Woman, Need help with picture.

[Sunny]

I am working on this picture for a project but I am not very skilled so far in anatomy. I had to build her body from other photo references and use a specific face. Could I please ask for some constructive critisism on this pic. :D thank you so much.

http://www.bestofthebeast.com/hydrobabes/chick.jpg

[peterhurman]

lookin good so far. i am no anatomy master myself so i may be wrong, i think maybe you should take another look at the mucles of the upper leg. also i think the highlights on the face, boobs and shoulder are a little to white, the skin tones on the legs are a lot better than the body. the hair is looking really good. the boobs look like there silicone but then again they may be silicoone in the reference you used.

[Cyanide]

Overall I'd say you're on the right track. A few crits though:

Her left eye seems a bit out of place to me. It appears as though it is sticking out over the left cheak bone. Eyes are always set further into the face than the cheek, so that shouldn't happen.

She is definately about to fall forward. I'm not sure if that's the look you're going for, but if it is, you've achieved it. If it's not, then consider moving her butt back until the center of mass is over the feet.

If you're trying to make it look like she's about to fall, the arms are in a somewhat awkward position. Usually when people are about to fall their arms are swinging around trying to balance them.

Overall your anatomy is decent. The lines expressing the knee seem a bit strong though. Consider smoothing out that contour a bit.

Lastly, her right boob is about to fall out of that bikini. You might want to fix that before it does. Or maybe that's what you're going for. ;)

[Molly]

um...the face is cool, i see no problems with it.
Her hand needs finishing, and HER left leg seems to have disappeared.

The positioning of her body looks awkward, maybe bend a leg and have her leaning on something? instead of the illusion shes about to fall off a dive board. I'd suggest changing the background - but thats up to you, want you want to get across in the pic...is she diving off the board? or.....

Also - why the over-sized breasts? I know its a 'guy' thing to have large tits, but...



Mx

[JokingClown]

The hand is too small, and the leg is too long for a realistic drawing. Other then that and most of the other stuff mentioned, I think its a cool picture.

[pvpham]

Hey Sunny.

As Cyanide said she is not balanced; There is too much weight forward so she would fall pretty quickly from that position.

Maybe reduce the definition of the muscules of the lower leg. It has been painted well but I don't think it would flex that much. Although, that might just be my personal taste so you could prolly just ignore that.

I also think the breast are too large and the arm pit needs some work, and you are missing part of the pectorial. I dunno how to explain it....look at some of your references again.

And I'll be a bit picky...the face on HER right does not have clear forms. The shape is lost.

Overall I think it's a pretty good piece. The foot has been done well.

Hope that helps. Happy painting.

Phil

[Sunny]

Thanx for all the critiques. It is much appreciative. This is about the 5th version of this picture and my client keeps changing the pose on me so ive lost all stability with what im looking at. He insists that she have humungous boobs and leaning over, arms back, full on boob alert. I know, it is a guy thing, not very apealing to artists but hey, its money.

Thanks again, Oh and what do you all think about the background, water, and dock. does everything looks right? what havent i thought about?

[Elwell]

I had to build her body from other photo references and use a specific face.
It looks like a classic example of cobbling something together from a bunch of different refs. You've got a least three different light sources and rendering styles going on here in her face, body, and legs. The face is defintely the most sucessful part, and I'm guessing it's the part where you were able to follow your ref most directly. The challenge is to get the rest of it up to the same level.
There's no sense of softness or weight to her breasts. They look like cartoon boobs stuck on a real body. Since they're the focal point of the piece :) they need a lot of work.
Her legs have the opposite problem; they look too solid and specific for this piece. It's obvious that you had good reference for them, but you fell into the trap of getting too caught up in the rendering of the details (working from photos can do that), and losing the sense of where they fit into the piece as a whole. I'd work on simplifying some of the smaller forms and tying the color and light source into the rest of the picture.

[Sems]

the msucle in her leg that joins up to her ankle looks a little too straight, sorta making the ankle look not rounded enough but the skin colouring on her leg is perfect but on her chest and arms and face its too white, and her face looks sorta flat :X I dont understand the big boob thing, maybe change how shes standing aswell, with boobs that big and standing on her toes leaning over she looks too balanced but in real life I dont think itd work like that. Looks good but a few things you need to fix

[Sunny]

Awesome help guys. I understand what everyone is saying and it helps a lot. only recently have I started spending a lot more time on light and how it works and what it does, I did a concept yesterday and it had great skin tones, I can see where I goofed on this one now.

Thank you so much Elwell, you helped a lot. I was waiting for someone to say that, now I have to spend more time on the focal point :D

[Cyanide]

About the background. I think it might look better if you put some highlights in the water around the dock, to sort of define that boundry a little better. You might also consider putting a little more curve in the horizon line, since real horizion's are round because the planet is round.