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Evaluators:
 Lorelai
Sandara-3
Young
Wang
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Two Spirits, One Heart
Artwork by NobleKnight
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Personal website: www.crosswinds.net/~liro_boomerang/
Specialty in Art: portraits
Specialty in Medium: color pencils
Self-estimated level: beginner
Artist's Comments: I want suggestions as to how to improve on my techniques. My main problem is with drawing people. The picture I selected was drawn on watercolor paper (I'm an idiot) because I couldn't find a piece of regular paper big enough to draw it on. The artwork is of an original character of mine and the title is Two Spirits, One Heart
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Lorelai Says: The animals are nice, I think I see why you want help with people instead ^_^ So I'm going to give
you pointers on the person. First, his/her neck is too short. It's almost nonexistent, see how it makes his head
seem too heavy for his body? It's also at an unnatural angle, if the figure is looking UP that is fine, but you
should see more of his/her chin/helmet underside if their gaze was upwards. What you did is a very basic way of
"cheating," you made the figure look up but you didn't show us any new angles. It's similar to what the egyptians
did; they turned the torso sideways, towards you, but placed the feet frontwards in walking motion...hence that
awkward egyptian stance. You have a great concept of uniform and clothing design, keep that up. Be bold. Work on
your drawing layout, you sort of mushed the contents of the picture together, which confuses the eye. If you plan to
lay it out that way, at least use different colors so that we don't see a gray blobular shape from afar. Also, press
on your coloring medium for darker shades, and use those darker shades at the edges of the figures so that you can
round them out. Hmmm...what else...oh, one last thing. don't sign your picture in the middle. It's too obvious like
that. Sign it int he corner, along a line, or not at all. My art professor once told me that a signature marks a
picture as COMPLETELY FINISHED, and if it isn't near-perfect, it will really turn off experienced art viewers.
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Sandara-3 Says: the most obvious... don't do that with the watercolor paper again ^__^ ( or if you do, use
watercolor as your medium ) try to add shading to your coloring, usually ( unless your light source is from below )
the underside of everything will be darker than the top. other than that.... it's a nice wolf / eagle. ^_^
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Young Wang Says: Color pencils! Wow, I haven't used color pencils in a while.
If you have a photoshop type program, you might wanna use smart blur or
some kind of blending technique to make the tones nicer. The shading on
this is rather flat without any shadows so you might want to put those in
in the future =} The colors are also not very dynamic... but adding
shadows may change the way it looks. The way it currently is, everything
seems muted, so it's hard to say. As for the image itself, I think the
'man's' neck is tilted at an odd ankle.. you may consider tilting it the
other way in the future. =}
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