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mypi [2007-05-23 09:33:48 +0000 UTC]

lovely work e

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GoDonatello [2007-05-02 11:31:52 +0000 UTC]

such a nice bacgkround!I love how you colored the skin here.

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bchan [2007-03-27 01:18:29 +0000 UTC]

Pretty, great coloring!

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Prince-of-Powerpoint [2007-03-21 15:59:40 +0000 UTC]

Hi there. Forgive my frank tone. I'm a bit of in a hurry, so I'll just dive right in to the critique. You know how much I enjoy your work anyway.

As the left leg (her left) goes down, it gets too thin and I think it more practical to have bigger folds where it meets with the boot. If you think about it, it's what happens when you wear thinks like that in reality.

Her hair doesn't look like it's in the desert. People know (even subconsciously) that a desert is dead cold at night, and also very windy. She looks like she would have been better-off in a calm beach scene (especially with her wearing a bikini and all).

The sand looks like the wheat from that Coco-Crunch commercial... It could use a more yellowish color, but since it's night, add an overall layer of blue so that it'll turn out a bit more grayish. I suggest having a reference of a nighttime desert. And ditch the pointy part in the horizon. It makes it look like waves instead of dunes.

When making dunes, don't be afraid to use solid lines. You can just blur them a bit with Gaussian later (or whatever it is PS users use).


That's about it. Sorry for the harsh-seeming critique.

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starman92 [2007-03-18 07:34:28 +0000 UTC]

Aw she`s so cute ^^ the background is very good as well as the char herself,keep up the good work.

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Draslushee [2007-03-17 16:26:06 +0000 UTC]

Since your mind's focus here seems to be on the scenery, I'll have most of my comments pertain to that. I'll still start out with the character in the foreground, though...

*holds tissue to nose* (As though you didn't see that coming. Why must you constantly drive my precious nose blood away, Blanke-kun? Why!?)

Okay, first up... this is my personal opinion, but I think she needs to pull her pants up. XD I know it's probably actually a swimsuit bottom showing there, but... it still feels like she's showing her undies. Anywho, that's not really a comment on art quality, it's just my own personal opinion.

As for the rest of the character, I think it looks good and Blanke-quality-ish. Good shading, good definition, good proportions of various parts of the body... though there are a couple of places that are a bit off. Her left hand (her left, your right) looks a tad smaller than her right, and her right thigh looks a bit bigger than her left. I THINK that may just be because the right thigh is supposed to be bent, but the shading doesn't look like it... you might have just needed to put a little more shading depth into that leg to make it look better.


As promised, on to the background. Personally, I think the sky there is excellent. It's very smooth and clear, as a calm night sky should be... and I personally like the shades you used. I dunno why, but they seem very calming... also, good job on the clouds. I never saw the original, cloud-less version of this, but I think that the clouds there enhance the overall look of the piece by a great margin.

Unfortunately, the sand is less spectacular. Forgive my critique, but it looks more like a field of wheat than sand... it may have something to do with perceived angle, but I think it has more to do with the fact that the "grains" look taller than they actually are. ...If that makes any sense. ^_^;; If I look CLOSELY at the picture, I can tell that you've done your best at making a grainy appearance for the sand... which is good, 'cause sand IS grainy. However, those dark lines in the sand look sketched... and moreover, sketched with relatively long, "up and down" strokes. I know it's a small detail, and it only surfaces in a few places, but in my eyes, it affects the rest of the sand portion as a whole.

It seems to me that you were going for dunes... or at least bumps in the sand. In my completely inexperienced opinion, I would recommend doing something a little different... it'd be fine to have little bumps here and there in the sand. After all, that's only natural with dunes. However, to better simulate them, I think it might be better to have the color of the dune lighten as it goes up gradually... just like it is here... but when the dune goes back down, make sure to darken it back a bit. (If you can see where it goes down, that is...)

Yeah, I know I'm not the best person to come to on how to draw things, but I feel like I can at least point you in the right direction. XD Or I could send you the wrong way, then you'll know one more thing that doesn't work.

Anywho, gripes about the sand aside, the piece looks excellent as a whole. Keep up the good work, Blanke-kun!

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Arcer26 [2007-03-17 06:35:58 +0000 UTC]

^___^ I like her; very sassy and confident. Her head's a little flat, though, I think.
Again, I love her weapon. It's really fantastical and the line of it is just so graceful.
The background looks fine to me, if it's supposed to be a desert. The sky is maybe a little light for so many stars, but that's arguable and an easily manipulated element, so that's okay. I see some horizontal lines in the sand that just look kind of odd to me. I think I know what you were trying to portray, but the lines look a little off here for some reason.

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elnefashu [2007-03-17 05:03:28 +0000 UTC]

Hmmm... you would have wanted to add some clouds. Making 'night' clouds is rather simple. In fact, I would say it is even simpler than making them at day. If I only remembered the place I got the tutorial at....oh well...

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FuriousCephalopod [2007-03-17 04:38:30 +0000 UTC]

I can't give you any advice, as usual, but I certainly notice some anatomy improval! ^_^ The background is a heck of a lot better than I could do. At least you have a background. XD

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