[ICY]

Hello! I have just finished my latest digital painting. I would like to know what you think of it. Thank you.

[GordMacDonald]

Generally pretty good.

A few issues:

I think you need to work on the hand, You need more contrast in some of the contours - such as the contour that separates the butt cheeks. What is the lumpy piece of drapery on the lower left hand side?

Positives:

I think you have laid down a nice warm convincing ambient light in the image. The proportions are generally pretty good.

The lighting and general placement of the figure are good, but in my opinion you need to introduce more drawing/modeling into the image.

Cheers
Gord MacDonald

[faeklone]

you may be trying to be stylistic, which is all and nice then. However, if you're trying to get proportions and the such down, to the point where it's more towards realism, you need to work on a few things.

First off, since it was in the last comment, is the butt crack. How come it's not a line straight up? the way you have it the lower part of the body should be to the side, and yet the whole drawing but that is made that way. The leg below it as well is a little odd. It's curved right for a leg, kudos to you on that, but for the length of the leg, it's curved way too soon.

The back itself is well rendered i the middle but aside from the middle i can't see around the figure at the edges to feel like it's round. as well I feel that the shoulder blades should be better defined as they're closer to the surface thatn the well defined muscle you have in the back.

The lighting on this picture is all over the place. The hair looks like it's lit from a different light source, as is each seperate part fo the body they're all lit differently. Choose an angle and then light the whole thing the same way. Along with that, if you use some classical shading for the figure you could add to the 3-d effect to make it look more realistic. Remember, even if there isn't a light source in her hsadow, the skin will still reflect light back onto the other parts of the body.

Lastly involves the cloth she's holding. It looks nice and stylized, however, if it was a real piece of cloth it would move a little different. her hand would be stress points, so imagine the folds of cloth as ropes that she's holding between the two hands in the path that the cloth is taking now. SOme of it would hit her body and help define it for the picture. It would go in a stright line, like the ropes, not sqiggly as in parts of this pic. And the part where it goes into her right fist makes it look like it's free floating. Make the cloth as big around as the inside fo her fist, seeing as that's where it's going.

All in all great pic. If you're going for stylized, ignore me, if not, think about what I said.
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[[666]Flat]

I think the perspective is wrong. It should be more like right in front of that chick instead of behind.
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[Frode]

She's a bit stiff... I don't think you meant to be her that way. You should try giving here another pose than the pencil-pose (probably not the official name). Try the well known 'contra-post', in whitch the shoulders are angled oppisite to the pelvis. As seen below. It's much more dynamic.

(This is not my creation, btw)


Buuuut... maybe you intended her to look like she's old, has got back-problems, but is yet daringly sexy.

[Odds]

[B3AND1P]

I think this is a very picture but I agree with the others on the butt crack not lining up correctly. Also I think there might be some perspective issues with the head.. it just looks a little off to me.
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