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Whenever you're doing a drawing in color, you have to be conscious of which colors you're choosing and for what. Every picture needs to have some sort of color scheme; otherwise, it looks scrambled and inconsistent. Here's a color theory tutorial that I think is pretty good(I used to have a better one, but stupid me lost the link).

My other broad comment is that you need to work on your anatomy

Now for individual critiques.

Picture 1:
The illumination coming from the lighter is far too intense for how bright the rest of the picture is. It's also very monochromatic. The sky could also use some more detail and variation in color.

Picture 4 and picture 6:
I recommend adding in objects into the background instead of just having it be all sky. Also, I noticed that you said that you gave him two sets of hair because you wanted to show that he was jumping between them quickly, but you really can't show that in a still image without it looking strange. You have to pick one or the other, or make it a .gif. Additionally, make sure you pick a direction of light.

Picture 7:
Similar to picture 1, remember that the brighter your background light is, the less intense the glow from a secondary light source is going to be. So, I suggest either toning down the glare from the fire or coloring in the background so that it's a dark setting.

Picture 8:
If you're going to have a reflection on the armor, then it looks out of place if you don't have shading on the rest of the body that reflects that same light source.

Picture 14 (the last picture):
I agree with Fifty-50. I'll also say that your direction of light isn't consistent. On certain highlights, it's coming from above, but on other it's coming from the left. Additionally, everything looks too geometrical for something 3D. It's okay to cartoon like that, but once you start going into something that should look more realistic, it's not flattering.

Ok tried to work on my lighting, and depth on this one. Being a grocery store the ceiling has a crap ton of lights so the light source is above this picture. I hope I put shading in the right spots. What say you guys on lights and depth?

Lightning Storm

Sakura Geki and Topher

At 6/5/10 03:11 PM, Ryajin-Geki wrote: A joke drawing I did for a friend. The picture was far to light so I used photoshop to darken it up. I'll post the original if someone wants me to.

The question of this picture is: Is this naked man going to hit a beach ball, or is he winding up a powerful punch to the raticate that just hyper fanged his Wigglytuff to death?

That picture you drew, reminded me of Michael Angelo's painting of the Libyan Sibyl. Which is this:

At 9/11/10 03:07 AM, Wyzenhu wrote:

At 6/5/10 03:11 PM, Ryajin-Geki wrote: A joke drawing I did for a friend. The picture was far to light so I used photoshop to darken it up. I'll post the original if someone wants me to.

The question of this picture is: Is this naked man going to hit a beach ball, or is he winding up a powerful punch to the raticate that just hyper fanged his Wigglytuff to death?

That picture you drew, reminded me of Michael Angelo's painting of the Libyan Sibyl. Which is this:

Wow this is kinda embarrassing. Can't really say anything to make you believe me, but I didn't trace that. There was a picture of something similar, so to practice the human body I drew that picture. But yeah the picture I looked at was extremely similar to that.

At 9/11/10 03:18 AM, Ryajin-Geki wrote:

At 9/11/10 03:07 AM, Wyzenhu wrote:

At 6/5/10 03:11 PM, Ryajin-Geki wrote: A joke drawing I did for a friend. The picture was far to light so I used photoshop to darken it up. I'll post the original if someone wants me to.

The question of this picture is: Is this naked man going to hit a beach ball, or is he winding up a powerful punch to the raticate that just hyper fanged his Wigglytuff to death?

That picture you drew, reminded me of Michael Angelo's painting of the Libyan Sibyl. Which is this:

Wow this is kinda embarrassing. Can't really say anything to make you believe me, but I didn't trace that. There was a picture of something similar, so to practice the human body I drew that picture. But yeah the picture I looked at was extremely similar to that.

Haha, don't worry :) But I mean, look at her fingers. They're exactly the same as the guy's fingers in your drawing. Lol I don't think you traced it though, so its okay!

Page 1 Picture 7 redone again.

