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You're drawing Poison Arrow? He's got one massive art jones. ...right, then. Moving on. xd



-The reason you think his torso seems odd is because of the proportions. His arm would reach his belt (!) at the elbow. Also, his navel should be at three headlenghts.
-His left wrist is too skinny, even viewed from that angle.
-If his arm were held up like that, the buttons would be pulled in that direction slightly.

Hope that helped! whee Love the feel of this!

AD - thanks. Yeah, I didn't mean for it to be him, but it kinda came out that way. o.O I started out drawing one of my commissions. But I DID tell Sabin and Poisey I'd at least put a token entry into their contest...my duty as a fellow guild member, and all that. ^^

Ah yes, the buttons. I knew the fabric should be there but I forgot the buttons!! xd The arm proportions have been throwing me, because I suck at foreshortening, and his right arm is in a bad position for me.

The wrist I am also concerned about...since they're from different angles, shouldn't they be different thicknesses accordingly? It does look too thin though. Hmm.


And um, what do you mean by his arm would reach his elbow? It needs to be longer? *is confused* I don't know male proportions. crying crying crying

OK...now for Koji's picture.... (i wonder if i should put it here or not..so please, A.D. or Lang... do edit my post and make the picture be a link instead if you deem it too excessive even though to me it isn't :/ )

here we go sweatdrop



one thing i will say is wow Koji, the shoulders look nice in that pose 3nodding ... now onto the fingers and hands...

on the right, you see three colors... those three denote where the bones of the index and thumb are in the picture...

now take your own hand, put it in an open palm (with the thumb touching the side of the index finger bone running through your hand) and tell me what do you see happening with your thumb?

if you cool closely, the joint after the thumb-knuckle reaches near or exactly where the indexes' knucle is... in your picture, that joint would be near the first index finger joint after the index knuckle... that isn't right... to solve it, try shrinking the thumb itself from the thumb joint down to the thumb knucle till you see it flows the same way it would if you did that same pose the girl in the pic is doing. 3nodding

now for her OTHER hand... look at your own hand... do you see the lines between the index/middle/and ring fingers in your hands when in an open palm? ... the lines you drew in the picture compared to your own hands? ... the lines between the middle/ring fingers end at the same height where your index/middle lines end... before the middle finger knucle... to fix this in your picture, try to not denote the knucle that much by erasing part or that line, till you can see it matches your own hand's line...OR make your index finger's knuckle be bigger in turn :/ ....


it might be possible you could have not understood THIS post..as i'm trying to the best of my ability to explain body parts that i know the names in spanish quite properlly ... but use your hands as a guide and remember to look closely at how the open palm usually looks like since it is one of the trickiest parts to draw on a picture other than the face....

as a bonus, Koji, there's a little thing it seemed to qwirk me with your picture...and it's her left eye (our right) placement... between spaces, her eyes look like they're apart by about 2 inches (normally, our eyes are apart from each other by one inch 3nodding )

to solve it, using any editing program, you can move the eye to where it should go... in order to not have to re-draw the picture again 3nodding

Nijyou... u_u;;;

Your style looks just like a friend's from my old art BBS, years ago. It's a bit creepy. o.O

Anyway, I think Shiro did a good job of explaining the hands. If you have any more concerns about those, just look in a mirror. Or use a webcam if you have one; they're absurdly helpful for taking reference pictures.

Thanks for clearing that up guys.

And yes, my ebows actually DO reach my belt...but that's probably because I have a short torso. sweatdrop I think I know what to fix now. 3nodding

Primarily, I think the most noticeable thing about your art is the way you color it. Are you using a computer program or real media of some kind?



I use the quarters systems for feature placement. Starting at the top, 1/2 is the eyes, 3/4 is the bottom of the nose, 7/8 is the mouth... I think the nose should be a bit higher.
-The mouth is angled too far down on the left side, even though her head's bent at an angle.
-The eye shape doesn't look natural. I'm assuming your character isn't Asian (if she is, that's still a different shape), so I've drawn a more realistic eye shape below yours.
-The hair seems to flop down, as though it's damp at the bottom. Make sure the hair flows throughout.
-Also, the strap from her tank top shouldn't blend into the top of her shoulder; it should be a bit higher.
-I think the piece would look much better if you cleaned up your lines before coloring. Maybe you should look into inks?
-The hand looks really good, so no crits there.

Look into getting a Photobucket account; they don't put any text on the images.

Mmmkay, this is a picture of my friend's gaia avatar. I know the pose looks kinda awkward (no right buttcheek, right leg looks weird, and the right arm is kinda resting on nothing), and I'm not sure if the body is proportional. Just a few things that I can see wrong with it that I don't know how to fix.

And, erm, aside from proportions, could somebody let me know how the shading is? If it's bland and needs more depth, if it's shaded wrong, blah blah blah...? I just want to know because I'm trying to make my shading more unique and such, I think that'd help me if/when I do art auctions. x3