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Hery there, doin a regular dump on here. Hurrah... The 2 ladies werent drawn by me. First girl was drawn by SaneJack7 from conceptart.org and the second one, as you can tell, is armel's purty girl from the contest. C&C welcome and appreciated.

mmm... me likes chik w/ claws
hmm, the pose of the NE looks a little awkward

First off, damn that was a quick reply.
And second, id prefer crits on coloring for the two girls cuz I didnt draw them, so anatomical issues and stuff is not sumtin im looking for.

then your coloring is godly ;)
(meh, it was a quick reply cause i was so jumpy, dling new songs take 4ever on winmx)

Hmm burn/dodge only is fun and nifty but maybe try some 30% opacity colors?
Gives a more paint like look and sometimes makes the pic better.

keep up drawing stuff, its good, colorings looks good

hrm.. i wouldnt say the coloring is godly... just better than mediocre. not to put you down or anything... but anyone could color like that.... what u need to do is to have a better light source... also, burning isnt that good. it actually makes the ppl look burnt... u should really try to color and blend w/ low opacities...

as for your drawings......

the fingers on the 3rd hand seems a bit short... or maybe a bit chubby... the finger in the way back looks a bit fat. slimming them down, or elongating them would make it look better.

lips are.. okay... u should really practice shading a lot. it will help out a lot.. in drawings.. and also in coloring. once u get shading down... u can be more confident w/ ur color changes.

I like the drawings of the hands. They are a little skewed, but I can see the process at work in those pictures, and it is something I like to see.

The colorings are pretty good, but they could be improved a little.

In the first one, that background isn't right; it's nearly the same sort of color as her skin. If you want to make her pop out, desaturate that background, and change the value.

The second one's white background can work because she herself is quite dark, but it is something I would watch for in the future.

There's nothing so very wrong with using dodge and burn, but don't get too comfortable with it. It's a better idea to paint using colors instead of those tools, but you should move at your own pace.

Keep it up.

Thanks alot for the crits, just the stuff I was looking for. FUNG, dont worry, not offended :P, I know what level my coloring is at and I actualy think its more mediocre, but im trying to get better. Thanks alot for the hands and shading tips, ill keep it in mind for my next coloring and drawing stuff.

Ogre Crossing, the reason I made her background like that is because it wasnt supposed to be ver proffesional coloring. I just did it for quick practice in a coloring thread and I kinda liked the way it turned out. And if I get permission from a particular artist from conceptart.org then I will post another colored piece.

Oh, and the reason im using other peoples pieces to color so much is because I am mostly doing anatomy studies in drawings which arent usualy colored, so I just wanna keep my skills sharp even though I havent got any of my own drawings to color.

Thanks for the crits guys, please keep em comin ^_^ .

Okay, one I just colored. Took around 50 min. It was drawn by DefComBeta on concepart.org and I colored it with his permission. C&C appreciated. *runs off to play with painter 9*

Hey, that's pretty neat. I especially like that orange/purple color scheme you have going on, and the addition of a background, even if it's simple, can really help a picture out a lot. It puts it into context.

You conveyed the look of metal quite well, and you are consistent with your lighting. However, the orange bits on the robot looked a little flat to me. I did a quick little overpaint (15 min). I hope you don't mind, but if you do, I'll take it down. I just did it to illustrate some of the suggestions I'd have in a more easily readable way.



I basically darkened the whole thing, and made the orange parts pop out. I made another layer set to screen on top and put some cherry red on top to make them look like they glowed. Then I did a whole bunch of other stuff which was really just fooling around. For example, I made an orange-blue gradient on top and set it to hue and faded the opacity. This warmed up the top left corner and cooled down the bottom right corner, to complement the focus of the image further. Oh yeah, I made some reflections on the metal from the orange lights.

Anyways, good job, and I can see an improvement over your last colorings, which is always good. This one looks like you were more confident and sure of yourself when you were coloring it.

Oh and hey, I think out of the hundreds of colorings I've did, only about two were my own lines. I almost exclusively color other people's stuff. It's nothing to be kicking yourself about.

On a side note, how do you find Painter 9? Is it such an improvement over version 8? It seemed like a marketing strategy to me, but I've never used it so I can't say. I'll stick to photoshop.

Ogre, that is awesome, it really helps out. Love how you made the light on the orange and the way you fixed up the composition. Thx for the help, and for the encouragement. Im putting up another picture quite soon.

And painter is really good, I wouldnt use it on its own, but you can get some really great effects in it. It has basicly any traditional media you can think of, so I just use it for some effects and then photoshop for the highlights in stuff. I just dled the trial and I got another while for it, and I sudgest you at least try it out, its really fun .