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mei0023 [2012-08-28 17:00:25 +0000 UTC]

Very pretty! My only suggestion is, if you're going for realism, you might want to make her butt a little bigger. Otherwise, great form and choice of color; the blue and brown really pop against the white snow.

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neonparrot [2012-08-27 07:36:48 +0000 UTC]

I like this work, but, as prvious commenters said, it's not really sem-realism. Semi-realism should have 50% of realism, and you have about 15 : O
But the artwork looks pretty nice, anyway. I like girl's slooow movement and blood on the snow. And, yeah, it looks cool, that hair and skin are almost the same colour C: Such character designs are soooo cute.

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magicwingsforever [2012-08-24 16:13:12 +0000 UTC]

I love her pose in this, and how her blue outfit contrasts sharply against the snowy background. Great job!

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Seraitsukara [2012-08-24 15:37:18 +0000 UTC]

First thing I noticed-> The characters somber expression and her blue clothing.

What I like the most-> The cold feeling of this piece. The way the character is posed works perfectly with the landscape. She appears just as cold and uncaring as the snow around her The trail of blood being left behind also leaves the viewer wondering about the story behind this piece and what the girl might have been doing beforehand.

What I think can be done to improve the piece-> You have a good base knowledge of anatomy here, but it still needs some defining, mainly in the shape of the girls skull. Her torso is a little bit to long for her body also(if she;s supposed to remain in the proportions of a human being). You have this in a mange and anime category which is fine, but if you really want to learn human anatomy, start drawing real humans and forget Japanese stylizations for a bit. You can always go back to that later. Her hair looks a bit more like a lions mane. If this wasn't what you were going for then the best way to fix this would be to make the hair thinner, give her less of it.
The shading in this piece also gives the colors a bit of a muted/plastic feel to it. There's no clear shadows or highlights apart from everything that is away from the viewer is in shadow. Even being in what looks like a white-out blizzard, there would still be more shading to her.
Last thing I'm going to say, and this is only if you're going for realism here, is that snowflakes aren't perfectly round, they're more like globs of dozens of tiny ice crystals.

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Noss91 [2012-08-24 15:25:46 +0000 UTC]

It's a very beautiful picture
But if you were intending to make this a semi-realistic work, you'll need to work a little on a few things, especially the way the hair flows and the skull shape. The hair is strange because it looks like you tried to combine two things: 1. she has long, flowy hair 2. she has about 5 liters of hairspray in it to keep it fluffy. It's usually best to choose something in-between, she's just walking, so the hair will be flowing the most on the sides of the head rather than the back of it, and let it lie a little closer to the head, nothing wrong with that
The skull is a little hard to define partly because of the hair but also because of the placement of the ears. It looks like she has a really huge skull, or the ears are attached to the hair somehow. If they are really a part of her body, I suggest drawing them out while you work on the base shape of the head to make sure that they look as real as possible and later you add the hair

Another thing that makes this more cartoony and less real is the size of her hands and feet. They look great the way they are, really, but if you want to make more realistic art you should consider the actual proportions of the limbs. A hand is typically as tall as a face from the beginning edge of the palm to the end of the middle finger, and a foot is as long as the lower arm, measuring from the wrist and up to the elbow.

In case you're not familiar with building your characters' anatomy up from simple shapes, I suggest you look at this tutorial: [link] it's really helpful

Keep up the great work!

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convelocity [2012-08-24 15:13:12 +0000 UTC]

What an inspiring and beautiful work!

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KnightandJesterArt [2012-08-24 14:30:35 +0000 UTC]

This is really cool! The coloring looks so smooth.

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XenFeather [2012-08-24 10:27:58 +0000 UTC]

I really adore her pose, and the color scheme. It seems to mock the emotion of the picture, strengthened by her expression. If I might have a suggestion, the blood on the right foot makes her foot look a bit too inverted towards the viewer. But that's just me being knit-picky. ^-^ Once again, very beautiful! I also loved how you used no line~

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Alex-Bazix [2012-08-24 08:58:00 +0000 UTC]

Very beautifully*-*

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