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December 27, 2012
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:iconself-epidemic:
I'm not so imaginative with names, but well, probably my last image of 2012!

Took me quite a while, there was an interesting learning curve with this one, but I'm happy with it. There are a few minor flaws but in all honesty, I think it turned out well!

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:iconkolbykakes:
First off, it is quite a lovely piece. I really like how there is a movement and purpose to it. She's not just statically standing around but you can tell that she is almost creeping up on something, trying to stay quite. The colors are very nice and the tree shape makes me want to burst into tears (never very good at drawing trees so I'm jealous!). There are a few things though, that would make this even better.

Your use of color is great but on some sections of the piece looks like you didn't commit as much as others. The pants look perfect, just the right about of dark quality as there is lighter qualities. However, when you go up to the shirt, the dark quality is lost in a majority of the shirt (save for the sleeve on her left arm). I find that some works add "unnecessary" shadows sometimes just to highlight something (like having a very slight shadow on the string of her shirt to separate it from the rest of the white shirt). A very slight shadow can make things pop and give them dimension.

There also looks like there should be some more soft shadows around her breast area, very slight, and the neckline slightly more wobbly to show the curve from the chest and the arm. Other than those few things, the way the shirt falls is very appealing.

Her skin and body itself is very well done but there are a few things I noticed here as well. I think her eyelids could use a bit more work, giving them more shadow to a crease or something. Right now they look sort of flat on her otherwise nicely contoured face. Her neck is also looking a bit thick on the left side and might look slimmer if you showed a small section where the neck meets the shoulder. Just a thought. Her legs look slightly too think as they meet the ankle, more of a bony thickness that looks off and the leg further from us seems a little too lightly colored, the shading is wonderful so perhaps you could just darken that area all together. Her hand, though, is probably the worst part of this picture. It looks really jacket up in the last two fingers while the rest look very nice. Perhaps redoing those two slightly bent and showing more of the bent knuckles will ease the trouble of for-shorting at such an odd angle.

The only other thing I have to say was the ground covering was slightly disappointing, as well as her shadow on the ground and around the base of the tree. And if this wasn't a portfolio thing, I would suggest removing the simple one color grey background thing and making it transparent or at least a darker grey. Slap a few shadows and more grassy things and you should be good to go!

All-in-all the piece is great and Very beautiful. There isn't much wrong, I was just nitpicking mostly but someone of your skill, that's all there is to do when critiquing a piece like this! Hope this helps!
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I like this a lot.
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=Self-Epidemic Jan 22, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
Thank you!!! :)
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Mood: Wow! ~IrinW7 Jan 15, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
This is fascinating. *O*
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=Self-Epidemic Jan 15, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
Awh thank you, interestingly I was looking at the art as your dp as inspiration for it :)
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Mood: Longing ~IrinW7 Jan 15, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Well then! ^^ you did amazingly well! By the way I was wondering if you could help me in one thing because I'm actually stuck O_O I wrote some fan-fiction and I want to draw couple of illustrations for it and I was wondering-how do you draw such erm drawings? XD This one for example O_O
Thanks in advance! :3 :)
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=Self-Epidemic Jan 15, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
If you pay me, yes :p I can't do a weeks work for free, though.
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Mood: Optimism ~IrinW7 Jan 15, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
omg.lol.I didn't mean you to draw for me! I'm not that impudent xD
I just don't know ANY drawing program plus hopelessly not talented in any kind of drawing.Maybe you could recommend me anything?
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=Self-Epidemic Jan 17, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
Oh, well I would say start from basics, life drawing and these books:
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Mood: Optimism ~IrinW7 Jan 18, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Thanks!That should be helpful.
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:iconphoenixleo:
The skin tone...:faint:
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