wow very nice work

Ot-ot-ot-otterface ot-ot-otter face. Ma ma ma ma

Also, very cute! Otters are adorable.

what do you mean, didnt turn out well? looks fantastic! really great bit of art :) and she is a very beatifull otter :3

The background here is much crappier than I was hoping it would be, but I'm working with some techniques here that I don't actually know at all, so I suppose that's to be expected. x3

it looks brilliant! i think the background looks good, simple but artistic and colourfull :)

If this is crappier than what you wanted, I'd sell half my soul to see a good background.

The background looks as good as most watercolor works I have seen.
Kind of a surreal quality...but beautiful.
& definitely better than the crumbled wet paper I end up with... :)

I really love the thick otter tails.

Nonsense, you've always painted gorgeous scenery.

I can do a pretty good job sometimes, I just don't think I did a very good job this time. :P

Cute one :3

She's beautiful.

I think it's a pretty good image, all things considered.

The most glaring (at least to me) problem seems to be that her feet look like they've been twisted at the ankle nearly ninety degrees.

I guess I don't know what I'm looking for, but it looks pretty decent to me. Mora has a point about the slightly wonky ankles, and it almost looks like it's a macro piece because the background looks small compared to the character, but other than those, it's really good work.

I'm just giddy to see an otter done by you :3

I think the background looks rather nice.

Yeah the background looks really good.

Hotter otter

Very awesome colors & art work! =^___^=

Dude who draws stuff, huh? I'm sure I'd rate you a bit higher than that :P

I just don't like to use the word 'artist'. I don't feel like an artist. I try to emulate some artistic ideas in my pictures now and then, but when I think about me, the word 'artist' just doesn't seem to feel right. Unfortunately there's no easy word for guy-whom-draws-things-but-isn't-an-artist. x3

Well, you use paint, so that would make you a painter~ Your style is traditional, so you could be called a Traditionalist~ <3

Dude, I LOVE those trees.

I got more or less the right idea with them... I'm aiming to get a somewhat low-detail background style. A skilled watercolour artist can make good use of colour and shape to suggest what they want without spending a lot of time on details and it'll look really nice. When I do it it turns into a bit of a mess, but at least I have a goal in mind after many years of flipping and flopping and never knowing how I want to do things. Though there's still a few things I'm not so sure of... I think my characters stand out a bit too much right now so I may need to put a bit of ink on the background as well to help bring everything together.

...pretty big response to such a tiny comment. xD

I agree that you should put some ink into the backgrounds. Obviously going with more ink on what's closer to the viewer perspective wise. More detail on the ground in this piece would have helped blend the character into the background and mesh it all together as well - nice shots of muted green grass sprouting up over her arms and such like.

But of course that's just my silly opinion

Love the background- and if anything else is to be said? DO MORE OTTERS :D

I definitely need practice with them, so it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to do so, heh. :P

Happy little trees!

I like the concept of the background, it's just a bit...pastel, I guess, to be fully effective. Her feet are a bit awkward also, but overall, the character design is great! I may have to add a night with her to my do-want commission list!

That's something I'm working on, actually. To be perfectly honest I think it's simply because my paints are rather cheap, hahah. It's hard to get really bold colours out of them, and I'm usually trying to lay the stuff on fairly thick. Oddly, a few colours are great at coming out brightly, oranges and reds do fairly well, and one particular blue does alright, but most of my paints are very faint when they're wet enough to actually work with. I'll be getting some better paints soon to see if they help, but for now I'm doing my best to brighten 'em up a bit. I'm actually in the midst of painting another picture as I type this, and while the background is considerably more simple, I think I managed to darken it up effectively. I'll leave that up to you though I suppose. x3

Is it...odd..that I get to feeling just a little proud when I come up with something that actually bothers an artist when I try to critique their work?

I mean, usually, somebody says "IT'S CRAP!!!!" and I'm looking at it like "Well, I dunno, I don't see anything wrong with it.

What a beautiful pinup!

Very cute otter X3

I actually like the background in this. The only thing I can see that's objectively wrong with it is that the scale seems off, in that the girl appears very large.

D'aw.. Love otters.

Where are his whiskers? Otters would fit a little shorter muzzle. Background is fantastic. :3

It's a nice picture, as nearly all of yours are, but her face looks too much like the canids and vulpines in many of your other pictures. Maybe work on getting the shape of her nose, her muzzle, the eyes, ears and muzzle, the proportions, more otter-like? Or maybe just more practice...

(Then again I'm no artist so I'm probably not one to talk.)

ite like the leg in the back was severed off =O

You say it didn't turn out well, but i honestly beg to differ. The figure looks great, but the background is just plain beautiful. I find that to be a staple of all of your artwork, your backgrounds are consistently so amazing <3

But I think these characters would fit better if you tried lineless coloring, to fit more with how the backgrounds look. But still, I like this piece very much ^^

oh wow. she is really pretty. you do these so well.