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[Thurnis Haley]

hahahaha

golfwang

[Feel The Rythm]

ok

this ok. I am always glad to see people getting into anatomy studies. I'm in figure drawing myself right now. what this looks like is that you are getting the forms right, but not the relationships between them, which messes with the proportions. the raised leg is short, head small, torso a little long. i don't see a lot of sketching under this, probably cause you just started at it in pen which is fine. you should think about doing some in pencil

i advise not following those "how to draw" things. they are technically right but its not a good habit. try checking out pose maniacs website or get people to pose for you if you can, just for 5 minutes even. draw three volumes, the head, the ribs and the pelvis and base the length by the size of the head. then build up on that drawing. start with line drawings and then when you nail proportions try shading. its tough but keep with it

the anime face isn't my cup of tea but its whatever in the end, most people do more simplistic faces on drawings of full figures anyway.

Safst3r responds:

Thanks for the feedback, I can see what you mean with all of the things you pointed out, I don't really follow "how to draw" tutorials or wahtever and this is my first attempt at drawing from imagination and without a reference to help me. Personally I didn't think the face was that anime like but thanks for pointing it out.

I'll try to draw based on the "three volumes" thing you mentioned. Thanks for the review.

[Fleeting Encounter]

alright

i've been doing a lot of this recently for uni. The contrast of the blues and oranges are nice. They are nice tones and even the greens work. I hate the neutral murky yellow but thats just me. I guess my problem with this design wise is the lack of depth. while it may have some kind of introspective personal depth, the colors and transparencies don't give much sense of space. I think that is why i like your glacial pieces better, they have a better figure/ground relation.

[AWP Gol Magnum]

solid model

i think it could use some more texture/bump maps. I see a little on the scope i think but if you add some more to the rest. maybe some dirt/mud and such would give it more character. yeah the trigger needs work but overall it seems solid, would like to see the wireframe. if you have mental ray they have some neat stuff for glass for the scope lens but there are methods, it would be a nice detail

Dawn-Breaker responds:

Well yeah.. I wish I was more able to come up with custom made texture but I have no skill in that at all yet.. as I would love to pop some textures on it with cuts or more puncture bumps in the gun and all.. but yeah, kept it to a standard metal bump texture.. though I didnt want to over do the value on the bump because it didn't make it look any better.

Non the less thanks for the review!

[Macbook Pro]

solid model

its a nice looking model. can the lid close? also if you made the keys individual objects, you might be able to mess with some incandescence to get the keys (and the apple) to glow. also you might want to change the material on the ports so they aren't the same grey as the body.

gr33bl3r responds:

thanks for the review!

yes the lid is rotatable and i can mess with all of the emit values of the keys, the screen and even the apple on the back that you cant see in this picture.

you might be right about the ports. thanks.

[Assassin 1503]

great

this is a great digital painting. really nit picky critiques (cause thats all thats left i spose) i think it would look better if the Assassin's "A" frame came to a point at the to give it a more gothic art style, like the churches in the game. also the weight of the assassin on the cross seems odd, which i guess makes sense to make him seem more nimble. other than that its nice, good "brush"strokes and color pallet

[Sonic The Hedgehog]

heheh

lens flare

[FACE!]

great

the lips are wonderfully textured. i love the shading and shine on the nose. i also really like the freckely bit under her eyes. its just the hair that sticks out. i'm no good at hair in photoshop, but i think it needs more hues instead of just different values. you've got really good depth with it, but it starts to look more graphic-y than the rest of the face. maybe its just me
also why do you sign your pieces in the middle?