Free drawing critique
Rate my drawing — honest feedback, drawn right on your sketch.
The honest way to rate my sketch: upload a photo of your drawing or art — at any angle, it straightens the page for you — or draw here in the browser. Luna reads your drawing three times and keeps only the advice her reviews agree on: five skill scores, what to fix circled right on your drawing, and, if you drew from a reference, how closely you captured it. Under a minute.
Luna measures technique — never your creativity or style.
Add a photo of your sketch
Tip: photograph your sketch in good light and fill the frame with the page. Pencil, ink, or marker all work.
First one's instant. No account.
How the sketch critique works
Rate My Sketch is a free drawing-feedback tool by Drawize Academy: it scores your sketch on five technique dimensions, draws corrections directly on your image, and hands you one fix plus one exercise — with reasons, not just a score. Behind the scenes every submission is reviewed three times with criteria matched to what you drew — a portrait, a building, an anime character — and only the advice the reviews agree on reaches you. The whole critique takes under a minute end to end.
Show Luna your sketch
Photograph a pencil, ink, or marker drawing straight from your sketchbook — any angle is fine, the page straightens itself — paste a screenshot, or draw on the built-in canvas. Drew from a reference photo? Add it too. Work-in-progress is welcome, no account needed.
She measures five skills and marks up your drawing
You get a score for lines, shading, corners & joins, precision, and proportions — plus up to three notes circled directly on the drawing, exactly where the issue lives.
You leave with one fix and one exercise
Instead of ten vague tips, the critique names the single highest-leverage fix and a five-minute practice drill matched to your weakest skill. Redo it and re-check to watch the scores move.
What the five scores measure
Concrete, practiceable technique — never creativity, style, or subject choice.
Lines
Are your strokes confident and continuous, or feathered and re-drawn? A low score usually means lines stitched from short, hesitant marks.
Shading
Is your tone even and deliberate — pressure, direction, edges? Flat or muddy values are the most common reason a drawing reads as unfinished.
Corners & Joins
Do strokes meet cleanly where they should, or overshoot and gap? Open joins quietly make a structure feel unstable.
Precision
Do your marks land where you aimed them? Precision is trainable accuracy, not neatness.
Proportions
Do the sizes and placements agree with each other? Your eye notices a proportion error before you can name it — and when you add the reference you drew from, this score measures how faithfully your drawing matches it.
Every one of these skills is trainable. The critique tells you which one to work on; the Sketching Essentials course then builds it step by step with the same coach checking every attempt — or browse all courses. If you want the theory behind this feedback-first approach, read our guide to deliberate practice for drawing.
Compare to your reference
Drawing from a reference? See how close you got
Doing a study, copying a master, or drawing from a photo? Add that reference next to your drawing and Luna compares the two — measuring how faithfully your proportions, placement, angles, and shapes match the source, and marking exactly where they drift. It turns “something looks off” into “the head is a touch large and the shoulders sit narrow.” Most rate-my-art tools can't do this — it's the difference between a compliment and a correction you can act on.
- Proportion and accuracy measured against your actual reference
- Corrections drawn on your drawing, never on the reference
- Completely optional — skip it for a technique-only critique
“Next to your reference, the head reads a little large and the shoulders sit narrower than the photo — nudge the shoulder line out and the likeness snaps into place.”
A real reference comparison, in Luna's words
Get a drawing critique that's actually useful
The feedback is only as good as what Luna can see. Photograph your sketch in even light, fill the frame with the page, and avoid glare or strong shadows — don't worry about holding the camera square, though: the tool straightens the perspective for you, so any comfortable angle works. She can't score what's hidden, but pencil, ink, charcoal, and marker all read fine.
If you drew from a reference — a photo, a still life, a master study — add it too. Luna will compare your drawing to it and tell you exactly where your proportions and shapes drift from the source, which is the single fastest way to sharpen a study. It's optional; without a reference she judges your technique on its own terms.
You don't need a finished piece. A work-in-progress critique often helps more, because you can apply the fix before investing another hour. The habit that improves people fastest: submit, apply the one fix, redraw, and submit again — watching a score move from Fair to Good teaches your eye what the difference feels like.
And if your drawings keep looking wrong in a way you can't name, that feeling is almost always one of the five measurable skills above — not missing talent. A critique points at the exact spot instead of leaving you guessing.
What a sketch critique looks like
A real critique of a simple mug sketch: notes circled on the drawing, five scores, one fix, one exercise.
