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missmagicgirl [2017-12-30 15:35:21 +0000 UTC]

This is beautiful! The colors, the perspective, shadows... just the whole atmosphere!  

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PikaWarriors [2017-12-23 03:24:22 +0000 UTC]

That's me right now. I'm at my computer, attempting to write (and failing), and I've got some hot chocolate!

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CanelaRose [2017-12-22 18:02:23 +0000 UTC]

I LOVE THIS! It's like…. pure book illustration art! I love the textures so much.

(sorry I'm not very active on DA anymore, but I'll catch up! … years later xP)

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IBAIPshow [2017-12-18 08:55:48 +0000 UTC]

#Awesome

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GoldElocks [2017-12-18 02:14:02 +0000 UTC]

The colors are awesome! You always have a great sense for colors, I also like that you worked out some more details in his face.

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DruidPeter [2017-12-17 23:15:50 +0000 UTC]

You know... it's really quite weird. I don't know how it happened, but your character Rhyn Crenham has caused an OC of mine, Veronika Arkadyevna, to fall head over heels in love with him, lol. Well, I suppose not literally, but knowing what I do know about Veronika, I can tell that Rhyn is definitely her type. Oddly enough, I didn't realize this until *after* I suggested that I do a gift art for you, fluoroid. xD Well, regardless, you've got a really interesting scene here, Fluoroid. The worm's eye dutch perspective is a pretty rare one to see. I imagine you know why, lol, as it tests the artist's perspective abilities like no other! xD

I'm quite blown away with the texture and feel of the wood, Rhyn's clothes, and really everything within this picture. That sort of raw, gritty, textured feeling is something that I've yet to figure out how to pull off myself, so I'm quite fascinating by looking at it all. Not only that, but the light from the glowing screen of Rhyn's laptop adds an interesting feeling to the image. Looking at the image, I almost feel as tired and sleep-deprived as Rhyn is, here, lol. (Wait... what? That's literally just me? oh... xD)

Major Kudos on the way the laptop charging cable kind of trawls off of the table the way it does. That's a visually stunning shape it has going on. Most artists would typically just have the cord flow straight down, but having it all bendy like that really speaks to a lot of use. Kind of like Rhyn himself, the poor dear... always working himself too hard.

Hmm... this piece really does paint Rhyn's character pretty well. It tells the viewer a lot about him. Keep working hard towards your dreams, Fluoroid. I'm looking forward to seeing your manga reboot next year!

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May-May-Meow [2017-12-17 21:12:54 +0000 UTC]

hi ^^
I'm here for

I always like to start with the first impression of a picture.
and for this picture it was: Colored Light. It immediately made me curious how you emulated light from a computer screen. That familiar feeling of sitting alone in the dark when we should be asleep and instead we stare at a screen.
Too relatable.
For me you managed to bring all these thoughts up just by looking at the thumbnail and that's something you should be proud of. It's not easy to create impact and identity like this ^^

after clicking the thumb I was even more impressed since you went for a very difficult angle in your picture.
You show us this scene from below, looking up. You get a nice contrast using that angle, half of the picture being illuminated by light, while the underside of the table is in the dark. You could have gone even a bit darker in that area if you wanted to since from what I can tell, the screen is the only lightsource in the room.
but there's nothing wrong with some ambient illumination either.

then there's a third thing I feel like you did very well: texture. most artists are vary of colors and shading and all but forget that not all surfaces, not even all textiles, have the same surface. But in your picture one can immediately recognize the surface textures. The one time where I would expect a change in texture is the hair it is such an array of tiny tiny filaments, only mostly aligned that I had hoped for a bit more contrast and more precise light reflection.

now I will talk about the character in the picture.
you show nice attention to detail in the neck area. There are 2 bones left and right to the jugular and you used shading to bring out the one one would expect to see from this angle.
the hand holding the mug is made me pause. Now I know that some people just hold their mug like this, but there doesn't seem to be enough room to even hold the mug with all four fingers reaching through that hole. That'S a detail which sort of messes with the sense of realism that your picture creates in so many other ways it's just a small detail though to keep in mind for future projects ^^
The face I really like the eyes are focusing on the screen, both of them too ^^,  and you carefully placed shading under the lip and on the lower sides of the nose, just where it should be so well done ^^
I want to particularly stress how much I like the eyebrows. Those together with the strong jaw line make for a very masculine face ^^

One thing I keep coming back to, but something I'm not entirely sure about is the axes of the upper body. To me it looks like the body is tilting in the wrong way...?
here, used the mega-advanced program ms paint to show you what I mean:
 
red line: axis of the body
lime green line: direction of the chair/ rest of the room
to me they don't line up and so my instinct is telling me that I wouldn't wanna sip coffee in that position
but not entirely sure on this, just wanted to bring it up to see what you think ^^

hope it overall helped :3

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Saphyrae [2017-12-17 18:52:43 +0000 UTC]

Looks nice! I like the colouring style here

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ghostchiryou [2017-12-17 14:55:00 +0000 UTC]

Hi! I'm from !

