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"Excuse me. But I think there's something wrong with my "light" soda..."
"No sir. You're drinking the hyper soda. One can includes almost one million calories. One sip and your body's gonna swell up like an elephant."
"Oh that's just... way too awesome."
You won't see me like this too often, do you?
"No sir. You're drinking the hyper soda. One can includes almost one million calories. One sip and your body's gonna swell up like an elephant."
"Oh that's just... way too awesome."
You won't see me like this too often, do you?
Category All / Fat Furs
Species Alligator / Crocodile
Size 966 x 1000px
File Size 361.8 kB
hehe. If you have Windows Live messenger we can talk if you want: Icefyer[at]msn.com
I can see that this picture has quite a bit of potential, and your grasp on colour (the dull beige vs the bright green? Very nice contrast) is quite adept. However, it is not without its flaws.
This picture is incredibly messy. The linework is one width and jerky, and the shading is patchy and careless. When inking your work, it is prudent to always try to keep your lines clean and clearly presented - otherwise what the lines represent is ambiguous. (the exception comes when you want lines to look messy - but this comes after mastering clean lines).
The shading is also pretty strange - it suffers from an inconsistent light source and major banding and pillow shading. There doesn't seem to be any clear light source at all, which is important when you want to make things look 3D - or even round. The shadows underneath him don't have any form or blurring of lines at all. It could be improved with some touching up - perhaps by cleaning up the anti-aliasing and the holes in the shadow, making it blur the lines a little so it looks like a shadow, and working out just where your light source is.
The picture itself is pretty good, though you might want to work on your anatomy a little. His arms seem way too short for his body (being fatter doesn't increase the length of your spine), and his pose is static and boring. Try to avoid lining up the spine and limbs to the vertical and horizontal axis. It kills any life in the picture. His hand is holding a squished can, if I'm not mistaken? When drawing things like that in a cartoony way, you must remember how they deform in someone's grip. The can needs to be bigger, if it is key to the events in the picture. Perhaps his whole body could show his shock, as his extra weight would surely be unbalancing?
His expression, also, is strange. What is the emotion you are trying to portray in this picture? The exclaimation marks betray a sense of shock, but his actual expression is one of bemusement. The anime sweatdrop makes the whole thing even harder to read. Try making the desired expression in a mirror first, then you will have reference for the expression you are drawing.
If you want me to clarify anything, or give any more tips, just PM me.
This picture is incredibly messy. The linework is one width and jerky, and the shading is patchy and careless. When inking your work, it is prudent to always try to keep your lines clean and clearly presented - otherwise what the lines represent is ambiguous. (the exception comes when you want lines to look messy - but this comes after mastering clean lines).
The shading is also pretty strange - it suffers from an inconsistent light source and major banding and pillow shading. There doesn't seem to be any clear light source at all, which is important when you want to make things look 3D - or even round. The shadows underneath him don't have any form or blurring of lines at all. It could be improved with some touching up - perhaps by cleaning up the anti-aliasing and the holes in the shadow, making it blur the lines a little so it looks like a shadow, and working out just where your light source is.
The picture itself is pretty good, though you might want to work on your anatomy a little. His arms seem way too short for his body (being fatter doesn't increase the length of your spine), and his pose is static and boring. Try to avoid lining up the spine and limbs to the vertical and horizontal axis. It kills any life in the picture. His hand is holding a squished can, if I'm not mistaken? When drawing things like that in a cartoony way, you must remember how they deform in someone's grip. The can needs to be bigger, if it is key to the events in the picture. Perhaps his whole body could show his shock, as his extra weight would surely be unbalancing?
His expression, also, is strange. What is the emotion you are trying to portray in this picture? The exclaimation marks betray a sense of shock, but his actual expression is one of bemusement. The anime sweatdrop makes the whole thing even harder to read. Try making the desired expression in a mirror first, then you will have reference for the expression you are drawing.
If you want me to clarify anything, or give any more tips, just PM me.
Now finally there's someone who actually gives me some good critic. Yeap, I know I still got a long way to go, and I definitely need some practise with anatomy and inking/shading (I should study them more). The "problem" usually is that I rush my art too quickly. So there's gonna be a lot of mistakes in one pic.
I think, in this situation, it would pay you to pace yourself when drawing - try to finish a sketch in your own time, rather than to a deadline, and only upload it when you are happy with it - and you are ready to upload it. From the statistics included with your picture (measuring audience reactions, I would gather), it would seem that you have quite good exposure, but don't mistake this for perfection in terms of art. Don't rush it if you have a passion for it - take it steady, and you'll end up with a piece you can be very proud of.
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