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Great work! biggrin I love your line art in the first one.

Hehe that first one - I love it. It's polished and crisp and just looks really nice and 'done'.

The sketchy one is pretty cool too - I love how 'raw' it is and how you've really pushed the lighting caused by Lucario's attack.

If you're having issues with dynamic poses and such perhaps try compiling a resource folder of poses you find interesting? They can be from stock images, anime, tv shows, movies, games - just find poses that really catch your eye and examine them, see what makes them work and WHY you like them. Then, when you're working on a pic you might recall one of those poses and try it out, using it as a reference.

Another thing to try is changing the angle of the drawing. If it looks too boring or bland straight on, try 'tilting' the camera view so they go diagonally across the page maybe. Instead of drawing them face forward, maybe do a 3/4 view. Play with perspective - if they are holding something out maybe take the angle so that the item is biggest and the character recedes behind it.

Interesting things to look for in composition can be found when you research why animators use certain angles etc to portray emotion and can be quite fun to play around with smile