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...wat.i dunno...just so i wont go totally insnane with my lack of drawing time when school starts tomorrow.
Took like two hours...DDDDDD:
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happy 2012 <3
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Beautiful picture
The petals really look beautiful!
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I hope you don't mind a little constructive feedback! But hey, it's a new year and all I want to see is for artists to improve!
To begin positive I want to say that I LOVE the background. The colors are amazing and it looks really neat! However, the ground is not as impressive. The break between grass and water is very clean cut and unrealistic. Unless it's a man made and lined body of water, it's going to have dirt. And the border between the grass and water is going to have dirt. By the positioning of her feet I can see that the water is shallow as well, so next time you are making a background such as this, look up and observe references to get the most realistic and aesthetically pleasing looking background.
So now, let's look at the focal point of this drawing, the girl! The positioning looks a tad awkward to be honest. However, I can still see the main message you are trying to project: An innocent looking girl, pretty shy perhaps, down by the water and night. I feel like you could've done a much better pose to portray what you wanted! Perhaps her laying down, or dipping her fingers in the water. Posing is always a trick, and I know I struggle with it as well. Try doing the poses you draw yourself to begin, to see if it actually works. If it feels awkward or you can't actually reach the pose because it's impossible, don't use it. Try to find something comfortable and realistic, as well as portrays what you are trying to convey. Are you trying to draw someone looking uncomfortable? A typical way to spot this is arms crossed, head down and maybe even slouching to make themselves hide. Check out websites like artsyposes.com and posemaniacs.com for some ideas.
Also, the shading and lighting. It appears to be very inconsistent in where it is placed and the colors you picked don't match up as well.
A few things on shading and lighting. Your light source is very important. It looks like your right source is coming from the right, so why does all the lighting in the hair occur on the left? In her dress, there is a lot of middle shading, but the light source is not coming from directly in front of her. Plan ahead when it comes to lights and shadows, and always makr your light source while you are working.
Continuing on lights, the incredible amount of shiny does not fit with the dark at night scene. From now on when you are doing lighting effects, try not to just lighten up the base color, but use a color slightly more relevant to the setting.
For example, this girl is outside when the sun is rising: [link]
The yellow lighting not only makes the girl appear more APART of the scene rather than put on there, but it also gives the picture a warm feeling. Try experimenting with your warm and cool colors and shading and lighting with them.
Also, the hair. I've already covered the shading on it, but just another reminder not to shade with just a lighter and more saturated color than the base.
This doesn't have an exact setting for anything, but the shading done on this: [link] Is much more believable, as a lot of people have a nice hair shine, and white lighting (Inside stores, from light bulbs usually)is very very common.
Also, when you draw individual strands of hair in this cartoony style, make sure they all flow with the wave of the hair. If they all go straight then it looks not natural, and if they are all over the place then her hair looks like a tangled mess. From how her hair is they should be curving and moving with each other. Here's a good example of that: [link]
In general, I hope to also see you improve on your anatomy. There are so many great anatomy tutorials on the Internet, just look it up and you should be fine. Also consider mayb einvesting in an art book about anatomy, or just use an online gesture drawing tool to improve.
And for the style, can there be some variation? I acknowledge you have a very rounded style but you can still vary the eye sizes, the noses, the face shape, etc depending on the person. I would love to see you experiment with getting out of the 'Safe Face' and try to create a style where there is a visible difference between a male and female that is NOT boobs and hair. Again, the Internet is full of resources for that.
Also, the expression is very... bland. I see it all the time and it does not give me any life to this character. It's very generic and over used. This tutorial is amazing for working on good and original expressions: [link]
I hope this advice can help you with your art in the future Sammy! (:
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:''D I love it when I get long constructive comments, so much more meaningful and thoughtful then short mushy comments.
The shading, yeahh. I know I'm supposed to follow the rules of lighting, it's just like my guilty pleasure to shade wherever I want. I'll have to work on that.
The background was supercrapy, I know. The drawing actually looked better without the background, but it also looked bland, so I quickly put something together. 
The style...ooh don't even remind me. I've been having trouble with styles lately, especially the eyes. If there was a tutorial for that my life would be complete. But I can't imagine there would be.
The anatomy, I've been working on that a bit. I got an anatomy book, but it's terribly confusing and I'm still trying to figure it all out. :L
I'd reply to more things, but I have algebra homework to do. Procrastination is my favorite thing to do.
Thanks again! <3
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Now I feel like my comments suck
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I have Algebra II, so I can get that Dx School does come first!
Yay! I'm glad you enjoy long constructive comments, I agree that they are better ^^
Well, I guess this is opinionated but I feel like only ever uploading my best works to dA, or if I'm going to post something I will not have one part of it really nice and another part thrown together. But again, that's just my opinion!
Style honestly does not matter. Your style will stay with you no matter what you draw, so you should focus more on the actual drawing and anatomy and such, rather than making it look your 'style.'
As for anatomy, just start slow! Perhaps work on one point at first, or just learn the simplest parts of it. For example, learn the 8 head rule and then go from there. Study parts of the body you feel least comfortable drawing.
No problem! You are so very welcome <3
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Took me three seconds of staring. Then I was all HOLY CRAP THIS IS EPIC.
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I like her 
And I like that
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