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Ok then, happy to hear this is useful! Good luck! And I'm sure if you choose to work more on this picture you may turn it into a very cool thing
And it's great that the pose reads well 
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I need help with punctuation, which options flows better in this text excerpt? A, B, C, D, or E? Punctuation poll
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D.) But Reia was not deceiving herself—he was in control. There was no winning. She'd always lose in his games; be the toy he manipulated, forced to act out his sick fantasies however and whenever he wanted. He'd always have the upper hand. Deep inside Reia knew she could never be in power, but that truth bore little worth consideration, for she wanted to make him bleed for her as she had to him.
Definitely this one, IMO. Using more than one colon or semicolon in a row can often be a little too much for the poor little sentence, but I think that D does a great job of packing a punch with its use of punctuation and the semicolon you opted to include. I especially like the isolation of the line "There was no winning."
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Yeah, I agree. After some consideration, D, indeed flows the best and has the most impact. Thank a lot!
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I know there are a few noticeable issues with this piece with perspective (I decided to add a background fairly late and plan on tweaking it).
But my biggest questions are regarding the colors.
Specifically do they work together and does the level of vibrancy/subduedness work with the style?
I've had issues with using too vibrant and abrasive colors and wish to work on refining my color pallet when it comes to my 'style'.
Thanks!
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Regarding colors, I think the blue monitor is breaking into the composition (cause it's the brightest part of the image now, and it makes the whole torso of the rightmost woman look like a dark blot). You can make it more gray, and maybe try using a colder blue tint (closer to cyan rather than violet) to make it fit with rest of surroundings and draw less attention.
Rest of the colors seem to work as a nice unified color scheme, except maybe that the bright pink markings on the right woman seem to fall out, both in hue itself and in its vibrance. If their color is a part of design, maybe you can at least use more muffled purple hue for them.
I like the way everything else in the color scheme works together. It reminds me of retro sci-fi anime images a bit. It's quite stylish
I can agree to the previous commenter's notice, about checking the light direction and shadows position.
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I think if you want to emphasize their aliveness compared to their grey background, the vibrant colours are a fine choice. But you should maybe take another look at the shadows, because I can't quite tell where the light is coming from. The shadows on the taller woman's face, especially on her nose, make her look faintly disgusted to me, as if she's wrinkling her nose at the other woman.
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I definitely see what you mean. Thank you!
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Wanting to know if the colours look alright here.
If there's anything else wrong, please tell me.
Cheers!
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Hi there!
I think the colours are pretty darn good, but could use a little more vibrancy. I took the drawing in it’s completed state and got the following by adjusting the levels and the colour balance of the image:
I also added some of the grass colour in an overlay layer to the areas that were pointing towards it to blend the main character a little more with the background
as for anything else that could need improving, I like the fact that you have been able to produce a nice layered background, my only issue is the characters feel like they are on the wrong layer. If you wish to draw the characters further back in the image, then their colours need to be more muted and take on more of the sky colour, like the surrounding grass. If you want them to be closer and more vibrant, then simply extend the middle grass layer around the characters and leave some of your gorgeous background gras visible. You will still have a deep and layered background, but the characters will feel like they’re in the right place.
You did great though! Backgrounds are bloody hard. Keep up the good work!!
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Many thanks, mate.
I'll be sure to work on that!
Cheers.
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they look pretty alright to me c: although making the cast shadows on the grass where she is sitting a deeper green would be better.
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Alrighty, thanks!
Cheers, mate!
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Let me know if you have any questions! I'm happy to help.
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Thanks then maybe people can suggest what they think is wrong.
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Hello!
If you would like an answer, please include a specific question. Example questions are:
- I know something is wrong with the chin of the person I'm painting, but I don't know what it is exactly and how to fix it?
- I finished this piece, but now I'm not sure about the colours. Can someone tell me if they work together?
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Let me know if you have any questions! I'm happy to help.
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When I was originally drawing this, I wanted the head to be positioned so the chin was more turned upward, almost as if he were looking down on the viewer. However, I seem to be having troubles accomplishing that. Any tips on angling the head "upwards"?
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Hiya!
I tried to build the head position the way I use (still planning to make a proper tutorial, but maybe there's an existing one somewhere already).
In short, how to make face turn upward.
1) nose tip goes higher up, and may rise higher than the eyes level even. We start seeing less of the nosebridge and more of nostrils.
