You do breathtaking eyes.

I don't know what to say, your comments are so simple and hugely inspiring! Thank you so so much!

I don't know why you say that's crappy, I think it looks good!

Haha, oh geeze, you're too kind. I super appreciate the time you're taking to comment. You are a good man, at the very least.

Nah, I'm just calling it like I see it. As in so much of your art, here you've struck an amazing balance between simplicity and detail that many artists could learn from. :)

Nothing wrong with busts if they look good, like they do here. I wish I was better at them, myself. Also, 3DS? You can draw on that thing? I wasn't aware of this, beyond that old, old "PictoChat" program that came on the launch series ones. That's impressive for a 3DS, from my viewpoint.

Hah, thanks a ton bud, I absolutely love the fact you're giving out such solid thought out comments about my work! It's a luxury in this community let me tell you.

They never had a Pictochat program at launch actually! It was until 9 months after the 3DS's release when they put Swap Note on the eShop, the near equivalent to Pictochat, give or take (You can't type messages, only write them, but it has much more flexibility and online features, such as slapping on audio recordings, 3D photos or images on the SD card, animated backgrounds to the drawings, 5 pages to each original message, sending it to multiple people online, etc.)

There's a program called Colors! 3D that launched in the U.S. eShop in April 5th of this year, that is a full blown painting program, allowing up to 5 layers with 3D capabilities, three brush types, uploading your images online in the https://www.colorslive.com gallery from the 3DS with a WiFi connection, browsing the Colors! Gallery, local multi-player painting, and infinite undos (pretty big deal, the homebrew program Colors! DS for the DS Phat/Lite/DSi could only allow for up to 1 undo in the most recent update of it). It's a very tight program for only $6.99. The only downside is the 3DS has no pressure sensitivity, although Colors! 3D allows for 3 type of simulated pressure in its shortcuts. The DSi has no pressure sensitivity, the DS Lite has some pressure sensitivity, and the original DS [Phat] has the most sensitivity for the homebrew Colors! DS.

When I bring around my 3DS and Intuos 3 pen (it's easier for me to work with, 'sides my Intuos 3 tablet is broken), it's like having a mini Cintiq for much cheaper and with tons of games I've downloaded. I can even save my paintings onto my SD card and give them out to all my friends in Swapnote!


Sorry for the long ass post. You just got me so stoked.

Hmm. Guess I was wrong with the PictoChat. All I remember is it always being there, but I never used it. Seemed like a silly idea. Haha.

I may have to grab that when I actually have money to use again. It seems like a really nice thing to have on a handheld. Don't know I'd be able to make anything good with it since I'm pretty horrid with color, but that amount of functionality for that low of a price is pretty hard to just pass up.

What a beautiful bust.
She's got such soulful eyes, and your digital painting style is looking so tight where it needs to be.
So don't call this sort of pic crappy, or I'll be very cross with you >:(
Could you send me the event file of your 3DS works? wanna see how you paint '3'

Here you go! [<-- Link]

You are too, too kind. I am trying to practice more, and hopefully once I feel confident enough sketching these static poses and backgrounds on the 3DS, I can begin to branch out to more exciting subjects and actions in places.

I think you are better, personally, and I have a lot to learn and have a lot to go before I can consider myself legitimate in the community.

Legitimate? What's that, some kind of food?
We don't have those here I'm afraid, but maybe you'll show me some when you come visit :3
But anyway, you're way better at everything but a few unimportant things. You're legit intimate in my book! Whatever that means!

Thanks for the link, much appreciated.

I have to agree with BoosterPang--while the rest of the pic is sketchy (though still expressive and deep), those eyes really draw you in.

Ah geeze, yeah, for some reason I keep going back to them. It's probably either because I worked on them so much, or because of the high contrast of values between the hair and the sockets, along with detail versus general splotches of color.

Thank you so much!

Makes sense to me. And it's good you go back to them, eyes really are the focus of art as far as emotion and character go.

You did this through a 3DS?

Thats pretty impressive work you've done here, especially those eyes!

Oh geeze, wow, thanks a crap ton dude! Yeah, it's done on the 3DS. I shall Swapnote these types of things more.

I freaking love your rendering :)

A lot of people suggested I could improve on my rendering.

I know how to color and render, but it's not what's difficult for me! I wanna tackle the hard stuff first before getting to do the fun things. I hope this clarifies that I can.

Thanks a ton ;D.

I mean, yeah, the rendering can be better, but it's only a thing of time. I really like your approach to the drawing c:
I totally agree with you, once you finish the hard part you'll do the rest in no time :3

Fucking awesome! I love the way you build out the form with your marks :3