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Fawriel

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Fawriel is doing well so far

Jan 19, 2006, 02:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Radium
Curse you, Dev and your evil faster-than-Radium powers D=. Anyway, I haven't done the critic thing for a while, so if you disagree on something please point it out.

First I'd like to say you've improved. The rest of this post is going to be nothing but negative comments. Don't take that offensively, just presume I liked anything I didn't complain about.

Okay, first, Charles X (in my classes we have similar fun with Pope Leo X). Two main things strike me as being wrong with this picture. The first is the pose. You're making a common mistake where you act as though you are drawing him in two dimensions (you actually are, but it's not supposed to look like that). Both arms are positioned as though he's laying dead on the ground; nothing is coming towards or away from the viewer. His arm with the Spanish (??) flag looks awkward being perfectly straight like that, and his other arm is in a position that's actually kind of painful. Remember, for something to have depth it doesn't only need things overlapping, but things coming towards the viewer.
The other thing is the (presumed) wind. His cape is being blown right, and his Spanish (?????) flag is being blown almost straight up. Making all the blowy things go in the same direction will help unify the picture. Since you want the flag to be visible, a wind going up and to the right might work well, but the cape would need to reflect that.
As for more minor things, another problem I notice is his hands. Both hands are clenched around something, though his fingers don't wrap all the way around. His neck seems a bit thin for a superhero parody type. Also, his feet could use a little bit of work; this is the most minor thing ever, but I think the middle part needs more definition to separate feet from wedges. And superhero feet are fun to draw.
French.
And you are right. I'm still going to excuse myself by saying that I didn't really put effort into the finer parts of the picture and I didn't use guidelines and etc.
I would've uploaded it to Comedy Cafe, but it's not good enough for that, either. D=
It lacks POW. You know, like, a dramatic background and dramatic pose and stuff.

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Originally Posted by Rad
EDIT: I completely missed the "go easy on Jamie" part. I felt bad and removed the rest pf this post.
You presumably evil person.
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