NDA Art Critique Message Boards

H e l l o ! ! : :
I'm Celestial-Fox, or better--Seefy, and I'm a general human artist. I like to focus on the female profile, but sometimes I like to throw in an occasional guy or creature and . . . anything else I feel like drawing! I'm fourteen years old, and my general hangouts are [deviantART] and [Mangatutorials.com's forum], even though I'm more realistically geared, lol.

As for the "new format" title comment, this is my art thread! Every last thing I post up here is realdily up for critique, unless marked--but that's a very rare occurance. All of my art will go here, and I hope you like it! Any type of comment, feedback, or suggestion is great! :3 I won't be making any new threads for my art--this is it. So make sure to check back for updates, which will be handily marked in the title! :D

Let the games begin with some nicer, more polished things from me and some sketches!

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You can click both for a full view! :3 Custom shoes by me.


My OC, Sakura Jade Li. I draw this picture every January to moderate my progress.


Click for a bigger view. Fanart for Rei Sangao (Saoshi-kun over on DA) I'm a musician, and therefore and aware that the notes are backwards. o.o" Whoops, lol.


[Click for image description and bigger view] -- I think the head is a liiiiittle too small and the left arm is just...ugh.


A fake CD cover for a friend of her OC, Kazeielan, in his younger days. You can click for a bigger version.


This image won a national nengajou competition this year.


Some sketch of a random person. ^^


My OC, Kane along with some other sketches


A futuristic OC of mine, Axenel. Just trying out some perspective, seeing as I always draw it from the top view. As usual, critique is very much encouraged! :D

I love your shoe designs.
They're soft and airbrushy. Very cool.

Your drawings are great. I love the way you do hair.
My favorite would have to be your picture of Jade Li (It says "Sakura" in the image, but in the description, you put "Jakura". Which is it?)

A lot of times, your necks are a little too short. It's be a good idea to scout for reference material on that.
Also, since some of your pictures aren't full-view, I'll remind you that even though you aren't drawing it, you have to consider what's past the border of the canvas. This will probably help your anatomy. :3

I really like your work. Keep 'em coming!

Thanks for the feedback! (And it's Sakura. OTL Thanks for that, too! XD)
I'm trying to reevaluate my anatomy, and a primary complaint from way back was that I drew them too long. :O! So, I'll try to watch out for them being too short, as well!

And I'll try to keep drawing! I'm in a bit of an art block, but that should be done and over with soon; it's been long enough!

A r i e . S k e t c h : :
Ergh, some sketch of a character of mine, Arie. I'm trying to work out his facial features an whatnot--I don't think I have him exactly right, yet. I think I'll make his complexion lighter, Arabian-appearing, p'raps.

Excellent job on all of these! I want those shoes... hehe

Oooh, very nice!

I noticed on several of your pieces that the heads are rather large, it just sorta stuck out to me.

I really love your style, it's so realistic and nice. I think Kane and Arie are my favorite.

DrawingDragon: Yeah, anatomy isn't one of my strongpoints, but I'm trying my best to work on it! :D I'll keep you comments in mind, though! Thank you very much! <3
FyreFantasy: Thanks a lot! I'm thinking about auctioning off a custom pair of shoes pretty soon here, so I can raise money to go to Japan. The ticket's bought, and housing arrangements are in, but I still need to repay my parents $225. :D

B i r t h d a y : :
A portrait of my dad and my grandma for my dad's 36th birthday. This is a repaint of a photo taken, well, 36 years ago! I plan to draw it again on his 37th birthday, ans there are some glaring errors in this one. ^^

I was on a time crunch for this one; it took only like 5 hours, which really isn't near the amount of time required to make something really nice. XD I'll start earlier next time, I guess. :3

Enjoy!

Your art is amazing..<3 It's a small breath of fresh air. For the shoes what do you use to do them and how do you seal them?
You have a wide range of subjects and talents and I like that. <3 Rawr I want moar arts from yous.. ^^

Everin: Thank you so much! For the shoes, I don't seal the ones I do for myself, as the ink is already waterproof, permanent, and lightfast. However, when I do seal them, I just use waterproofing canvas shoe spray. You can get it at your local shoe store if you ask. :) As for materials, I use White Airwalk Kicks (for the shoes), white acrylic paint, black Sharpies, a white Sakura Gelly-Roll gel pen, Letraset Tria markers, Faber-Castell PITT pens, and an HB mechanical pencil.

R e a l i s m . P r a c t i c e ! ! : :
My OC, Kane. I want to go back and fix some things, like lowering her eyebrow, leveling our her jaw, and moving her eye in closer to her nose. What do you guys think about that?

Image + details. I not-so-secretly quit on the image by the time I got to the neck. Staring at the same thing for 12 hours was getting to be a little too much for me!

You can click the top image for a bigger version, if you'd like. :3
I'd like to do one or two more of these this year, but with different characters. One preferably being Kane, I hope. And maybe Sakura.

Thankies! I've been seeing them around and I've been wanting to try my hand at it. So now I knows.<3 I think all the crits you stated already were the ones I was going to state so I think that would work out well.<3

Yeah, you should really try it! It's great fun, and your feet will get lots of attention. ;D