Jakotaha [2018-08-01 21:02:58 +0000 UTC]
Overall
Vision
Originality
Technique
Impact
A simple drawing of two furry OC having a blast on sand on a sunny day, probably exchanging a couple laughs or more. . . In uttermost, most likely enjoying themselves and having fun. This pictures does seem quite fun, as what is happening, but there are some things that distract me from the overall image.
It had occurred to me while examining this artwork for any errors or possible lines or colors to touch up on, the first thing I had noticed first, was that it was clear that you were aiming for a Chibi look of your characters. While I know how much you put effort into the characters, there was a few things that they both lacked which bothered me ever so slightly.
Firstly, when I look at chibi drawings from other artists on DeviantART, their chibi is small and cute, but still includes realism in their art, with not too much or too little. Your drawing, however, seems to give off a hint of both. For example, I noticed that the character's legs are small, thick, and slightly stubby, that matches an original Chibi character. Unfortunately, as you get to the middle part of the body (the torso, abs, and chest) you have drawn the middle half of their body very realistic. Which of course, is good, but you seem to be overdoing it. When I look at the middle section, I find the hips either too wide, or the belly much too skinny. On account of the legs, I'm thinking that your character's waist is too small, it sort of makes the legs look to too big. Second of all, is the enormously large chests. While this may be an exaggeration, I feel the breasts are not the right kind of style for a chibi, especially when you can almost see through the left one's top and the right one is half exposed, it honestly doesn't impress me if you are trying to make them look 'sexy', especially with their cleavage exaggerating a lot. In general, I somewhat dislike how you gave animals large breasts in the first place, but for an adorable chibi drawing, I just don't think full-fledged half-exposed chests are necessary for this.
Another thing I have thought about this drawing is the entire character design, judging by mismatched colors, this little 'combination' of colors, especially with the colors of their clothing, it doesn't really make your characters look pretty, or any kind of attractiveness for that matter. I noticed that it looks like that you have drawn a cheetah/leopard (honestly can't tell the difference) and a tiger. I believe what would make your characters much more original and creative, while making your art look more captivating, if you used the natural colors of the wild cats and colored the hair and designs from there. If you don't decide on this, I simply recommend some changes that would involve the colors matching. In addition to the character design, I noticed how your character have a little bit of a square shape to their shoulders, which is a bit confusing, which makes me ask to what was your sense of inspiration that allowed you to do this, than the regular round shape. Although this is different from how I see every other types of shoulders, I have to reward you for being unique and going a different path that other people do with this style.
Lastly, the background really made me think a bit. It honestly made me wonder whether you didn't have the confidence to draw a background for this scene, or simply using a background to give off more realism, or neither of those reasons. Either way, thus using a wallpaper picture. I feel that you should have went with your own art when planning to make a background, instead of using someone else's picture, (which I also did not see mention of owner in the description, but at least you sent a link) it might make your drawing look a bit more completely finished, if you know what I'm referring to.
I can tell that you put effort into your drawing, whether it took twenty minutes, or twenty days, you still worked on it, and didn't give up on it. I just want to let you know, as a closing statement, if you are person sensitive or slightly hurt by constructive criticism, I don't wish for you to take this personally at all by my recommendations and observations, I'm simply saying this to help me help you improve, for the good sake of improving.
Overall, I would give it either a 3.5 or a 4
Well done! e.deviantart.net/emoticons/s/s… " width="15" height="15" alt="" data-embed-type="emoticon" data-embed-id="391" title=" (Smile)"/>
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
ViiOmega [2018-08-01 14:26:01 +0000 UTC]
Overall
Vision
Originality
Technique
Impact
Two Lil' cute gals on the beach being friends basically. Seems like a simple enough premise, although the linework on the purple cat is not dark enough, and the ears on the blue one should be purple like her hair due to the effect of the other cat's ears. Giving it more consistency. The purple is a little too dark and looks fairly blurry or smudged, unlike the blue one. It stands out too much. Taking attention away from the entire piece.
The body style is fairly decent although puts some things off like the legs and feet. Considering that we see actual hands and a full-fledged face, however, done with a chibi art style. Now to address linework again, and more specifically the dark purple character, there are some parts where the body somewhat disappears it seems due to linework not popping out enough and how the colours seem to blend a lot. The best example of this is with her right arm (or our left). A couple other things that stand out a lot is how we have our purple leopard look like a leopard with the spots, however to our right we have the blue cat... or maybe tiger looks like it has more of a tribal look making the design look very unique. Although I cannot say the same for our purple leopard. But let's stop focusing on that for a while and let's start looking at the body shape. Yes, I get this is a chibi style and yes I understand that this isn't going to be anatomically correct, although there are again some small things about both bodies that somewhat confuse me or distract me.
The torsos of both characters don't look proper around the bust for the most part where they appear to be stiff and more rectangular mostly around the shoulder area where the collarbones and the shoulders pretty much are. Now, something smaller to point out is the hands pressing against each other. It is VERY small yes, however attention to detail is REQUIRED to make a good piece amazing, as this does indeed have a lot of potential to have this look amazing. The hand of the purple leopard is too big. How do I know? Look at the ears of both characters and figure out who's taller. The smaller person is going to have smaller hands, and we see that the palms are touching on the same spot. Also adding onto this, it needs to be the same size considering the thumbs are too.
Otherwise, smaller things to point out, just the tail's fur doesn't look proper as it layers too much, and the green hair on the purple leopard is too dark and either looks wet or greasy basically. Otherwise, I mostly think this is just like a 3 or a 3.5 out of 5 overall.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0