Angie

[Mitze]

This was for a drawoff i did'nt do any backgrounds and i cropped the figure as to busy at work this is the finished piece. Went a bit cartoony with it.


http://www.geocities.com/mekese2000/mitze.jpg

[rasdasa]

It feels wayyy too airbrushed, but that's I supposed a personal preferance. I think the green on her forehead really doesn't fit, if you had to put it somewhere it should be the chin, although I doubt she shaves. The gesture isn't too bad. Perspective on gun is off, the front of it doesn't line up to the right side of perspective. The bottom edge should angle up more. The lighting on her belly isn't really working in accordance with the rest of the lighting, it seems as though the light is coming from the left when you look at the belly, but everywhere else it seems to be directly coming from pretty much us and the right. There are more things but I think I've dick whipped this enough, let someone else take dibs.

ras

[Mitze]

Thanks for the crits i didn’t use much airbrush on it ,see below, just a lot of blending suppose the same thing really. I wanted to keep it a bit cartoony, my excuse, and it is a lot quicker and i didn’t have the time to add textures. The belly was that will do kinda thing. There a lot wrong with this pic i won't even start mentioning but i was kinda happy at the overall result.

Now anybody know why my airbrush in painter 7 doesn’t work and why i can't paint on new layers they just stop working. Hoping its just a glitch and will be alright when i start a new pic.

[ApolloNuevo]

the pants and the boot are great. i don't think the issue is w/ the gun being off as much as everything from her right shoulder out being off. it all needs redrawn. i don't know if this is a currently existing character, but if not, her face seems corpse like. not enough warms like what we're seeing on ther belly...same w/ her arms, too whiteish.

minor crits, the bulge on her left arm is too high, her hair doesn't imply the action of the rest of the pic, and her boobs should be rotated back a little more to lign up (not entirely to loose the torso rotation but so that it doesn't look so odd), and i would fill in some of her scalp w/ more hair, currently it looks like she's balding.

-apollo

[Tully]

The colours are really quite boring. Though it's good that you're making attempts to vary them a bit, you're still using too much black and too much white, especially in the skin tones and clothes. Using black won't make your image more cartoony used this way. It's just making your colours look artificial. Skin tones are really varying pinks with purple/brown undertones. I'd suggest going to www.furiae.com and checking out Linda Bergkvist's "thoughts on skintones" in her tutorial section.

Also, it's very difficult to get a good idea of colour on a white background. I'd suggest making it a mid-tone of some sort. I like to use things that aren't too saturated, but any colour will usually work better than white.

The pose is pretty good though. The folds in the pants make the material very recognisable. Good job!

[Mitze]

Thanks for the all the crits. The background in hindsight should have been left it i colored it white. The skin tone I wanted to look unnatural so I am happy enough with that. There is a lot of backs, her costume is black, which i know you are not suppose to use which i didn’t at first but i then i thought why not. I am always reading these rules on what not your suppose to do which to be honest i think goes against what painting is suppose to be which is fun. Most of the pics in the finished section all look the same to me i am not bashing them as i wouldn’t post there as i wouldn’t be good enough. But they all seem to follow the same rules the only picture i did like there recently everybody else seem to hate and he was told change it which he did to look like everyone else’s. Ok maybe it’s just me. I am not complaining about the crit i received i always look forward to it i just wanted to rant and thanks again for the comments.

[unknown_epiphany]

besides the little issues with the body ie. her chest i do think its good. and if you were trying to go for that skintone go you just be prepared to explain that to people=)