for the high contrast stuff, I love your concept (idea) and composition (layout / where you put elements in relation to each other).
Improving:
Your painting technique needs some work though. Seeing as it’s high contrast, it would be a lot more pleasing if you perfected the sharpness of your borders. They should look a little more like they were done as stencils or in an illustration program (and actually using your own stencils and/or masking would be fine). And the object fill colors could also be a little more clean. Use enough paint so you aren’t still seeing the brush strokes in the fill color. You have a couple choices here:
- fill is just one block of color
- fill is a specific texture, but the texture is flat, it does not follow the shape it’s in, it is just sharply cut off at the border of the shape
- fill is a monotone gradient of just one color, either flat or following the shape - for example, light blue to dark blue
Some more specific critique:
Lamp: You could do this in just three flat colors, grey, black , and brown, make the colors more uniform, and the objects have cleaner crisper edges. Additional options: Could do a wood grain texture for the table, but flat, not realistic. Like you had a large piece of paper that was just wood grain, and you cut the whole table shape out of that. Looks like you attempted a gradient on the lamp shade. Could try that, but make it a smooth gradient with no texture.
Yellow: this one, and others with flowers, and the gummi bear one, you seem to have a circular motif. I would either make the circles one flat color, so you can’t tell where one ends and another beings, or especially inthe case of the gummi bears, I would use a smooth spherical gradient so the circles look like monotone balls.
white flowers: pretty cool. would just make the edges a little crisper, and make the color a little more uniform so it looks like all the flowers were cut out as one shape as opposed to being seperate shapes in layers.
Rorschach: points just for spelling it! hard to tell how much was your idea and how much was just abstract, but pleasing nonetheless.
umbrella: very nice. just crisper edges and more uniform color.
redflowers, red and white flowers. R&W nice! Better executed than redflowers, which was good concept/composition but was a little sloppier in technique.
plane: nice!
lollipop: nice, maybe just a more geometrically perfect spiral.
pigeons: maybe make the birds more uniform and crisp, and the sidewalk too, and the grass be more of a cut out texture like my wood grain suggestion.
leaves: not clear if these are close ups of leaves, or if they are branches…
gummibears: nice general idea. the top row is a little too linear, i like how the bottom half seems more random in placement. again, I would either make them flat color, or made up of monotone spherical gradients.
flying: neat!
flowers: cool idea, but would make the flowers a flatter uniform color. the background texture I would make a little more regular.
fish: again more uniform colors and crisper edges. if you are going to use the brush to texture, i would make the brush strokes linear, all in the same direction.
falling leaves: nice composition. use enough paint so it doesn’t look transparent and you can’t see the brush strokes as much.
eclipse: fairly standard idea, but nice choice of colors. the brush stroke texturing works well here, as does the subtle gradient in the background.
darksky: not too much going on here. not fond of the pattern of stars, the low contrast between treeline andsky, or the use of texture in the trees.
colin: nice! did you do this purely from your head or did you posterize a photo first?would just do crisper edges.
cillian: general composition, color choice good. wispy hair bits is nice. proportions of face look a little too distorted.
christmastree: general composition good but basic drawing skills are a little off on this one. boxes should probably be uniform color internally, or have much sharper corner lines. i like how they are all blue but different shades of blue, maybe use more than just 2 shades of blue for different boxes. the perspective is not quite right. it would be better to all have them in exactly the same angle, or have them at much more random angles. i would use a more realistic christmas tree stand shape. the lights would probably look cool if they were in even more straight lights, and more perfect circles.
butterfly: nice, would maybe make the body part just all black rather than mix in brown.
bubbles: neat
bouncing: neat. would the bounces closer to parabolas
boom: good, but crsiper edges, uniform colors
birds: didn’t quite like the shape of your birds.
balloons: great! again, would make all the white balloons look like one big cutout of white rather than layers of different objects. make the strings a little crisper, and either perfectly straight down, or a smoother slightly S shaped curve.
so that’s seeming to be my general advice: crisper edges and more uniform color. use enough paint so you don’t see the brush strokes and it doesnt look translucent. if you use texture, do a more uniform cutout painted texture rather than a brush texture. if you do use brush texture, do more linear or uniform. for gradients, use a smoother gradient. for circles, do either a uniform color or a smooth spherical gradient.
good start! some of these would make nice tshirts!