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Published: 2016-02-22 08:47:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 648; Favourites: 55; Downloads: 0
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Hello
I'm on vacation for 1 week. I had the idea for this drawing 1 month ago. Right now, I'm currently fighting a kind of Big BIG art block. How I explained in this Journal : Story of my life.Hello all my dear watchers
I'm not very active since.. well a lot.
There were a LOT of things happened to me. One year ago, my boyfriend left me. It was a very hard period for me, and I learnt to live without it.
I finished my three years of psychology. The exams period was horrible. I cried a lot, slept a few.
In may, I met a boy. An amazing boy. I tried to have beautiful and relaxing summer holiday. (Since September, he is my boyfriend. Life is more beautiful with him. He is changing my life.)
But my grand father was sick. His voice was leaving. He made a lot of exam and biopsy.
We learnt at the end of the summer that he had a cancer of the Larynx. They remove all the Larynx (and his vocal cords). He can't speak anymore and he had a hole in his throat to breath. I can't describe to you how horrible it is. We don't know if the cancer is still here. He can't eat for now. He should learn to speak with an other way, but not now.
During the period since the summer of 2014 (when I re started to draw and improved a lot) a lot of bad events happened to me x: (And now.. -_- Maybe I'm going to re do my first year of Master degree because I don't have an internship ..... -____-" hahaha......).
It is the last personal drawing. Now, I'm going to finish my to do list. I needed to draw my "own" art to gain motivation. Drawing is a way to escape, and to do it, I need to draw my own character.
With this drawing, I've wanted to practice on Background. Well.. Finally, I don't like it.. XD I'm not happy with my skills. I'm seeing a lot of wonderful drawing on dA, I would like to have this talent ;__; I need to practice more. I'm very VERY sad because, I lost 1 year without drawing. 1 year where I could improved. Ff.. I hope 2016 will be a better year for me. And a better year of drawing è_é
The next drawing will be my part of an AT. My very late part ;_______;
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Comments: 6
What are you talking about? This looks great.
You laid out the foreground and background out just fine so the attention was centered on your character and fades out from there. Some friendly feedback, looks like your background got blended a little too much, losing it into the sky. But that aside, its not something to be sad about.
And if theres anything I can do to help with, let me know k?
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Your style looks really nice here and i think you have improved a lot *o* especially with backgrounds! ;D Keep up the amazing work, really nice to see some art from you
The colours are really beautiful, i adore the grass there *u*
the character looks super nice too, those wings are so well drawn! love the pose
that mane is just super! xD and so epic shading!
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Welcome back to the world of drawing! :3 It sucks life was so hard for you but do know it's like a roller coaster - you're gonna go down, but soon after you'll be zipping up a hill again.
On another note, I think I know why you might dislike the background. Well, firstly, this doesn't have to do with my thoughts but the grass looks a bit too large - it's further in the distance so try to make the details much more subtle and smaller. Look at the grass in this pic, for example: vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/b… See how the grass is rather small on the left and, especially, the right hill?
Now anyway, what I was going for was this: the perspective is a little bit off.
Refer to this (sorry for editing your image but it's just for visual purposes, I'll delete it after you see it) : sta.sh/0gilttpeae6
You have established 'eye level' at basically his shoulders, since you see them directly from the side. (This is the green line) However, you also draw the floating grass at 'eye level'. You should see it from a bit beneath rather than directly beside, though the effect should be subtle. Example: inkdarts.deviantart.com/art/Fl… Also, you have just three large grassy hills showing, which is fine, but the vanishing point is visible with.. nothing in it, really. (This is where all the blue lines coincide) It makes you feel the background is just sort of flat and the world ends at the hills. I sketched some red vague hills that are a bit smaller but seem to flow more into the distance.
Also note the further things are in the distance, the less saturated they are. (In this case, they'd take more and more of a yellowy hue) I see you tried to give distance with blur, which works as a focus technique, but distance is more effective by messing with the hues and saturation.
I may be wrong, but that's what pops out to me here... I'm by no means perfect, either! It's a really pretty picture and especially good for now drawing for a year! 
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