HOME | DD
Purrlstar — So, let us return to Paradise.
Published: 2011-02-12 17:37:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 1098; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 14
Redirect to original
Description
"So, let us return to Paradise, my brother..."Livestreamed C:
Remember these two from my invERT picture?
They still don't have names xD
inspired by this song: [link]
According to livestream this took a little less than two hours
Related content
Comments: 15
I made a couple characters similar to these two awhile back... and ironically their names were Yin and Yang o3o...
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
maybe some name suggestions-
Yin(she-cat one) and Yang(the tom; black one) (i know a bit stupid and plain)
Time(white one) and Space(the black one)
Blood and Tear (Blood would be the white one, tear would be black)
II(meaning two, for the white one) and III(meaning three, the black one)
hope they helped!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Ohh nice suggestions! I like time and space a lot <3
but I need to go back and edit this with their names, Ghamis (black) and Imera (white) meaning night in georgian and day in greek C8
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
There names could be...Yin and Yang?
lol Anyway, awesome picture! I love your art
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
I think someone suggested that once before, I'm stil contemplating their names, but I do want it to be something opposite like that...
Why thankyou very much! I love your videos on youtube as well ;D
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
To start off there are things that are really neat about this image. The glowing aura around the characters is a really neat idea as it adds kind of a mystical feeling to the drawing. The markings are really neat! Not ones you see a lot in characters. The paw on the white character is really well done, especially from this angle although the dew claw is missing (which would appear on the outside of the paw at this angle) Their eyes are a brilliant blue and very beautiful and well shaded 
Now onto the critique:
Vision: The vision for this piece if obvious, bad vs evil, even though it's a concept done a lot I think you did pretty well in individualizing the concept here.
The only critique I'd have as far as visualization goes is the lack of proper shading. It kind of throws this piece off a bit since there is not defined light source here. I'd suggest working on defining your light source, especially in piece that are meant to be darker in the mood, and most importantly, their lighting. For example, we can see there is light on the background in the middle, yet the lighting seems to be coming from various angles on the characters. It's not a huge deal but it kind of throws the whole image over.
Originality: I can't say the concept of 'good vs bad' is original because it's one of the oldest concepts in the world, but here I think you did a good job displaying it in a different form with actual contact between the two characters. You also did a fairly good job with giving the expressions good variety to match. One looks utterly evil while the other looks benign but still slightly mad given from the small smirk on his face. The depth and atmosphere in the image is one I haven't seen much of in images like this; the subtle blue tints to the shadows and the vibrant lighting. This adds a nice touch.
Technique: You seem to have a pretty set technique going on with your images, soft shading and subtle lighting, however here it seems like you may have rushed it a bit more. The shadows are much more predominant which is good for a darker image, but the highlighting is a bit too subtle to give the sense of depth here. You have a pretty good idea of where the vast majority of the light would fall given the lighting source, but it just seems more like 'mist' rather than lighting. 
Impact: Impact? Well, to be honest the impact of this drawing was brought down by the somewhat poor lighting. It's not a major drop but maybe 7-10 stars. Although I love the expressions on the characters it's somewhat hard to tell from this which one is evil or if they are both evil. The blood adds a nice touch to it, but it may be a bit much here; particularly the blood dripping from the chin. Depending on the character's pain tolerance if his sister/brother's claw was digging deep enough into his chin there would be some sort of expression of pain on his face, but here is seems more of less like he doesn't notice it and it more nervous. Also the idea of mirror characters (inverted) is kind of overdone a bit, but that's not to say you can't/shouldn't do it. If executed well, these kinds of characters can make for some decent conflicted artwork/stories.
I think you did a decent job here even though I picked things apart pretty bad
Overall:
- Define your light sources more prominently. It'll add much more depth and atmosphere to your images. Particularly ones like this.
- Take a study of feline anatomy. The anatomy here isn't horrible, but it doesn't hurt to study their anatomy just so you know how to portray certain movements and poses to make them look more believable.
- Try to define your character's personality before doing an image with them. As I said above even though it appears both characters are evil here their expressions kind of confuse the viewer and we're not too sure what's going on.
(This of course is the statement of a first time viewer to this piece, which is what happens a lot. People happen upon an image in someone's gallery/favorites and look it over). You want to be able to portray your character's personality well enough in every image that when someone first looks over an image of them they get a general idea of how that character acts/is.
Great work though! :3 Keep it up!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Well...not all cats have dewclaws.... (mine don't x.x) and I think the lighting doesn't matter so much here... just 'cause the shading is great..
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
And once again I started writing my crit... and I had to shut down my computer because it was being weird. D:
However, I absolutely love the piece! 
The only think I can give a crit on might be where his claw is touching his chin; maybe draw more of an indentation than the little line you have already. I would imagine that the tip isn't the only part of his claw that would be making contact with his chin, so make I would say make it deeper and a bit longer. Otherwise though I really, really love the piece.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
I really had a hard time with the paw pose, and after a few times of trial and error I finally got something that looked decent xD I really like this picture, mostly because the background was actually a pattern that I used with the gradient tool, it looked like a doorway so I used it 83
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Oooo, I see~
I do like the background as well, and overall the paw pose turned out alright, don't take it as me calling it bad because I do indeed like it; I was just saying a bit more indentation could work.
Great piece. :3
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
