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Yetinia [2013-09-25 01:59:36 +0000 UTC]

At your request a critique~ I hope it's helpful or at least insightful. A lot of this is just suggestions and ideas. Feel free to ask about anything and sorry for the wall in advance.

The composition of this piece is really pretty and there seems to be no pixelation issue from my screen. I'm a sucker for floral and fauna so I really appreciate the work you've put into the purple flowers and even the flowers in her hands. They look spectacular. The blur effect for the flowers up close is also really cool. My one major critique for this piece would have to be that you didn't go further. The green gradient background that fades into a darker green is fine and all, but feels stale in comparison to the wonderful detail of those flowers. It's like the beginning of a beautiful concept that got halted at the beginning. Not to mention that aside from pops of color the green almost seems to washout the details of your fairy because wings and clothes are so much paler than the background.  You may not be used to doing full scale detailed backgrounds but you clearly have the potential to do truly wonderful background for this piece- it just takes more time and effort. With a piece like this I wouldn't be afraid to go all out in creating a full environment and even hinting at other plants this fairy may have visited based off the flowers she cradles in the nook of her arm.

Not only would this add more color to your piece but it would also intertwine more of a narrative in your piece or make the pre-existing narrative far more apparent. On the topic of adding more color, you may also want to add more colors to her wing or give them a more iridescent effect kind, as you would see with fly, cicada, and even wasp wings. These wings are very delicate almost like stain glass really, but they also allow for all kinds of cool light effects. As of now her wings (which I'm really happy that you chose to give your fairy wings that weren't the more popular butterfly wings) lack this essence. Don't be afraid to darken those lines and make them even more insect light if it helps provide a better contrast for your detail and draw more interest to her wings.

My last and final point of this critique is something that's said a lot in critiques but bear with me. Antamony. I get that certain styles allow for the breaking down of the technical aspect of anatomy but there is an underlying rule that differentiates one from falling into uncanny anatomy and stylized anatomy: balance and consistency. Overall you seem to have a relatively good grasp of where everything goes and how it moves, but be mindful of muscles to help give more shape to her arms and legs, though she is a dainty fairy there should be some symmetry between her arms and legs so that one does not look thinner or thicker than the other and they are of the same length when relaxed once more. The way her neck connects to her torso, concerns me because it's hard to tell whether or not she has a particularly small neck or really wide and long shoulders. My vote is towards the former. I would draw the line further and through shading even include the collar bone and those connecting muscles to help anchor that part of her body. My final concern about the figure of this piece would have to be her profile, not the actual face so much as the position of her ear from her face move it a little closer, perhaps to help balance out her face more but keep the angle of the face because you definitely have that part down. It just feels a little longer than it needs to be with her ear so far back. Also don't be afraid to experiment more with more dramatic shading to really give a more of a sense of depth.

Overall/TL;DR, it's an adorable piece but you could go further to create an amazing piece or at least a very ambitious piece for your gallery to test out your skills.

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rahas3 [2013-09-11 22:30:42 +0000 UTC]

Lovely!

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