Please note this is an Advanced and Expert Skill board. Images that do not hold up to the standards of this board will be deleted.
Moderators always have the final say.
Moderator(s): MadHatter
[!]GUIDELINES:
The
characteristics of this room are explained in the
FAQ and in the
rules.
Be sure you know what's allowed and what is not before you begin to draw!
:)
[!] Before drawing in this room, please make sure you look over
the 3stars examples. If you are not sure if your work is
3 stars, draw in a lower star room then ask for a Star Rating (link in the menu at the top of the page).
Thank you for reading the rules and have fun drawing!
This is beautiful. The sky in the background...the colors... They're just breathtaking.. I really like their outfits and the expressions on their face. You're coloring style is lovely. Nice work!
My hand huuuurts! It's been so long, over a year, since I even touched a tablet. HOpe it's up to par. I'll probably do some touch ups here and there, but this is overall the finished product. Cat girl hunting vamps...yeah.
Haven't seen anything from you in such a long time.
Your style is still so very fun and organic; the linework is really amazing, the shading looks a bit light though, can't really see it on the skin.
omg it's been ages and i love your stuff, i'm so happy to see this, u've changed so much, but ur style is still unique to yourself and i love all the sensitive plotted out details you've included
PLEASE DRAW MOAR, lol <3
Phew... I didn't expect that it would take this long... but I have to finish it today!!! It's my 6th year at Oekaki Central (well, at least the registration date says so... ^_^;;;) I'm so happy I could finish it on time!!!(actually it's 4:00am 12 June my time already...) I love OC!!! Thank you again for the amazing oekaki site, Jason!!!
20 months since my last post in 3* room... Hope it still up to par... (^_^);;;
Edit: Thank you eri-yisu, shugo381, tiamat4eva and ShiningGolden for the sweet comments!!! <3
eri : Happy anniversary to you too! I'd just found out we both registed on the same date!!!
shugo381 : You are absolutely right about the hand/fingers thing. There was a chiffon underskirt in the sketch and it should covered the hand very well... and it should be added after coloring the background... apparently I had forgot about it... hehehe... my bad ^_^;;;
(Edited on June 12, 2008, 4:55 am)
Edit: Chhiffon at the hemline didn't work becoz of the light background... added a hand bouquet to cover up... hohoho (^_^);;;
Happy 6th year at OC! I don't think 20 months will stop the lovely and awesome pipi art from being so ;)
The picture is so dreamy and soft! The catgirl is absolutely adorable and I wish I can draw flowers like that o_o
Edit: Oh goodness, really? me too? 6 years? That's crazy!
really awesome!
I love the roses and her facial expressions.
And, coming from a less-experienced critic, the only thing I have to say that seems off is in the full body pic. The arms are a perfect length, but seeing as how it appears that her hand is just starting when the hem of the dress covers it up, I would think some fingers would still be seen after the dress, since the skirtpiece of the dress is short, and hands are generally almost the size of the head.
But it's only a small detail, I really love the colors though. Nice soft tones with an air of gentle-ness. (no, it's not a work) Though the yellow flowers (daisies? Goldenrod?) center seem to stand out a bit from the rest of the picture.
Congratulations on six years and 600 pictures - that's quite an accomplishment :) Beautiful catgirl, and I still can't get over your gorgeous soft style. I hope you'll be drawing catgirls for us for another 6!
Very interesting.
I don't think I've quite seen a catgirl at this angle before.
I really like what you've done with the piece, the shading on the skin is wonderful.
There are some areas that seems very harsh compared to others though, the tail and hair especially, they're very jarring.
Wow! Beautiful anatomy and shading. There's a wonderful realism about it. In particular I love the curve of her hand and the shadow of the beads at the top left shoulder. Wonderful and sexy.