2) eyes become narrower, the outer edges start drooping, the middle rises higher. Also, in life, eyes become a "banana" shape rather than "almond" shape when facing upward (because of their volume). *Like dorky laughing eyes xD
3) chin and jaw becomes a straight line, and then, as the face turns further upwards, the jaw outer sides go *lower* than the chin. Triangular (U-shaped) chin is only for small angles.
When we draw from the head we only reduce the distance between nosetip and eyes, chin and jaw and outer eye edge and eye middle, leading to flat distorted look. To go fully 3D we need to revert these shapes.
My idea: you draw sideways view, them find all the key points (paying attention to middle points and side points of mouth, eye, nose, jaw, etc.) and draw parallel lines to transfer them to your front view.
Of course with more tricky angles, like your 7/8 view, this becomes trickier too. But I did my best to find the rough shape for this one. Of course it can be done by proper building of face anatomy, but my method works for simplistic drawings quite well too
P.S. I made the eyes same shape only narrower and slightly turned towards outer sides, because I'm not sure how stylization should work with volumous eyes.
But for banana-shaped eyes, it would look something like this: (actually that's the curve of the eyelids, as well as cheeks covering the eyes - depending on face shape, at some point cheeks will hide eyes from view
That's it, hope this helps! Sorry for making it into such an ugly image 
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Thank you so much for the tips! Your explanations and reference drawing really makes a lot of sense to me. I appreciate the thought that goes into your replies. This is super helpful!
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You're very welcome! Glad to know this makes sense to you!
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Try to make shadows in slightly different colours.
In tropics shadows are dark.
On snow they are often light blue.
Hope this helps
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In short I see that you draw male proportions pretty well here, while female body looks quite wrong. You could look for anatomy tutorials for female bodies.
example (tho it's not very informative).
Your bodies also looks stiff and kinda separated in pieces, like a wooden mannequin. It's a good enough practicing drawing for proportions, but to make drawings more realistic and alive you should look into lines of action for your poses, and practice on photos. A good lesson about lines of action: www.proko.com/how-to-draw-gest…
Your faces look quite proportional, at least on this detalization level (provided that you draw this kind of thing from your head, not tracing photos). You make too many lines though (for example, fully outlined noses), so once you study shadows you may want to reduce amount of lines on your faces.
As for shadows - I believe an honest practice in anatomy and drawing from photos will give you better understanding of how to shade bodies, but you can look for shading tuts too. They are very different, depending on what style you aim for, but this proko.com site should have some realistic ones.
Good luck!
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"A friend" here. The book is also known as "The Figure: The Classic Approach to Drawing & Construction". Sadly, it doesn't have an official ebook version. It's a classic from '84, after all. But the Internet hides many things, and charging money on educational literature that is 35 years old is just evil. You can write me about it in PM.
Also, the ref on female torso that TigRaidoXXX gave is kinda meh. My friend, you can do better than that.
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Also, a friend I know suggests a good book about anatomy
Walt Reed - "An approach to drawing and constructing the figure"
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Ok, good to know this is helpful
These pages give best feedback on a single artpiece, but you have to write a feedback for someone else first (don't worry, if you don't have enough knowledge, feedback about your personal impression from an image is alright too 
www.deviantart.com/projectcomm…
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This is my latest drawing and I am not too sure how to feel about it. To me it feels pretty average and I am not quite sure what it is about it that's bothering me. I think it my be the shading and the overall look of everything but I am not sure.
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try to learn more about composition and anatomy that would be a great help, also your colours look kinda muddy, look up on some colours tutorials on youtube there are a lot out there, persepective on the building in the back is a bit wonky too, but dont focus on learning perspective right now, focus on the other things
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Any ideas how to improve the arms? They look a little off to me but I can't exactly put my finger on it.
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Mostly, the left arm is larger than it should be in its lower half.
You can also improve the fingers shape on the right arm, to make them less bulky.
I also noticed a bit of an off placement of hair on his cranium. It lacks volume in the back part and is overall shifted to front and right side.
Here's a drawing over your pic, that shows what I suggest you do
P.S. I love the dude's face, it's very charismatic!
And the man torso looks pretty cool. Only, now that I look at it, maybe the left nipple is too low for this body angle. Still, the body shape is very nice! And those are some interesting additions to his tail, are those fish fins?
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Ah! Thank you so much, I thought it was that, but it's great to have it visualized for me! I definitely need to work on arm proportions for things, so I might focus on that when I do more angled poses such as this (since front profiles are pretty easy to make proportional with a reference). Haha, I appreciate the help with the fingers as well, I suck at hands currently!
