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REFF Critiquers:
Deranged Laine
Ryuuzaki
Evil Tiger
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Nadesico Fan Art
Artwork by Ari
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Personal website: http://neptune.spaceports.com/~ari/
Specialty in Art: Portrait
Specialty in Medium: Computer Graphics
Self-estimated level: Intermediate
Artist's Comments: I've been coloring with Photoshop for quite a while, but I'm still quite bad at it >_<; Most people say my pics are good although I know they're pretty bad compared to others', so I'm hoping for a real critique now. ^^
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Deranged Laine Says: Wooo nice hair ! i like the look on her face too ,
starting right at me :D hm....what ye could do here is give her body more shading ,
like collar bones and neck shadings...right now it looks quite flat !another thing
ye can work on is linework . your sense of proportion and anatomy is quite good ,
just need to clean up the lines a bit :D right now the lines look a little jaggedy
and not..well smooth . especially at the neck there , there's a line going into the
shoulder ! O_o her ears probably need some details too , or else she's gonna look
like she's got them Leia buns on ! and the eyes...hm..i dont know exactly what it
is but there's just something about them...
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Ryuuzaki Says: I see nothing wrong with your computer graphics. I love the
way you do her hair especially. Her eyes are also really pretty. I think what you
do need to work on is anatomy and shading. Nowadays everyone has been using
Computer Graphics, so others think that it's the best and only way to practice.
However anatomy and shading are basics that every artist needs, especially computer
graphics artists.
The neck is a bit long, and the shoulders don't slope down so steeply. Also, she
should have a defined collar bone where some deep shading should be. Nose and lips
I think should have a lil darker shading...and a highlight on the lower lip.
Perhaps as an extra, you could try to study some ear structure so that Ruri doesn't
have flat ears? ^^
Okie...that's about it...there's just one little quirk that kinda pokes at me, but
you don't need to worry about it that much. It's probably just me, but the red hair
ties look a bit eh...crude compared to her wonderfully detailed and pretty hair.
Makes em stand out. Hehe...ah, I'll shut up now.
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Evil Tiger Says: Hi hi Ari! Your CG is beautiful as ever! I don't get why
you say you're bad at using Photoshop... ><
I like the detail you put in her hair and eyes... :D I think instead of Photoshop
skills, what you might want to work on is shading. Although the drawing is in anime
style, its shading can be a little "deeper"... ^_^ Some areas such as her neck can
be a bit darker, so her chin can stand out. Near the top of her pigtails and her
forehead can use more shading too, so her bangs will stand out in front. ^^ Just
try to be more daring with your shading, do what you did with the hair~!
If you want to enhance shading skills, I suggest pracice sketching and shading
things in black and white, that way you focus on just the shading instead of
colours.
Hope that helps! Keep on drawing!
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