Each note is anchored to the exact spot it talks about — "draw this side in one slower stroke" means this side, not lines in general. The radar shows all five scores at a glance, and the summary reads like a teacher's margin note: what works first, then the one thing to fix.
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Nothing is generated. Your drawings never train AI models. Ever.
Luna looks, measures, and writes notes — she never redraws your work. Uploaded images are automatically deleted from our servers within 30 days; only your downloaded score card is yours to keep.
Rate my sketch: frequently asked questions
Is this drawing critique really free?+
Yes — no account, no card. Your first critique starts right on this page, and every visitor gets about three per day. The full course behind it has a free first lesson too; we'd rather earn you than wall you.
What kind of drawings can I submit?+
Photos of pencil, ink, charcoal, or marker sketches, or anything you draw on the built-in canvas. Photograph your page in good light and fill the frame for the most accurate feedback — and don't worry about holding the camera square, the tool straightens the perspective for you. Unfinished, work-in-progress sketches are welcome.
What happens to my drawing after the critique?+
It is analyzed, annotated, and automatically deleted from our servers within 30 days. Nothing is generated from it, and your drawings never train AI models — ever. The score card you download is yours to keep.
How do I know if my drawing is good?+
"Good" is subjective, but technique is measurable. Instead of a yes-or-no verdict, the critique scores five concrete skills — lines, shading, corners and joins, precision, and proportions — so you can see which one is holding a drawing back and which are already strong.
Why does my drawing look off even when I can't say why?+
That feeling almost always traces to one of five measurable causes: hesitant line quality, proportions that disagree with each other, flat values, strokes that miss their joins, or marks that don't land where you aimed. A critique points at the exact spot instead of leaving you guessing.
What do the five scores measure?+
Lines, Shading, Corners & Joins, Precision, and Proportions — concrete, practiceable technique. Luna never scores creativity, style, or subject choice, because those aren't hers to grade.
Is this an AI art critique tool?+
Luna uses a vision model to measure technique, the way a chess app analyzes your moves. Nothing is ever generated, nothing is drawn for you, and your work never trains any model — that pledge is published on this page. We think of her as a coach that checks your work.
How is this different from posting on Reddit or a critique forum?+
Forums are wonderful but slow, public, and inconsistent — replies can take days and range from a careful redline to "looks nice." Here you get private, structured feedback in under a minute, with notes drawn on the drawing itself, and you can re-check a redo immediately.
How is this different from other rate-my-art tools?+
Most rate-my-art tools return a paragraph of generic praise about a photo of your art. Luna marks up your actual drawing with circles and notes, scores five specific skills, and gives you one fix and one exercise — feedback you can act on today.
Can I use it to rate my drawing, not just a quick sketch?+
“Rate my sketch” is the name, but it rates any drawing — pencil, ink, charcoal, marker, or digital line art, rough or finished. The same five technique scores apply either way. The only uploads it declines are photos of things that are not drawings, blank pages, and memes.
Can I compare my drawing to a reference photo?+
Yes — this is what sets it apart. If you drew from a photo or another picture, add that reference alongside your drawing and Luna compares the two: how closely your proportions, placement, angles, and shapes match the source, and exactly where they drift. It's the fastest way to check a study or a drawing-from-photo, and it's completely optional — skip it and she rates your technique on its own.
My photo is at an angle — will that hurt my score?+
No. Photograph your page however it lands on your desk. The tool automatically corrects the perspective (a four-point “de-skew”) before grading, so a tilted or skewed photo is judged as if it were scanned flat — you'll even watch it straighten. Proportions are scored on your drawing, never on your camera angle.
How do I know the feedback is consistent and not random?+
Every submission is reviewed three times, each review reading your drawing independently — and the critique you see is what those reviews agree on. A flaw that shows up in only one reading never leads your feedback. Same drawing, same verdict is the design goal, and we measure it rather than promise it.
Can it fairly rate anime, cartoon, or stylized art?+
Yes — this matters to us. The tool first recognizes what kind of drawing you sent — a portrait, a building, an anime character, a still life — and grades it with criteria that fit. An anime character is judged inside its style's own rules (shape language, consistency, silhouette), never as “failed realism”; a building is judged perspective-first; a portrait likeness-first.
Comparing your options? Read our honest comparison of free rate-my-art tools — ours included, bias disclosed.
One critique is a snapshot. A habit is a skill.
No card. No signup. 15 minutes.