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The viking scene needs to be re-touched. I'm looking at the viking guy and noticed that that's the head you drew a while back and lookg like it was just thrown on there for the hell of it and it does not fit. If the head is really supposed to be there, the shading needs to be looked at again. Its just kinda random and messy, like there was not enough time spent on it. I'm having troble making out the horns since the way you shaded them does not really help understand the shade but just make it harder to read. His "body" looks odd too. It's just a boring mass of feathers that give no real shape the whatever physical mass the viking may or may not have. The pose is also really boring. It looks like a storms brewing and hes just sitting/standing/something there staring. Strike a pose, be exciting, Yearrgh!

The dragon's head wip is really kinda ugly. Sorry to say that, its just the overall drawing. You're trying to draw both sides of his face when you should only be giving the view of his face in the direction that the ship is pointing (speaking of that, I cannot teall which direction it is facing). His facial construction looks a bit messed up to. It looks like one side of his face is being shoved up with the other side is looking straight forward. Oy. I don't think you should use the same color as the wood for the dragon. I think you should use a seperate color or remover the two grey lines (are they gonna be chains?) that suggest the dragon was not initially part of the ship. If you do that, I think you should slowly have the scales dissappear into the wood. It would look cool~

The water looks really boring so far. I dunno if its the colors or what but they just dont strike me as interesting. I think you should make the water lines a little bit less thick and add just a little bit more detail to the WIP I'm seeing right now. Idk its probably too early to tell. I hope you're not going to draw the clouds in a really lazy way again. Really, the clouds are just lines in a bunch of other colors in the Bridge and Mountain scene you had previously shown. You should have somehing different for different atmospheres.

well, actually, it's supposed to be a solemn pose. he's not adventurous nor excited. he's planning for battle.

I actually really like his head atm, and I've been planning to use it for the longest while, so I'll be keeping that, sorry. He's wearing a long woolen shawl, btw, to keep him warm on this ice-cold wintery night. Dragon's face is facing the right way, it's with the perspective of the boat, it seems as if you think it's finished and not a WIP. Things change, it's not going to stay like that, bro. Those two lines were actually things that helped me align the head to the ship, I just forgot to remove them :V

I'll work on the water, but I'm using a good reference from when I was at the beach and saw some ships on the water. Colors are subject to change, yah. All of the clouds you've seen have been WIPs, too, you seem to forget that ..again.. ;P

Thanks for the crit though, it just seems like most of the time you're forgetting I'm not leaving it as it is. Crits about messy shading and such don't really apply since I'm still in a heavy work-in-progress stage. Either way, I'll work on it, thanks.

changed the background, added some planets, and did some touch ups

a few more updates and I'll probably call it finished!~

I actually liked the old background better, but with a few touch ups. It gave it more depth.

adam/dex- hopes to start album work this week says:
no, i got some opinions and on different monitors the background doesn't work as well
adam/dex- hopes to start album work this week says:
works better like this
CeeY says:
i guess it makes the astonauts and robots
CeeY says:
stand out more
CeeY says:
rather than a dynamic background like you had before
adam/dex- hopes to start album work this week says:
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CeeY says:
i guess your right than lol

(08-03-2009, 10:08 PM)Dex Wrote: [ -> ]adam/dex- hopes to start album work this week says:
no, i got some opinions and on different monitors the background doesn't work as well
adam/dex- hopes to start album work this week says:
works better like this
CeeY says:
i guess it makes the astonauts and robots
CeeY says:
stand out more
CeeY says:
rather than a dynamic background like you had before
adam/dex- hopes to start album work this week says:
(=
CeeY says:
i guess your right than lol

But still, I liked the whole "nebula" scene.

Man Dex... I remember back when you showed me the WIP of this piece... it has come a long way. It looks awesome!

Only thing I would change is I'd add some different colored planets and such. I mean, when you look up at the stars, some have white tinges, some blue, some red, etc. Maybe make the background like that, with just some slight color differences.

The new background is better, I didn't really like the squid in the corner of the other one.

I think the spacesuits could have a much better shading and a much stronger contrast. It's too pillowed, it could use a lot more folds and have much more darker tones where it is needed.
The rest though, is pixel-perfect.

hello, shanks and I shall be making a wonderful game and this is what it will possibly look like

hurrah

http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/45506.htm rates/favs appreciated!~

The old guy is wearing an awfully short robe.

Looks great tho

updates.. all wips

wow you are amazing with landscapes, keep up the good work!

you got a bit of a perception issue on the stones on the bridge's walkway. they need to be angled more towards the left side of the bridge.

Great pallet.