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[ZennyPLUS]

I promised id to some allie fan art so here it is

You do the nation of TBA great justice.

[rtil]

you should iterate on that sketchy looking one with the interesting patterns and textures. it's a cool rendering style

[d-floe]

That was actually just an app on my phone that I drew with. There's one brush that makes it look super sketchy and whatnot.

I think pixlr has a similar brush.

[Gladius]

shizzle yo

[d-floe]

that witch girl is a total qt

draw her some more

[d-floe]

[Bamyasi]

Consider your shiz checked yo.

[d-floe]

im like at the point where im comfortable with what i draw but im not yet at the point where i wanna be yet bare with me

[soup]

theyre all looking cool as per, i much prefer the one thats just the linework but i think thats probably just my slightly worrying love for crisp weighty lines

the neck in the last one is as thick as her torso its worrying me a bit apart from that its all good.

you seem to have a good understanding of human proportions and what goes where, maybe something to try might be taking that and really exaggerating it. playing with varying body, head, face shapes ect see what does and doesnt work. you do seem to be in a comfort zone which can very easily lead to complacency 

[d-floe]

theyre all looking cool as per, i much prefer the one thats just the linework but i think thats probably just my slightly worrying love for crisp weighty lines

the neck in the last one is as thick as her torso its worrying me a bit apart from that its all good.

you seem to have a good understanding of human proportions and what goes where, maybe something to try might be taking that and really exaggerating it. playing with varying body, head, face shapes ect see what does and doesnt work. you do seem to be in a comfort zone which can very easily lead to complacency

Aye thanks for the helpful advice soup! I'm trying to get out of my comfort zone but mostly on stuff like drawpile.

[d-floe]

[rtil]

i see you've discovered chromatic aberration

i think you went a little overboard with it though as the whole drawing is super blurry and kind of hard to look at. it's best to use it around the edges and keep the focus/center of the drawing less skewed on the color channels

[d-floe]

Yeah i havent just discovered it, ive been using it pretty rarely tho.

im not super proud that i used chromatic aberration in that picture but oh well
probably shouldve left it like this


this is the original size too, i thought upscaling would help but not really

[rtil]

possibly. it's lacking hard edges so it just feels out of focus. i still don't think the lineless style is working for you. i get kind of a 'paper cut-out' feeling from the rendering on some of your paintings especially on the limbs. like the girl doing the crab pose, her legs are very flat. i think you need to pick more dynamic lighting and focus on vector shading style if you want to achieve the look you're going for

[d-floe]

I'm not quite sure how to go about that. I don't want to use cel shading and flat colors because it's really boring. I'm not too sure where you're getting at.

I'm just really confused

[rtil]

you don't have to use cel shading or 'flat colors', but know when to mix hard and soft. i hope you don't mind but i used crab girl as an example

it looks painted but in order to show the roundness of her leg i use a darker color in the middle and lighter as it goes around the other side, and put some shading underneath the puffy part of her shorts. i even used the same light source that is implied on the front of the shirt to your advantage.

it's just that if you're going to commit to having no lines in your paintings you are going to have to use some hard edges here and there or things just start looking like amorphous blobs (imho)

[d-floe]

oh damn i get you now. thanks for the visual example, ill try to see if i can do that!

[rtil]

cool,  glad it was helpful . sometimes i'm just bad at explaining things so the only way i can show what i mean is to draw/paint it

[d-floe]

so i took your word of advice on shading and its been very helpful

[crackers]

please....,  please . for love of god . draw a man .