Windier Day

aww thanks so much juli and deathbo!!<br />
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yea i have a problem with making heads way too small (usually hair will cover it) but thanks for the suggestion!

Ooh this is so pretty! I love that wind feel moving throughout the piece! The simple background is a good thing actually, it gives a verybarren and harsh almost feel to this powerful pic! (okay, i sound weird0_o) I love the way the buildings are so sketchy horizontally, they feel very distant and detached from the foreground, giving the girl an isolated feel.um only suggestion I would make is the back of the head should be a bit larger, but that's barely anything. Great job!

i like this background

Yea, I like the joke and the face in it, but that is it pretty much ;) The rest of the art in it just wasn't that good. I didn't go over it as many times as I normally do.

lol i hope you find time to do that, jyan. and i still think your acrophobic desensitization program pic rocks!<br />
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o thanks, amy! um haha this isn't charcoal, tho- just plain, number 2 pencil. eww i forgot my eraser and pencil sharpener that day, tho (i was stuck after skool), so i did most of it with a mechanical pencil and a rather dinky eraser that i stole from a freshman friend. hehe then i smudged everything with my fingers

I was just looking at this pic again. It reminded me that I need to figure out how to draw bodies and cloths better. My people I draw from my mind just look like boxes *Grin* (Like the guy in my "Acrophobic Desensitization Program" pic). Maybe I should do what I explained what I did with faces in your "Dave Foley is sadly confused" pic. That actually probably will help =) Now... to get some time to do that... lol ;)

Oh well that is even better! =) I can only suggest what I think would work, but I haven't actually had the chance to see if it would work or not. So if you actually managed to find all that stuff before and play with it and figured that it is better without it then that is great =)<br />
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Thats cool, I'll keep putting in my 2 cents as long as you think it is worth it. I, myself, am by no means a professional or anything so I can't promise much, but I'll try ;)

wooo thanks jyan! (don't worry, i say a lot, too!) lol i'm also one of those people who will often pick out the illogical points of a movie or tv show (my dad's always yelling "suspension of belief!" at me). so i understand. tru tru the wind would knock her over... but let's just say she has the mutant power to increase her body weight, kinda like harry leland from the hellfire club (in the xmen comics)<br />
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o and yea i thought about having a more flowing shirt, but i didn't want there to be too many things being affected by the wind. and i didn't want to overdo the laces so i didn't make them on her left arm. (i tried to even out the motion, i guess)<br />
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i always have a hard time doing the shoulders from this point of view, and yea i see that i kinda messed it up... um can't we just say her shoulders are slouching? heh heh. o and i believe the light source is from the left and above. (the scanner didn't pick up most of my shading on her)<br />
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and um your welcome? lol thank you for commenting on this pic! you really have helped me improve, too, i think. because you've encouraged me to try backgrounds and do more original stuff, as well as work on the details of proportions and perspective. <br />

Sorry for saying a lot. I really like your pic, I just say a lot =P I have actually conjured up more corrections on finished works on by professional artists (Remember your Vash and Wolfwood pic? They made a pretty blatantly wrong mistake on the shading of the original *Grin* I'm not even sure if they realized it or not). Pretty much, however much skill you have you can always improve so I'm just trying to help you get better.<br />
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This is actually one of my favorite pictures you've drawn =) Even out of the ones you've based off of other pictures. True, your have more precise and greater detail with the ones you base off of other pics, but when you just draw freeform then you come out in what you draw. Thanks for drawing this pic!<br />
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*Set to fave!*

Also, there isn't really a problem with the shirt, but it just seems like the "odd man out" or however the expression goes. It is the only thing on her that isn't effected by the wind. Maybe if she just had the bottom of the shirt a little loose (an inch or so slack) and flapping in the wind? And where are the straps for her left arm? If you were to draw those two straps they would probably be more faded than the ones in the front.<br />
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Sorry for being picky again =P But if the viewpoint we are watching from is lower than the person we are viewing then, because of the whole vanishing point thing, her far shoulder would be lower than her closer shoulder and her far boot will be higher than her closer boot (You did that last part). The only exception is if she is in a different position than being idle. If she bent her right knee and just slouched that part down then her far shoulder could be higher. There are many different possible ways to position the pose to adjust the placing of the different parts of the body, but that one was just the easiest one to explain for this pose.<br />
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Is the light source above, to the right and behind us (The viewpoint)?