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Published: 2011-09-01 22:37:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 2981; Favourites: 161; Downloads: 0
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My newest painting in a great while now!!!I am so proud of it, I see myself improving my watercolors a lot, and it turned out just as I wanted it to
I hope you guys ejoy it as much as I do!
**Constructive Criticism please**
Thank you!
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You are seriously amazing at this! I love the bear's expression
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Oh, this is so cute!!
I love the look on the bear's face
As for critique, honestly, I'm staring and staring, and can't seem to find any considerable problems in the picture
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thank you very much for those kind words
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This is a very nice piece, i can imagine it in a children's book of fairytales
Really nice colors!!!
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aww thank you
that's my goal
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It's also a goal for me too
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Adoreable!! It looks like a children's picture book cover. Your watercoloring skills run circles around mine. I've longed to make a successful image with watercolor for a long time and it still hasn't happened yet..
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Keep practicing, its the only way
thank you for the words
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I'm a Fine Art student. I'd find it hard to criticize something that was purely decorative/illustrative. This is really lovely though! I would buy this if it was in a shop. In fact if you do postcards I'm snagging some.
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thank you very much, that gives me hope for my goal towards becoming an illustrator
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Beautiful. I wish I could do those wet in wet colorgradients this nice.
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Your pictures are SO adorable! Is there a story to go along with this one ?
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No there is not, sadly
But it's part of my portfolio, that I'll be submitting to storybook editors
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I like this very much, a fresh use of colors and a personal drawing style. Definitely belongs in a storybook. Too bad my children are older already, so I won't have an excuse to buy the book and enjoy the pictures
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aw thank you so much
It's pretty much my dream to become a storybook illustrator!! comments like yours give me a lot of hope
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You should definitely give it a try. But why not also do the words?
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I'll first try as a simple illustrator, I'll probably try to write a storybook too in the future
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D'awww~ this is sooo cute! 
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This is soo pretty I love the colors and the whole feeling this drawing gives
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Cute and sweet, I love the colors and the style.
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OMG it's so sweet and heart-warming *3*
Love colors <3
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your technique with water colors is very nice! Got any tips for blending?
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Sure, they are no proffesional tips, but this is how I do it: Take the sky I made here. There is blue, pink and a little orange. With a large brush, I do big, wet splash of color. Then I take dry, smaller brush to blend the colors with the background and with each other. I wipe my brush every few strokes so it stays dry. And do many layers!!!
I hope it was helpful
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Good work on colors! It is hard to find somebody that knows how to use watercolors these days!
Maybe only you could use some more water at some places, like shadows on the bear and the girl, to make them somehow different than background and more interesting to looks at. For example, spots of indigo or some purple? (for the bear at least, i think he is a bit of a brown distraction in middle of everything 
I do appreciate all the gradience you put in there! I may be overinterpreting, but i see how the darkness starts in upper left corner, goes to mild colors towards middle and goes back dark in lower right corner.
Last thing- i don't know about the lines. They seem to be pretty uneven and shaky. If you tried to support shading with them , then maybe you should have done it allover the picture, not only on the main characters. It looks kind of like the bear (again xD ) is simply a sticker put in middle of the grass. Yea, i definitely thing that you should have not outlined the grass so much...
Oh well, yes
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oh and for the darker sky part, it was on purpose! The dark being behind(the past) and the little girl looking forward, on a new journey that lies ahead!
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I understand what you mean about the bear looking like a sticker, I totally agree. I will try to work my shadows and my color composition in the future...
And the shaky lines!! Gosh my hands shake a lot while I do the final lineart. Wtf, I'm only 17!!
Thank you very much for the kind words and for the criticism, I appreciate it a lot and I'll put your advice to work
You definitely helped a lot
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That kind of reminded me of a joke
-What's brown and sticky?
-A brown sticker!
Weeell, anyways
I look forward to seeing what will you cook up soon! 8D
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This is very cute! I love the simplicity of it, and the colors are wonderful! The only thing I would say to work on would be to work on anatomy for the bear and person and folds in the dress to make them a little bit less 'blobby' Otherwise this is lovely!
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The bear looks so cute! Great work with the colors of the flowers, too, and I love how this looks like it came out of a storybook.
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