10-03-2014, 06:33 PM
Nice to see you pushing so hard man. Finishing those illustrations is definitely the best way to improve, the way you are doing it. That last one looks like it has a lot of promise, hopefully you'll have time to finish it up later. A small crit on the composition: I noticed there's that "almost touching" thing going on with the left border and her elbow and the cat, so maybe an intersection with the border would break that feeling? Another crit on some of your color choices is that it seems maybe a little too saturated in some cases and a little too desaturated in others. I'd recommend just stealing colors from screenshots or other paintings directly after the stage of working out your values because your figures are reading, but the color choices clash in some cases. For instance, in the flirty herbalist, the background and her coat feel very similar in hue so it all feels very homogenous in terms of color harmony (same thing with the red in the vigilants piece). I would go for contrast in something like that, but that could also just be personal preference.
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