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Signus7

PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:48 pm


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:33 am


Aww! She looks really cute! :3 By coloration, I assume you mean the coloring?

I really don't anything wrong with the coloring. ONE thing that caught my eye is that her right shoulder (our left) looks kinda wide.

Very, very good so far, though!

Siliva2


Wicked_Panda420

PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:34 pm


*drops jaw* 10/10
PostPosted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:30 am


Truely amazing drawing, hun
The coloring job is superb~!
And I know you only wanted some color help, and most likely won't be changeing the line art,
I still did a few red lines for you, if you want to consider them for you next drawing

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1) Her left hip (our right) was extremely huge compared to the rest of her body (especially her shoulders). I think you tried to fix that by making her left shoulder longer, so that they would look more acurate, but it just ended up making one side of her body longer than the other.
2) This in turn made her left arm (our right) too long as well, so I shortened that up a bit.
3) On the contrary her right arm (our left) was actually too short, even after I shortened the other arm, so more than likely her hand would be higher up.
4) By making her left hip too big, it made her crotch become out of place (too far to our right), so I shifted it over to our left so that it would line up with her center line.
5) Kept the boobs big, because obvioiusly you wanted her to be stacked, and except for their large size on her slim body, they looked to be accurate to me. 3nodding

On the other hand... color.
I also made some sort-of red lines to help you with your colors, hun~

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First of all, light source
Where is it comming from?
I think it's supposed to be infront of her, but it's really hard to tell because you've seemingly got mish-mashed light sources on her, which is really hard to pull off, and here it's just confusing (sorry if I seem harsh, hun, but you're at a pretty high drawing level, and at higher levels you've got to be pushed harder to get even higher~!)

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So, I tried to demonstrate how to get more of a true feeling with your colors, hun, and I hope this makes sence...
1) To shade colors to make them get darker without loosing color, instead of just shading the color with a darker form of that first color or using black, you shade with that color's complementary color.
A complementary color is the color that is directly opposite of that color first color on the color wheel. (if you know what complementary colors are, you can just skip this next part)

crappy color wheel:

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primary colors: red, blue, and yellow
secondary colors: orange, green, and purple
Complements:
red = green
blue = orange
yellow = purple
Now, sence you don't have any pure primaries or secondaries in your drawing, you have to go with what's closest.
So, your complements would be:
pink = blue-green (purple = yellow
cyane (the light blue) = yellow-orange
yellow (bells) = purple
darker blue-green (eyes) = yellow-orange
and, skin (the only exception)
skin color = a light cranberry (idk y, but it is)

Well, that's it~
("finally", right? xd )
and I hope this has been some kind of help for you~ 3nodding

Queen.Trickster


Signus7

PostPosted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:06 am


@Siliva2

thanks ! whee right shoulder... ok i'll try to fix it next time !


@Wicked_panda420


redface thanks !


@Queen.Trickster

wow... just... i can't imagine someone actually put time on teaching me crying
i really learned a lot ! 3nodding

can i have a request? well.. about the 3th and 4th pic can you give me an enlarged pic? because i don't see the difference between pic #3 and pic#4

many thanks again for helping me in the anatomy and color basics. It really helped a lot thanks again! biggrin
PostPosted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:44 am


No prob, hun~
Only, I can't give you a larger version of the pictures, because I don't have one.
Unless you wanted them extremely grainy, all I have is the size that you posted with.
But, I did put them next to each other so that they are more easily compared.

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I also did several ones that circle the differences in color and shade so that they are pointed out.

1) This is one particular area where you had two different light sources, that tried to covered over.
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2) This is where I added some blue green to your pink shadows.
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3) Added yellow into the purple shadows.
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4) Added some yellow-orange into the cyan shadows.
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5) Added some ligh cranberry into the skin tone.
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6) Last I added some pink into your green shadows.
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I didn't mention the purple I tried to put into the bells or the red-orange I put into the eyes, but those are rather small and hard to see.
I didn't make the changes blaringly obvious because 1) it'd look bad, and 2) I wanted to show you how subtle (but obvious once you see them side by side) the changes are.
I hope this helped you to see the differences and to understand them, and if not then I'll be here to answer any more questions you might have. 3nodding

Queen.Trickster


Signus7

PostPosted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:07 pm


@Queen.Trickster

sorry, i didn't put any instruction how to view full resolution >_< (already edited the first post)

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now that you compared it side by side, i finally understand it (how it gives more depth)

many thanks for putting your time+effort in helping me again !
PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:29 am


Signus7
@Queen.Trickster

sorry, i didn't put any instruction how to view full resolution >_< (already edited the first post)

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now that you compared it side by side, i finally understand it (how it gives more depth)

many thanks for putting your time+effort in helping me again !


aaaah, no problem, hun~
I'm here to help 3nodding

Queen.Trickster

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