Pixel Joint Forum: :\ i'm terrible at this crits please

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Raytheon
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Topic: :\ i'm terrible at this crits please
Posted: 23 August 2008 at 5:12am

challenge entry

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cure
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Posted: 23 August 2008 at 1:33pm

Ref image?
AA where the underside meets the blue. You're using plenty of colors, but not utilizing them as well as you could be. You've also shaded the top and bottom halves as if they were different surfaces.
I'd make the inside of his mouth darker, and fix all the jaggies.

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Metaru
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Posted: 23 August 2008 at 2:02pm

and by not means trace an image. come on.

I ate leel's babies

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cure
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Posted: 23 August 2008 at 2:23pm

I'd say it's referenced, rather than traced. Which is fine, but doesn't really help you improve as an artist much.
Mostly I was hoping the original image would help with the critiquing process.

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Posted: 24 August 2008 at 11:21am

Originally posted by ThereIsNoCure

I'd say it's referenced, rather than traced. Which is fine, but doesn't really help you improve as an artist much.

SAKJHWUIERRAUIVBM?

WHAT?

Reference is great. As far as I've ever understood, everything you draw is either something you've seen before or a distortion of things you've seen before or a combination of things you've seen before etcetera etcetera. Reference helps an artist build their visual library, and anything an artist creates is based off the things in their visual library, no?

"I was minding my own business and walking across a pebbled path, and a Duck started giving me the business."

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Posted: 24 August 2008 at 12:02pm

Ah, but if you have one image you're using as a reference, you don't need to understand how to convey forms you remember and know from study of life; you just need to know how to copy the 2D shapes you see onto the 2D canvas you've got.

RPG is numberwang.

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Raytheon Seaman Joined: 06 July 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 14	Topic: :\ i'm terrible at this crits please Posted: 23 August 2008 at 5:12am
	challenge entry help
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cure Commander Joined: 23 March 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2859	Posted: 23 August 2008 at 1:33pm
	Ref image? AA where the underside meets the blue. You're using plenty of colors, but not utilizing them as well as you could be. You've also shaded the top and bottom halves as if they were different surfaces. I'd make the inside of his mouth darker, and fix all the jaggies.
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Metaru Commander Joined: 03 February 2020 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3305	Posted: 23 August 2008 at 2:02pm
	and by not means trace an image. come on.
	I ate leel's babies
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cure Commander Joined: 23 March 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2859	Posted: 23 August 2008 at 2:23pm
	I'd say it's referenced, rather than traced. Which is fine, but doesn't really help you improve as an artist much. Mostly I was hoping the original image would help with the critiquing process.
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Saboteur Commander Joined: 29 January 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 888	Posted: 24 August 2008 at 11:21am
	*Originally posted by ThereIsNoCure* I'd say it's referenced, rather than traced. Which is fine, but doesn't really help you improve as an artist much. SAKJHWUIERRAUIVBM? WHAT? Reference is great. As far as I've ever understood, everything you draw is either something you've seen before or a distortion of things you've seen before or a combination of things you've seen before etcetera etcetera. Reference helps an artist build their visual library, and anything an artist creates is based off the things in their visual library, no?
	"I was minding my own business and walking across a pebbled path, and a Duck started giving me the business."
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Monkey 'o Doom Commander Joined: 24 September 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2994	Posted: 24 August 2008 at 12:02pm
	Ah, but if you have one image you're using as a reference, you don't need to understand how to convey forms you remember and know from study of life; you just need to know how to copy the 2D shapes you see onto the 2D canvas you've got.
	RPG is numberwang.
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