Arch's Book of Stuff

[Suira]

Maaaaan what a great SB you got going on here!! I've been scrolling trough the pages and there's some really cool stuff. I was particularly impressed with the armor studies, for me that kind of stuff is an utter and burning pain in the butt, and you tossed them there like no biggie! Also the punching animation was pretty cool, it conveyed that animeish style of BOOM kind of punch.

I also dig a lot your values and colors, pretty nice picks and a lot of evolution trough the sketchbook. The designs are coming along, but I think that if you practiced some study designs it would be just incredible.

My only two crits:

a) Line quality: while already quite ok, I think that thinking more before putting a line down would boost their beauty and effectiveness to the next level, it's a pain in the butt and it slows you down the first couple of weeks, but when you get used to it it gives you a lot of good stuff and it also translates to painting most of the time. What you did in those one liner sketches for example is a great example of that and it has paid off big time, so keep it up.

b) Face structure: Your faces are improving gradually compared to the ones from a few pages back, but they still need some work. It's just a pain in the goddamn asshole, it requires a humongous amount of studies to get them kinda right ( mine still lack a fuckton) but it's key since the less convincing the face, the more it takes away from your piece. For example, the mage you did with the staff , had he had a better proportioned face would already be at pro level, but the face takes away a lot of points, and , since it's always a main focus you gotta be carefull with that shit. It's always better to hint it than rendering them fully if you're not convinced on where you wanna go with them.

Hope I didn't sound harsh, I really like your stuff and I feel that your progression is great, but I always like when people give me crits, so I try to give something back whenever I can hehe.

Keep up the great work man, you're reaching a very cool place, and I suspect this is just the begining! ;)