At 9/12/10 03:52 AM, Ryajin-Geki wrote: Page 1 Picture 7 redone again.

smudge tool done right for once, its rare to see, nice job, shows impovement keep it up

if it isnt smudge tool kill me now

I tried giving it a background, but I didn't like it what so ever, so I left it white. It looks odd on a black background.

As for the smudge tool, is it only ok for the picture 7 remake? or is it decent for the others as well?

Page 1 Picture 4 & 6 done again. This time with a background... I am self-conscience about my backgrounds...

That picture you drew, reminded me of Michael Angelo's painting of the Libyan Sibyl. Which is this:

holy shit
i thought you drew this for a second.
i was like waaaaaaaaaaah
teach me your ways

They only thing I drew on this was the spoon. Everything else was texts I made and images I put together. Would you buy it though?

Ugh I hate portrait drawing. This sad excuse of a portrait is yet another attempt to practice drawing realistically. This is a fucked up version of me.

At 10/6/10 09:36 AM, big-jonny-13 wrote:

At 10/6/10 03:56 AM, Ryajin-Geki wrote: Ugh I hate portrait drawing. This sad excuse of a portrait is yet another attempt to practice drawing realistically. This is a fucked up version of me.

Needs more shadowing around the nose to distinguish it from the cheeks and upper lip.

Would you happen to have any tips for eyes? Lips, eyes, and shading are always my biggest problems.

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At 10/7/10 05:00 PM, Kakashi1930 wrote: this
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Tank ya

How do you remove people's review from artworks? If you look at my page art and view the comments I got on my "Mickey vs Me" fanart. You'll see unhelpful, very negative reviews. I know they can be removed since, mine have from others art and flashes.

I truly believe these guys just spammed my art with 0s till I was unscouted. Now I know my artwork is definitely not the greatest, but I think it's unfair that people can do that. Or is there a way to block these people so they can't review and 0 spam me off the boards again if I get rescouted.

I didn't know where to post this, so I decided to put this on my Art thread as not waste space.

Here is Volume, Episode, strip, whatever they call it for comics or what not, 3 of my work comic. Sliced Pastrami. If you don't know how to read it it's from Top left to right, then bottom left to right. This was far too large to fit into a scanner so I had a friend take pictures and I had to try and put them together.

Sliced Pastrami-4

Sliced Pastrami-5

Sliced Pastrami-6 (This is when I got photoshop on my computer)

My 2nd attempt at photoshop. I discovered the blur tool and wanted to have some depth to the picture. My Friend Zack hates customers who put things in obviously wrong places, so I put him in a Solid Snake situation!

Sliced Pastrami-7

I have no idea what the hell I was thinking. Maybe I should down a bottle of alcohol before I attempt trying to improve my realistic art work so I can think it looks good.

Ugh........ another attempt at a self-portrait. This was done in all pen. Like the other pictures I have done with a scanner it came out light so I darkened it.

David is upset that I just killed his image!

You have a strange of drawing. Some of your works look really bad compared to your other pieces. Like the sketch you drew of your friend, it looks fucking awesome.

But your digital art isn't as good. Which is weird.

At 11/6/10 04:08 PM, Ryajin-Geki wrote: David is upset that I just killed his image!

Don't worry mate! You'll improve on your art. I know it. I like it that your practicing cross-hatching now. Keep practicing.

At 11/6/10 07:41 PM, Lorkas wrote: You have a strange of drawing. Some of your works look really bad compared to your other pieces. Like the sketch you drew of your friend, it looks fucking awesome.

But your digital art isn't as good. Which is weird.

Well I do all my digital art with a mouse.

Work in Progress. I worked on this in Stickam last night for those who thought I was drawning a penis. Well right now it might as well look like one. I decided to do another picture of my main character, because I feel like I didn't do him any justice with the picture of him fighting goku.

I am starting with the base colors. Just to clear up any confusion with the arm, it's a blue cast. His arm has multiple hair line fractures. I didn't finish the hand yet. I didn't draw his other arm yet for I have not decided what I want it to do. Maybe carry a bag by a strap, or something like that.