Interesting markings! And as always, love the wings.

One flaw that sticks out to me is the ankles and feet. they seem far too big for her frame. In fact, her feet are the same size as her head. O.o

Some tapering below the calf should fix a good portion of that.

*contorts*
My feet are the size of my head, as best as I can tell by covering my ear with my foot. Also, I need to air my dogs out before bringing them to my face.

But we can agree that the ankles are way too thick, yes?

Thanks, That's something for me to look out for as this IS a habit of mine.

Toes are whack, it seems you couldn't decide between anthro toes and paws, and hoped to split the difference.
The head seems to be suffering a bit. Did you do it at the beginning, middle, or end? The two things I notice is that it seems to be at a painful angle, and the facial features don't seem to agree on which way is horizontal, and the lines. The line weight is also making it look like a toon while the rest looks like a pencil sketch. Try drawing the face with minimal bold lines and use light lines for detail, just like you did with the hair. I'd use the dark lines only for the pupils, nostrils, upper eyelashes, and maybe the upper lip.

I was actually a lot lazier when it comes to toes, using the quick n' dirty method of drawing grape-shaped lumps at the end of feet and hoping that it will end up looking like toes. I guess it didn't work out as well as I'd hoped. :9

Head...that was actually somewhere near the end, I started this sketch with the spine line and torso with a rough outline of the limbs before going for the head, which gave me a lot of trouble.

Good call on the line weight, I'll try that out the next time I do faces. Thanks for the pointers.

Grape shaped lumps won't work because toes have bones in them. It's not a tumor!

You didn't align your head first you admit, and by doing it last, you seperated the size and detail you were thinking about when you did the body from the size and detail you needed to use when you did the face. Also, you were probably shifting into "just get it finished" mode. If you have that habit, it's easy to break, just plan out a background for the image to do after the figure, then stop before you do it. (Or much of it, you might block it in just so the figure isn't floating in nothing.) That way you can't trick yourself into thinking you're almost done and can rush through.

And, oh, the palm for the left hand seems to be too small; for lack of better words, it's almost like there are fingers attached at the end of the wrist! It seems to make the hand look really small, especially in comparison to the right hand. Also, for the right arm, maybe the shoulder muscle (deltoids?) could be more defined.

Uh... one more thing, what's she looking at? The facial expression of kind of confusing me.


I put my hands up, cover all the mistakes mentioned above, and it's like, a beautiful picture, man. Those curves and the abs are just, like, great, man.

A beautiful piece, especially for a sketch. I agree with Its_A_Trap in that the markings are interesting and add a lot of flavor to the piece. I'd like to see more detail in the tail if you make it a full picture in the future :) but understandable in the sketch.

"And, oh, the palm for the left hand seems to be too small; for lack of better words, it's almost like there are fingers attached at the end of the wrist! It seems to make the hand look really small, especially in comparison to the right hand."
The fingers are curling inward. so it's only the top half you see there. The arm is also pulled back, which makes it smaller perspective-wise anyway, I believe this perspective problem could be made more clear/sorted out with some careful shading if the pic ever goes beyond a sketch.

Again, beautiful stuff. Thank you for sharing :)

Yeah, foreshortening has been a long-standing weak point of mine, been trying to fix that for ages. If there's any trick you know of that could help with that, please let me know. Deltoids...easy to fix.

She's looking at the viewer's bottom left....I dunno, it just seem to fit the gesture of the pose. *shrug*

Thanks for the comment man, I appreciate the crits.

The face seems a little bit awkward to me. I think perhaps the eyes are a touch far apart. I know they're like that on cats or whatever, but she's got human shaped eyes, not cat ones, so maybe put them closer. Either her left hand is too small or you failed at a foreshortening. And shitdamn you need as much work on ankles and feet as me.

I'd praise you for what you have achieved, but that's what the rest of FA is for. I'm gonna try to stay harsh when I log on here.

Thanks, I'll keep those in mind!

Do stay harsh, crits are what makes people improve! :)

I like the pose, and the wings are cool!