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Do the legs for the guy in the front look correct? I still don't fully understand legs but I'm trying. Structures traced over a tiny pencil sketch roughly where I have them, may be redrawn bigger when I can figure this out. Thanks!
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Thank you, every little bit helps! Your picture works fine! Legs and hips are still my weakest point. The original intention was to make them just start running, after being caught by surprise, which is why the twist on the front guy's body and not as much leaning forward. I guess your interpretation, mid-chase, is more dynamic and shows a clearer ideaΒ Β I use shapes not lines when drawing, the stick figure is just there to show what I meant to pose it as under that messy scribble.
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She's caught by surprise being yanked, off-balance. The intention wasn't very clear, and I guess the two characters aren't posed well together. And definitely not as dynamic as your mid-chase interpretation, which I like a lotΒ Β
Right, I'll try outlining shapes next time. Didn't want to do too much line work on digital there since it's awkward to do on mobile phone screen.
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Hi and welcome here!
I'm not an admin, but I've been here a while. I'll risk to assume that you counted the lines in mobile app, while the rule was made back when most people were using PC browser.... Anyway, the guide sounds like "200+ words for 6-7 lines", "300+ words for 7+ lines". Your meaningful part of text has 107 words according to my writing app. So, I guess, to stay on the safe side you should check the word count rather than the line count, cause that's a more solid thing, not depending on interface settings or anything.
Tho, personally, I see that you gave a nice response, even if it's shorter than the rules require. A shame this wasn't accepted, hope this won't discourage you to write again - I haven't seen the drawing of course, but your message sounded like a good description to me, and a reasonable feedback. I'm sure it was helpful to the artist.
Good luck!
P.S. I hope I'm not interfering, and that real admins will correct me if I'm wrong about something
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Yeah, I see your point... Well, no idea about what counts for lines then, because if you add 100 more words it will definitely be way more lines... My mobile device (both in mobile and in desktop version of page) makes it into 7 lines too. I guess word count might be the best idea after all
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I want some feedback on this that I made
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Also I think I did try to make eyelashes but they are just hard to see
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I don't really draw many female furries so I may need more practice but I appreciate the feedback
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Hi! Speaking of composition, you could read about rule of thirds, to make sure you place main elements in the strongest focus points. Also, pay attention to your character facing direction - where they look affects how we interpret their mood and the whole storytelling of the image. Facing left - reminiscing, facing right - looking forward, up/down for feeling uplifted or downcast.Β
With the first image it's hard for me to pinpoint the idea, I'd say it's a portrait with some silly face expression, which makes me want to place the character's face more in focus, and reduce amount of empty space.
Second one looks like the character is looking at the falling star or some other flying object, and it works alright being this way. Only problem to me is that the stars and the flying thing are drawn very simply, compared to the character. You said these are sides to be silly images, but it's still better to make elements match each other in style.Β
To my eye though your current lack of impact is not a compositional problem, but rather the color schemes. You can look into color theory to pick combinations that work better together. Top image has a limited palette which are usually easier to manage, but the colors themselves aren't a strong match. The image hue and saturation are shifted towards cold and unsaturated, that doesn't work well with funny images. Bottom one has better matching coolors (warm green is a good decision with blue, cause it's closer to complimentary, yellow, color), I actually like how this one is colored, still the palette is cold, and even if it's saturated, the contrast (different in value between darkest and brightest element) is lacking. Brightest stars are still dark. If you turn to grayscale you'll see the contrast as it is.
If you work on colors and values, you will make your images more appealing, and draw attention to them, which will make people want to study them closer. And generally, bright and light colors make images look more light-hearted which may suit better when drawing silly images.
Hope some of these ideas will be useful 
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Use some quick tutorial to get you started, something like that: youtu.be/FXxfjs017CA or
www.melissaevans.com/tutorialsβ¦
More things you will have to look into:
Β - brush properties. Hard round brush is good for basic coloring, but you will need textured brushes for more high-level color blending. Find a set of free to download brushes on dA or on the internet if you want a quick start with this.
Β - layers. Color different elements on different layers. You can use layer masks to help you not to go out of borders.
Β - blending. Choose different blending modes (like "soft light", or "overlay") for quick shading and highlighting layers.Β
Β - Also you can look into layer blending options and into filters. That's optional, but sometimes you can get some cool effects altering the layer contents this way.
Β - menu "image->adjustments" will help you with color tweaking: brightness, contrast, hue changing, saturation, etc.
Hope this helps!
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Β I would really like to know how to improve when making fake covers, I don't think it looks good enough.
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I don't like the checkered screen overlay you put all over the piece, it looks visually distracting. I think you'll be better off making the colours in the picture itself slightly darker instead of using that checkered screen overlay.
I also agree with the other comment on emphasising the title a bit more, making it bigger or bolder will make it less lost in the other text. The non-title text can be made more faded into or less contrasting with the background. I think it's fine to have two fonts since one is for the title (and authors?) and the other is for design, but not more than that before it gets too inconsistent.
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Is not my handwriting lol! Is a font!
And thank you!
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You could start by shading the girl. I also think if you make the title a little bigger that could help.
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I'm not 100% sure if the colours I used on these pieces are alright...Β
(Also, not too sure if the anatomy is alright, either.)Β
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Although, if anything else looks off... Feel free to tell me, cheers!
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Ooh, thanks for the advice, mate. ^^ Cheers!Β Β
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only thing that looks off to me is teh fact their arms are so much Skinner than their legs but I think thats a stylisic thing so feel free to ignore this
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I think the colors are fine, but lightning the backgrounds a bit could give the pictures more emphasis.Β
As for the anatomy, the first girlβs arm should either be lowered or angled downwards and the second girlβs abdomen should be centered because she looks bent as if sheβs tripping right now.
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Cheers, mate.Β
I'll try to work on this.Β
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Cheers for the advice, mate.Β
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Cheers, mate.Β
Thanks for the advice.Β Β
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