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The second in my Season series: the youngest of the three sisters, Spring, shown in both her woman and bird forms.More about the sisters here .
Colored pencil on cardstock. 8.5X11 inches.
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Lovely...I enjoy how the tree and bird flow around the page.
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The bird would have to be my favorite part of this piece. I just love bright colored birds.
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Spring is my favorite season, and you've just brightened it even more!
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Great work on the drawing and the coloring! I think it rocks!
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Wow... I love the bird, its feathers are very bright and colorful. Good job with the details on the flowers and dress too, this looks wonderful!!
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Wowww, this is really beautiful...I love love the colors that you used in all those feathers, and the detail, and how brightly her green birdeye stands out against the yellow and pink. 
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Ohhh so many colors and details. Those buds are amazing! This is so vibrant and lovely..it really gets the youthful exuberance of spring across.
Hmm I was looking at her feet and it occurred to me there's a common string throughout your work that I thought I might bring to your attention.
Spring's feet are drawn as if they are almost exactly eye level with your viewer, when the viewer is essentially at eye level with her upper thighs, meaning more of the tops of her feet need to be shown along with more of the tops of the toes.
Like how you have them in this image: [link]
Otherwise, it makes it seem as if her calves and legs are abruptly too short. Hopefully this helps with future works!
Even so, she's a lovely vision
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Actually, I orignally drew her feet as they were in that Iolani picture, but they didn't look right. Then, after I took a peek in that anatomy book you got for me, I noticed that a frontal view, barefoot, generally looks like this: [link]
And that's a full frontal view. I think the feet are fine (on Spring), but it's her calves that are awkward - I think it's because I originally drew the calves as if they were going to be paired with the 'Iolani-style feet' and then realized they should be drawn with the 'correct-front-style' feet. Also, I drew her thighs without the proper curve that calves should have. Next drawing, though, I'll definitely make sure those thighs and feet are correctly angled! ^_^
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It's definitely a tricky angle which you've set your lovely Spring at, but you have to keep in mind that in the anatomy book, that particular view is also lower to the ground than the perspective plane to which you've displayed your lady at. A person's feet will only appear flat as you have them now (and as they are in that example you linked me) if we are at a worm's eye view looking straight on to the feet. Anatomy books are a good reference, but sometimes they don't take into account the full effect of three dimensional space when it comes to switching perspective planes as they are more concerned with the whole than the parts in most full body studies.
Here's another example which I think is a bit more effective than the last one I posted you:
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I think your gal's are pretty spot on..it's the area where they merge into the ankle and feet where things get a bit muddled perspective-wise. The calf shifts right into the foot instead of proceeding from calf to ankle to foot and toes. In any case, hopefully that clarifies things a bit for the next drawing.
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Bah, rotten angles! *shakes fist* I see what you're talking about now - she's definitely flat-footed, especially since the angle is meant to be face level.
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And..randomly I realize that they took off the 'critique welcome/discouraged/etc' notice from deviationsOo ......that's not good
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Oooh, you're right o_O which is strange, because they still have you choose which critique option you want when you sumbit the deviation. A bug, I hope?
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*stalks through commentsXD*
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"I think your gal's calves and thighs are pretty spot on..." (gah typos follow me everywhereXD)
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Awesome =3 the pinks are great, and compliment well with the rest of the image.
love the branches =3 LOVE!
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Yeee usually I'm like "Ugh! Pink! *vampire hiss*" but...you just can't draw "Spring" and not put in pink.
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i love the colors. you always know the best stuff to use.
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squee spring^^so purdy/beautiful 
nice tree blossoms^^
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I add this as a 
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I'm very glad you like it! I'm quite flattered
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AWesome pic! I Really like the vibrant colors you used!
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