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Venishi [2012-03-01 07:54:47 +0000 UTC]

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Great stuff! I dig the dragon design, and the lighting is very nice. But it looks like you had more fun drawing the dragon than the knight/horse e.deviantart.net/emoticons/s/sā€¦ " width="15" height="15" alt="" title=" (Smile)"/> Finding references for that horse could give you the opportunity to give it the kind of life and posture that the dragon has. Also, the background is is a little iffy - I can't quite make out if those are clouds or more rocks, see what I mean? If they are clouds, you can "push" them back by giving them a blue tint from the sky (as you probably know, the further back things are, the bluer they get, at least in daylight). Also, with regards to the overall composition, the dragon looks like he's a big squished, like he's trying to fit into the picture. The way I would go about fixing this is by extending the tail or wings outside of the picture or zoom significantly further out. Just remember, we digital artists are afforded the opportunity to change things up drastically at any point in the process, so don't be afraid to zoom out, zoom in, crop, uncrop, whatever e.deviantart.net/emoticons/s/sā€¦ " width="15" height="15" alt="" title=" (Smile)"/> Cheers, and best of luck!

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Venishi In reply to Venishi [2012-03-02 23:16:49 +0000 UTC]

Cool! Well glad I could be a bit of help. I submitted your swamp wurm to Creature-Lovers - you should consider joining a few groups and submitting your stuff, I tend to get more feedback that way.

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zoppy In reply to Venishi [2012-03-01 09:36:28 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, I agree with all what you said. Maybe only on the clouds there's something I don't totally agree because I want them close but I admit it's quite confused.

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Venishi In reply to zoppy [2012-03-01 20:51:20 +0000 UTC]

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Above I've linked a couple different crop/position ideas. You may not personally like them, but it might give you some ideas about how you could move things around in a future project to make a composition that you personally dig. An illustration prof of mine told me that you don't know how far to push something until you've pushed it too far. This can be applied to all aspects of an illustration, but I especially think about it in relation to composition - so I try to experiment as much as possible.

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zoppy In reply to Venishi [2012-03-02 09:29:13 +0000 UTC]

Yes, experimentation is essential to improve and to find yourself, maybe I've been a bit lazy here... infact I really like crop2 you linked me. XD Next time I will try to spend more time on the composition.

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JessicaDunn [2012-10-19 12:43:07 +0000 UTC]

I thought the critique was fair.
But I did think the clouds looked cool personally. ^_^
I don't mind the way the dragon is kind of squished in, it makes me think s/he needs to make him/herself smaller to bother with the tiny human.
I love the lighting on dragons skin.

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zoppy In reply to JessicaDunn [2012-10-19 13:16:25 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, you're too kind!

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JessicaDunn In reply to zoppy [2012-10-20 16:08:37 +0000 UTC]

you're welcome.

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AllenChilders [2012-03-04 18:51:39 +0000 UTC]

AWESOME!!!

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zoppy In reply to AllenChilders [2012-03-05 09:32:28 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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furafura [2012-03-04 00:53:42 +0000 UTC]

such a beautiful sense of light, and i love the neutrals that still seem very colorful!

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zoppy In reply to furafura [2012-03-04 11:27:57 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much!

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SheeKNS [2012-02-29 21:15:21 +0000 UTC]

Why no comments yet? This looks very cool!!

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zoppy In reply to SheeKNS [2012-03-01 09:27:02 +0000 UTC]

I don't know, looks like when I request critiques people get scared and don't comment.... Thank you very much!

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SheeKNS In reply to zoppy [2012-03-02 21:48:14 +0000 UTC]

Well if you want a critique, I'd say you dould work more the details for the knight and the horse, they look more sketchy than the dragon. The rest looks fine to me (I'm not a professional btw xD)

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zoppy In reply to SheeKNS [2012-03-03 09:42:56 +0000 UTC]

lol. I didn't mean that I want only critiques but thank you

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