Oh! I didn't even notice the hair, but now that you mention it definitely has a few issues. (I think I was going for the underwater hair look, but I didn't know how to position it).
Ah! Thank you! I really enjoy his face as well, and I'm glad that the torso seemed to work out since I'm practicing with torsos now.
Yep! Those are fish fins. I really enjoy koi fish, so I wanted to add a couple of koi fish like features.
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Good to know this helps
Yeah, I thought that you wanted underwater look for the hair
And here's a bit the hands
Yeah, koi fishes are cool!
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And thanks for the references, I'll definitely look at them soon! 
Yeah! I really got into them once I watched Avatar: The Last Airbender.
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Hi
My (maybe personal) opinion is that photo-edited stock photo or fullcolor render will never look good on such an image, it will only create contrast by being realistically done in comparison to the more simple anime-styled characters. I would suggest drawing some simplistic art in the same outlined style, for example to draw sky and ground with horizon line around 1/4 height of the image, and maybe some simple mountains or trees on edges.
Also you could try some abstract background, for example a texture and dark shaded areas behind the characters, to make this into a more stylized image. Are you planning to do proper shading on the characters themselves?
If you want to go with a pre-made background image, you should perhaps try to show it out of focus and use a stock render, not photography.
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Oh, I can get the idea
Yes, maybe if you use photo under some heavy blurry filter that would make it look like paint or abstract colored panel, then it can work.
As for colors, I think that it should be rather lighter than darker background, and maybe the first green one could work, color-wise. Second seems to be missing the palette, with third it's hard to say (it can work perhaps), and forth will probably make it too dark.
Also maybe something like these hills if you find similar in free stocks (green ground, blue sky, to give a feeling of open space)
www.e-pao.org/galleries/images…
journeyviakerala.files.wordpre…
I still think that a painted one or a pattern would look better, but trying out a blurry photo will perhaps not take too much time to try out and see if it works
Some styled images with painted backs that could give the impression of stained glass.
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In all honesty, it's hard to tell without trying.
I think you can start with plain blue sky and green/gray/white scenery. But it's hard to tell the exact hues
Or maybe you can start with making just plainly filled with color areas (like, make ground and sky), and then alter the colors to see which work best. And also you can use tone variations of hues that are already in the picture, to make better match.
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Ways I can make the shading look better? and maybe even make the background look better? :v
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I don't see anything that would stick out with the character, except for the shadow on the tail that's placed right next to a bright light of her cutie mark. She should have highlight in this area instead. And you may want to add more small bright highlights from those bright light sources.
The effects of glowing on her hooves and mane look nice.
The background looks kinda flat as it is now. I suggest that you add both highlights and shadows on the drawers and window frame to make them look more volumous (for example the handles should drop a shadow underneath, cause they stick out from the surface).
Consider adding some textures for wood, wall (stones, wallpapers?) and floor (carpet? or maybe polished floor that reflects the pony and furniture?), even simple ones may look better than flat colors. Add some tree branches in the window, or a moon
And you may add colorful reflexes on this surroundings to make them even more interesting
Hope this helps!
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This actually helps a lot! Thank you
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It looks like you're asking for technical advice vs artistic advice so here goes:
Make 4 layers above your color flats: Multiply, Divide, Screen, and Burn. Set the layer mode to match the label. Mult/Div will let you add/remove gray (light/dark). Screen/Burn for Saturation. Details here: www.tadpolewebworks.com/web/at… Leave the black Ink outline layer(s) on top of the stack unless you want to adjust those too.
Note that the colors you use for those overlay (Black, white, or 50% gray) will enhance or minimize the effect, and that you can adjust the layer opacity to further adjust things. And, the tool you use to paint (airbrush, pencil, etc) will also affect the results.
Here's an example of using these overlays to shade and highlight flat green skin and black hair. The airbrush tool was used to build up the shades and highlights to suit.
Play with the settings. Start with 100% layer opacity, and use #808080 (50% gray) for Mult/Div, and pure white for Screen, and pure black for Burn. Fiddle with the tool opacity first, then layer opacity, then the colors to see what works for you.
This give you direct control of how, for example, a blue sweater is pale in the high light and darker in the shadow, OR whiter in the light and blacker in the shadow -- or both!
Have fun!
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I've finished this piece,I can see my mistakes but I dont know what to improve
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