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Published: 2011-10-11 23:34:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 6691; Favourites: 208; Downloads: 0
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Another fanart! This time of Cornelia Hale from W.i.t.c.h.I hate how her left arm turned out though >_<
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I love this work and I think it's one of the best ion your new account.But I think it's hard to consider about it in two words.So I decided to crique it.Well,it won't be the best,but for the same time not the worst.
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I really like,I must say.First of all I want to say about the main character on this picture-Cornelia.You greatly painted her-she trully look like in the series and for the same time you added a piece of your own style (lines and colouring)-together they look awesome.Her pose and sight are very dynamical and at the same time they express energy and resoluteness inside her.Her hair and the forms of the hand on the ground look very naturally living.Why did anybody not say about the drapery of her clothes? They trully look like drawn and painted in professional style ^^.Also lights around her are epic.
What about plants and earth in the front of Cornelia, so they show completeness and high artistism of your artist skills. Plants have got appearence which is closed to realism. It is also possible to see amazing full of energy dabs, gradients on them. The soil structure and large crevise with all its components (cracks, folds, twisting forms and small pebbles etc.) look thoroughly,but they are not boring as many other artists have it in their works.
And the sky with a plenty of lightnings look fresh and it seems like if another second pass, a rain will begin. The clouds which are lighter than the night sky are look gorgeous.
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In spite of this work is good and many people on DA love it so much, however I also can see some disadvantages on it,which probably are insignificant, but is impossible not to notice them.
First of all, inspite of all dramatical atmosphere of nature, the bright contrast colours of Cornelia look a bit out of place,but at the same time it would be irrationally to change it
completely,because she's got such colouring in cartoon(so it will have appearence of another character).
The anatomy "causes ambiguous opinion".The proportion of head,body and legs looks normal,but the hands......ummm....a bit small in construction and you need make and underline some muscles on them. Also her boots and jacket need much detailed elaboration.
Secondly, the atmosphere don't need a criticism-it looks perfect, the combination of fog and good selection of colours,but it looks too stretched across.Well,all its components must be connected in a single whole:
-the thunderstorm and clouds are "living on their own"-they are not connected with the environment or with Cornelia. And the light falls on one mountains,and only.
-the light which goes from her isn't connected with the enviroment yet.
-the soil is met only ahead of this picture,you won't see it anywhere else.Just because of that,this work looks slightly unfinished or even not clear sometimes.
-a luck of shadows
No comments.
Well that all what I'm able to say about this wonderful work.
Summing up,I just want to rate it.
Vision: it's good enough,but it need a bit more completion.You know it. I'll give 4
Originality: one of the greatest features in your artworks . Your ideas are great and there is no wonder why you've thousands of fans. I'll give an incomplete 5
Technique: you love and able to create styles. It's really has qualitatively developed in comparison with half a year back, but need much. I'll give incomplete 4
Impact: just wordless....5,5,5,5,5!!!!!!!!
You're great artist and people know it. I somebody, to put it mildly, isn't agree,so they're nothing in comparison with you and they never won't be able to do even anything similar.I'm sure you'll do them all! Good luck e.deviantart.net/emoticons/s/sā¦ " width="15" height="15" alt="
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thanks very much for the crit! Agreed with you here. In the purple sky, in the background, I wanted to paint the dark castle of Meridian, but after googling for refference I saw how complicated it is! So i just used the purple colours for the clouds. But I think I should have left it out or put more detail.
I think I just need to practice more human anatomy and the poses. Because after I was finished with Cornelia only, I kinda rushed on the background too much.
so thanks for the crit! i will redo this one later
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You're very welcome
And Happy toooo late Birthday!
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Congratulations!
This deviation has made this week's picture of the week on the front page of !
Thank you for creating such an amazing piece here.
If you wish it to be removed, please inform me so.
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Lovely. You should draw some more W.I.T.C.H. fan arts. They're awesome. I would love to see how you draw Hay Lin and Taranee, too.
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I love the faint glow around her body, it's stunning!
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there is some mistakes it's well done! Corny is awesome!
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wow this is beautiful!
i love W.I.T.C.H. series alot!
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Consider curving the torso in a bit more, or slimming up the upper portion (not necessarily the boobs)
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thank you for the crit! I will work more on my human practice
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Aah, Cornelia was my favourite xD Ohman, Reddy you bring nostalgia to me *pokes her folder full of w.i.t.c.h. comics*
And you're getting better with the anathomy, but what really blows my mind are those effect, they looks very very pro <:
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We are~ We are~ We are Witch~ 
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Overall the coloring is great, I like how you made a refraction effect. The anatomy needs a little adjustments mainly with the legs and placement of the hands. The other thing I'd suggest making a note on next time is the lighting, she appears to have a glow around her but remember to stay focused of where the light source is coming from.
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I love how you did the ground opening up in front of her, blurring the vines as they near the viewer. On to the crit now.
