Setsuna Says: Ooh, very nicely detailed coloring. I really like the design of the staff. The face is also quite nicely done. However, on second glance, the position of the hands looks a little strange - both of them are just resting on the staff. Neither of them is gripping the entire weight of the shaft (which looks to be simple sticking to the palms). I'd recommend you redraw the bottom hand to wrap around the shaft, gripping it tightly as it'd be a substantially heavy on that end of the weapon.

The upper torso down to the pelvis is quite nicely drawn (again, very nice coloring job!), but I'd recommend that you check the position of the the feet in the image. The feet seem to be twisting in a different direction than the body, with no weight on them. Probably a better position (and maybe a bit easier to draw) would be to have the legs spread shoulder width apart, facing (or turned out slightly) towards the front (then you don't have complications with the fabric twisting and such).

As for the flowing cloth of the lower body, I can understand how difficult it is to capture the draping against the legs. Sometimes just winging it works, but other times, it's helpful to stand in front of a mirror, with perhaps a piece of cloth draping around your waist to study the folds.

Kudos to you for the extra detail on the jewel on the weapon, as well as the well proportioned face, and the nicely flowing hair. Good job! This is only a few steps to becoming perfect.

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Maggie Says: Wow!! I don't know why your so worried about your CGing! its really very good! I love the skin tones and I really like the hair. If there is one CG hting I'd like to bring your attention to is maybethe folds in the middle of the bottom half of the outfit. You only would put a single line of darker coloring. usualy when clothes fold like that I would make a little bit of a larger shadow, and maybe some highlighting would be nice there too. like some white or light blue. I dunno, its just a thought. And also I was wondering about the legs. They seem a little twisted in a wierd way from the rest of you body. Look at the pic as a whole (like the entire pic at once, not jus different parts at a time) and see if you see what I mean. It's just a littke wierd to me. but i meanthe background is really cool and I like the light at the bottom! thats cool and the coloring on the staff is really nice too! I hoe I helped some!! good luck!

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Ryuuzaki Says: Hey there. Mmm...so ye wanna be critiqued on your coloring? Welp, since it's supposed to be cell-style, there's not much I can say. The shading on the dress is a little odd...it looks like the light source is mainly coming from the top, but there's an obvious light source from the bottom. You might want to consider some more highlights, not just in the jewel of her staff. It heightens the contrast and give a picture more life. That's all I can say bout your coloring. =)

What usually happens is people are too worried bout how their CG coloring to work on the most important part: the basics. I think your coloring is fine for now. What you do need to work on is drapery and human figure. The folds in the dress and the leg placement look a little weird. Upper legs are too long. They're twice the length of the upper body, when they should be just slightly longer than the upper body. I think the shading on the dress is off because you don't have natural-looking folds in there. Yup yup, so I'd say great work in the CG, it obviously looks like you spent a great deal of time coloring, but now human figure and drapery need some love. =)