I'd tap that...lol jkjkjk...But wow *_* the shading, the anatomy, the shadows, the beads!!! You are amazing! I love the lighting, it's so dynamic and effective. Wonderful job =]
I actually like the placement of the tail, I think it's in just the right spot, otherwise it would prove troublesome anatomically. Okay, maybe I'm overanalyzing it...but it's aesthetic, too. The colors you chose set the mood perfectly, the attention to detail in the shadow is fabulous, the use of lighting to shape the heels, and I love the warm, natural glow of her skin. It's glorious.
wow, when i opened this i was captivated. the skin looks amazing, down to every little detail (the shadows cast by the necklace really makes it i think)
Wow, this is a different cat girl than what I'm used to. The skin and shading is amazing. I love the shadow the beads make. I think the tail looks a little stiff and more like a cartoon than the rest but if that's what you were going for then it's awesome. Heck, even if it wasn't it's still awesome.
Cute. I love the colours. But where is her front below her waist? It seems like it wouldn't/couldn't be behind her sleeve, considering where the obi is.
It looks very pretty, and the feel is just so.. calming.
My only crit is that her eyes are uneven in size, the one near the front is awkwardly large compared to the back.
Lovely image! The background makes me think of wind rustling through the leaves. Her clothing is beautiful, I like the pattern on the cloth. And I love the way her hair flows and curls - the art nuveau look is quite classy.
I do have to agree with weisen about her face though, the eye closest to us seems awkward... if her face is almost in profile perhaps it could be closer to the other eye and set to a similar angle?
I found this ADORABLE yukata at my honey's ebay shop. so I had to draw it because it's way to cute >.<! maybe I will collect the yukata for myself. hmmm. check it out :3 it's the one with clover and lady beetles <333
To my surprise, drawing the folding of the yukata actually was quite fast, and I actually enjoyed it O-O;;;;. <3 it must be the power of OekakiBBS. It made everything easy. Reference used.
This is totally amazing. I love how it looks realistic, yet when you look at it up close you can see the small textures. The kimono is beautiful, the lighting is lovely too. I really love your style.
Very cute picture! The folds are really well done. I have trouble with folds myself. ^_^;
I also like how bright the colors are. It makes a very cheerful picture.
I love how this is so realistic and yet so stylized at the same time. I also really like her pose. Its so cute. Her face and her kimono are so beautiful!
I decided to give the SP another try with a different style... I was going for the little innocent kitten look. I used a reference picture. My butt hurts. Enjoy?
She's adorable~
I'm definitely seeing some really realistic rendering here
I like pretty much all of the image, I'm crossing my fingers for this one too
Alright! There are a few more thing with this I'd like to touch up later > 3< but this is good enough for now.
She was supposed to be a random cat-girl...but...she ended up looking more like me than I'd like to admit D:
Shi painter is a scary applet ; A;
Mana as a kitty, that's interesting XD
I like her pose, and her fingers.. those are lovely
But of course true win belongs to the furry tail and bewbles.. both sets XD;;
That's a really, really nice pose you've got her in. It works very well for a playful kitty-girl aspect. I really like the linework with the coloring, it makes everything so soft, but the line demands attention where there's rhythm in the body, and that makes it awesome.
You did such a wonderful job with this! Yes I agree Shi-Painter is like ... "What?" You pulled this off nicely though. I adore her expression. Her face is so pretty.
Nice! I like the really classical feel here. I have seen a lot of your art at Oekaki Central, and your skills in anatomy seem to have improved a lot. :) I really love the expressiveness of her face.
desu kawaii! I hate to humble myself beecause I'm sure people get tired of other people saying "ZOMG i could never draw like that!" so i'll just say HOLY CRAP THAT'S AMAIZING! and btw I love the little bell around her neck!
Wooow, that's wicked cool! O_O
I love her hair and face, but the ear is a bit too weird for my taste, and I think it should be bit higher, like we people have.
Very nice look all together, but I do agree about the ear, and also, the eye looks as though it is just a socket with no eyeball in. Love the Koi's fins.
I think this piece is awesome and that theres nothing wrong with it. Maybe some people only see the "green" part of the ear and that's why they think it's weird. Maybe just adding some light on the top of the blue part of the ear would fix that. About the eye, I can see perfectly that it's an eye. The reason it's dark is because it is dark underwater.