Hair is often heavier than it is made to appear. Longer hair in particular droops rather than billows in the wind. Even when a character is undergoing a power surge, unless it's something immense like a tornado of fire or something like that. Hair is also pretty flowy and here it is somewhat stiff. The shading is great though!
One other thing: you have two light sources playing around. One is the gal, who is radiating some kind of yellow light, and the lightning in the background, which is a blue white. When two light sources come from opposite directions, everything between them reflects this. The girl should also have some kind of light from the lightning on her, and so should the vines.
^_^
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thank you sooo much for the critique! So I should make the hair drop down rather than wavy?
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A little waviness would be appropriate since it gives the impression of power, almost as if the byproduct of using a lot of power is getting wind blown around. But it's up to you, really.
I'm glad you liked it, any time.
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[link] here's a good example of long wavy hair in a windy environment. Remember to always look up references if you're unsure. I'll give you a more thorough critique when I'm back home.
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alright thanks for that
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Oh, I'd strongly recommend against referencing from an already stylized figure, unless you're really trying to achieve that specific style. What's important is that you know what hair looks like in reality, so that you understand any stylization and are able to apply your own as well. If you don't, and you reference from various different styles rather than reality, you get a "frankenstein"-type image which most probably won't look very unified. In this case for example, the hair really doesn't very well fit in with the rest of the piece.
Others have said pretty much anything I've wanted to say, just keep practicing the human figure and studying from reality when you can
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thanks much lhune! agreed about here, I will fix the image very soon.
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amazing job but the arms are a bit of at the wrist and hands they would be better just the hands everything else i consider is right and dandy the way it is the eyes show so much emotion shes confident in her abilities her pose just brilliant
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agreed, thanks for the crit
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oh you're very welcome always around if needed
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I love her hair and her wings!!! But the right hand just suddenly breaks at her wrist and the thumb looks odd.
The eyes look really cool and they're not empty, they show self confidence.
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yeah i had trouble with that arm a lot. I don't get the pressure on the leg right, prolly wrong angle. I used this as refference: [link]
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Yeah they are a little too big, I mean thick, but otherwise I find this picture excellent and interesting, maybe some background details would do good, but I'm not the one to talk >.<
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I don't like how you drew leg, I'm talking about place where shoe ends. I think I know what you wanted to draw, but this is too low.
Besides it, you did nice job on lights, shadows... and chest 83
Is that picture 3D? O.o
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thanks for the crit, but its a bit useless crit, could you get more into detail please?
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nice, made me lol.
the foot makes contact a little farther forward than it would anatomically. the squatting position your depicting actually is mixing two common poses, a two footed 'ninja' balanced squat, and a kneel. try and imitate the position the figure is in using a mirror, if you have a hard time trying to match, the pose may not be very natural, so the character would be less likely to actually assume it. looking again at the specifics for the leg, depicting this pose as is would require the knee concealing more of the thigh, so that the leg is pointed more toward the viewer, where as now it looks very much drawn form the side, as if it's actually underneath the characters right, (our left) breast.
for the rest of the image, i think the lighting on the face is great, it's very stylistic. the rest of the image has less straight forward lighting however, and while that's fine for the background, i would shade her more consistently similar. the face only has one shade, you could get away with doing the rest of this image with that same single shade pretty easily.
i also see the image disassociates the character from the ability it's using. the character really pops, where as the effect of the spell or ability she is performing is very muted and fades easily into the darkness of the background. i didn't actually notice the ability being performed until i looked at the rest of the image besides the character with critique in mind. it may also be that i'm male, and may have been locked into a tug of way between face and boobs.
i would suggest in terms of effects that you not depict the glow of the character with the mist that surrounds the character. if she's glowing intensely as she seems to be, let that be reflected in the ground immediately around her, use small things like pebbles or rocks nearby to cast long, hard shadows to indicate the intensity of the light. as it's depicted now, the character seems to have more of a smoky aura trying to sell itself as a glow than a glow.
do life drawing. draw from reference, sell your concepts better by not having anatomical error getting in the way of the viewer's ability to believe the image at face value. I personally use this tool [link] but working off of other references may work for you. this may seem rote, copy and paste advice, but it's advice i'm also taking, and it pays off quickly.
hopefully this slightly awesomer crit was helpful to you, keep working! thank you for featuring your work in the #SeriousArtist group, feel free to flame my own DA page if you're not completely satisfied/mildly offended.
thank you for your time!
-MRC
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thank you so much for the critique! it is really helpful.
As about refferences, I mostly use them, but I have used posemaniacs.com for this image instead. I will give a go at the link you gave me, thank you!
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turned out sooo nicely <3333333333
(where are the flowers aaaah)
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( because she is attacking...someone >n>
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ever heard of FLOWER POWER?!
D:=
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from CORNelia ;D
(anyway, ok ok, you win)
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It's really interesting to see you doing human art too. They all look great c:
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