Updatezords.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Humpback_Whale_underwater_shot.jpg
I had no clue how whales looked like underwater so I used this as more of the shape than the detail I guess.


Edited by cure - 25 July 2010 at 2:04pm

first thing to do is to determine your palette. your blues look a little too green, and desaturated. (they don't need to be 'really' saturated, but your ref is really saturated, which is not coming off in your piece)

anyways, good job with the anatomy/ line art. only a few small tweaks in my eyes.
first, the head looks too angular to the body. perhaps angling the 'snout?' upward to match the 'head?' area, it will not only make the 'face' straight, but make it look like its turning in the water. (which is what it looks like in the ref, and makes it look truly underwater.)

Then there's a few small jaggies, and he seems a little thin... but that may be just because you don't have any darks outlining him. (and by that i mean shadow)

also his dorsal fin is not angular enough twards the rear.

Hope this helps!

Nice, i like the change from 'reef' to 'sea' if you know what i mean.

I'm gonna wait for your update, but i'm gonna bring this up. are you gonna bring some darker colors to your pic? because it seems a little flat right now.

Cheers!

For some reason, it locks down on the amount of colours I can make, no worries though I don't think I'll use another one unless a few reds for the fishies. But someone have a go at this, I see everyone editing other peoples pixels and I'm left in the dust :( xD

and no the reef isn't DONE. I'll be studying some pictures before I make my attempt, brush up the whale and it's done.