:\ i'm terrible at this crits please
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Topic: :\ i'm terrible at this crits please
Posted By: Raytheon
Subject: :\ i'm terrible at this crits please
Date Posted: 23 August 2008 at 5:12am
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challenge entry http://imageshack.us">  help |
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Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 23 August 2008 at 1:33pm
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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. ------------- |
Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 23 August 2008 at 2:02pm
and by not means trace an image. come on. ------------- I ate leel's babies |
Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 23 August 2008 at 2:23pm
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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. ------------- |
Posted By: Saboteur
Date Posted: 24 August 2008 at 11:21am
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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." |
Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 24 August 2008 at 12:02pm
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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. ------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com"> 
RPG is numberwang. |