NDA Art Critique Message Boards

Sorry, the 3.14 is a lie.

Anyway, this will be a nice cozy home for all my WIPs, studies, and sketch stuff 'n stuff. Critiques are most welcome here.

This is a study on a teapot. Any suggestions?

This is a WIP on an ape lady. I'm having trouble on her lips and her hair. I'm thinking about finishing her in color pencils but hair is not my best area. Any suggestions?

And my yet to be finished dragon character Vistalgia. I'm redesigning her from this http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/164159645/ and this http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/163167080/ and from these http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/153430480/. But for some reason, I still have problems on drawing her giant scales and drawing her facing forward. Redlines are much needed. (I decided to take out the horns around her scales...just for comfort reasons)

The teapot is so cute! Although, to me it looks a little stout? Maybe short. And the dragon is really cool! I like the scale things on the back of her head!

The ape woman's lips look good, except they look more feline than ape, because of the cleft/indent in the center of her lip. Apes have a smooth upper lip area.
Here's a link to a google image page of apes for reference. http://www.google.com/images?q=ape&rls= ... 60&bih=448

The teapot looks good. What stands out to me is that most of the shading is the same level/value. In order to make something look realistic and 3D, it needs to have multiple levels of shading of lighter and darker tones.

Thank you!

Some new sketches:

Concept sketches for a character(s):
Briel Fetcher/Vistalgia character shapeshifter.




(above) Testing how the dreds would move and look





(above) Working on the 25 expression challenge (twelve to go).



Concept of her dragon form. It's easier to draw her head since I narrowed her scales down from four to two big scales.

Some WIPs:

For a DA Id.


For a banner on my sketch blog.


Critiques are welcome!!!!

I like your style, it reminds me of Disney ^^

Thanks, I want to work for Disney when I become an animator. I want to work on their next Fantasia film, if they planning to have one after Fantasia and Fantasia 2000.

Here's moar stuff:

She is so pretty! I love how you made her armor plate things on the back of her head. It's very creative! And I love how well you drew the front view. I definately can't draw front views that good. XD

Thank you! It was tough getting that front view right of Vistalgia's head right, I just needed to look at her in as a three-dimensional object. I took my kneading eraser and modeled it after her profile view and drew it on paper. It helped!