Cheater (suggestive imagry)

[Spidey-man]

Well I didnt know were I was gonna post this so this is where I decided. Im really working hard on coloring.:( So I dont know where the idea came from other than Road rules or something like that was on in the background while doing this. Crit. & Comments VERY much appreciated.:)

http://img21.photobucket.com/albums/v62/spidey-man/cheat.jpg

And they begin...

[mos667]

That chick has a huge.....pair of shorts.

Hey. Well, the idea seems okay, but you may need to work on anatomy and coloring. Also, working on shape and form may be another focus. Everything seems too blurry...you may want to develop your art a little more, and maybe this will come out better.

[shortmikeshort]

Point by point:

Your life drawing skills are incredibly lacking. Pupils aren't that large. The woman's face is crooked and assymetrical. Body parts are way too simplified. Everybody's hands are poorly defined.

The gun. What gun is that? It's a generic stylized automatic. In the girl's hand it looks like a black stick. Find your refs, and draw an actual gun, not the idea of a gun.

Your composition is a bit too blatant. Look! A crying eye! Look! A dead body! Look! A girl with a gun! Everything happens in its own little compartment. There's too much unused space. A bit more mystery and a bit more dramatic overlapping will really tighten this image up.

Your coloring: You drift from really strong color (her shorts) to really wispy color (everybody's skintone.) There's no unifying color scheme. The shading is amateurish in most places, nonexistent in others. The large white panel gutters are distracting and offer nothing. Even if they were useful, one is straight and geometric, the other two are organic and painted.

Frank advice: Stop thinking that coloring is what you need to work on. You must work on your drawing skills. If you want to be a colorist, color someone else'e work.

[killing.people]

i agree with shortmike's critique.

if you feel you should be working on color, do it.
however, like shortmike had suggested, you need to know how to draw or paint before color.

keep a sketchbook with you and exploit your weaknesses; if you feel you are not drawing something well, anything, say flowers, fill a page with flower studies. also, just draw to see what kinda of shade and line qualities you can get. it would be good for you if you studied more perspective drawing.

work on your anatomy. draw and understand bones and muscles.

work on your shading to better represent forms and light, paint simple still lifes with simple lighting.

[shortmikeshort]

Thanks for softening that up for me. I think I sound really harsh.

But I'm harsh because I care.

Word.

[Spidey-man]

Thanks guys ive been in my own little world latly. The work I have put on here and the work ive been doing are totally different. Some of my other stuff just won a district school contest. So I am gonna just rehit the basics hard. Thanks.