Welcome to Gaia! ::

The first thing I have to say is that the water looks fabulous ^^ I'd really like to see it colored ^^ Also, as mentioned before, the hands look a little small and slightly mishapen (although the pose is good), and I feel that you were trying to cover up her feet so you wouldn't have to draw them... both kind of need work, but that's ok, those are two of the hardest things to do ^^; Like someone else said, her hair really should be longer (and on that note, the animators didn't draw it long enough the one time it fell out of it's customary braid) and while I'm at it, since her hair is down, the hair loopys she has shouldn't go to the back of her head like that, since they're held in by her braid, which is down in the drawing. The only other thing I'd suggest, is that since there is so much motion in this drawing, her skirt should flail out a little more, rather than sticking so close to her. And more of a personal thing, I wouldn't have her hair fan quite like that, it'd be more disarrayed. But that's more just preference I think ^^

Please don't take anything I just said the wrong way ^^; I was just trying to give helpful advice, and overall it really is a nice piece and I think you certainly have a lot of potential ^^ I love the pose, and if you were interested, I could doodle up my own version of it, just illustrate what I was talking about. But that's up to you, if you dun want me to, I won't ^^

I know you didn't say anything, and I hope you do not mind, but I went ahead and sketched out a similar pose to yours. Mostly cause I was thinking about it after I commented on this drawing of yours, as well as to illustrate what I was talking about.

http://img226.imageshack.us/my.php?image=katarapv0.png

I probably won't ink or color it myself.... although a friend of mine already did ^^; Either way, just thought I'd show it to you, since you were my inspiration ^^

And yes.... I do ralize that I too still need work on my hands.... Especially to make them.... not so large x___x It's a process though, so what can I say ^^;