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[16 tons]

Sucho I'm madly in love with you.

sucho responds:

eeek girl cooties D:

[Aliena dux]

You've got some real skills showing, especially in the first two pieces you posted. A few things though.

-At least four of your pieces need to be marked public in order for you to be scouted. You've got four up, so some if not all must not be marked public.

-This is by far the weakest of your pieces, primarily because of the anatomy. It seems a bit silly to expect human anatomy of a demonic creature, but you've got the body similar enough to that of a human that I'm assuming that's what you were aiming for, more or less. I'm not sure if the lack of a neck is part of him being a demon or just lack of practice drawing people.

The wrist is posed especially unnaturally, twisted palm out in a way that would require the elbow to twist with it. The hands should end halfway down the thigh, rather than a few inches down from the hips.
Anatomy-wise, there's a system of proportions most artists learn before being able to depict the human body realistically. It's better learned in figure drawing classes than from strangers on the internet, but here's some tricks:

The human body (assuming someone is standing up straight and facing forward, arms down), is approximately 7.5 heads tall (although many people choose to draw them 8 heads), and the wrists and the bottom of the groin are approximately halfway up the body. Knees are a quarter of the way up. For faces, the eyes are halfway down the head. The nose ends halfway between the eyes and the chin. Split the area between the nose and chin into three. I'd put the lips on both sides of a third of the way down, and the narrowing of the chin on the other third.
The face should be five eyes across, with an eye's width of space fitting between the two actual eyes. Assuming the mouth is relaxed and not smiling or frowning, the corners of the lips should line up with center of the eyes.

Hope this helps. I like your first two pieces quite a lot- I'll be delighted to scout you on their merit if you fix your stuff so they're marked public.

Xetos responds:

Thanks for the review and the scouting it actually worked :)

The issues you've raised are due to both lack of practice and some perspective failures (especially for the right arm).
I never learned drawing in others ways than by myself and I've really started less than one year ago so I have all the time to improve my skills I suppose. ^^

[Gabriella]

You seem attached to the style and poor anatomy for some reason, so although I find it trite and derivative, let's focus on other things. The shading is lazily done and the the color scheme seems chosen at random. I recommend drawing from life a bit more- it'll give you a better sense of how light works. Learning some color theory will help too- I'm sure if you google it you can find some nice tutorials.

DragonPunch responds:

I just got through explaining that I wanted a more cartoony style. You may be right about the color scheme though. I heavily disagree with the anatomy. I do understand the basics, I just wanted a more cartoony feel. I also wanted a more simplistic style of shading, which might be why it looks rather lazy. Your critique wasn't thorough enough, by the way. What needs to be fixed? What can I do better next time? Hints please!

[Cristina Scabbia]

Neat picture. How did you make it?

MinioN99 responds:

I painted it in Photoshop.

[Fus Ro Dah!]

Awesome stuff. Just so you know, you need at least four of your pieces marked public or you can't be scouted.

ThePrisoner responds:

Thanks very much!

[Hail To The King, Baby]

MOARRRR

Please.

Lintire responds:

Never fear, more is on the way!

I WILL NEVER STOP PUNISHING THE ARTISTIC WORLD WITH MY PRESENCE, FUCKERS.

[Dream time]

Neat work, but

1) I think you could really benefit from learning how to document your work properly- I doubt that the current images do them justice. Here's a tutorial that will show you how: http://art101.newgrounds.com/news/post/314936 .

2) You won't be able to be scouted until at least 4 of your works are marked public so that they can appear in the portal.

jim3 responds:

Thank you for the suggestions.

[Drug of Choice]

lovely but

This is gorgeous, and I really wish that that watermark wasn't there so that I could experience it properly.

Do you ever work with toned backgrounds? Most of your works I've seen so far feature tons of whitespace, which I sometimes feel is more of a default stemming from an initially white paper or canvas than a conscious design decision.

ShawnCoss responds:

I usually don't add bg's because I only focus on the subject at hand. But I am trying to get better at that and adding more atmosphere to the image

[Dandy Lion]

Superb, but

Awesome job with a fun idea. My only complaint is the red ribbon on the cane- it's the only red thing in the work so it grabs a lot of attention (which i imagine you don't want it to get? unless it has some sort of symbolism i'm not grasping), and it doesn't fit with the rest of the color scheme. It'd be easy to fix, by making it a different color (brown or blue probably) or by making a few other things in the composition redder, like by adding red notes to the lion's mane and tail. Making the cane ribbon match the hair ribbon might be best.

Madame-origami responds:

Fair point, but I did choose the red on purpose to break up the tone scheme of the piece and to contrast the zebra print. Thank you for your input, though.

[Colin Firth.]

Neat linework, great progress

The problem you have here is that the face is set too low. You've made the opposite mistake from most beginners- most people look at faces and then draw people as if their hairline is the top of the head, which results in weird stretched out faces. You've managed to set the face too low- if you're looking at a head dead on, the eyes should fall halfway up the head- in this case the eyebrows should fall roughly where the that cresting curl of hair is on his forehead.

That said, it's great to see the values you've added to this piece the second time around- it's hugely improved. It's also great to see you drawing hair so wonderfully- a number of your pieces draw the entire skull shape and then sort of put the hair in as if it's growing from behind the head, rather than on the head itself. I'm delighted to see that you figured out how to avoid that here.

IloveNantes responds:

I know I always manage to make the forehead too large, thus setting the face in too low... :/ I've fought that for over a year now and I'm not too sure on how to improve that.

Thanks, though, and I'll definitely take your words into consideration unlike mister Hiryugouki. :)