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Published: 2012-04-26 00:59:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 8567; Favourites: 288; Downloads: 225
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quick redesign of an old character of mine
luckily i got lots of other characters that could use a makeover, so i won't run short on supply
i'm taking commissions again, send me a note if you're interested!
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she's part of a bigger story that i'm developing for years now, but it'll take some time until i feel i'm ready to tell it
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Can you tell if she a hero or villain
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no, because it's rather complicated
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Okay understandable well I'll wait till your comfortable to revealed
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Wow! I can just feel the heat coming off of her ::cough cough:: and ash!
Awesome job dude!
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thanks, also for watching
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I usually don't critique the work you do, but I think I'll give a crack at it.
I really love the colouring that you did, it looks like she's got cracks of lava in her outfit, and the smoke is exceptional. The cinders coming off her was a very nice touch too.
I'm not sure I'm too fond of the light burst in the background since it tends to draw the eye away from your character. On the actual character the hair seems a bit too straight at the end, unless a razor cut was what you were looking for? Also the chest seems a bit...awkward. I'm not sure if it's because it's too circular or if I have just because accustom to seeing big-breasted women or flat chested women on art now a days. The elbow on the right [to the viewer] also seems a bit odd. It almost looks as if a piece of it is broken off.
I hope this helps
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well, i'm aware of most of the mistakes, it was just a quick 90 minutes thing, not something i paid too much attention to.
anyway, thanks for trying to help pointing out some of my mistakes, i really appreciate it!
(much more helpful than all those one-worded comments)
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It was no problem :3 it's very frustrating to just feel like your getting feedback from a wall sometimes xD I try and occasionally critique
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yeah i know that feeling...however i generally don't criticize other peoples work, because most of them react...not well, even though i'm trying to be as polite and constructive as possible...guess many other people feel the same way and don't want to upset the artists they admire
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I've run into the not taking the criticism well quite a few times. A ton of excuses, I've heard most of them. And frankly, if the artists I admire can't handle some critique I really lose respect xD I find starting off with the good helps...sometimes it's hard to find the good xD
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i was like this too (10 years ago when i was 16, lol) and i was wondering why my art didn't improve...and i don't know, at some point it just struck me like a lightning and after that i was never again satisfied with any of my works, which helped me improve quite alot
today i'm really happy if people help me find mistakes in my pictures but it doesn't happen really often
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Well, the only time I have a rough time taking critique is if you draw something that is referenced, say an OC? And then you're told that your missing something or something is wrong, when it's not even on the reference.Just an annoyance 
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no, the worst kind of critiques are the stupid ones...like you colored someone elses lines and wrote
in your comment that you just colored someone elses lineart and the first thing people are telling you is that something's wrong with the lines
or if you wrote in the comment that you are aware of a certain mistake and they still point it out...this is just annoying as hell, haha!
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I don't usually use someone else's lineart xD Mostly because I'm sooo new to digital, that I want to be able to figure out how to do it myself before I use other people's. It's all very new and scary.But yes, sometimes I wonder if people overdose on stupid pills when writing comments.
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it's not only the lineart thing, it's an overall observation i made and it's just terrible.
people tend to ignore the comment completely and then ask questions or rant about a thing that is already explained in the comment...this behavior just sucks :/
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Usually if someone says look at the artist's comments there's usually a reason
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well, i guess if you want to get better, you have to take the initiative in your own hands and directly ask people to give you their opinion!
...at least they do not sell your personal information to ad-people like facebook does
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True enough! Not that dA is too far from that.
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Woah damn! What an awesome design and a VERY suitable name! Love the magma effects on her!
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yeah, she's really hot, in the most literal sense
it's fun to redesign my old stuff, because what i did back in the day looked a bit...well... naive you could say, but taking the core elements of the design and build a new one around them with all the stuff i know now is really cool!
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I agree! I do that as well every so often ^^
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y'know, the reason why most of my characters change their outfits so often is, that i constantly get new ideas for their design and want to try them out as soon as i can
i really don't like the idea of defining a character with their outfit, because it's kinda lame and boring having to stick to the same design for a long time!
(i mean people have wardrobes in real life too, so why not give your characters some new clothes every now and then
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True say true say, I have a lot of sketches of some of my characters in different outfits. Some decent, some atrocious and make me want to erase everything o-o
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ha, yeah i know that!
when i go through my old sketch folders, some of the pics make me so ashamed (because i sucked so much at drawing) that i want to crawl in a dark hole and die
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Oh I know! Ahaha it's so painful for me too look >.<
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