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Can't see a thing

Do you think you could upload a higher resolution version of this instead? It looks like it's probably really nice, but your resolution is currently so tiny that I just can't see a thing.

IDuDe responds:

I guess you're right, I'll edit it and give a link to the close up pics over at Deviantart...

Great!

I love the eyes, the tree, and the stars. Nice concept.

Great melting mushroom!

Quite interesting piece! Great detail on the mushroom. The sun might be a little simplistic, though. Some background would also have been nice, rather than just white space.

I guess I'm wary of scouting you because of Tom's "no pencil sketches" remark - and though some of your stuff looks like finished pencil art that I think is acceptable, other stuff does look like quick sketches which should be made private (unfortunately, when scouting, you have no idea which works are meant to be "public" and which are meant to be "private"). Anyway, this is the former.

Have you ever considered going over your stuff with pen? You know, there's such a thing called non-repro blue pencil lead (or something similar) - a shade of light blue which scanners cannot pick up if you scan in greyscale or B&W. It's explained in an article on Dave's Mechanical Pencil Blog. Anyway, it saves the work of erasing your pencil lines after you ink them - just scan it and that's it. Some brands even fade in sunlight, so you can leave it in the sun for a while if you really want them gone. Having the right type of pen is also really important - frankly, I just bought a really great one recently. The ones I was using for all of my previous "inked" artwork (i.e. all of the ones currently on the art portal) were not great. If you go to my DeviantArt (username: niffiwan), you can see the submission "Mad Scientist" in which I used this pen - the line quality is a lot nicer, and it was a lot more enjoyable to work with it.

Anyway, just a few things that might help, or not. Give it a try anyway - buying all that stuff cost me about $10, but it has already saved me a lot of time, and makes my work look better.

PurpleElephant21 responds:

thank you very much
i will definitely look in to your suggestions
thank you :D

Exciting!

Very nice artistic direction. Balanced and great use of shape and colour.

baiost responds:

Thank you. Yes I really love the colours too.

ooh... impressive animation

Very nice effect of motion, even though it's in a little GIF image. Good job.

Bunny!

I love bunnies.

I also love the softness of this image, which mirrors the subject being depicted. If I may make a small critique, I think that the grasses in the background have too much black in them - it feels out of place.

bloominglove responds:

That's what I did at first is making the grass lighter... But my art teacher said that it needed to pop out more and I agreed with she so she told me to darken the grass in the background... :D Thank you for the critique though! :D

Beautiful shapes

I love how it becomes a bright leafy green at the top... as if this was all under a leafy cover, and the sun was just about to peek in.

You have beautiful, organic shapes here. When I look at this, I imagine this as a fantastic city... and if this were a film, the camera would zoom in and you would see the inhabitants walking within it.

Very funny sketch

I love the expression on his face. You have a great style, keep it up!

Really, really nice

What I like best about this picture is the warmth. It feels lovingly crafted, and something about using colour pencils just gives you a living texture that computers cannot match.

The direction of lines on the big dragon is excellent, providing a bit of a blur/motion effect. Great palette. I also appreciate details on the rocks and grass.

If I may ask, what kind of colour pencils did you use?

EchoRun responds:

Just bog standard ones really. The brand is Faber-Castell, but they are just basic colour pencils.

I have some fancier stuff - water colour pencils, ink pencils, tinted charcoal and graphite and my acrylics - that I am panning to upload once I can use a scanner again. Interesting effects, but I have no idea how my glitter-stars will translate with a scanner...

Thanks for the review!

Ok

First of all, this is not pixel art. Please look at shadow-wolf1's art submissions for an example of what pixel art IS.

As for the work on its own terms, I don't really see anything special about it. It's a quick sketch done on the computer, coloured red, with song lyrics pasted behind it. It looks fairly generic to me. I can't imagine that it took a lot of time, and I'm not sure why some people are giving it 10s; I guess you must have a fan club of people who follow your work. Which is good for you. But I would hardly give this a 10. rtil's submission "Down"? That's a 10.

Walkingpalmtree responds:

Anything done in MS paint means pixel art to me :P. Also this was old work...infact all the pics I upload are old. Newer ones are jsut to big I guess XDDD working on that problem. Oh yeah it didn't take long :D. and no...I don't...

Feel free to PM me if you want to see the scores to any of my music.

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