Rider & Itachi et +

Rider - Experimenting with some coloring techniques if ya have a better text suggestion plz tell.



Itachi - Overlay and gradients and some erasing quick quick. No refs so ahan.



Red Gun - For those who didn't c it.

your coloring evolves well :). and I don't know why, but your manga-ish (?) style is the only one of those anime styles I like. Don't know why, but it seems somehow different from everyone else. or is it just me? aniway, nice job. But the last one seems to be too stiff and kinda uncomfortable.

The last one is the least refined of all and the only one done completely digitally. And thanks for the nice comment but I think its just you. My anime style is still generic. It tends to change from drawing to drawing so I can't really define my style as unique.

Heh... nice... I like your pencil work alot.

But the first one's boobs are saggy. :P

Valid point :P

I like all 3 personally; that first one though is very nice.

#Rider: The message has a tendency of being misunderstood by the more perverted minds. Her clothe choice contributes to that. Regardless, this is art.
It looks nice, it's far too grumsy however, and your coloring style is at times very sloppy, which makes your piece look like liquid. To change this, I suggest you do a line-art first, and thereafter color it (use various hues as you did here, it looks ace). Take a look at her legs to see what I mean, it doesn't look very feminine, which I think was what you were going for. (I did indeed take the fact into consideration that she's a driver)
Some of her proportions doesn't seem right, like her left arm (the perspective isn't right). And her navel compared to where her hips and crotch are. I *might* be wrong, but the distance between the two shouldn't be canyonesque.
#Itachi: Again quite grumsy. But I do like this one however (the last one was nice as well). His left hand is off as well. The thumb looks miniscule compared to the proportions of the hand.

Keep it up.

i like the atmosphere the first one has... i should make something like that too, its inspirational.

Icbm - How bout they are really big and are squished by the tight uniform? :D That's my excuse. I couldn't erase too much cuz the paper I used is rugged and dirty which procures a cool effect of dirtiness but really smudges everything when erasing. Now I feel like those pros who talk about paper and pencil types... rofl. Sketched in 3h and lineart with 2b. Drew on sketchbook paper stuff.

Tim - Thanks. Read above explanation.

Travinkel - innuendo was meant ^^. Lately, naked ladies are more beautiful than arousing. I'll try to have a more constructed way of working since that was pretty random I kept going back to previous steps, etc. I noticed the low-flow brushes show on her legs. But as for feminine legs, I usually exagerate the hips but I didn't here. And true that on Itachi's thumb. lol Thanks for the critique man! What ya mean by grumsy?

ewrt - Heh thanks.

Okay, let me clarify. You have a tendency to show your pencil lines, which in most cases doesn't contribute to the picture. For example, take this: http://www.sonsofthestorm.com/warcra...c.html#gallery
The pencil is blending perfectly with the colors. And contributes in a positive way. It doesn't look grumsy. Sometimes as I just stated, the pencil looks nice.

In most anime styles, the pencil lines aren't showing, but rather very clean inked lines, which contributes more. Take a look at this http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=10085, his style reminds me a lot of yours.

You need to work on your lines. You're a fine artist and you're definitely improving.

Ah yeah. I get what you mean. I want to do that sort of paint over the lines thing but its real hard. The shapes are not defined and all that crap. I don't spend enugh time or the current way of working isnt appropriate.

And that's a she. Bengal is female if I'm not mistaken. I guess I should get back to inkin. Hyung Tae-kim makes pencil lineart with shading and all (not too much though) and paints the whole thing over. Sort of like samwise but the lineart almost dissapears. (http://www.hyung-taekim.org)

Thanks for clearing that up!

when i scan a lineart these days i usually do the first part of coloringt underneath it with the lines to multiply or something, and then continue to paint over the two layers.

Hmm kay I'll try that.