Nov '17

I have NO idea if you are looking for critiques or suggestions, so I don't want to over-step my bounds. But I wanted to see if I could "push" the pose? I don't know what you could do right now, since your sketch is pretty refined (( and gorgeous)) the only critique I have for the pose-as-is is i feel like the arms are kinda short? But it could just be the perspective needing more values around the elbow. You are a really amazing artist so I wanted to see if I could help at with your improvent.

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* totally just used your sketch as a base by the way, you have pretty good anatomy!

Nov '17

Goddammit yours looks so cool, fml , I'll probably take a note for the wings and the arms,because (honestly i'm too lazy to change up the whole drawing :smiley: ) For the arms I did try to foreshorten them but I do see now that they just look ..short now. Man I want your critiques all the time, please !!! Thank you soo much ^w^

Nov '17

!! I am so happy it's helpful! I can tell you were going for them extending towards the viewer, but I think you need to darken the values around the bend more and straighten out the lower arm some! the right hand looks pretty spot on for fore-shorterning around the wrist area though.

Nov '17

Finished Sailor Moon , I gotta do some environment practice cuz I suck at it

8 days later

Dec '17

Ooook , new drawing is in process , any tips are welcome ^w^

26 days later

Jan '18

This one kinda took a different direction I feel like, I'm not really satisfied with the result, it feels dull, unfinished and like it's missing something, but I'm pretty much at a dead end so I'll call it finish and let it be as it is. PS HAPPY NEW YEAR YAY

11 days later

Jan '18

Something in between the art challenge. Drawing mermaids is soo relaxing~~

Jan '18

Hey Castonia! Great stuff I see you submitting, its very adventurous! I've noticed that your works are looking great conceptually, but lack a bit of color execution, especially with your value range. Below I've greyscaled some of your work and then added some contrast filtering to show more what I mean.

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To solve it you could really experiment with what makes you most comfortable. Greyscaling a painting first is a good route for learning and more solid assurance it will turn out great; but you could also do some in depth color studies.

Hope this helps! I love your mermaids and hope to see more :wink:

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Jan '18

Thank you so much for the feedback, I just how bad my values are ( I knew before, but I actually saw just now). So I decided to take a step back and always start with greyscale .
This is the new thing I'm experimenting with. I was looking at some league of legends art and I saw the image in grey scale and it just blew my mind, so I'll be trying to work very detailed in greyscale 1st before going to color. But my problem with color is that I make it very muddy(mostly from color picking too much) and the other problem is that it just looks like I'm coloring a coloring book and I'm watching some utube videos to get some color knowledge but it's not going too well :smiley: Any tips ?
PS. Sorry for the overwhelming comment >.<
here's the image S

Jan '18

My progress so far, reeeally excited about this piece
BEFORE:

After

Jan '18

Dude that looks great!! and your colors are working together as well! keep pushing for detail and that will help push your improvement

Jan '18

So yeah I decided not to enter in any art challenges since I don't think I'm ready yet, but I keep drawing so that's good

Jan '18

So this is the final result, I really wanted it to look like a splash art, but I really struggled with colors and values . Any tips are highly appreciated ! Feedback is really important for me so that I can actually understand the mistakes I make. So yeah, this is where my skills pretty much end.

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