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>>430

And now in color.

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>>554
Looked much better before this You're using very saturated colours throghout, and it looks like you shaded with the burn tool, which is a no-no.
Keep it black and white for now, but try to give your shading a range of values, afer that it pretty much colours itself.

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>>430 truly a beautiful picture, her posture really stands out and her body masculinty its truly amazing, I hope to see more artwork from you soon

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>>430 Thanks for the advice. I'll see what I can do to flesh her out a bit more. I'm still a little new to digitally painting things, so I played around a bit more then I should have with her shading. I'm going to head back to her outline and throw down a couple layers of shades and see how that picks things up.

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Here; a redline. A lot of the issues here were addressed by the first person who replied. Some of my anatomy might be wonk but I've tried to basically figure out your girl's posture and make the pose more compact/practical.

Also, this is a nitpick but it is my MAJOR nitpick about archery and how people draw archery; her arrows are on the wrong side of the bow. There is a lot of weirdness going on with your bow design that can be chalked up to fantasy, but the arrows are an easy fix.

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>>642
smaller version

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I see:
Hands too small
left arm too short
Etc.
Many problem with basic anatomy as far i can see.
You should read some of the above link with loomis book about figure drawing, pratice a lot and then come back here to have more advices.

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:| k

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im going to study for one week and come back to see if i improve...

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>>628

your last draw:
the left leg seems too much different form the right one.
just look at the leght of the feet

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oh i know... that's my biggest problem so far... and it was really just... quick... didn't think too much about it,,, just went... i realized it halfway through and didn't really want to redo it... so i left it

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Good work. Keep studying, of course.
Look up some diagrams on digitigrade legs, too, for more help with the leg muscles.

Might want to resize things like this in the future though. They're pretty big. And along the lines of alteration, see about using the spot healing brush to clear out unwanted marks instead of the dodge tool.

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i didnt use dodge... i used eraser but forgot it was soo big that the brush i was using would feather out...

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i think i understand digitigrade legs now.. i see.. thanks for the help ^.^

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Anybody want to help?

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Yes, as long as you're actually baracudaboy.

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Don't blow my coner D:
I'm like the shittiest artist on the planet and this drawing almost seems like a joke.
WHYYY would I want people to know who I was.

lol, oh, the file name. last time I post on lulz stoned -_-

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Lol, lulz is over there.

It is okay, though.

I will see what I can do.

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>>633
hahahaha, even more evidence I should stay off the computer at times of...brain deficiency. XD jesus.

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The body is quite ok for a comic character.
But the head don't work. Try to understand how other succeful comic artist draw their head. Draw bigger eyes, give more expression and expressivity to your character, turn the direction were she is pointing the nose.

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>>598 Here's what I have after a bit of tweak. I just sketched in the tail at the last second. I'm still working on it. I'm going to try and balance out the shades a bit since it seems a bit two-tone to me right now.

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Lighting is confusing, is the point.

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Work on value.
Seriously, work on value.

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>>603 Thank you. This is very very helpful of you and I'll get to work on fixing her up a bit. I appreciate you taking time off to show me what I'm lacking.

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>>603
fukkin saved :D

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>>596 thanks ^^

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Another one

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>>607
Same points as abov with the tail and nails, and also ͟s͟h͟o͟r͟t͟er forehead like the way canines have. Also, canines' eyes don't face straight forward like humans, they face more to the sides, and since furry is a mix between the two, the eyes could face too to the side a bit more.
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>>608
No one believes that you're me, dumbfuck.

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Except maybe OP.

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>>579
The layout of the comic is god-awful. It's very hard on the eyes. Especially that triangle frame- out of no where and constantly pulls my eye back to it. Also. Work on anatomy. Draw from life.

Keep it up.

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Oookaay, I'll work on the layout when I make more pages, because you're right, it is very crowded. Anything else? Preferably more constructive.

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>>579
It doesn't all have to be on one page.

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>>595

It's not all on one page, that isn't the end. Like I said, i'm going to fix the layout on the next pages

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>>581
An update

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>>581 I think its looking pretty good ^v^, she's very cute.

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Why does it look like her left arm is about one hand's length shorter than her right? Speaking of hands, where are they?

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>>589

Those are pretty easy questions to answer.

1.) Because the left arm is shorter than the right arm
2.) I haven't added any details to the hands and feet yet, but both are hidden. her right hand will be half visible though. It's going to be resting on her hip bone facing away from the viewer. I imagine that her left hand will be behind her left leg maybe to be holding it up.
Working on the limbs now.

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here we go. Update-o-rama

Fixed the leg and the arm. Still working on the main things like defining the legs, arms, etc.

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Omit your line layer or paint over the lines. Leaving a hint of them there might work, if they look like they were traditionally painted on (usually much easier to do if they're thick and globby).

Try thinking of your tool as a paintbrush. Have you ever painted traditionally? What with?
My experimentation is limited, so I haven't much messed with custom made brushes that attempt to emulate traditional ones. For technique itself, using a higher opacity and a hard brush tends to lead an image to look like it's been done with acrylic... it kind of feels more like using acrylic too, ultimately thicker and not as smooth as oil...

In this picture, the chain in the midground looks very digital, due to the completely solid completely opaque round brush used. The edges are just too crisp. The one in the background has a couple areas like that too.
The one in the front is pretty good but I don't have much of an eye for having blurry acrylic... hyper-tom's really good at it though, but he uses an airbrush. http://hyper-tom.deviantart.com/art/Deja-Vu-89307604

For the character, maybe work on blocking in the area instead of relying on lines to convey the edges. Paint the form from the silhouette.
Always use the biggest possible brush for rendering, and add the sweet details in last, including any useage of black or white.

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>>562

Hello there Deatzh, thank you very much for the input, it's pretty spot on I think.

To answer your question, I have painted traditionally, with just about everything you could think of (watercolor, oil, acrylic, gouache, and some temper paints.) For my character here I didn't really use a round brush, I used a chalk brush set to become more opaque with higher pen pressure. One of the things I have been trying to get a grasp on in my recent work is having that subtle layer of texture there to help it not look digital, at the same time I am not really looking to emulate real world painting...for that I would use painter XI or something.

Your deer painting does look very much like acrylic paint thanks to all the hard edges,

Also, one of my weaknesses in illustration for a long time has been relying on line a little too much :3 So, you are right... I did paint over them to try and make them blend a bit better though, none of the line work is black.

Well, thanks again, I hope some of what I said makes sense :S. If you thin of anything else let me know!

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>>536

forgot one thing... here is the same piece without any linework.

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>>536 Wow. Lookin nice sir. I agree with Deatzh about the middle chain looking digital, but as for the the looseness of the piece I enjoy it. It's nice to see those thin, graceful contours holding together the larger blocks of color.

The overall layout of the piece is nice as well- nothing is centered and it seems to be following the rule of thirds. Apart from tightening up that middle chain, my only other suggestion would be to alter the color of the most distant chain. As objects recede from the viewer, they become more similar (in both value and color) to the background. The value seems on, but I think the chain should be more greenish. The chain in the bottom right becomes an eye sore because it's so gray.

Overall though, I think it's a very nice piece. Keep it up.

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>>575

wow GREAT observation on the atmospheric perspective there, I had never noticed that! Thank you for your words! :3