Hi PurpleTree,

Evian: The width of the lines are too different from what I
           remember of the original. AA is a bit rough.
Aliens: Hmm.. a bit simple. If you want to keep the current
            pallete I would focus on make extra beams. Make
            the trees more like trees *Volume*..
           add background: city-skyline.
           Make the sky dark and give the moon(?) some craters.
Guitar hero: add lightsource
Flying Turtle: The behind wing is to straight up .. make it diagonal
                     and watch out for interfering lines.
Skyline: Usually there isn't so much space between appartments that big
             Put something in front and to the back of the buildings.
Logo: Maybe a hue-shift in colors?

A general comment would be to focus on volume. All the pictures are
really flat. Make things round if they are round and search for highlights = lightsource on the others.

If you have worked for an hour on each .. tripple the time and experiment,
watch reference photos of what you are trying to do.
To become a better artist think more on quality instead of the quantity.
Pick one thing that is close to your heart as that will keep your attention
span and work on it for a week or more. Post WIPs of that thing
and we will try to help you with it.
From the above the most interesting things that I find are the guitar
player and the flying turtle. But that is my own opinion. If you like the
others better, take one and really focus on what you want to do
with it.
Try answering the questions as why you want to make it. What is
it for (game, publishing, a gift for someone?)
That will give you means to work hard on it.

Good luck!

Best regards from

M.E.

because these are small 'prjects' i don't think that really would matter...

well thenn umm first i would work on the gutiar player and the evian logo....

let these rest in piece, and use your efforts in something new. its the best thing you could ever do.

what I mean is, instead of save them in a post-edit, redo them into something completely new.

The flying turtle guitar player.

 so this is my edit, sortof made a light source ... and i think i'm going to make a stage kind of thing for the background....

thanks M.E hmm i like how i've started the guitar player and have found good refs as well!~ but this is for my school assignment-(portrati) so i;ve started one on my friend hmm btw i'm only 13 years old and am a girl not a he...

Edited by purpletree - 21 May 2008 at 3:20am

hmm having big trouble with the noes.....

yep never got tom mention it... ;)

I said i was a girl a while a go but no one believe me.
perhaps you're a girl opacus and you haven't noticed it before

D:/

by the way purpletree, be sure to clean all your lines before doing any work. i hope you'll apply all the things you've learned so far. varock shade has made some nice photo portraits that you might want to use as a reference.

and a protip: don't let the poor quality of the photo fool you. I'm sure her skin is way more lighter than that.

The portrait implies more difficulty and is also an school assigment, so i suggest you to focus on it and let the guitar player wait.

still, your lines are way messed. I believe this is one of these exceptions were tracing would be a good idea, since what you will need to pay attention is shading, not lineart.

Still have every problem I mentioned...
If the pixel should be like the girl in the photo, and is a school assignment, I think you should make it resemble the model!
Then refine the lines, you owe them!

And... am I wrong or she has blue eyes? 

you need to really REALLY pay attention to  the photo, because the features you're putting on your portrait don't match up at all!

for example, the lips you drew are basically front view, when the girl in photo is 3/4th view, the eyebrows you drew are long arcs and pointy on both ends, when in the photo her left eyebrow is thicker near the nose and does not curve down in the thick part. 

Also her hair line looks completely different.


You have to draw what you SEE not what you think should be there.  Draw the shapes, not your ideas of what those shapes are supposed to be.   That's clearly what you're doing - making the lips an oval with a line through it, when that's not anywhere close to what the photo shows. 

If I have a minute later I'll do an edit to help you improve the likeness, but like everyone else said - forget the colors right now and get the likeness fixed before you go on. 

Edited by leel - 26 May 2008 at 1:09pm

thanks for the edti and the advice, but the problem is i'm at school and i sorta cant see the image, is there any chance you could use iaza.com??? coz thats the only one that works.....

I actually made a few teeny edits, while i uploaded, but monkey beat me to it.