Girl Sitting at Bar

[Senira]

Hm...I'm almost embarassed to post this; after scanning through the last few posts and seeing such great work, mine seems highly inadequate. Which it is. *coughs*

Anyway, this was a work done for my summer AP art homework. I've already submitted it to the teacher, who isn't particularly good and will probably give you an A for staying inside the lines. However, I'm well aware there are problems with this, and I'm hoping for a little advice on how to make it more 3 Dimensional.

http://www.angelfire.com/anime3/sailorstar3/aparttfile1.txt

I know that the shading on her shirt is awful. The above light is supposed to be cool, so I was trying to do some blue highlights but...it didn't work. And I know that the wall and floor need more color, but I'm not sure which ones to use. And the bar is lacking something underneath; I think I used the wrong colors, but I don't know if I should use warmer or cooler ones. I've just seriously started working on color theory, so I still have to figure out lighting and how it works on different fabrics, objects, etc...and only a year till I start applying for college. Oy. >.< Anyway, thank you in advance! I truly appreciate the help. ^_^

[Senira]

I'm not sure what happened to the bottom part of her pants; it turned light after I saved it to text, but it might just be my machine. I'll see if I can fix it.

[Pencil Soldier]

She seems to be sitting strangley.

[jwo]

seems to be doing more than sitting ::wink wink::

[Senira]

Well, she's actually supposed to be climbing onto the bar stool. After I finished inking it I realized that it's a rather awkward way to go about it, but I liked the pose too much to change it. The whole thing had started out as a doodle anyway, so I wasn't being too particular with the ink version.

[feels]

The biggest problem is that the barstool shouldn't be level when you can see the top of the counter... And then the obvious stuff that you need to fix: proportions, composition, light source, etc... It's really not worth fixing... Just make a better drawing next time.

[waronmars]

One thing about her clothes, man- folds in clothes radiate from points of tension
:alien3:

Hope that makes sense...
http://www.toerags.com/images/clothes/clothes-combo.jpg

[enigma]

woah that's kinda strange...it looks like a large stick is emerging out of her lower extremities, agreeing with someone else that commented before, perhaps a change in the perspective of the barstool would help cater to what ure trying to achieve here, the barstool's flatness doesn't allow me to imagine that shes trying to sit on something at all, that is until u told us of course.

ure counter doesn't match with the stool in terms of perspective, just make sure the top of your counter and the top of your stool match, that would make it seem like shes sitting/about to sit.