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Published: 2013-03-17 01:56:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 660; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 5
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This is a looong overdue Christmas/thank you gift for a very good friend of mine.Oh, Also, this was drawn almost entirely on my brand spanking new Wacom Intuos5 !!! I am super loving it! It has so much more control than my old intuos2 (it was getting old)
So yeah,
Yay!
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Hot damn! Amazing colors and outfit and everything. When did everyone get so taletned??
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Really cool I like the pose for the most part and her clothing is really nicely designed. A few areas that don't work or could be improved, or thought of for your next artwork: First she is holding a sort of intensely bright energy weapon and it's so close to her yet it's not giving off a lot of light at all. She should be bathed in that blue light over most of her form and her shadows should be a lot more intense because of this.
Another thing is that her other hand is gone, it almost looks like you hid it so you did not have to draw which is understandable as hands and feet are super difficult to draw. I would work on her facial expression as well, she looks very bored for a girl so bad-ass with such a cool weapon.
I am having trouble seeing the point of the tubes sticking out of her, she looks like a traditional fantasy warrior woman but the random tubes dont make much sense as they are now. If you are trying to give her more of a fantasy cyber warrior hybrid feel then I would push the cyborg aspect a lot more. would also give her more armor as right now she seems a little cliche with typical fantasy trope of women having next to no armor except for a boob plate. I appreciate the fact that she is wearing clothes under it but still, she would be dead in a few minutes with so little protection.
My last crit is for the background. It is REALLY killing your illustration right now. It's very distracting and obnoxious and the texture is overlayed on top of her weapon. I would get rid of it completely and stick with black, white, gray or something a little more subtle
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Thank you for the critique. There are a few things I will say to defend against a few of your points.
The reason I didn't wash her out with a blue light was, well, I wanted to be able to see the colors I gave her. I'll throw that one into ... It's a a fictional weapon that contains the light waves to maximize it's energy ... kind of like a lightsaber.
The reason for the no arm (and actually, her hand does appear right at her hip) and the just sort of intense staring off expression is because it is based on a photo that the person that I drew it for provided to me. That is the exact pose that she is in, so that's why those two things are the way they are.[link]
The tubes... hmm.. I drew the sketch about two years ago so I don't really remember where I was going with those. She did say she wanted something kind of futuristic so that's probably what they are doing in there. I probably meant to add more to it, but again, two year over due, I just wanted to get it outlined and colored. So yeah, that one is because of the lazys. As for level of armor, I always considered the "shirt"on her to be of an equivalent protection material as chain mail. Also, she is possibly a robot under all if it so /shrug.
As for the background, I 100% agree with you. Backgrounds have always been a struggling point with me. :C I liked the background, but not necessarily for this, but the person I was drawing it for liked it so I left it.
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Well I can see where you are coming from now with the armor and weapon. Still, even if she is not bathed in blue light and you want to keep her colors shining through, the light source should still be more intense than it is currently, even if only 20%. I get the whole older sketch thing as well as I have done similar things where I finish something and know I could probably make it look way better if I redraw it but i'm too lazy to go through all that trouble.
The one critique I still have is the hand, even if you drew this from direct reference, you still have to make sure the image is composed in a thoughtful, readable way. Using reference is great and too many artist dont ever bother so the fact that you are doing it is awesome. However as artist we cannot be slaves to a reference. Only in the case of a still life do you need to strictly adhere to what your reference looks like. Otherwise you are in control and have to make sure the image looks as awesome as can be.
Now i'm not expecting to go to the trouble of changing this but in the future when you use reference, make sure that it's as readable as possible and that features like hands are not lost because that can instantly kill an illustration more than any other part of the body except the head.
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Ok, not sure how that random link got in there?
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Grats on your intuos!! ^^
This style doesn't look as much as you often do, but it's nice to see the different things you can make!
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