Anyway, about what "I" think about this picture =D I love the fish! It's so cute and it look all surprised XD. The girl's tongue is cute too. And the bubbles really add something the the pic. I love all this underwater atmosphere and dark/light, the painterly feel, the colors.... and your signature is cute! =D
This looks absolutely delicious
The bubbles in the back look so .. flat.. but I like it
And her ear is just so fuzzy and bat like... plus I just love the shading in general, especially the skin
oh wow. This is really gorgeous. I love the richness of your colors and the contrast between the red and the blue. And oh! The texture and the movement! Truly, very pretty :D
I disagree. The colors effectively translate the underwater feel. Not every pics can have too-dark-and-dramatic-shading and Super-Shiny!!!-lighting. And I do see depth in this picture. I imagine the lighter part of the bg is the light coming through the water. You do know that light cannot go throught water unchanged and undiminished...right? o.O
Next time you're at a beach with goggles, head out into water that is above your head. Bring some objects with you to illustrate the point (shiny, matte, etc.)
Submerged under water, things have a reflection not only of the lighting inherent at its depth, but as a reflection of the surface of the water above it. Light dapples surfaces with the movement of waves. It becomes deeper in the shadows in accordance to the objects surrounding it. It will NOT look like this.
And even if this lighting scheme is ndicative of the time and place, an artist usually takes a little poetic license in making a picture as effective as possible in every way. If that means bending the light situation slightly to make it more dynamic, then so be it.
Well, obviously I'm not an expert in how light act under water. All I was saying is the colors of this pic really make it *feels* like an deep underwater pic.
I just see nothing "flat" about this pic and I couldn't understand how someone could just say that and nothing else, nothing positive about a picture that's obviously pretty good, even though it has flaws like any picture (Nothing glaringly obvious to me, but obviously nothing is perfect). And I wasn't trying to "bait" you. I was just disagreeing, that's all.
Seems to me that it's the darker kinda water...not 'murky' but maybe a deeper water that light doesn't penetrate to that well. In any case-it doesn't matter. This is a beautiful piece of work. It makes you stop and look at every little detail, brushstroke and make you wonder how it was achieved. I love it. That hand is gorgeous, as is the rest of the picture. <3 : )
Here, I'll have to agree with what Andariel about her point with underwater lighting. Unfortunately, I had no idea this was actually supposed to look like she's underwater untill I read that argument. In which case, I would suggest looking at refrences of subjects underwater the next time you try to pull this off.
But only if you were going for the real effect. This as it is, with the painterly effect, comes off as a more interpretive, surreal peice. So I don't think realistic effect would inhance this--just change the feel to a more realistic one.
Blaming these things on 'style' isn't something I like to do often XD but I do think that in this particular case, the image does come off more original and open to the veiwers own interpetation without the realistic lighting effects.
So it really depends on what kind of feel you were going for. If you wanted it to be surreal and interpretive, you did a very good job in acheiving that feel. This does seem almost like a strange dream-like image with that beautiful painterly style you have going.
But if you had originally planned to go for something more realistic, then taking the advice offered previously and applying it in the future
regardless of what you were going for, this is a lovely image, and your choice of colors are gorgeous--though your contrast between lighting and shading is a little weak :9
Beautiful work! Such a pleasure to look at :]
Also, Andariel--while I do appreciate that you are a skilled on this website that likes to give out nice, solid constructive critism, there's no reason why you shouldn't beable to tell them what you also like about the image and why. Constructive comments can be as useful as constructive crit a lot of the time. And constructive commentary does not mean "OMFG KAWAII". I would have expected an artist as skilled as yourself to recognize that D:
I think that's some beautifully stylistic water and people are forgetting not everything is meant to be realistic.
That said - one of the better pictures I've spotted on OC lately, kudos. ^-^ Hope that ruccus won't discourage you.
Despite what a few people are saying on the background, I think the painting is all-around gorgeous. Not every painting of underwater has to be realistic to be pretty.
You picked your colors wisely, and it really helps the fish to stand out.
Beautiful style. And people, this is a painting, not a photo. If the lighting doesn't indicate an entirely underwater atmosphere, oh well. The colors and composition work together effectively and that's all that really matters.
Lineless art. It has deeper meaning rather than just a pretty piece of art.
Nice choice of colors (I suck at choosing colors :P)
I really love the fish. It was well-drawn/painted and the ears of the girl
