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I see a few anatomy issues in your fullbody pics. I realize you're going for a elongated body look kind of style, but I think your basic anatomy is a bit too weak to be playing around with a style that defies it. You have to know the basics first, right? :b

Sooo, my suggestion is to brush up on your anatomy (through tutorials, real life drawings, books, etc) and then play around with it. I bet you'd get better results that way. 3nodding

Also... very scribbly. It might just not be my taste, but I think you could clean up your linework a bit. I can think of two good ways you could do so.
1. If you're just sketching with pencil and paper, first, do a rough scribbly copy of your drawing. Then, trace over it with a fresh piece of paper (with a light table, or just by taping them both up to a window), just putting in the major lines and taking out all the scribbles. Then scanning or whatever. x3
2. If you're sketching in Photoshop or oC or whatever, make a layer for the sketch portion, and do all your linework in a lighter colour like blue or green. Then, create a new layer and trace over the major lines (lines you want to keep) in black, then get rid of the scribbly layer.

I think the sheer sketchiness of your drawings (as they are now) are making them look worse than they actually are. Messy styles can look good sometimes, but in your case I think there's a bit too much mess. It takes away from the drawing itself.

On the positive side, I like the action poses you've incorporated into your drawings. They feel really energetic, which is usually a hard thing to capture (for me, atleast). x3

Your colouring could use a bit of work, but I think concentrating on cleaning up your lines for now would be the best idea.

Those are my two cents. Hope you can handle all the crits. XD heart

So which of these things are related to .hack?

I'm ocnfused, because I have never heard of these characters before, except Kite

And yet you're talking about data draining and stuff

1. Messy, messy, messy! And his right cheek bulges.

2. You seem to be having some trouble with coloring in the person properly. The color of the hair bleeds out of the edges like crazy, while the color of the square shirt panel thingies don't come up to the edges. Does the program you use have a layer function? If so, I would suggest doing hte color in a layer under the outline so that you can go up to the edges without worrying. And on the hair, try to switch to a thinner brush size when you fill in the points, because if you don't, it turns into a messy glob of color. The proportions seem right, though.

3. On pictures like this especially, messy line-art is BAD. You can't color in messy line-art, or at least, it's hard to. Also, his right arm looks broken D; And why are there two horizons in the sky? And what are those little black marks for? Again, you're having trouble getting up to the edges. I suggest a layer for line-art, a layer for foreground coloring, and a layer for background coloring. This way, you can color underneath him without worrying.

4. What struck me first about this picture is that this girl is WAY too skinny. No girl who is alive should EVER be that skinny. And if she really is that skinny, unless those are implants, her breasts would be very small. I suggest reading a tutorial on drawing the female body, since you appear to have some trouble with it. Also, either the body is too long or her head is too small. And her hands are in the wrong position to be holding that sword behind her, unless said sword is filled with helium. If she tried to hold something that big that way, she would topple over.

5. Cute, but still too skinny! Once again, read a tutorial on anatomy :3

6. Nice body position, but still too skinny! And his body seems to be too long; either that or his head is too small.

Sorry to be so picky and not positive, but if I mentioned every single good thing, this post would be really long. Just assume that if you fix these things I mentioned, it would be really good : )

Ah, I see

I've never used open canvas... I use either Photoshop (Photoshop Elements version something comes with the something x something Wacom tablets) or Oekaki Central, which has layers

She may have no mass, but that is still just kinda weird looking... maybe make her a little more realistically proportioned?

Anyway, I'm sorry for being, picky, but that's the way I am

And now I feel bad about it, because no one's being picky at all with my artwork, and I can see so much stuff that could use fixing D;

Oh, I thought she was holding the sword with both hands behind her back

It would make more sense if she was raising the sword with both (or one, if your game has no physics at all, although it does in the anime, game, and manga) hands and looking a bit more... fierce.

That is much better; it looks quite a bit more realistic, and it looks more believable, yet still a bit virtual (which is a good thing in this case)

you know what I love...? when people comment when I say don't comment.

I of course know the piece was not amazing, but I was showing it that's all.

And thank you about the oC help with the layers...however, recently I installed a new program that acts just like oC in the fact it simulates various traditional styles...but it's feels better with me since it reminds me of PS in a way (PS I'm definitly more experienced in... )

Now, for the break up thank you ^^ I honestly have been thinking some weird things with the 3rd and 4th area now that I think about it, but when I look at this I completely understand where I went wrong ^^;; (however...at a slight fluke... a recent drawing of mind is more accurate then my most drawings...what's even funnier is that I was going crazy at me thinking that I messed it up since this has probably been a piece I've taken more time with)

But thank you for the guideline, I'll see what I can do with it ^^

corel painter essentials 2

(I have also recently found out I despise photoshop essentials 3... crying )

But ya... it's a pretty fun program. I've been meaning to install it the moment I got my tablet... but I never got around to it =_=

And it's alright... although you did comment on it, I really don't mind that much ^^