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[aznswordmaster1]

Oh Ok I'll make sure the brush is set right. Normally when you do something like this is better to have multiple layers or do it all on one layer?

[Popo]

I always like to work in separate layers, just because it's the best way to avoid having to scrap a piece entirely due to a mess up. It depends how you plan to paint this though. If you're going to use the smudge tool a lot, you'll probably want to play around on just a few layers, as it allows the colors to blend properly. ((Set aside a layer for skin, for the clothes, for the hair, etc. Each different entity of the figure should have a different layer to minimize accidents.)) If you're following the tutorial and plan on just pilling on the different colors and brush strokes without actually blending them with any tool, than I see no reason why you should limit the number of layers you use. If it's just brush strokes, you don't have to worry about how the colors will "mix" because they essentially just sit on top of each other.

[aznswordmaster1]

Alright its been a while since I posted here. I never got around to finish that painting test but I did manage to finish the test up on something else, well sort of. Anyway its time for a mass up date. Goes from Oldest to newest.

http://aznswordmaster1.deviantart.com/art/Luna-Starmark-formally-no-name-90598323
I know the length on the arms are wrong but I didn't want to do the hands again so I left them alone. >_> But I think if I where to got back now, maybe I can.

http://aznswordmaster1.deviantart.com/art/Getsushin-91474964
When I scanned this one, the fingers sort of lost some of its detail so it looks shorter than it should.

http://aznswordmaster1.deviantart.com/art/Random-Design1-92085264
One of 2 parts of a random design that I was going to use for a contest but I ended up switching to something else in the end.

http://aznswordmaster1.deviantart.com/art/Random-Design-2-92085536
Part 2 of that random design.

http://aznswordmaster1.deviantart.com/art/Random-Design-Part3-EDIT-92222550
The Random design in a Official art Limstella inspired pose, I didn't like the way this came out...

http://aznswordmaster1.deviantart.com/art/webcam-test-and-random-idea-92862328
I was testing my web cam when I did this one, I didn't have my scanner at the time... FE swordmaster inspired clothing.

http://aznswordmaster1.deviantart.com/art/Female-SM-design-lineart-94024448
This was a line art that I made for the contest I mentioned earlier.

http://aznswordmaster1.deviantart.com/art/Lee-Vs-Getsushin-Test-94243966
I wanted to make a battle scene with 2 Original Characters I made so I made something that sort of worked.

http://aznswordmaster1.deviantart.com/art/Fenrir-Battle-Coat-revamp-94244670
Revamp to an old design I made some time earlier this year.

http://aznswordmaster1.deviantart.com/art/Female-Swordmaster-Design-94593050
Colored Version to the line art from earlier.

http://aznswordmaster1.deviantart.com/art/WyvernSage-Request2-94652006
A finished product for a request I took earlier from a fellow member here, Wyvernsage.

http://aznswordmaster1.deviantart.com/art/Lee-VS-Getsushin-Color-95114073
Colored version of the battle scene I did earlier.

http://aznswordmaster1.deviantart.com/art/Yamato-Revamp-95198677
Revamp of a character that I was attached too still.

Man thats a lot of stuff, well I won't blame you guys if you didn't go through all of them cause it is a lot.

[aznswordmaster1]

Well time for a minor update.
http://aznswordmaster1.deviantart.com/art/FE-Karla-WIP-96266513
Its still in progress, I'm just having trouble right now getting the colors I want for her skin with Copic Markers right now...

[Popo]

Yay! Karla! Since you're already pretty far into this, and doing it in markers no less, I'll only point out the one major issue that I see: her face. Everything is just a little too far down and too far to the left. I would suggest lassoing all that in Photoshop and centering her facial features so that they sit closer to the center and farther up. If I had to estimate, I would say that her top eyelids should be just below her bangs, and her eyebrows should be peaking out from under her hair.

Other than that, lookin' good! There are a few little things (ex: blocky hand, unnatural looking fabric) that could use some work, but again, seeing as your doing this in a fairly permanent medium, I don't think you should worry yourself over small mistakes that are too late to fix.

[aznswordmaster1]

*Some Coloring and PS surgery later*

http://aznswordmaster1.deviantart.com/art/FE-Karla-96333848
Man I sure now know what to work on now.

[Sardine]

Ok, I've looked at all your drawing that I'm assuming you have done over the last two months. I don't know if I've already said this, so right now, I'm going to try being gentle with my critique.

What i want you to do, is to find a picture of a still life, or better, take a picture of a still life, and draw that. Before you bawwww at me, i was going to say, "just draw cylinders, boxes, and whatever simple shapes you can get your hands on, for the next two months. Do not draw anything else". All your pieces lack the most elementary basics of drawing anything in space. Shapes. Form.

All your figures when i look at them, are outline drawings. You're assuming where things are placed, and you are not drawing through your figures using basic shapes. Your pieces fall apart terribly when a character's arms are anywhere, except by their sides for this very reason. Same with the hands.

Your Karla piece is the worse piece i've seen from you in a long time. I don't know where you are pulling your references, but it's not working. Draw through on the head, before you put hair on. Draw the cylinder of the neck before you draw the cylinder of the collar. Your waist 96% of the fucking time is a line when you draw it. last i checked, the upper torso was closer to a cylinder then a piece of paper or a box.

Your upper torso, finally isn't at 2/3, or at least her shoulders aren't. it's 2/3 from the bustline to the waist. Her shoulders are full front. "But they aren't!" you say? hide the torso from the breast up and put a full front head on those shoulders. the collar is the only thing that will make that drawing odd. But that's a grade too complex to your biggest problem: Basic understanding and rendering of geometric shapes.