Spotlighting Commenters #4

Apr 25, 201411 min read

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Published: Apr 25, 2014

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Spotlight Commenters

^{These commenters are determined by you through Nominations (read below for more information). Each month, we will be selecting a couple of amazing commenters based on the comments we have seen in our gallery submissions and elsewhere on deviantART. Anyone on deviantART is applicable for this feature!}

, Azymic, Deviant Member
Commented on RO: Gift - High Priest by Bernuviel.

"This is a great improvement from your older picture - the anatomy and shading have become quite a bit better! c: You still have a bit of trouble with defining the light source (I'm assuming that there's one major light source, coming from the right? If so, her shadow should shift over to the left.) Once you've got that down, the clothing folds will come much easier! You can check out this tutorial for clothing folds, it covers pretty much everything: solfieri.deviantart.com/art/Cl…

Folds are fantastic for conveying texture as well! Right now, your clothing looks like it's all made of the same 'stuff', and it's a bit hard to distinguish between her skin and her outfit (as they are similar colours) You can find more about this in this tutorial: darlingmionette.deviantart.com… (there's also a part 2).[...]"

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, Meekochan, Varied, Hobbyist
Commented on M'Lady by T-Rissy.

"Arm:
Foreshortening is all wrong. First, her upper arms shouldn't be straight down. Like, they have to bend slightly at the shoulders to go behind her back, right? Second, the hand holding the other arm isn't angled right. Not sure how to word it...like, the fingers are too flat. The pinky might not be even visible if foreshortened correctly. Which leads to... Third, her right forearm, as a result, bends that weird angle. (Hope that made sense. I didn't look up a ref or posed in front of mirror, so I may be wrong.) Just practice foreshortening in general, there's no easy quick cheat to it.[...]"

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Southern Skies [speedpaint 08] (2013) by Meekochan

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, AKira1189, Digital Art, Professional
Commented on RO: Gift - High Priest by Bernuviel.

"First of all, her outfit is very good and stylish and represent her role as a ''High Priest'' very well. The only I found weird is her hat, it looks like it doesn't belong with the time and rest of clothing.
Her anatomy is relatively good except her fists and her left leg at the bottom it looks a bit like rectangle. She needs more visible shading and lightening and also you need to blend shadows in.
About background- The piece is little out of perspective, and try to do background in less than two main colors, maybe it would be better to use one or two colors in more shades. If you wan't to become really good at backgrounds or characters, first practice do paint them separately and focus only on one. For beginning is very useful to use references and do photo-studies. Anyway with a lot of work, the results will be better by them self. I found this site very useful for learn more about digital painting.: ctrlpaint.com/library/[...]"

Here is a selection of art created by AKira1189.