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Published: 2008-09-01 22:32:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 1391; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 0
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A note on the credit line:Cobalt-wings is my old account, and this is a repost.
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Gah, this didn't turn out very well...
The water I referenced, the sky is unrealistic, I didn't know how to make a sun, the clouds are very bad. Gah! Well, I was focusing a little more on color in this one, particularly the color of the character. I read up a bit on color theory and shading, and I tried to rely less on layer modes for shading.
This took forever, by the way, and I'm probably going to edit this when I get better at making backgrounds...
Kimono:~bloodymarie-stock
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Update:
Fixed a few things, added a few more details, and made the picture overall a bit less vivid.
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Update 2:
Warmed the picture up a little bit and moved my credit. Added streak to character and fixed streak on leftmost cloud.
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Comments: 30
Ok it was hard to choose but I picked this one.... Its SO hard to do poses like this... but you pulled it off fairly well, my only critique for this is her arms seem a bit too long for her body, they should be shortened. the perspective on the right arm is great, and the left as well, its just they both need to be shortened. The coloring is awesome, the face and hair are great too! The mouth seems a little off, perhaps it should be pulled up a bit more?? other than that great job, congratz!!! :3
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imho the background is gorgeous~! 
your coloring is so soft and bright~ <3 too cute >//<
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I love the bright lighting! This picture has a lot of character and feels very original.
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I really like this. Your coloring is very nice and it's a great pose. Such a cute character too! <3
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aww, she's cute, lol 
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I don't see what (if anything) is wrong with the clouds here. The only thing I can see that doesn't really work is the fact that the sky seems to go far darker than it should at that point. You've done a very nice job with the girl though.
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try to make a lens flare effect in a new layer to the place where the sun you want to put, change the blending mode to "color dodge", duplicate it, and change the duplicated one's blending mode to "screen"...
I suggested (maybe It's a must) to use black as the layer color of the lens flare effect and put it on top of all layer...
that's all
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This is magically sweet. Very nice work on the coloring.
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haha great pic nice use of bright colours GJ and the angle and pose is GREAT!
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The water looks wrong. Honestly, it looks like a dark blue colored sand dune.
The tumbs look a bit out of place, too. More the background thumb than the foreground one... but both look a little off. The forground hand is bending too far backwards.
The kimono looks uneaven at the chest, as if she has a left breat but not a right. I know that it's supposed to be the effect of the wind, but it just looks too off balance.
Lastly, the eyes appea to be too far apart.
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Hm. I've been trying to figure out a way to give the chest dimension, since many people have pointed that out (People have pointed out the eyes too, but the way I set up my layers, it would be very hard to reposition them). It got a little better with the edit, but I can't think of a way to shade it to show that there's form beneath, and still stay true to the lighting scheme, and, as you said, the way that the wind moves the kimono.
As for the water, would there be any way to make it seem more like water? I know what you mean that it looks like sand dunes, but don't all waves look like that? Perhaps less dynamic shading of some sort... Hm.
And I've always hated thumbs. They always tend to be "off" somehow. :/
Thanks for the critique. ^_^
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I'd probably lowe the number of ripples, because oversea the water is relatively calm... I'd also look into trying to give the image a more transparent feel, as if you could see something that was only a few feet down.
The specfics of how to do that? Well, I'm not sure. I myself am just a novice when it comes to digital painting.
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I find this slightly too bright. Maybe you should have made a version with less contrast..
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This is gorgeous! I really love your art style, especially the soft coloring.
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This is really cute and i love the background.
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It's not bad at all! Actually it looks like an abstract which is a strong and nice type. Maybe take that detailed water in the middle and copy it all the way across or add that detail to the rest of the water. The sky looks fine...clouds aren't supposed to be big and fluffy all the time. All and all, it's a good picture!
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Hey a sky isn't so bad! I even like it 
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Looks like a good picture, but when I try to enlarge it to see more clearly, it doesn't seem to load.
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Try again in an hour or so.
That happens with a deviation is just posted, and is not finished processing yet.
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Thanks for the info, it loaded ok now. Nice picture. 
Just want to note that the kimono is being worn the wrong way (ie. the left flap should be the one facing outwards, as wearing it the other way signifies a dead person ... 
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Well, she's supposed to be a spirit, hence the flying.
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