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Published: 2015-03-07 01:16:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 726; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 0
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Had to try again with a little black and white drawing...
Done with various graphite pencils
Damien Ferka Sorena © me
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Well, alright, let's see what I can offer as my critique))
First of all, let's mention the advantages of this work.
1. I love the color palette. To make a monochrome picture look volumetric is not that easy, and you manage to do it. Even though the picture is drawn with the use of the simple pencil only, it still seems to be coloful. Good choice of the shades here, I approve e.deviantart.net/emoticons/t/t… " width="15" height="15" alt="
2. The emotions that you put in this work. Damien's eyes explain his feelings rather clearly and accessibly. In addition, the angle that you use so that the mouth is unseen makes the picture look even more powerful, especially combined with this black-and-white atmosphere.
God job on this! e.deviantart.net/emoticons/a/a… " width="15" height="15" alt="
Now I'm going to mention two moments that I don't really find the disadvantages, but that would make the picture even more great if they would be less noticeable.
1. The shading seems to be a little messy. It doesn't spoil the composition really, especially when you know that it touches the slavery topic. But I would work on it a little.
I offer two ways of shading that can make the picture like this look more neat:
a.1) you can shade the whole background circumferentially, like you did it in the top of the picture;
a.2) you can make all the shading lines (erm, I'm not sure I've chosen the correct word lol) strictly parallel to each other and going in one direction. For example, the shading lines on Damien's robe go mostly in one direction, and that makes the robe look neatly colored;
b) the shading of fur usually looks better if you imitate the angles of its growth.
Imagining the real animal usually helps: you only need to remember in which angles the animal's fur grows on different parts of its body.
Though, to be honest, I don't follow this tip usually e.deviantart.net/emoticons/a/a… " width="19" height="19" alt="
2. The eyes. Being honest, they look a little different here, but it's the problem that I have rather often too. Therefore, here is a little tip that can help you. At least, it usually helps me:
- when you finish drawing the eyes, close one of them with your finger and remember in what direction it looks;
- then open it and close the another eye. If you notice that it looks in another direction, you have to correct it.
In this picture, the eye that is closer to us looks toward the middle of the sheet, while the another eye's glance is directed to the top of the picture.
This difference makes the glance look not very clear, not spoiling the emotions palette though, but still. I would work on this a little.
But in general, I love the picture tons and therefore fave it e.deviantart.net/emoticons/a/a… " width="15" height="15" alt="
I hope that my tips can help you improve, and I can't wait to see more monochrome pictures of yours, because you are really great in making them e.deviantart.net/emoticons/l/l… " width="19" height="19" alt="
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THANK YOU!!!
I'll remember the shading tips! I think I started out trying to keep it to the fur line, but got lost along the way...
I agree about the eyes...
I think I was thinking more about the bruise and getting that to work... And eyes can be hard to get in the same direction sometimes... I'll work on it...
Thank you so much for this!!
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No problem, dear!^^ I really love this picture, there's something special in the way you make black-and-white drawings
I really need to see more works like this
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I have one I've done of Ray that I'm going to upload...
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Awesome! Can't wait to see it!
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I drew that before your critique, though, so I haven't taken your tips into account on that one...
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Oh, but I don't find it the reason to dislike it
Mostly because an artist can have not perfect skills, but very impressing ideas and powerful mood of their works. My skills can hardly be called perfect, but still there are people to like my art, right?^^
And this is about everyone: the soul of the picture is more important than any techniques^^
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Yeah...
I will keep your tips in mind when I draw Fane next, though...
And maybe Stas...
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And Zven...
I was torturing a few OCs last night during livestream and asked who to torture next. Zven was mentioned and I just couldn't do it! He goes through so much already, I just couldn't! Stas I could, no hesitation, but Zven?! I can't hurt him!! It would make me cry so badly!!!
So I ended up just sketching him as normally instead...
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Lol XDD But I wouldn't mind if you tortured him
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I don't think I can...
Humiliate him, sure! Drawing him in pain as is canon, of course... But torture? No... I can't do that...
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Awww, this is touching 
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Stas, on the other hand, isn't as safe...
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Lol XDD If we imagine that this is part of his wild imagination, then it's fine XDD
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Hey, this looks great! It's sad, but looks good. Nicely done!
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You did absolutely gorgeous! Ugh. Shading. I remember when I had to do that in high school! I had to pick an object sitting on a table like a glass bottle, fake grapes, and so on and I had to shade them in, also getting the angle of the light where the Sun was hitting the objects. It was very hard to do, but my picture had came out as a masterpiece!
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POOR BABIES!!!!!!!!! *sending a tsunami wave of love his way* 
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