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Molly Urgh, not happy with the head or the shading on the fur. Stupidly I merged the fur layers together before shading.But, I'm happy with the clothing. Reminds me of something, not sure what though.
Category All / General Furry Art
Species Dog (Other)
Size 527 x 1000px
File Size 61.7 kB
Ah, yeah, I see what you mean about the shading. Honestly, it's not too bad as far as placement goes- the real area that you'd do well to work on is gradation within hard shading. Allow me to explain:
If you're shading something, blues almost always work better than blacks, because that gives everything a much more dynamic feel. If you wish to experiment with warm greys as well, that will also help you portray something in a more natural lighting setting.
But as well, the world exists in a mix of hard and soft shadows- most often defined by how close the object the light's on is to the object that's being shadow cast on. So for instance, the wrinkles on her shorts would definitely have very hard, sharp shadows... but the shadow of her arm on her torso would be a very soft, blurry shadow. Ultimately though, you want to have more shading than not, because very seldom in the world is anything one solid tone.
One technique that I like playing around with is to hard shade several areas (as you have here) on a separate layer from the colors... then duplicate that layer and blur it according to how soft the shadows need to be in various areas. What you're left with is one layer with hard shadows and one layer with much more subtle, soft shadows. I usually have the hard layer at about 12% opacity and leave the soft one at about 40%.
She's a cute character, and you drew her quite well in overall depiction. She's got that kind of casual-girl standing pose, and I compliment you on how you handled both the cant of her hips and her right (our left) hand against her thigh. The other hand could be fixed with one alteration- when people stand with that pose (other than if their fingers are in their back pocket), their thumb is usually curved slightly around their body, as the hand naturally wants to grip whenever possible. I would like to see you try various hand positions interacting with objects, if you can work it into your pictures in the future.
You did great justice to her fur patterns, especially in the spotty areas- just the right level of softness comes out. But I would like to deter you if at all possible from going for the hard top-of-the-muzzle line; as you can see here, your coloring job did wonderfully at conveying its three-dimensional aspects, and makes the line quite vestigial.
The only other thing I would suggest is playing with line weight. There are several areas you could improve in, but you're on a good track, and if you keep experimenting, you'll do great things.
If you're shading something, blues almost always work better than blacks, because that gives everything a much more dynamic feel. If you wish to experiment with warm greys as well, that will also help you portray something in a more natural lighting setting.
But as well, the world exists in a mix of hard and soft shadows- most often defined by how close the object the light's on is to the object that's being shadow cast on. So for instance, the wrinkles on her shorts would definitely have very hard, sharp shadows... but the shadow of her arm on her torso would be a very soft, blurry shadow. Ultimately though, you want to have more shading than not, because very seldom in the world is anything one solid tone.
One technique that I like playing around with is to hard shade several areas (as you have here) on a separate layer from the colors... then duplicate that layer and blur it according to how soft the shadows need to be in various areas. What you're left with is one layer with hard shadows and one layer with much more subtle, soft shadows. I usually have the hard layer at about 12% opacity and leave the soft one at about 40%.
She's a cute character, and you drew her quite well in overall depiction. She's got that kind of casual-girl standing pose, and I compliment you on how you handled both the cant of her hips and her right (our left) hand against her thigh. The other hand could be fixed with one alteration- when people stand with that pose (other than if their fingers are in their back pocket), their thumb is usually curved slightly around their body, as the hand naturally wants to grip whenever possible. I would like to see you try various hand positions interacting with objects, if you can work it into your pictures in the future.
You did great justice to her fur patterns, especially in the spotty areas- just the right level of softness comes out. But I would like to deter you if at all possible from going for the hard top-of-the-muzzle line; as you can see here, your coloring job did wonderfully at conveying its three-dimensional aspects, and makes the line quite vestigial.
The only other thing I would suggest is playing with line weight. There are several areas you could improve in, but you're on a good track, and if you keep experimenting, you'll do great things.
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