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i like your pic. it has good detail

I dunno... It kinda looks like Samus from Metroid.

If you want, Fanart has a quick scetch feature, you can submit your pics before you finalize them and so you can get comments on it before you put so much effort into it.<br />
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And not all armor's shading is drawn like that. For instance leather, bone, chain, padded... It is just the shiny metalic ones. I know it seems pretty obvious but I'm just saying those types just so they aren't forgotten about ;)

thank you! <br />
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the shading took me forever to do. yea i see what you mean about uniqueasaplatypus' drawing- the shading is sharper and also has greater contrast (good to know for next time i draw armor)<br />
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ooo yea the neck is long. (crap i didn't catch that either!)

I agree, I think the two things that make this pic great is the shading and the detail. With her right leg there seems to be a piece of armor or doodad or something attatched to it but it is kind of hard to view it as not part of the leg. I think it would help if there was more contrast there or something. Also, when drawing metalic things you can show it more easily by instead of having shading gradually change draw them with sharp edges. I can't erally explain it that well but this artist did it pretty well:<br />
http://fanart.ctgameinfo.com/pictures.php?op=picture&picture=3339<br />
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Also, the neck seems slightly long. I wouldn't try moving the head down (Because that is a lot of work and you might ruin the cool head you drew), but what might be able to fix it is if you brought the shoulders up slightly? I'm not sure how that would work but you would have to change a few angles (like trim the shoulder pads or something or change the shape). Or you could just leave it because it doesn't look that bad (it took me a while ti catch it).<br />
Cool pic though =)

i love your shading