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Radium

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Jan 1, 2004, 08:09 AM
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I like it, I meet qualification one.
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Well, I can't really flame or curse you out with Derby here, and a negative comment would be along the lines of "it sucks lol omb". So, I just met qualification two, three, and four. Dang, I hope you never work in airline security (American joke there).

Let me start in my standard format by complimenting your background. It swirls around the middle and it looks cool. Now, let's get to the characters. First off, I like their eyes. I like Faw's eyes more, because the lower lid of the girl's comes up to far, and along with her strange smile and lower lip it makes her expression appear a tad... evil. From the picture I get that the girl is reaching forward; hence her arm disappearing. However, her body appears stiff and motionless. Faw's is better, but not perfect either. There was a good tutorial on character gesture Noogy wrote available here (pre-Derby warning: nudity near the bottom of the page in the anatomy tutorial). Her right hand is also very strange shaped. The main problem is regarding the length of the fingers. Allow me to link to another one of Noogy's tutorials here. Finally, you've gotten much better at drawing humanoid figures, but her proportions (primarily the length of her arms and legs) are slightly off. A very nice and straightforward reference for proportions is Polykarbon.com's female body tutorial. And for the clothes, both their clothing seems to cling too tightly in some places and too loosely in others. The folds appear to be randomly placed, instead of following a pattern. For a good reference on how cloth naturally falls, I'd go use HowToDrawManga.com's clothing tutorial, or to learn how tight clothing wraps, return to Polykarbon. As for the hair, it doesn't seem to be growing outwards correctly. The girl's hairline is too low to allow much eyebrow movement, and Faw's hair seems to stick out real far at the top and turn sharply down. Both their hair seems to "dead" or "heavy" for a picture like this. The basics of hair are also best explained at Poly, while moving hair is better described at HTDM. Finally, most people wouldn't notice this, but their ears are misplaced. They seem to be positioned at the middle-top of the head, while more realistically they should naturally "curve" off the back, and the inner side should extend forward towards the middle. I suck at explaining this, and nobody has written a good tutorial, so your best bet is just to examine other people's drawings or *gasp*, actual photographs of animals.

Okay, that's all I've got. For now. Happy 2004. Don't forget to post the picture at Noogy's. Cheerio.
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