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REFF Critiquers:

-   Young Wang
-   Dragonfly

Original Artwork
Artwork by Terra

Personal website: http://members.xoom.com/lv99terra/index.html

Specialty in Art: People

Specialty in Medium: Markers

Self-estimated level: Beginner

Artist's Comments: Well, here's an original character I've drawn for a set of stories I currently am writing. I messed up a few things while inking this--I'll point out because that's why the ear is wrong and that piece of hair above it is too.

-- feedback from the forces --


Young Wang Says: It's a very simplistic looking picture.. not that it's a bad thing. =} The lines seem awfully thick for such a big picture.. so it leads me to believe the image was either done with a thick pen or scanned in at a very high resolution off a very small image. Her clothing also lacks many defining lines, but there are wrinkles in the clothes drawn in on the contours. It's hard to 'critique'.. but it seems like a pretty good picture.. there just needs to be "more", I guess. =} If you colored it in photoshop and lowered the picture size, I think it could look better =}

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Dragonfly Says: Hi Terra~

First thing that comes to mind with this piece, is the inking you used. I'm not to sure what you're using, but I think that It's too thick for inking. I think if you used a thinner pen, then the linework would look a lot better. Now onto the piece itself. I like the simple linework you've used, but the problem I see is mainly in the details in the face. Firstly her eye is placed to close to the eyebrow. Another point is the nose, I'd look at making it more prominent then you have it here. The next area would be the mouth, once again, It's details are a little hard to make out. Lastly would be the chin and the area leading up the her ear. The way it digs into the face is something that it shouldn't be doing. The curve you have, should be opposite really to the way you have it shown here. I also think continuing the line up to her eye, would make the piece look a lot better.

I think most of these problems are caused mostly from the inking, rather then the penciling. That said, I think if you develop the details a lot more, then I think your art will start to look a lot better.

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