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Published: 2009-04-14 21:34:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 826; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 0
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for [link]^-^ i loved drawing the pose for this.
the re-done version of [link]
unfortunatly i have photoshop 6, so i can't make very good custom brushes
that didn't stop me from making a couple of different feather brushes 
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I lovehoe to background goes into a patter as it eventally fades in black at the bottom. You can see a lot of life in this picture, even though the background is dark you can see the glowing light in the girls face as the fether shoots out light. I personally think this is brilliant! The body and the hair are well put together. even the clothes to. Keep up the GREAT work!
The shadowing is perfect as for the shining in the hair. But you just have to love the fade in the dress plus having the dress white. In kind of brings a Yin & Yang detail into it.
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thankyou for the critique ^-^ wheres the critique though
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Well there s really nothing bad I can say about your picture because it was so good!
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I really like that you were asking for critique, so I decided I'd step up for ya.
Right now I say that I really do like the colors used. The golds and reds look nice together. The character is pretty cute to.
Anatomy:
Face- The eye needs to be pulled back a tad and then shrunk. I know this is anime style, but the eyes look too out of proportion with the rest of the face. The ear needs to come up. When in profile, the ear is in the center of the head. But in any case, the ear lines up with the eyes. You can check out any how to draw tutorial/book, and they'll show you the guides for faces. (I use 'em all the time)
Body- The legs look really misplaced. I'm having trouble imagining how they look behind the white sheet to connect to the body. I DO like that you actually drew the feet and didn't try to cover them up. They don't look so bad, and with pictures like this, the practice will let you improve more.
Hands- Everyone has trouble with them. You probably saw this coming. The hand on their knee looks like it's missing its thumb. You only drew four knuckles and I don't see anything that indicates a thumb being tucked under.
The other hand is in a rather unique looking pose. The reason it looks a little funny is because you didn't divide the fingers off into sections. I'm working on this as well. e.deviantart.com/emoticons/a/a… " width="19" height="19" alt="
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Coloring-
Though I have to say, that it does look very pretty, when you really pay attention to it, it just seems odd that you used soft shading on the skin but hard shading on the hair. The hair then stands out A LOT more.
I think that's it. I really like the simple background and the use of gradients. It's really pretty. I also like how the wrap is dissappearing on the bottom.
Okz, I hope this is helpful! e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/h… " width="15" height="13" alt="
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Much better than the critique I did for this picture
I have to practice critique
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I have to practice giving pictures the stars they deserve... I always feel too low or too high...never perfect. =\
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I'm sure we'll both get the hang of it eventually
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thankyou for the critique ^-^ many of the things you pointed out i had realised when doing the picture, some of them i tried to fix others not really
if the eye was pulled back more then it'd probably look like the space between them was very large, the ear should be pulled up though(i wasn't really paying much attention
yeah i had a bit of trouble with the legs, it's mainly the cloth that makes it hard to see how they work, in the sketch you could see how it all worked out
i got a bit lazy with the line art on that hand
i've been changing some things to my shading
thankyou again, i love hearing critiques...you rated me a bit low though
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I never know what to do with the star thingies... .___. Sometimes I feel like they're too low while others far too high... I don't even know what it means by "vision" or whatever... Sometimes I click randomly. Don't take the stars to heart. ._.;
And yeah,80% of the time I get critique on stuff I've already pointed out to myself. But I like hearing that...I dunno...that I was right? So I'm usually happy when people repeat my thoughts.
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kay ^-^ i try and give them a bit of thought...if i think it's low then i usually go in the middle. i think 'vision' means what their aim was for the piece, their vision ^-^ like in the case of the original pic i was redoing, my vision was to make a picture to emphisize the feather brush i had made..
yeah ^-^ i find it good to hear what people say about my work so i can see the problems that stand out (ones that i can see and others see), smaller problems(ones i don't see) and the things that work ^-^
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This picture just blew my mind away, the colouring is so detailed, yet with a beautifully simple designed character. First of all the deep contrasts between the character and the background is wonderful, without the background just being plain black.
The shading is so deep and colorful, it's always nice to see different colours in skin. The way the hair is moving away from the feather really inhances the feathers importance in this image. What is it a feather of? It must be from something majical.
This is such a lovely picture that really captures a perfect moment in time.
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thankyou ^-^ though that's not really critiquing my work
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hahaha I was trying, but I guess it came out as more of an annalysed compliment, huh?
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yeah
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lol I'm sorry
I'll try to be more mean in my next one hahaha
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^-^ hehe
bring on the critique! you could do half good points and the other half negative comments
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Ah, I'll keep that in mind ^____^
lol thankyou my first critique victim
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It's lovely, i love the way the glow from the feather lights up her face. And the colouring i gorgeous too!
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thankyou ^-^ yay for glowing stuff
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It's a very nice picture, but after looking at it awhile I realized that the hand farthest from the viewer is the wrong hand. If she were to have her left hand in that position, it would have the thumb facing outward so that we probably couldn't see it.
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thankyou, yes i found that hand a bit hard to do, mainly the pinky finger...i tried my best though at getting it right ^-^ if i did the hands the other way around though then you can't see her other arm and it doesn't get the same feel
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oh wow the coloring is sooooo gorgeous!!!! <3 <3
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Wow! If I didn't know better, I'd say it was a screenshot from a movie. Are you sure you're not working for a professional anime company that is doing a movie? Hmmm?????? I'm kidding...I've been watching you long enough to know you're that good.
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^-^' hehe thankyou, i want to do a course in animation actually at some point in the coming years. i've been meaning to do a mock anime screen too o_o hmm...i should stick up this group of anime style sketches i've been doing
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Ooooo...yes...I support seeing more of that. It still looks so great. YW
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maybe i should do one with one if the sketches i've been doing ^-^ i've gotten back into drawin perspective things, i love perspective
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Perspective pieces are really good once you get the basics down. It also is something that a lot of intermediate level artists forget to account for when they are drawing or the reverse happens and they try to do perspective and overly do perspectives.
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thankyou ^-^ i love doing glowing things, her face looks nicer when you're really close up
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