Erza Draksya — Fantasy Character Design & Illustration

ErzaDraksya

Hi everyone! I'm Erza Draksya, a fantasy character designer and illustrator based in France. I create original characters and worlds using a hybrid workflow (AI-assisted generation + manual Photoshop refinement). I'd love honest feedback on my work — what works, what doesn't, what catches your eye.

Here's one of my latest pieces — Rynasha, daughter of two dragon gods, leaping from a cliff above her father's fossilized heart:"

"You can see more of my work here: https://www.artstation.com/erzadraksya

Any feedback welcome — I'm here to learn and improve. Thanks for looking!

Fabi_G

Hi! I respect that you're upfront about your use of AI. I suggest you take look around the forum to get an idea of what some positions are on AI use, for example AI Art, Good or Bad?

If you really want to learn and improve: Ditch the AI part! Looking at the image, I see objective errors which make me question whether you're serious or lack some fundamentals (and as a result can't see what's wrong)?

zetheros

I wont spend the time to give you feedback if you didn't spend the time to do the work, lol

Francois_K

I am seconding what Fabi_G said.

Your character has two right legs and one has 6 toes. This is not a small thing to miss especially when your whole generated concept is a character. That speaks volume of how developed your eye is to spot anatomical inaccuracies.

 If your goal as you say is to learn and improve : Start with the basics.

Also it's rather disingenuous to put the tags "Created with AI" and "NoAI" consecutively on Artstation when you here flat out state you used it.

Best of luck. 

Edit: 
I stand corrected with the "noAI" part. I was not informed properly.

Eric Chadwick

The NoAI tag on ArtStation is not for indicating how the art was made, but to try to prevent scraping.
https://magazine.artstation.com/2022/12/noli-tag/

The tag is so poorly designed, because at first glance it looks like a "how this was made" tag, since all  the other tags are setup that way. Pretty unfortunate.

Anyhow, to the OP, for me the art looks derivative overall, and has some obvious errors as pointed out. This is what we commonly call "AI slop". What Photoshop paint-over work did you do for this? It would help to show a raw "before" shot, next to the "after" result, to help people gauge your skill and provide feedback.