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Courtesy of Arne Niklas Jansson: Basic and comprehensive drawing and painting tutorial
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These were brought to my attention by Aeresque#Artist. Courtesy of Scribd: Drawing the Human head, Drawing Dynamic Hands, Dynamic Figure Drawing
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Painting critique

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IceFreyja 10/01/04(Mon)18:36 No.463 463

Well I finally talked myself into posting something for critique and it just so happens to be my first attempt at doing a painting and that being of me and my boyfriends fursonas.
The piece was done in approximately 8-12 hours of work and done with acrylic paint. Not much else too it really, the idea had been festering in my mind for a while and I decided to paint it and give to my boyfriend for x-mas.
I'm thinking of doing more paintings so I'd like to know what I can improve on. I'm open to critique so give me your best shot.

IceFreyja 10/01/09(Sat)07:46 No.477 -

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No one can give me any tips on how to improve? I'd really love at least one comment on it

Deatzh#Artist 10/01/09(Sat)12:24 No.478 -

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Patience, you'll get it eventually.

Xenofur#Admin 10/01/10(Sun)05:42 No.495 -

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>>463
You asked for it. Harsh critique incoming. Don't blame me if you jump from a bridge after reading this.
The good: I like the way you draw fur. It looks sufficiently fuzzy.
The bad:
The paw in the foreground looks terribly deformed. No matter whether it is supposed to be animalistic or humanoid, there is no way to hold it like that. It has no wrist. The forearm is too long. It'd take way too long for me to tell you all the things you'd need to fix about this, so I'll say this:
Get a full-length mirror and a chair. Lean yourself onto the back of the chair with your arm and take the position seen in the picture. Compare that with the picture. You'll see that it's essentially impossible for you to emulate the arm in that image. The ratio of forearm length to upper arm length is off on the smaller one too.
The angle between the chest and the head of the bigger one is awkward and looks painful. Doesn't help either that the nose is drawn partly from a front angle, but forced onto a full profile head.
I can't tell in what direction the chest of the smaller one points.
The following applies if the chest of the chest points to the right of the viewer:
The chests of the two tigers seem to intersect in the space that you conveniently blacked out. The upper arm is weirdly thin. The angle of head to chest of the smaller one is awkward.
This applies if the chest is pointing to the left of the viewer:
The blacked out center totally breaks the perspective.
Lastly: This picture fails to convey emotion to me.
In the end i can only tell you the same i tell everyone else here: Work on your lineart, lineart, lineart. Do not even consider thinking about wondering which colours might eventually be appropiate unless you got the basics down. No amount of pretty stuff will make a picture magically good if its foundation is not rock-solid.

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