Firstly, I really like the colors you used! They look a bit dirty, but the fact that you included a wide variety of hues in even the simplest of objects (like his white shirt -  you could've just used grey, but instead you used reds, blues, greens etc). It really makes the image stand out! The shading, while rough, gives a nice texture to everything and works really well, especially on the wood. You did a pretty good job on the glow, but it's a bit hard to tell where it's coming from. The cord helps give the idea it's a computer, but since the screen is barely visible, it's a bit ambiguous. The glow also doesn't seem to be coming directly from the computer, the range of the glow seems a bit too wide for me. I think it shouldn't be able to reach his legs, but I'm not sure. Maybe look up some references?

You got the perspective of most of the objects right, though I feel the computer should look a bit taller. The way you have it drawn now make it look really flat and at an odd angle. However, the perspective of the guy sitting there looks a bit odd to me. It seems like he's leaning heavily over to the right. The leg nearest to us seems twisted at an odd angle, likely due to issues with foreshortening (though that's understandable, foreshortening is really hard!) The perspective on the face is good, from what I can see, though part of me feels like it should be a bit more extreme (if that's the right word), like it was in your sketch.

While it looks like you were going for a somewhat lineless style, the presence of some really sharp lines, particularly at his fingers, makes it look a bit funny. Speaking of his fingers, the hand looks a bit off, as does the arm. It's angled in an odd way that would make his upper arm way longer than it should be!

Overall, I really like this drawing! It has a few minor issues but that doesn't really detract from the drawing.

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nerdynordy [2017-12-17 00:02:40 +0000 UTC]

The colors are GORGEOUS! Keep going my dude! Can't wait for the update!!

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anevileyeball [2017-12-16 21:53:04 +0000 UTC]

When you get a writer's block on an essay XD

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PhxZoo [2017-12-16 17:54:54 +0000 UTC]

This is literally most likely me in twenty years.

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adam-ant2 [2017-12-16 16:48:33 +0000 UTC]

This is me every time I try to draw something.

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Frozen-Fairyfire [2017-12-16 05:08:35 +0000 UTC]

Hey there, I’m a member of and I’m here to leave a critique


Lol! My first impression is laughter, because this guy’s expression is so funny! I suppose we all are this intense when we have a late night.

I love how you painted this picture! We can see the texture on even the ceiling which feels a lot more natural than a smooth gradient (like I often use in my own pictures). And lighting is especially hard in night settings when it isn’t a sunlight yellow. You did this blue lighting well in some areas, but it can be improved. Have you ever used color balance? It’s a neat tool in Photoshop and Sai that lets you give a picture an overall tone so that some colours are stronger and others blend closer to it. This is particularly handy with setting an overall mood to the Image. Remember that all colours can blend and what looks like red can actually be magenta or purple.

This tutorial should explain it better.


This picture uses unbalanced asymmetry, which isn’t a bad thing because it adds more drama to images. And we can certainly see that with how intense this guy appears. But I was wondering if we could take that slightly further and lower the camera angle to the level of an ant on the floor. This would show the table legs on the floor leading up this ant, and from our prospective the guy at the table would look like a very big (and intense-looking) giant. Lol. This would certainly add drama to this picture.

And since you brought out how you can use more vibrant colors, a good tip I found with making colours more vibrant is to use the brightness/contrast tool. Increasing the contrast and adjusting the brightness to match it can give us a vibrant colour we never knew exist. Try it out!

All in all I’m pleased to critique this picture because I hope I can paint more pictures in the future and make something truly stunning. And so can you too! You’re on the right track with painting and all you need is a touch of refinement before your pictures really shine

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lepidolitecharolette [2017-12-16 02:08:06 +0000 UTC]

Awesome!

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WildtailOfWindClan [2017-12-16 01:56:00 +0000 UTC]

Whoo~ The angle is very spectacular. And I like the vision. ^^ Lol, even though he's an OC, he reminds me a lot of Stanford from Gravity Falls.

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Blue-Ape [2017-12-16 00:51:32 +0000 UTC]

Pretty awesome

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crystalmonsterBATIM [2017-12-16 00:26:18 +0000 UTC]

so awesome!

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